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Published: February 6, 2014

MIT Sloan Students Prepare for Second of Three Contests in MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

Each year, the Martin Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management hosts the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, a year-long series of three contests designed to help students through the new venture construction process. This week, students are working furiously to prepare for Accelerate, the second contest in the series, in which they are tasked with transforming the business pitches they gave as the first part of the series into demos to present to a panel of judges. Thirty teams were culled from 270 applications to pitch their business ideas at Accelerate. Teams began making their presentations earlier this week, on February 5th, and will continue over the course of three nights. A grand finale and announcement of the winner will take place on February 20th. Read more

Published: January 16, 2014

MIT Sloan School of Management Announces New Scholarship for Technology-Focused MBAs

MIT Sloan School of Management and London-based global telecommunications company Zamir Telecom last week announced a new scholarship program for promising MBA students planning to pursue careers in the technology sector. The new Zamir Telecom fellowship is open to students from emerging economies in Africa, Asia or the Middle East, as well as to students interested in technological advancements in those regions. Read more

Published: December 8, 2013

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub

My interview was held in the offices of MIT alumni and I was allotted 45 mins. I was the second interview of the day out of a total of 12 on the schedule. My interviewer was friendly, but professional. While I felt like I connected with him during the interview and we had an easy conversation, I could not read him at all and have no idea what he thought about my answers. The probing follow-up questions made me feel like I wasn’t answering his original questions the right way. The questions asked were: – Any updates to your Read more

Published: November 19, 2013

UMichigan’s Ross School of Business Leads in Building LGBT-Inclusive Campus Culture

The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan has gotten more of its student body involved to help foster an LGBT-inclusive campus culture than any other top business school, according to initial standings released last week for the MBA Ally Challenge. The year-long competition, launched by nonprofit Friendfactor, is part of the organization’s larger effort to encourage straight people to become visible and active allies in their workplace and campus communities. Twelve of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s top-20-ranked MBA programs have taken on the MBA Ally Challenge, and together they have activated more than 1,800 students since this year’s challenge kicked off in late August. Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and MIT Sloan School of Management trail Ross in second and third places, respectively. Read more

Published: November 12, 2013

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On-campus

Here are the questions the MIT Sloan interviewer asked: – Elaboration on how I convinced senior management to adopt the model I wrote about in my application – Elaboration on my leadership role in my extracurricular activity – Describe a time I had to resolve a conflict. How did I do it? How did I feel? – Describe a recent initiative I took – Describe a time an idea was rejected. How did I feel? – Why an MBA? Why now? – Anything I want to add since application submission – Read more

Published: November 4, 2013

MIT Sloan Professor Selected to Co-Lead University-Wide Innovation Initiative

Last month, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a university-wide innovation initiative and named two faculty members to lead it, including an entrepreneurship professor from the MIT Sloan School of Management. MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced the creation of an MIT Innovation Initiative in an email to the MIT community on October 17th, naming Sloan Professor Fiona Murray and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Vladimir Bulović to lead the effort. He also named a 19-member advisory committee made up of faculty from across MIT to help develop recommendations on next steps. Read more

Published: October 2, 2013

MIT Sloan Launches New Healthcare Certificate Program

With dissension over the Affordable Care Act fueling a government shutdown, MIT Sloan School of Management has chosen an apropos time to launch a new certificate program addressing U.S. healthcare challenges. Of course, the concerns that led to the program’s creation – including the fact that the nation’s healthcare spending is escalating at a rate far exceeding inflation even as access to care lags behind most other developed nations – aren’t new. The Healthcare Certificate program, launched October 1st, will help formalize a range of activities around healthcare and health management already taking place at the school. Students pursuing the certificate will take core courses on healthcare delivery in the United States, the economics of healthcare and general medical science. After completing these required courses, they can select from several elective courses. Participating students will also all be required to enroll in an action learning lab, such as the school’s new Healthcare Lab (H-Lab), an intensive, team-based project course that includes on-site work at a U.S. health organization. Read more

Published: September 9, 2013

Trivia Tuesday: MIT Sloan’s First-Year Class

In this week’s instalment of Trivia Tuesday, we turn our focus to the Clear Admit School Guide to MIT Sloan, examining how the school creates first-year teams and how these teams impact students’ experiences. “Each first-year class of approximately 400 MBA students is divided into six smaller cohorts, or “oceans” (Atlantic, Baltic, Caribbean, Indian, Mediterranean and Pacific), which help to give shape to the core curriculum experience. Oceans are comprised of approximately 65 students each, and the students in each ocean take all seven of their core courses together. As a result of this shared academic experience, students within each Read more

Published: August 6, 2013

Career Services Director Q&A: MIT Sloan School of Management’s Ron Peracchio

~ A CLEAR ADMIT EXCLUSIVE ~ MIT Sloan School of Management welcomed Ron Peracchio last year as its new assistant dean and director of career management. Peracchio came to Sloan from Harvard Business School (HBS), where he first co-directed Student and Academic Services and later directed the Business and Environment Initiative, a faculty research initiative. Before joining HBS, he was director of career development for Boston College. Though he has more than two decades of experience in higher education, Peracchio didn’t start there. “I was originally a mechanical engineer designing helicopters,” he reveals. Why the shift? For as much as he enjoyed being an engineering student, upon graduation he found the engineering work isolating. “I was always at my drafting table lost in the micro details of designing these helicopters,” he says. So he went to business school to broaden his skill set. Read more

Published: July 22, 2013

U.S. News Ranks 10 Full-Time MBA Programs That Lead to Highest Student Debt

As part of its Short List series, U.S. News & World Report today took a closer look at the student debt load incurred by full-time MBA students graduating from top business school programs. According to data provided by schools as part of its annual ranking, U.S. News found that full-time MBA graduates in 2012 emerged with an average of $49,619 in debt. At the 10 schools where graduates incurred the most student debt, the average per student was $97,154. Graduates of New York University’s Stern School of Business top the list in terms of average debt. There, the average graduate has a debt load of $105,782. Six figure debt is also the norm for graduates from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, U.S. News reports. Read more

Published: June 19, 2013

UC Berkeley Haas Partners with MIT Sloan on Energy Efficiency Research Project

Researchers at the Haas School of Management at the University of California at Berkeley are teaming up with researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management to take a closer look at energy-efficiency policies and regulations around the globe to determine whether they are realizing their full potential, the schools announced this week. The project, called E2e, is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the two schools designed to find the best way to go from using a large amount of energy (“E”) to a small of amount of energy (“e”). Participating experts will include engineers, economists and others, and the initiative is led by Catherine Wolfram, associate professor and co-director of the Energy Institute at Haas, Michael Greenstone, a professor of environmental economics at MIT, and Christopher Knittel, co-director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). Read more

Published: June 16, 2013

MIT Sloan Finance Professors to Fundraise for Center for Finance and Policy

Finance professors at MIT Sloan School of Management will conduct a series of high-level seminars in London and Shanghai as part of efforts to raise funds for a new center that will examine the intersection between finance and government, the Financial Times reports today. To date, MIT has raised almost half of the $10 million needed for the center, according to the FT. The MIT Center for Finance and Policy is intended to serve as a hub of research and financial analysis of public policy issues, bringing together top thinkers and spurring collaboration between government, the private sector and academia. “Finance is one field where academia and business are very close,” Sloan Deputy Dean S.P. Kothari told the FT. The center will take a cross-disciplinary approach to tackling the government challenges facing finance and banking, resulting in research that will have implications for every household, Kothari added. Read more

Published: April 18, 2013

Boston Manhunt Closes Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Cancels Sloan AdMIT Weekend

As a search for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings continues, area business schools have closed and are urging students to “shelter in place” – that is, remain wherever they are – as instructed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick early this morning. Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management both have cancelled classes, and MIT Sloan has also cancelled its AdMIT weekend for accepted students, according to websites and Twitter accounts from each school. Read more

Published: April 14, 2013

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / On campus

I walked into the office 20 minutes early and chatted with someone who looked like an applicant but ended up working there. Oops. Then I sat with applicants and we talked about our careers and where we were applying. One girl had applied to MIT and Kellogg, the other girl had applied to HBS and Stanford. My interviewer came out first, she was smiling and excited to meet me and begin. She definitely made me feel like she was on my side during the interview. We made small talk first and connected on some information about China (I worked in Read more

Published: January 17, 2013

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / Skype

I’m a US development worker in Africa. My interview was conducted over Skype with an adcom member in mid-January. I was notified of the time in mid-December so I had ample time to prepare. Questions asked: Anything new to add to your resume since submitting application? What item would you like to highlight from your resume? Tell me about a time when a teammate wasn’t pulling his/her weight, what did you do? Tell me about a time you received feedback from a supervisor. How did you feel and what did you think when he sat you down to talk? Have Read more

Published: September 25, 2012

Clear Admit Co-Founder Graham Richmond Contributes to Wall Street Journal Article on MIT Sloan’s Oversubscribed Incoming Class

The Wall Street Journal consulted Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond as part of an article today about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Sloan School of Management, which has given scholarships to a handful of students scheduled to enter this fall in exchange for their agreeing to defer for a year. Sloan found itself oversubscribed by an unusually high number of students this year, and rather than expand the class size, it sought volunteers willing to wait a year to enroll. When it didn’t get enough takers, Sloan sweetened the deal to include a $15,000 scholarship to be applied to next year's tuition, the WSJ reports. Still not getting the response it hoped for, Sloan upped its offer to $20,000. In the end, four students took the offer, and the scholarship, and will begin next year instead. This brings Sloan’s class size to 413 this year, up from 404 last. Read more

Published: August 29, 2012

Admissions Director Q&A: MIT Sloan School of Management’s Rod Garcia

An MIT Sloan veteran, Rod Garcia has been at the school for the past 24 years and admissions director for the last 13. Before coming to MIT Sloan in 1988, he worked in admissions at the University of Chicago. In the interview that follows, Garcia reveals that MIT Sloan had a record yield this year, exceeding the target class size by 15 students. “It is a good problem to have,” he says, noting that some schools are struggling to meet their targets amid declining application volume. He forecasts recovery in the year ahead in terms of overall business school application volume – and a very competitive season at MIT Sloan. So you’ll want to pay close attention to the insight he provides regarding the application process at MIT Sloan and what his team is looking for in response to their unique essay questions. Read more

Published: March 27, 2012

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom

Any updates to your application or anything new you’ve accomplished at work? Tell me about a company in your industry that has caught your eye. Given your role at your company (work for a startup), what will it be like when you leave? Tell me about a time you helped a colleague who was struggling professionally. Tell me about a time you had to persuade your colleagues. Follow up questions about how I delegated analysis of the issue and how I felt my colleagues perceived my approach. Tell me about a time a colleauge had a contrasting opinion or gave Read more

Published: March 19, 2012

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On-Campus / Adcom

I got my invitation to interview on March 2nd, and had 2 weeks to schedule the interview. I scheduled it for the week after, because of work obligations. They offered lunch with a current student on interview days, but then there were no interview timeslots around lunchtime, so i chose a morning slot to minimize the amount of time out of the office (i’m local). ALSO — YOU HAVE TO BRING TRANSCRIPT COPIES. nowhere on their website did they mention that, at all, before you get invited to interview (and i looked, because i was ordering them for another school Read more

Published: February 13, 2012

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On-campus / Adcom

I applied in the first round to Sloan and had my interview on-campus by a member of the admissions committee on Jan 18th, 2012 and I’ve received my admittance into MIT on February 6th, 2012. I arrived at the office 15 minutes prior to my interview. On that particular day, there were only two interviews, including mine, at my specific time slot. We exchanged conversation about the weather of Boston, what we each do for a living; stories of how we got to Boston (both of us came from outside of USA for the interview). Our conversation made the waiting Read more

Published: February 7, 2012

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On-campus

I arrived to the admissions office 30 min early and made conversation with the front desk admin staff and another applicant waiting to interview – this helped me loosen up and I believe was a positive first impression that two interviewers saw two candidates exchanging business cards and wishing each other luck. Interviewer started off explaining the style of the behavioral interview and noted there would be time at the end for me to ask questions. True to MIT Sloan interview guidance – the interview was strictly behavioral and all questions were either “give me an example of…” or asking Read more

Published: February 7, 2012

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: R1 / On-Campus

Applied Oct 25, 2011; Admitted Feb 6, 2012 I received my invite on the first day they went out and had barely a weekend to prepare before driving to Boston. My interviewer was friendly and started with an ice breaker about my unusual name (which she pronounced perfectly), and what it meant. Then I handed over my transcripts and it was show time. What was doing at work these days? Followed up with specific questions about the nature of the project and my role. Tell me about constructive feedback you’ve received. Asked for several specific examples. Tell me about a Read more

Published: April 3, 2011

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: R2 / Admissions staff interviewer / On-campus

Apply 1/4/11, Invite 3/17, Interview 3/29, Accepted 4/4! After a two and a half month excruciating wait I got a call from MIT asking me to interview. In fact, she made is sound like I had already been invited (email or something) and that I hadn’t responded (she was “hoping I was still interested in applying”). I’m in the DC area and I found out the only available dates were at an interview fair the next week where I’d be one of a lot of people interviewing or I could interview on the 29th, the final day of interviews for Read more

Published: January 26, 2011

Admissions Director Q&A: MIT Sloan’s Rod Garcia

We circled back recently to check in with an admissions director we hadn’t yet reconnected with as part of our Admissions Director Q&A Series – Rod Garcia of the MIT Sloan School of Management. Maybe it’s all the snow in Boston that gave him a little extra free time to take part. Whatever the case, we’re happy to have had a chance to catch up with him and think you’ll enjoy the interview that follows. An MIT Sloan veteran, Garcia has been at the school for the past 23 years and admissions director for the last 12. Before coming to MIT Sloan in 1988, he worked in admissions at the University of Chicago. Read more

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Women: 49%

Median GMAT: 730

Median GPA: 3.7

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December 23, 2024 7:48am ET

Applying: Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Georgia Tech / Scheller, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Sports

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Family Business, Other Companies: Accenture , Deloitte

GMAT: 655

GPA: 3.89

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: South

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NCAA DI Athlete
Selected for the industry's inaugural women's leadership academy
Variety of volunteer work in and out of my work industry

December 23, 2024 12:19am ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, UCLA Anderson, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Construction & RE (2nd Gen Entrepreneur)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Asset Management, inc. HF, Family Business Companies: Citibank , Credit Suisse , Morgan Stanley

GRE: 326

GPA: 3.80

Years of Work Experience: 5

December 22, 2024 5:00pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Duke / Fuqua

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Finance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Other

GMAT: 730

GPA: 3.4

Years of Work Experience: 5

December 22, 2024 2:49pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Cloud Engineer

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Private Equity, Pharmaceutical, Consumer Goods, Entrepreneurship Companies: Bain , BCG , Amazon , Apple , Google , Bain Capital , Blackstone , Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Group , Johnson & Johnson , Nike

GRE: 324

GPA: 3.42

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Virginia

Post MBA Location: anywhere

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I graduated with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Psychology. At work I'm involved in many Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. I regularly volunteer and speak to high school school students on STEAM careers(art included) and hold resume review workshops/interactive labs. I have also spoken at many summits continuing to empower others to adopt new technologies. I would love to get an MBA to continue my passion for mentoring/professional development and democratizing technology! I've always been interested in learning how marketing, finance and other departments interact and operate within an organization and I want to develop crucial skills that make me well rounded enough to be an impactful leader and entrepreneur post-MBA.

December 22, 2024 6:32am ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UVA / Darden, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Construction & RE (2nd Gen Entrepreneur)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Asset Management, inc. HF, Commercial Banking, Family Business Companies: Citibank , Deutsche Bank , Morgan Stanley , Accell Partners , Andressen Horowitz , First Round Capital , Sequoia Capital , Bain Capital , Blackstone , Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Group , Blackrock , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan Asset Management , State Street , Citibank , Morgan Stanley

GRE: 326

GPA: 3.80

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: India

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December 23, 2024 10:00am ET

Accepted to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 1

Received via email

GMAT: 695

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Taiwan

December 22, 2024 9:40pm ET

Applied to Berkeley / Haas

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

GPA: 3.85

GRE: 339

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: Brooklyn, New York

December 22, 2024 1:36pm ET

Accepted to UT Austin / McCombs

Round: Round 1

Received via email on December 16, 2024

GRE: 319

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: United Kingdom

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$20k merit scholarship offer.

December 22, 2024 12:04pm ET

Accepted to Stanford GSB

Round: Round 1

Received via phone

GPA: 3.7

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Technology

Application Location: Asia

December 22, 2024 4:59am ET

Accepted to UPenn / Wharton

Round: Round 1

Received via portal

GMAT: 730

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: Southeast Asia

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