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Published: August 28, 2017

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: A Future In Banking

MBA applicants are figuring out their target schools for Round 1 and sharing their plans on ApplyWire, Clear Admit’s latest tool to aid in your admissions process. This week, we take a closer look at one candidate trying to find their preferred path in the banking industry with 10 schools on their radar, including: U. Chicago Booth, Dartmouth/Tuck, IESE, Cornell/Johnson, UT Austin/McCombs, UCLA Anderson, UVA/Darden, NYU/Stern, Michigan/Ross, and the London Read more

Published: August 21, 2017

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: Seeking Advice on “Reach” Business Schools

As MBA applicants craft their calendars for admissions, many conundrums have arisen on ApplyWire, Clear Admit’s latest tool to aid in your admissions process. This week, we're setting the spotlight on a candidate seeking advice on "reach" business schools. We take a closer look at a post from an applicant considering Berkeley / Haas, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, UCLA Anderson, and Yale SOM. Read on for more details about the candidate’s background. Initial advice targeted scheduling and the GMAT: Read more

Published: August 20, 2017

Tuck MBA Designs Experiential Course to Help Mississippi

Before joining Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business for his MBA, Tom Allin (’17) worked for Teach for America (TFA) in the Mississippi Delta. Through his experiences with TFA, he saw first hand some of the deep economic challenges in the region and became determined to help the area in a more substantive way. What Allin didn’t know at the time was that he was laying the groundwork for what would become the Mississippi Global Insight Expedition (GIX). Read more

Published: August 7, 2017

ApplyWire Spotlight: Applying to Business School with a Low GPA

As MBA applicants set their sights on leading business schools, many are sharing their plans—and concerns—on ApplyWire, Clear Admit’s latest tool to aid in your admissions process. This week, we’re setting the spotlight on a candidate with a low GPA targeting seven schools. We take a closer look at a post from an applicant considering Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, UCLA Anderson, and UVA / Darden. Read on for more details about the candidate’s background. The original poster had a bit more to share about their plans: Read more

Published: July 17, 2017

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: Applying to Business School for Brand Management

This week’s MBA ApplyWire Spotlight takes a look at a particularly unique applicant, with a background heavy in nonprofit experience. This candidate has set their sights on six potential business schools: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Georgetown / McDonough, NYU Stern and UCLA Anderson. Read on for more details about the candidate’s background. Even with so many potential target schools, the first responses suggested an even wider pool of Read more

Published: July 10, 2017

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: Applying to Business School for Consulting

With the launch of Applywire, Clear Admit’s latest tool to aid in your admissions process, we're setting this week’s spotlight on a candidate considering nine MBA programs. This week, we take a closer look at a post from an applicant considering Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke /Fuqua, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, MIT / Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, Chicago Booth and the Wharton School. Read on for more details about the candidate’s background. Initial feedback tried to steer towards a timeline: Read more

Published: May 3, 2017

Tuck Taps Veteran Stanford GSB Admissions Director Luke Anthony Peña to Head Its Admissions Team

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has filled the void at the head of its MBA admissions team, naming Luke Anthony Peña as its new executive director of admissions and financial aid, the school announced today. Peña comes to Tuck from Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he has worked for the past five years, first as associate director and ultimately as director of MBA admissions. He succeeds Dawna Clarke, who led Tuck admissions for 11 years before stepping down in late 2016 to start her own admissions consulting firm. Peña’s appointment culminates a comprehensive three-month search that drew many highly-qualified candidates, according to Tuck Dean Matthew Slaughter. In particular, the school sought someone who could help attract talented candidates for whom Tuck’s mission of “educating tomorrow’s wise leaders” spoke the loudest. “Luke’s expertise in MBA admissions—together with his wonderful warmth and creativity—will ensure Tuck is successful in welcoming even more of those students into our community,” Slaughter said in a statement. Read more

Published: April 17, 2017

April Is Jam-Packed with Admitted Students’ Weekends: What You Need to Know

Along with showers, April also brings dozens of admitted students’ weekends at business schools across the country—part of the schools’ efforts to convince top candidates to call their campuses home next fall. Anxious applicants who spent months with their eyes glued to LiveWire in a desperate attempt to foretell their futures are now packing their bags and heading off to meet potential classmates and see what life at Harvard or Stanford or Wharton or any number of other top business schools might really be like. Which means it’s now the schools’ turn to try to impress. Indeed, the month of Read more

Published: April 6, 2017

Applying for an MBA During Undergrad: Schools Step Up

Deciding to attend business school isn’t a spur of the moment decision. For most applicants, it’s a choice made after months, if not years, of research and consideration following their undergrad degree. And, according to the 2016 MBA.com Prospective Students Survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), these considerations can begin quite early for some prospective MBA students. The survey found that on average, millennials apply to graduate management programs within 14 months of considering such degrees—a significantly shorter timeline than members of Generation X (21 months). Further, the 2016 Application Read more

Published: March 13, 2017

7 Takeaways from the 2018 U.S. News Business School Ranking

The schools making up the top 10 in this year’s U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s best MBA programs—released today—were exactly the same as last year. That said, there are a smattering of surprises in terms of how top schools rose and fell relative to one another—and in movement among schools outside of the top 15. At quick glance, here are this year’s top 10, in order of their 2018 rank (2017 rank in parentheses): 1 Harvard Business School (1) 1 University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School (4) 3 University of Chicago Booth Read more

Published: March 7, 2017

DecisionWire Data Suggests a Tiered Business School Ranking

As many of our readers know, U.S. News & World Report is scheduled to release its annual ranking of leading MBA programs next week. We wanted to use this time—ahead of the ranking’s release—to highlight some key insights from our MBA DecisionWire data, which we think will provide context for the upcoming rankings and perhaps even foretell some of the results. Our analysis of DecisionWire data yielded some fascinating findings that we believe support a tiered ranking system for schools, one in which the peer group a school finds itself in serves as a better indicator of Read more

Published: March 6, 2017

MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Berkeley / Haas, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, NYU / Stern or Yale SOM for Finance

In this edition of MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights the admissions results of students and alumni posted to Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we take a closer look at a candidate with a handful of options. This week, a candidate with acceptances to Berkeley / Haas, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, NYU / Stern, and Yale SOM asked for advice on where to head for investment banking, and potentially private equity.Before we get into the constructive feedback, let’s get what many people are likely thinking out of the way:Initial Read more

Published: February 19, 2017

New Innovations Are Revamping the Tuck MBA

Leadership, a global mindset and community inclusivity. Four years ago, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College identified these three concepts as principal tenants that would drive new innovations of its MBA program spearheaded by Associate Dean Praveen Kopalle. The tenants were identified by a task force and were based on student surveys and a study conducted by the Parthenon Group. The result of Tuck’s initiative is a series of six innovations designed to enhance the MBA program and student experience, outlined in a recent article by Tuck Senior Writer Kirk Kardashian entitled Read more

Published: February 14, 2017

MBA Admissions Mashup: Harvard’s IFCs & Interning at Amex

Every Wednesday, we share a roundup of the latest news from MBA admissions blogs at the top business schools. This week we take a look at an internship experience at American Express, opportunities to practice newly learned skills in the field and three reasons why applying to business school is like writing a movie script. At Harvard Business School(HBS), students get the opportunity to take what they’ve learned in the classroom and put it into practice out in the real world. In a recent blog post, HBS lists four things you need to know about these Immersive Field Read more

Published: January 3, 2017

A Look Inside Tuck’s 2016 MBA Employment Statistics

Shortly after ascending to the top five in Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s latest annual ranking of best U.S. business schools, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business released its 2016 employment statistics. Contributing to its strong showing in the Bloomberg BW ranking was the annual salary reported by Tuck grads. According to the latest employment stats released by the school, graduates of the Class of 2016 pulled down an average annual starting salary of $123,934. More than a third of Read more

Published: December 21, 2016

Parsing Round 1 MBA LiveWire Data Reveals Some Interesting Results

The last couple of weeks have been very busy indeed as the majority of schools we cover on Clear Admit released final decisions to their Round 1 applicants. MBA LiveWire saw record activity as the community chimed in to share their individual results with each other. We thought it would be interesting to do some data analysis on these results and are excited to share our findings. We should stress, though, that the data is very likely subject to response bias, by which we mean that candidates with positive results may be more inclined to share them, resulting Read more

Published: December 20, 2016

Calling All Recent Admits: Share Your Journey on Clear Admit’s MBA DecisionWire

The volume on LiveWire these past several weeks has been incredible as Round 1 candidates share the news they’ve received from their target schools. We’d like to offer hearty congratulations to all who gained admission to their top choices. We’d also like to remind our LiveWire devotees of a sister tool here on the Clear Admit site, MBA DecisionWire. This feature was designed to let MBA applicants, students and alumni share more information with their peers—specifically about where they decide to attend business school based on where they applied and were accepted. DecisionWire provides profile Read more

Published: December 20, 2016

MBA Admissions Mashup: The Waitlist

Every Wednesday, we share a round-up of the latest news from MBA admissions blogs at the top business schools. Last week was decision week at the top business schools. If you’re one of the lucky ones to receive an admit from one of your target schools, congratulations! However, we know (from MBA LiveWire) that sveral of you received news of being placed on the waitlist. This is why we’re featuring some advice and news on being waitlisted at McCombs and Tuck, a first-hand perspective of the One-Year MBA at Emory / Goizueta, and insight into admits at Michigan Read more

Published: December 18, 2016

Dartmouth / Tuck MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-campus

The following Dartmouth / Tuck MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a November Round Applicant. Good luck to them! Had an afternoon interview that didn’t include a class, but showed up early and ran into someone i knew, and he took me to class. I spent the night prior and day of in Hanover, walking around town. Probably that nicest, most outgoing group of grad students on earth. Lines up with the tuck rotating reputation. Interview was, as everyone says, very casual and conversational. She asked: Go over my resume What am i most proud of What role do Read more

Published: December 11, 2016

Sitting Down With “Superbosses” Author, Tuck Professor Sydney Finkelstein

Bosses who are older or more experienced aren't necessarily better, according to Sydney Finkelstein, author, management professor and faculty director at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. And he should know. His latest book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, takes a painstakingly deep look into the the characteristics of exceptional leaders, and he shared some of his key findings in a recent interview with Clear Admit. Tuck Professor Sydney Finkelstein "I feel like the single most important thing is the mindset,” he says, casting off the idea that any specific degree of experience matters more. “You can start your career, even as a student, with this mindset. Sometimes helping other people is the best way you can help yourself. You have to be willing to make the effort.” As an example of someone willing to make that extra effort, Finkelstein points to revered NFL Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh, whose San Francisco 49ers teams in the 1980s revolutionized the game, earning three Super Bowl titles between 1982 and 1989. Frequently emphasizing Walsh’s exceptional mindset in the book, Finkelstein highlights how he would help his staff get jobs outside of the 49ers organization. Read more

Published: December 1, 2016

Fridays from the Frontline: How Did I Get Here? The Road from Science to an MBA

Just how did Chilean native Ignacio Cabrera—with an education in molecular biotechnology engineering and bacteriology and work experience first as research scientist at BioAmber and later as a microbial applications scientist at Kerry Inc.—find his way into an MBA program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business? Lucky for us, he candidly shared his journey—including the fact that making the choice to leave his scientific career for business school was far from easy—as part of a recent blog post on the Tuck 360 MBA blog. Luckier still, he’s given permission for that blog post to be republished here for all the Clear Admit audience to read. Read more

Published: November 30, 2016

Dartmouth / Tuck MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-year Student / On Campus

The following Dartmouth / Tuck MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a November Round Applicant. Good luck to them! Very casual/friendly interview. Spent 75% of the time walking through my résumé, asking for more detail on projects I mentioned, why I chose the extracurriculars I did, etc. Last 25% were more behavioral based (time I worked on a project that did not go as planned and what I learned, any recent and meaningful leadership experience, anything interesting about me not listed on my résumé). Overall, it was a pleasant, conversational interview meant to more fully understand my experiences and how Read more

Published: November 29, 2016

Sydney Finkelstein’s “Superbosses” Named Among Amazon’s Best of 2016

Twenty books into Sydney Finkelstein’s career, to call him an expert in leadership is something of an understatement. Finkelstein, management professor and faculty director at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, has earned wide acclaim for his most recently published book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which Amazon named one of the 20 best business and leadership books of 2016. Read more

Published: November 28, 2016

Dartmouth / Tuck MBA Interview Questions & Report: Early Action / Second-Year Student / Campus

The following Dartmouth / Tuck interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Action Round Applicant. Good luck to them! After waiting in a common area with other applicants, an admissions team member came in, called my name, and walked me to our interview room. The room is a nondescript meeting room with a small table that both you and the interviewer sit at. There is a small amount of time for ice-breaking conversation as you make your way to the room and take your seat. The interviewer I had was a very composed, quiet individual who was very warm Read more

Published: November 15, 2016

Amid Roller Coaster Rides for Some, HBS Stays Put atop Bloomberg BusinessWeek Ranking

For the second consecutive year, Harvard Business School (HBS) tops the Bloomberg BusinessWeek annual ranking of MBA programs—released today—making it one of the few leading schools that didn’t experience shifts in a list that holds lots of changes this year over last. Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) shot up to second, from its seventh spot last year, and Duke’s Fuqua School followed right on its heels, moving from eighth last year to number three. Together, they knocked the University of Chicago Booth School of Business down from second to fourth. Read more

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CLASS SIZE: 296

FEMALE: 44%

MEAN GMAT: 727

MEAN GPA: 3.6

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November 17, 2024 9:24am ET

Applying: Columbia, , Georgetown / McDonough, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, NYU Stern, Oxford / Saïd, Stanford GSB, UCLA Anderson, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Higher Education

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Media, Undecided Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , JP Morgan , Morgan Stanley , JP Morgan Chase , Apple , Google , Microsoft , Andressen Horowitz , Charles River , Sequoia Capital , Blackstone , KKR , 21st Century Fox , Comcast , Walt Disney

GPA: 3.97

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Denver, Colorado

Post MBA Location: New York City

November 16, 2024 5:16pm ET

Applying: ESADE, IE Business School, IESE

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Tech

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology, Pharmaceutical Companies: Apple , Facebook , Google , Microsoft , Oracle , Johnson & Johnson , Novartis , Pfizer , Roche

GMAT: 525

GPA: 2.79

Years of Work Experience: 4

Post MBA Location: Europe

Notes:

Asian, female, USA. Top 10 Undergraduate school in USA, majored in Biomedical Engineering. Worked for Salesforce, Accenture, and Microsoft within sales department. Major accomplishments within sales roles. Strong personal essays. Letters of Recommendations from direct managers. Founder and held multiple leadership positions in school clubs during Undergrad. Just a really bad test taker and cannot seem to get my scores up no matter how many times I take it specifically in the quant section. American trying to stay in Europe post MBA and only applying to European B-schools.

November 15, 2024 9:32am ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Minnesota / Carlson, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Insurance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , Other

GMAT: 505

GPA: 3.44

Years of Work Experience: 3

Post MBA Location: Midwest, Northeast

Notes:

GMAT Note:
* The score is an unofficial practice test. I am beginning my studies for the real thing now.

Undergrad Majors:
* Economics
* Business Management

Work Experience Notes:
* Insurance experience is at a family business
* I implemented data analytics into business operations since that was not a practice beforehand.
* I help with sales, customer service, bookkeeping, and marketing.

Extracurriculars & Volunteer Activities:
* Worked as an economics research assistant during my undergrad where I consulted public and private entities
* Was part of an economics research project that won a national award for its work in community economic development
* Published 2 university-sponsored economics articles
* During my senior year, I was appointed to a university faculty committee to help plan university award ceremonies and delegate student scholarships
* Won a leadership award from my university
* Economics honor society member
* President of a student club (1 year) and a club's Senior Advisor (1 year)
* Started and led 2 initiatives that installed free smoke alarms in rural area homes (received a leadership award from the American Red Cross for this)
* Ironman triathlete

November 14, 2024 8:16pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cambridge / Judge, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, emlyon, IESE, Imperial, INSEAD, London Business School, Manchester / AMBS, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Hospitality

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Consumer Goods, Other Companies: Amazon , Apple , Google , Coca Cola , LVMH , Nestle , Nike

GRE: 326

GPA: 3.46

Years of Work Experience: 6

Post MBA Location: Consultancy

November 14, 2024 6:29am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Georgetown / McDonough, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting, Capital Project Development (Renewable Energy/CCS)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Commercial Banking, Family Business, Entrepreneurship

GMAT: 664

GPA: 2.9

Years of Work Experience: 7

Notes:

Pakistani male, looking to get into the financial services industry short term, and long-term make a significant contribution to the family business or pursue entrepreneurship. Studied engineering from UT Austin for undergrad followed by three jobs (roughly 2 years each) and a nine month break in between job 2 and 3. Planning to take the GMAT again in 3 weeks to offset GPA. Goal score is 695. Mitigating circumstances around GPA are just illness and general family/self issues but doubt they will be very convincing.

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November 17, 2024 2:39pm ET

Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 11, 2024

GPA: 3.79

GRE: 321

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: Chicago

November 17, 2024 10:14am ET

Interview Invite to Stanford GSB

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 14, 2024

GPA: 3.52

GRE: 322

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Technology

Note:

Consortium applicant applied round 1

November 17, 2024 12:58am ET

Rejected at Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on November 14, 2024

GPA: 3.49

GMAT: 740

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: India

November 17, 2024 12:46am ET

Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 12, 2024

GPA: 3.49

GMAT: 740

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: India

November 16, 2024 12:19pm ET

Interview Invite to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 1

Received via email

GRE: 320

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

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