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Published: May 7, 2017

Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Debuts Updated Business Plan Competition—Twine Takes Top Honors

Millennials have developed something of a reputation as job-hoppers—sticking it out for just a year or two with one employer before exploring a new opportunity somewhere else. A 2016 LinkedIn survey bore this out, revealing that the number of companies people worked for in the five years after graduating from college has nearly doubled over the past 20 years. Not only that, the number of companies people work for five to 10 years after graduating has been on the rise as well. One reason could be a lack of engagement at work. A 2016 Gallup Read more

Published: May 3, 2017

Summer Before Business School: When and How to Quit Your Job? Then What?

“I quit!” How many of us have fantasized about saying those two words to a boss at some point in our career, turning with a flourish and marching out the door, never looking back? While that kind of dramatic exit could offer a certain kind of short-term satisfaction, it’s perhaps not the best way to leave a job to head off to business school. So what’s a better way to let your employer know that your days at the company are numbered? Just how long before business school starts should you plan to make your exit? And what’s the best way to fill the time before you start? For those heading to campus in the fall, these questions are top of mind right now. To get some answers, we checked in with some current MBA students and recent grads to see what they did—and whether they’d do the same if they had it to do over. Read more

Published: April 24, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 3 / 2nd-Year / On-Campus

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! Group interview to begin. 10-15 minutes one-on-one with a 2nd year after, asking three questions: How do you think the group exercise went? Did your performance accurately reflect your leadership style in the military? Why do you want an MBA now? Overall I thought it went well, and I really enjoyed the group exercise. I think the adcom gets a much better idea of the kind of student, leader, and teammate you are likely to be based on the exercise. Preparing Read more

Published: April 24, 2017

MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Harvard Business School, Northwestern / Kellogg or UPenn / Wharton for Social Impact

In this edition of MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights selected options as posted in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we walk through responses to a candidate considering Northwestern / Kellogg with a scholarship, Harvard Business School or The Wharton School for social impact. Given the candidate’s career goals, some favored the funding from Kellogg while others prioritized the HBS brand. One of the first comments captured the essence of the debate: 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 17, 2017

MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Chicago Booth, Northwestern / Kellogg or UPenn / Wharton for Finance

In this week’s MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which pulls the admissions results of students and alumni as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we round up responses to a candidate considering Northwestern / Kellogg with a scholarship, Chicago Booth or The Wharton School for finance. While the F.C. Austin scholarship from Kellogg sounded lucrative to many, several people chimed in for the other MBA programs, Chicago Booth and the Wharton School. This community member succinctly captured the potential conundrum: Read more

Published: April 13, 2017

Fridays from the Frontline: MBA Student Finds Support to Be Out at Wharton

For some MBA students, business school presents an entire new community with whom they can choose whether or not to share their sexual orientation. For Rafael de la Rosa, a second-year MBA student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, the decision to be out to his classmates was one he arrived at only after careful consideration. Connecting to Wharton’s Out4Biz LGBT student group before coming to campus helped him feel confident that he could be his full self. In the post that follows, you’ll learn that not only did he come out to everyone at Wharton, de Read more

Published: April 9, 2017

Wharton’s Strength in Real Estate Bolstered by Recent Alumni Gift

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School last week announced the creation of a new international real estate program that promises to benefit students and faculty alike. The Grayken Program in International Real Estate—funded through a gift from John P. Grayken, C’78—will enhance Wharton’s already strong focus on real estate through expanded academic programming for students, research support for faculty and industry events and outreach. Grayken is founder and chairman of private equity firm Lone Star Funds, which invests globally in real estate, equity, credit and other financial assets. Lone Star is a research sponsor to Wharton’s Samuel Zell Read more

Published: April 6, 2017

MBA Applicant Spotlight: A Marathon 10 Applications Long

In our new series, "MBA Applicant Spotlight," we're bringing you the personal experiences and lessons of MBA applicants. The MBA application process may have the common thread of being challenging, but each person's journey is different. To kick off the series, we start with Yansong Pang, who applied to 10 MBA programs. He is currently the global president at Global China Connection, one of the largest NGOs connecting Chinese students with young professionals around the world. He graduated from Carleton College and has worked both in buy-side equity research and strategy consulting. Read on for his experience with MBA admissions: Where did you apply? What were the results? I applied to HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton, LBS, Berkeley / Haas, Cornell / Johnson, MIT / Sloan, Yale SOM and Duke / Fuqua and the Jefferson scholarship at UVA / Darden. 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: April 3, 2017

MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Northwestern / Kellogg or U Penn / Wharton from Europe

In this edition of MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights the admissions results of students and alumni posted to Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we round up responses to a candidate trying to choose between Northwestern / Kellogg and UPenn / Wharton for finance. This week, a candidate with acceptances to Kellogg and Wharton, but also a few waitlist placements, reached out on DecisionWire. A community member offered some detailed feedback: Read more

Published: March 28, 2017

With $10 Million Alumni Gift, Wharton Enters Deferred-Admission MBA Game

Undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania will now have a unique opportunity to gain admission to the Wharton School MBA program as seniors in college thanks to a new program funded by a $10 million alumni gift, the Wharton School announced today. Named for Wharton alums and benefactors Ken Moelis and his wife, Julie Taffet Moelis, the new Moelis Advance Access Program is similar to the deferred-admission MBA program at Harvard Business School (HBS), which admits high-potential college students and reserves a place for them in a future MBA class pending successful completion of required work experience. Ken and Julie Moelis In addition to giving Penn undergrads a jump start on the highly competitive MBA admissions process, the program will also provide support in the form of financial aid and a strong pre-MBA community for participants. Ultimately, Wharton plans to expand the program to include promising college applicants from other leading undergraduate institutions around the country and the world. Read more

Published: March 20, 2017

Wharton Admissions Dean Weighs in on Topping U.S. News Ranking

Last week, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School tied for first place with Harvard Business School (HBS) in U.S. News & World Report’s closely watched annual ranking of top MBA programs in the nation. Though Wharton has only claimed the top spot once before in the ranking’s 28-year history, it has traditionally been considered part of the “holy trinity” of schools, behind only HBS and Stanford Graduate School of Business in many people’s eyes. That made last year’s fourth-place finish after the University of Chicago Booth School of Business a real blow and this year’s strong showing an important rebound. Read more

Published: March 20, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-year Student / On-Campus

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! The TBD was an intimidating process, but overall I had a great group. I signed up for the first time-slot, and I was very glad I did, because the admissions office was very crowded and chaotic later in the day. Many people recommend getting to campus early so you can chat with other students in your TBD in the lobby, to make your TBD more comfortable. I did not find this helpful because there are multiple groups during the Read more

Published: March 20, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-year student / On-Campus

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! Before the interview began, we all stood around looking like cattle ready for the slaughter. Uncomfortable introductions, followed by subtle competitive posturing, all of which is to be expected. My strategy was being likeable from the beginning. I said hi to everyone, introduced myself confidently, even though I was nervous. I figured at least one person would be on my time and the earlier you can build rapport, the better. The receptionists looked like they were taking notes about 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 10, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed at the Wharton Beijing Hub with four other applicants in the same group and one adcom. Here’s the whole process: We arrived more than 30 minutes before our time slot and settled at a meeting room. We got to know each other and everyone’s background a little bit. When the adcom came, she asked for our résumés (some of us didn’t bring a copy but the hub had printers) and led us to the interview room. Adcom explained the interview Read more

Published: March 8, 2017

Chicago Booth Names Stanford GSB Professor as Its Next Dean

The path from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is becoming well worn, as Chicago Booth prepares to welcome its second consecutive dean from the Palo Alto campus. Madhav Rajan, who chairs the accounting department at Stanford GSB and served as senior associate dean for academic affairs from 2010 to 2016, will take the helm at Booth on July 1st, the school announced yesterday. Sunil Kumar, who served as Chicago Booth’s dean from 2011 until leaving to become provost of Johns Hopkins University in July 2016, also came from Stanford, where spent 14 years, ultimately in the role of senior associate dean. Since his departure, Douglas Skinner, also an accounting professor, has served as interim dean as Chicago Booth conducted a global search for a successor. 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

Which Business Schools Produced the Most Unicorn Founders

Billion-dollar startups, affectionately coined “unicorns,” have become a benchmark that business schools around the world use to boast overall success. But which business schools actually produce the most successful startup founders? Earlier this year, U.K. software research firm Sage compiled data on billion-dollar startups, which also included the schools from which company founders graduated. The research, unsurprisingly, found two business schools standing taller than the rest of the competition: Harvard Business School (HBS) and Stanford University Graduate School of Business. HBS alumni produced 23 of these unicorn startups, as reported by Fortune. These Read more

Published: March 4, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / On-Campus TBD

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! We were all nervously sitting outside talking amongst each other before they called 6 people into a room for the team-based interview. There were two second-year students who were part of the admissions team who conducted our team-based interview. After reading the prompt and going through some general directions they started the clock. 35 minutes to discuss everyone’s idea and come to an agreement on the next leadership venture for the McNulty Leadership Program. I know they said to prepare a Read more

Published: March 2, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed at the Wharton San Francisco campus. Rather than having 3 representatives from Wharton in the room during the Team-Based Discussion, we only had one adcom. We each handed her our resumes (thankfully I had one printed!) at the start and then went around the group and introduced ourselves by name and college. The Team-Based Discussion felt very relaxed, and the adcom rep sat in the corner with her head down the whole time taking notes. The group realized we Read more

Published: February 26, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The TBD took place in San Francisco at the Wharton SF building. The building was very nice, and there wasn’t much going on at the time of day, so got to check out the facilities and the view. I purposely planned my flight so that I could go to the reception event before my interview, and I met two people who would be in my TBD group as well as the adcom interviewer. This really helped me be comfortable in the Read more

Published: February 26, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The TBD and interview happened with [Adcom member] in a business lounge of The Oberoi hotel in Mumbai on 21 Feb, 2017 (2:30 – 4:00 PM IST). We were supposed to have the process at the Mckinsey office in Mumbai but due to a local election, the venue was shifted at the last moment. As has been recommended, I reached the venue about an hour before the process and got to meet fellow team members (and build an informal rapport). The Read more

Published: February 26, 2017

UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-year Student / On-Campus

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I scheduled my Team Based Discussion for the last window of the day (3:30) so that I could have time to visit a class and talk with students beforehand. In retrospect, given the TBD format, I would have been much better served getting it out of the way earlier in the day, as my visit didn’t impact my interview at all and it was unfortunate to have it hanging over my head as I kept talking with other interviewees who had Read more

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CLASS SIZE: 866

Women: 47%

MEAN GMAT: 732

MEAN GPA: 3.7

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December 21, 2024 12:13pm ET

Applying: Dartmouth / Tuck, Northwestern / Kellogg, UPenn / Wharton, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Military/Corporate Logistics

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

GRE: 302

GPA: 3.63

Years of Work Experience: 9

Notes:

Submitting for R2, but retaking GRE after application deadline. Military Vet with Corporate experience.

December 20, 2024 5:17pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Healthcare

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

GRE: 332

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Florida

Post MBA Location: Consulting

Notes:

25F, lgbtq, 3 years as a registered nurse. also have started working for an early stage VC in the past several months.

December 19, 2024 4:44pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Insurance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Entrepreneurship

GRE: 318

GPA: 3.59

Years of Work Experience: 3.5

Location: Georgia

Post MBA Location: Southeast

Notes:

Looking to launch a tech startup post MBA, without any background in tech. Come from a quant heavy background and undergraduate coursework. I regularly attended admissions events, in person and online at my schools. I hope that focusing energy on my few top schools and spending a lot of time on essays will help me overcome the less than average test score (164 quant 154 verbal) and GPA.

Serial entrepreneur with a history of profitable small businesses. Was promoted twice in 3.5 years. Involved in many extracurricular activities in and outside of work. My background is very centered around financial services/insurance, is this a red flag for a pivot to Tech Entrepreneurship?

Transferred between two state schools in the southeast. School I graduated from is a top 25 undergrad business program. Obtained a few professionals designations post grad.

December 18, 2024 11:38am ET

Applying: Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Held various positions in Finance and Accounting in a healthcare institution

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Other Companies: BCG , Deloitte , Other

GPA: 3.0

Years of Work Experience: 11

Location: International

Notes:

I am passionate about healthcare enhancing patient quality care. So exploring in that field is what I would love. Got a 72k scholarship from Vandy and named Forte Fellow. UNC 50k. I'm having a hard time deciding though my heart is leaning towards Owen

December 18, 2024 10:23am ET

Applying: Arizona State / W.P. Carey, Indiana / Kelley, Ohio State / Fisher

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Facility management

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting

GRE: 309

GPA: 2.8

Years of Work Experience: 3

Notes:

Graduate GPA -3.869

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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

Note:

Elated and did not expect it!

December 21, 2024 8:37am ET

Accepted to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 11, 2024

GMAT: 675

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

December 21, 2024 2:38am ET

Waitlisted at Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 10, 2024

GPA: 3.27

GMAT: 760

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: CA

December 20, 2024 11:16pm ET

Accepted to Babson / Olin

Round: Round 1

Received via email on December 17, 2024

GPA: 3.9

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: South Asia

December 20, 2024 7:50pm ET

Accepted to Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on December 10, 2024

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

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$100k scholarship

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