Clear Admit Products
Get the latest release announcements, series updates and sale news about our robust collection of resources for MBA applicants.
On the Waitlist? Watch This MBA Admissions Academy Episode Now!
If you find yourself on the MBA admissions waitlist, we’re here to help you navigate to a positive outcome. Some top MBA programs admit a number of individuals from the waitlist in Round 3 and even later. That said, we know that cautious optimism does not make the wait for an answer any easier. To help those in this situation make sure that they’re doing all they can, we’re sharing the Admissions Academy episode dedicated to the waitlist. Just click play:
Read more
Published: March 29, 2022
Clear Admit Goes Offline… And Into Your Wardrobe!
That’s right, you can now show your love for Clear Admit offline with some fun new Clear Admit merch available through TeePublic. If you refresh Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire all day, do it in style. LiveWire is better than work: Or, if you’re a die-hard WireTaps fan, we have the gear for you: You can customize merch in a variety of colors, too. Kids can also get decked out to show their pride in their parents: Get your favorite design on a variety of
Read more
Published: October 20, 2021
Ace Your MBA Interview: Clear Admit’s Interview Guides
The MBA interview—the nail-biting, stomach-churning, sleep-robbing component of the MBA application process that ties some applicants up in knots—is upon us. But there’s no reason to fret: not with Clear Admit’s in-depth Interview Guide Series as part of your arsenal. Providing expert advice and insider tips on what to expect and how to prepare, these guides are ready and waiting to help you conquer your jitters and ace your interview. The Clear Admit Interview Guides include first-hand interview accounts submitted by real applicants over the years through our Interview Archive. The Clear Admit team has
Read more
Published: November 6, 2019
Top Chicago Booth MBA Interview Tips from Actual Interviewees
As MBA candidates for University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business prepare for their interviews, we’re taking the opportunity to round up useful advice from the Clear Admit Interview Archive, as passed on by interviewed candidates themselves.
Before we dig into the key takeaways from prior lucky invitees, here are a few basics about the structure of the interviews at Booth. MBA candidates who interview with Booth may interview on-campus with a second-year student, or off-campus with an admissions officer or alum. On-campus interviews generally run from 30 to 45 minutes with time at the end of the interview for questions. Alumni interviews can be more varied, in terms of time. Either way, it’s important to prepare thoughtful questions for your interviewer.
All interviews are blind, meaning that your interviewer may have access to your resume, but you should still make sure you bring copies to your interview. Booth interviews are generally considered to be very straightforward, in a reasonably relaxing atmosphere, as the following excerpts from interview reports attest.
Interview Logistics
This candidate thinks there might be an advantage to schedule your interview early in the day, if you are interviewing on-campus:
“The organization of the interviews was excellent. I would recommend to schedule your interviews for an earlier spot — my interviewer, while attentive, was already a little worn off.”
This candidate noted the advantage of doing the campus visit, before the interview:
Read more
Published: October 14, 2019
Episode 28 Replay: How to Interview at Harvard Business School
It's always tough to score an interview invitation to Harvard Business School, and even tougher to get through the MBA admissions interview! But fear not, Clear Admit's admissions experts, Graham Richmond and Alex Brown, are here to help you prepare.
Richmond has counseled hundreds of applicants along the way, read hundreds of HBS interview reports, and even been through the HBS interview process himself. Brown, the author of "Becoming a Clear Admit: The Definitive Guide to MBA Admissions," has worked in the admissions space since the 1990s, and trained admissions officers at dozens of leading schools. Together, they tackle every aspect of the HBS interview process in this podcast episode, including:
Read more
Published: October 14, 2019
Published: October 6, 2019
Top HBS MBA Interview Tips from Actual Interviewees
We know that many of you Class of 2022 hopefuls are eagerly awaiting your interviews with the Harvard Business School (HBS) admissions committee. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up the top interview tips from experienced candidates, as reported in the Clear Admit Interview Guide. You can thank us—and them—by paying it forward and submitting reports of your own after you interview.
Whether on campus, via Skype, or in any of several global hub cities, HBS interviews are all “non-blind,” meaning the adcom members conducting your interview will have fully examined and be familiar with your application.
Let’s see what sage advice last year’s class passed on.
Read more
Published: September 25, 2019
Admissions Tip: Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview – Part II
This is the second in a four-part series on the MBA admissions interview. You can view Part I here. Okay—now that you’re clear on open interviews and interviews by invitation, let’s get into some of the finer points. What’s this about blind versus non-blind interviews, you ask? Some schools believe strongly in the notion of blind interviews, which means that your interviewer will know nothing about you in advance of the interview other than what appears on the résumé you give them. Schools that fall firmly into this camp include Yale School of Management (SOM), Columbia
Read more
Published: August 28, 2019
MBA Interview Guides Updated for Columbia Business School, INSEAD, Northwestern Kellogg and More!
New 2019-2020 editions of the Clear Admit Interview Guides are here to help you ace your MBA admissions interview!
Each guide includes school-specific, first-hand interview accounts submitted by real applicants over the years through our Interview Archive. You'll also find tons of analysis of the most frequently asked questions by Clear Admit admissions experts, who offer insight into what specific schools are looking for in response. The guides also shed light on how the Admissions Committees at each school weigh the interview, and what you should be doing to plan your trip to campus. Moreover, each of our guides includes our General Interview Guide, which is full of advice on how to be successful in any MBA admissions interview.
2019-2020 Clear Admit Interview Guides
Download your Clear Admit Interview Guides today and you’ll have everything you need to do to wow your interviewer. Updated titles include:
Read more
Interviewing at Columbia or INSEAD? Grab Our Interview Guides!
With Columbia Business School and INSEAD rolling out interview invitations, it is prime time to practice for this key part of the MBA admissions process with the Clear Admit Interview Guides. The Clear Admit Interview Guide to CBS will prepare you for the blind nature of their Q&A sessions. With the Clear Admit Interview Guide to INSEAD, you will learn how to ace both of your alumni interviews.
What's Inside?
These digital guides include first-hand interview accounts submitted by real applicants through our Interview Archive. In addition to lists of sample questions consistently asked of applicants, the Clear Admit team has combined its years of admissions counseling and expertise to analyze the most frequently asked ones, and offer insight into what specific schools are looking for in response.
Read more
Podcast Episode 11 Replay: Clear Admit’s 12-Step Program for Early Bird MBA Applicants
Looking to get an early start on your MBA applications for the 2019-2020 application season? Clear Admit’s Co-Founder Graham Richmond outlines a 12-step program for early bird MBA applicants in this podcast. By getting the ball rolling this far in advance, you’re already setting yourself up for success. Richmond’s suggested steps can help ensure that you stay on track and take full advantage of your great head start. Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast Episode 11 Replay: Clear Admit's 12-Step Program for Early Bird MBA Applicants Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds
Read more
Published: February 17, 2019
Podcast Episode 29: Wharton Team-Based Discussions (TBD)
In this episode, your hosts Alex Brown and Graham Richmond break down Wharton’s group interview – the ‘Team Based Discussion’ (TBD) – and offer a wealth of tips and background to help applicants ace their Wharton admissions interview. Ranging from the history and purpose of the TBD to the specifics of this year’s TBD prompt, Alex and Graham – who both formerly worked in admissions at Wharton – deliver the most in-depth podcast that ever been produced on this topic. They also provide sage advice on how to deal with different personality types in your TBD and explain the pros
Read more
Published: February 4, 2019
Podcast Episode 28: How to Interview at Harvard Business School
Were you lucky enough to receive an interview invitation to Harvard Business School? Clear Admit's admissions experts, Graham Richmond and Alex Brown, are here to help you prepare!
Richmond has counseled hundreds of applicants along the way, read hundreds of HBS interview reports, and even been through the HBS interview process himself. Brown, the author of "Becoming a Clear Admit: The Definitive Guide to MBA Admissions," has worked in the admissions space since the 1990s, and trained admissions officers at dozens of leading schools. Together, they tackle every aspect of the HBS interview process in this podcast episode, including:
Read more
Published: October 16, 2018
Who Is Your MBA Interviewer? A Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast Replay
Round 1 applicants continue to receive invitations to interview. But depending on the school, the person who serves as your MBA interviewer could vary. Today alone, there have been MBA LiveWire reports of invitations to interview at Chicago Booth, INSEAD, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, and Cornell’s Johnson School, among others. If you suddenly find yourself in the throes of preparing for an interview, take a moment to revisit one of our earliest MBA Admissions Podcasts. Episode 2, which aired last spring, takes a closer look
Read more
Published: September 3, 2018
Clear Admit Webinar Series Recap – “How to Ace Round One Applications”
Are you planning on applying in Round One? Clear Admit’s experts are here to give you advice and tips to be successful at navigating the admissions process. We’ve just completed both parts of our two-part webinar series available online – and we highly recommend that you watch and listen to it as it provides valuable insight into acing your Round One applications! The webinar covers: Identifying your target schools How to correctly fill in data forms The best advice for preparing your references for the recommendation forms Final touches to the application Preparing for the interview Making the decision on where to enroll
Read more
Published: April 24, 2018
Our Latest Podcast: Clear Admit’s 12-Step Program for Early Bird MBA Applicants
Looking to get an early start on your MBA applications for the 2018-2019 application season? Don’t miss our latest podcast episode, in which Clear Admit Co-Founder Graham Richmond outlines a 12-step program for early bird MBA applicants. By getting the ball rolling this far in advance, you’re already setting yourself up for success. Richmond’s suggested steps can help ensure that you stay on track and take full advantage of your great head start. Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast Episode 11: Clear Admit's 12-Step Program for Early Bird MBA Applicants Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode
Read more
MIT Sloan Round 3 Roundup from Admissions Director Dawna Levenson
With the Round 3 deadline having passed yesterday for applicants to MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of Admissions Dawna Levenson was quick to add an update post to her “From the Desk of the Admissions Director” blog today letting these late-round applicants know what to expect next. Levenson started out by underscoring that several things make applying in Round 3 unique, chief among them the accelerated timeline. “The next month will certainly be a whirlwind,” she warned. Here are the dates you should circle now on your calendars: Friday, April 20, 2018: Interview
Read more
Published: February 25, 2018
Top Michigan Ross MBA Interview Questions and Tips from Actual Interviewees
As Ross MBA candidates head to Ann Arbor or meet up with alumni interviewers elsewhere around the globe, we wanted to round up some of the most common questions and pass on some advice from actual interviewees.
The one-on-one admissions interviews are conducted by students on campus or by alumni off campus. They are “blind” in nature, meaning that the interviewer has not seen candidates’ applications—just their résumés. In addition to these solo interviews, Ross candidates are also encouraged to take part in a team-based activity in Ann Arbor. For the team activity, a group of five or six candidates is given two random words; the students then must work together to develop a business challenge and solution around these words.
Read more
Published: January 15, 2018
A Novel MBA Ranking System
As MBA hopefuls review the plethora of annual rankings, we thought it a good time to revisit another approach to MBA rankings—a tiered ranking system introduced by Clear Admit’s Alex Brown in his 2016 book Becoming a Clear Admit: The Definitive Guide to MBA Admissions. Something of a departure from the traditional rankings produced by the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, and other publications, this novel MBA ranking system groups similarly competitive schools in the same tier. Below we’ve provided an excerpt from Brown’s book discussing explaining the tiered system, as
Read more
Published: December 28, 2017
Ring in the New Year with Last Minute R2 Admissions Advice – Free!
Start 2018 on the right path as you apply in Round 2! Join the Clear Admit community by creating your login and subscribing to our newsletter – and we’ll give you our critically acclaimed admissions strategy book for free! Benefits of registering and subscribing to our newsletter: Search and sort LiveWire, DecisionWire, and ApplyWire data by school, round, result and more! Comment on posts at will, and receive notifications of follow-up comments to your posts Keep track of all of your Clear Admit digital publications, and download them on the go Receive weekly news
Read more
Published: November 20, 2017
LiveWire Briefing: What the Data Tell Us About MBA Interview Invites at Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) typically receives more than 8,000 applications a year. Of those, it interviews approximately 1,000 candidates to fill a class of around 420. It doesn’t take intense GMAT prep to recognize that the odds of getting in are pretty slim! Despite these admittedly high hurdles, there were some positive results reported on Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire, our community tool where applicants report admissions decisions in real time.
Read more
Published: November 7, 2017
LiveWire Briefing: What the Data Tell Us About Interview Invites at Wharton and MIT / Sloan
As candidates hear about interviews (and dings), admissions news keeps flowing into Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire, prompting us to take a closer look at the data applicants have shared. Most recently, we examined results reported by Harvard Business School (HBS) and University of Chicago Booth School of Business candidates. With invitations rolling out from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and MIT Sloan wrapping up its Round 1 notifications, we’re now shining the spotlight on these two schools.
Read on to see how the current crop of applicants invited to interview at each of these schools compares to those who were rejected.
Read more
Published: November 1, 2017
LiveWire Briefing: What the Data Tell Us About Interview Invites at HBS vs. Chicago Booth
As admissions committees extend invitations for interviews, October’s been a very busy month on Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire, prompting us to take a closer look at the data applicants have shared. Recognizing that applicants have been posting results about many different schools, we’re nevertheless going to hone in on two for the purposes of this piece: Harvard Business School (HBS) and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Read on to see how the current crop of applicants invited to interview at each of these schools compares to those who were rejected. And those who are curious might also want to take a look at our review of LiveWire data in past seasons to see how this year’s applicants stack up to prior years’. (Hint: This year looks more competitive!)
Read more
Published: September 20, 2017
Two Weeks to Go Until HBS Round 1 Interview Invites, Says Adcom
Round 1 applicants to Harvard Business School (HBS) got to breathe a sigh of relief when they hit that “submit” button in early September, but one stress quickly morphed into another as they began the anxious wait for an interview invitation. But according to a recent post from HBS Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee on his ‘Direct from the Director' blog, that wait will come to an end the week after next.
Read more
Published: September 19, 2017
Choosing the Best Business School for Consulting
If you are a prospective MBA applicant looking to business school as a way to enter or accelerate your career in the consulting industry, you are certainly not alone. According to the 2017 Prospective Student Survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), consulting is once again the most sought-after postgraduate industry, with 33 percent of applicants surveyed citing consulting firms as their destination of choice. The consulting function, too, is a top draw. One in four indicated it as their chosen job function, after just marketing/sales (30 percent) and finance/accounting (28 percent).
With so many MBA graduates vying for roles in the consulting field, one of the best ways to distinguish yourself is by going to one of the business schools best known for training top-notch consultants. Of course, this requires thorough research and a deep knowledge of individual school programs. Lucky for you, Clear Admit has done some of the legwork.
Read more
