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Published: September 17, 2018
U.S. H-1B Visa Premium Processing Suspension Extended
For those hoping to quickly secure themselves an H-1B visa, the wait just got a bit longer. Last March, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that premium processing for H-1B visa applications would be suspended until September 10, 2018. That suspension, however, was extended until February 19, 2019, according to Bloomberg. Read more
Published: September 16, 2018
Introducing the MIT Sloan MBA Class of 2020
MIT Sloan School of Management earlier this month welcomed its diverse and exceptional MBA Class of 2020 to campus. This year, like every year, the students who make up the class come from a range of backgrounds and bring varied experiences. All told, MIT Sloan admitted 409 students for the Class of 2020,five more than last year. By the Numbers So, who exactly makes up the Class of 2020? International students comprise 38 percent of the class and hail from 49 countries. That’s an increase over last year, when they made up just a third of the class. Read more
Published: September 16, 2018
How Can You Make the Most of an Upcoming Campus Visit?
Sponsored Content While visiting campus isn’t required by most business schools, it’s still an excellent idea. An MBA campus visit will not only give you a better idea of what life would be like as a student of that school, but it also can provide you with valuable application material and demonstrate your interest in a particular program. There’s a reason why most business schools recommend a visit before you apply. The truth of the matter is that on paper and online, most MBA programs look and feel the same. They offer similar courses, experiential experiences, clubs, recruiting, career services, Read more
Published: September 13, 2018
More Columbia Business School MBA Students Learn to Code
Like every other elite business school worth its salt, Columbia Business School (CBS)has seen a huge surge in student interest in programming and analytics courses. It started three years ago when Costis Maglaras, the chair of the Decision, Risk & Operations division of CBS, oversaw development of a new analytics curriculum with the goal to ensure that students were being trained in quantitative, data-driven decision-making. Read more
Published: September 12, 2018
MBA News You Need: INSEAD Receives Largest-Ever Donation, Stanford Alum Helps Businesses Prepare for the Future of Ownership, Wharton Launched the Leder Behavior Change for Good Initiative, and More
Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of September 16, 2018. André and Rosalie Hoffmann INSEAD Receives Largest-Ever Individual Donation INSEAD announced that André and Rosalie Hoffmann recently gifted the business school with the largest individual donation in its history. The gift will establish the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, which Executive Director Katell Le Goulven explains will “forge leaders, managers, Read more
Published: September 11, 2018
Incoming MBA Class at Darden Boasts Record-High GMAT Score
Like many of its peer schools, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business rolled out the red carpet in recent weeks for all 335 members of its MBA Class of 2020. Dean Scott Beardsley pledged to the students assembled in the packed Abbott Auditorium that Darden “will work to ensure that you get exactly what you want out of this 21 months—which will fly by—so that you are prepared for a lifetime of meaningful work.” Headline news regarding Darden’s Class of 2020 is its record-setting average GMAT score of 718, the highest in the Read more
Published: September 11, 2018
You’ve Attended an Event! What Should You Do Now?
Sponsored Content MBA events are a critical part of your MBA admissions journey. They’re ideal for gathering information about what graduate business opportunities are available. Some people attend an event with a clear idea of what type of MBA program they’re looking for, while other attend MBA events to compile a short list of schools they want to learn more about. Either way, attending an MBA event can be a great resource to gain insightful tips, hints, and advice from the admissions staff. But once you attend an MBA event—be it a fair, information session, or meet & greet for Read more
Published: September 10, 2018
Tuck Reports Application Volume Uptick, More International Students, Record-Setting Women in Class of 2020
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business today became the latest in a string of business schools to share statistics for its incoming Class of 2020, but its headline news comes in contrast to reports from almost every other peer in the United States. At Tuck, application volume was up year over year with 2,621 applications received. It’s a mere 0.4 percent uptick, but it’s an uptick nonetheless in a year when numerous schools have seen double-digit declines. The Class of 2020 is also more diverse internationally, again bucking the trend among U.S. schools, most of which struggled in Read more
Published: September 10, 2018
Applications Down 4.5 Percent at HBS, But Applicant Quality Remains High
The release of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Class of 2020 profile statistics last week revealed that the Boston school—like many of its U.S. peers—saw a decrease in overall application volume, but median GMAT score and GPA remained unchanged from the prior year at 730 and 3.71 respectively. The admit rate, 11 percent, was also unchanged year over year. So though he was working from a smaller pool of 9,886 applicants (down from 10,351 last year), Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee did not sacrifice on quality. HBS is one of many leading U.S. Read more
Published: September 10, 2018
Real Humans of the Yale SOM MBA Class of 2020
With students flooding back to business school campuses around the globe, we are thrilled to kick off our Real Humans of the MBA Class of 2020 series with this spotlight on members of the incoming Yale School of Management (SOM) first-year class. Last year’s series—our first ever—was hugely popular with our audience, and we’re hoping this year will be the same. We’re also pleased to include many more schools this year, close to 40 in all! We plan to publish two per week, so stay tuned to learn more from students at all the schools you may Read more
Published: September 9, 2018
What Do Employers Want from MBAs? Financial Times Employer Survey Finds Out
The Financial Times recently published the results of its second annual survey of top employers regarding the skills they think are most important when recruiting for MBA talent—as well as those that are hardest to find. According to the Financial Times employer survey published last week, these are the top five most important skills among business school graduates: The ability to work in a team The ability to work with a wide variety of people The ability to solve complex problems The ability to build, sustain, and expand a network of people Time management and the ability to prioritize As for Read more
Published: September 4, 2018
Berkeley Haas Welcomes Record Number of MBA Students in Incoming Class of 2020
Last week, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business unveiled stats for the incoming students that comprise its full-time MBA Class of 2020. At 291 full-time students (along with 276 evening and weekend students), the Haas Class of 2020 is larger than any before, even as it remains one of the smallest classes among the world’s elite business schools. It is also one of the most academically accomplished classes in the school’s history. Average GPA for this year’s first-year class is 3.66, off just .05 from last year’s. But an increase in average GMAT offset the tiny Read more
Published: September 3, 2018
Don’t Miss Clear Admit’s MBA VisitWire: New Business School Campus Visit Archive
It’s here! Clear Admit’s newest applicant resource, MBA VisitWire. The latest in our family of community-sourced MBA admissions tools, VisitWire is designed to help MBA candidates learn more about their target schools by reading about the campus visit experiences of others. We’ve been in beta testing all summer and are excited to announce that we’re now officially live. You can access VisitWire here or via the navigation bar button above. Our thanks to early users who helped us refine the tool by sharing tips for fellow applicants planning visits. Resource for Those Planning Visits—and 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: August 30, 2018
Fridays from the Frontline: Calculating the MBA’s Return on Investment
Fridays from the Frontline Marjorie DeGraca, executive director of admissions for Berkeley MBA Programs for Working Professionals Before officially taking the plunge, many prospective b-schoolers no doubt spent many late nights perusing the Clear Admit archives to weigh the pros and cons of pursuing an MBA. It’s practically an age-old pastime at this point. While the value of elite programs is undisputable when it comes to networks, prestige/social capital, and of course the world-class skills you accrue, none of those dividends come cheap. In fact, many of the real rewards of an MBA can be difficult to quantify. What is Read more
Published: August 29, 2018
Incoming Johnson Cornell MBA Class of 2020 Features More Women and URMs, Fewer International Students
The MBA Class of 2020 kicked off the fall semester in style earlier this month at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. To formally welcome the new recruits to the Cornell community, Johnson Business Feed published a comprehensive class profile, shedding light on the students who make up the incoming class. There are 280 students in the incoming students (up just slightly from last year’s 277), and they boast an average GMAT score of 699 and an average undergrad GPA of 3.4. That’s pretty similar to the Class of 2019, where average GMAT score was Read more
Published: August 29, 2018
MBA News You Need: Wharton and INSEAD Renew Strategic Alliance, Georgetown Institutes Receive $1 Million BoA Grant to Fund Women’s Economic Mobility Initiatives, and More
Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of August 29, 2018. Wharton, INSEAD Renew Strategic Alliance Through June 2021 Thomas S. Robertson, Whaton professor and executive director of the Wharton-INSEAD Alliance (left) and Gavin Cassar, research director of the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance at INSEAD Wharton and INSEAD, two of the most esteemed business schools in the world, recently announced a renewal Read more
Published: August 28, 2018
Podcast Episode 19: 10 Tips for Tackling the MBA Written Application
With Round 1 deadlines looming, we know many of you are hard at work crafting essays, filling out data forms, and perfecting your resumes. Before you do anything else, check out the latest episode in the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast series, which tackles the written components of the MBA application head on. Clear Admit’s Alex Brown Our guest this week is Clear Admit’s own Alex Brown, who worked for several years as part of the admissions team at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He’s also the author of Becoming a Clear Admit: The Read more
Published: August 27, 2018
MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: Develop Your Career Goals
The first round of deadlines for the 2018-2019 admissions season are just around the corner and many MBA applicants are posting to Clear Admit’s ApplyWire, a platform for feedback from our community of top-tier applicants to help inform your final choice of schools and approach to admissions.  In this edition of MBA ApplyWire Spotlight, we take a closer look at a couple of posts from applicants who would benefit from developing their career goals.  Our first entry is from a non-traditional applicant considering CMU / Tepper, Cornell / Johnson, HEC Paris, Indiana / Kelley, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, and U. Chicago Booth: Our resident expert, Alex Brown, kicked off the advice with a comment on career goals: Read more
Published: August 26, 2018
Wharton Rolls Out Welcome Mat for MBA Class of 2020
With students in Wharton’s MBA Class of 2020 now settled in on campus, Wharton Deputy Vice Dean Maryellen Reilly took to the school’s MBA Admissions Blog to welcome the new class and share details about its composition. Though application volume was down, average GMAT score returned to the school’s record high of 732, matching the Class of 2017. “This class is an impressive collection of leaders from all walks of life, backgrounds, nationalities, industry experiences, and ambitions,” Reilly wrote. “These newest members of the Wharton community bring with them a wide-range of perspectives to enrich their shared experiences Read more
Published: August 22, 2018
Renowned Wharton Economist, Berkeley Alumna Ann Harrison Named New Haas Dean
Ann Harrison named new Haas dean Ann Harrison, a renowned economist and member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, has been named the next dean of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, the California school announced today. Harrison earned her undergraduate degree from Berkeley and served as a professor in Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics from 2001 to 2011. “Professor Harrison is an accomplished administrator as well as a world-class economist who has dedicated her career to creating forward-looking policies in development economics, international trade, and global Read more
Published: August 22, 2018
Adcom Director Demystifies New Tuck Application Essays
Amid extensive international and domestic recruitment travel, Luke Anthony Peña—who leads admissions at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business—found some rare downtime to devote an August post on the Tuck360: MBA Blog to the school’s new essay prompts. The new essays are part of an overhaul of Tuck’s admissions criteria designed to streamline and simplify the process. The topic of the new essays has come up a lot as part of recent admissions events for prospective applicants across Asia and North America, Peña said. “There’s lots of advice and guidance for our revised essays popping Read more
Published: August 22, 2018
MBA News You Need: Tuck Launches New Center for Entrepreneurship, Simon Rochester Receives STEM Designation for MBA, LBS Announces New Masters Program in Analytics, and More
Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of August 22, 2018. These Nine African Startups Are Working Toward a More Inclusive World MIT Sloan recently announced the nine African startup finalists of the Initiative on the Digital Economy’s Inclusive Innovation Challenge, all of which use technology to “reinvent the future of work.” Initiative Director Erik Brynjolfsson writes, “If we employ inclusive innovation globally, Read more
Published: August 21, 2018
Morgan Stanley Still Loves MBAs and the Feeling Is Mutual
Though interest in finance careers has never completely recovered after the global crisis of 2008, investment banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley are still in-demand recruiters among many MBA students. (Although this just in: J.P. Morgan Chase is letting go of 100 people in its asset management group after a business review, according to this Aug. 22nd report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek.) Even absent a complete rebound, finance proved the third most sought-after post-MBA industry among recent business school graduates surveyed in 2017, according to a recent Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) study. It also boasted the third-highest average annual base salary ($115,000), trailing only general management ($125,000) and IT/MIS ($120,000). So, what does it look like to work for Morgan Stanley as an MBA graduate? Is it your golden ticket to the future in 2018? We’re taking an inside look. Read more
Published: August 20, 2018
Podcast Episode 18: London Business School Admissions Director Q&A
This week we’ve got two new voices joining us on the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast, Gareth Howells and David Simpson of London Business School. Howells is executive director for the MBA and Master in Finance (MiF) programs at LBS, and Simpson heads up admissions for both. Not only that, both men have been with LBS for more than two decades. In our exclusive interview, the two share how LBS is a dynamic enough place to keep things interesting for them both for more than 20 years. More than anything else, it’s the incredible array of applicants and students Read more

MBA Applywire

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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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