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Published: February 26, 2018
MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: Applying to Business School in Round 3
As prime deadlines for this season pass, many are sharing their stories and concerns on ApplyWire, Clear Admit’s latest tool to aid in your admissions process. This week, since ApplyWire is also a place to receive advice, we're setting the spotlight on a candidate considering applying in Round 3. We take a closer look at a post from an applicant with admission to Emory / Goizueta and waiting to hear from UVA / Darden and UT Austin / McCombs, but also potentially targeting Berkeley / Haas, Northwestern / Kellogg, and Stanford GSB in Round 3. Read on for more details about the candidate’s background. Read more
Published: February 22, 2018
Acing the Wharton TBD: Advice from Former Wharton Admissions Staffers
There’s been a steady stream of bright yellow interview invites to Wharton lighting up Clear Admit’s LiveWire for two weeks running, suggesting that many of you are in the throes of preparing for the school’s unique team-based discussion (TBD). The prompt Wharton used for the TBD with Round 1 applicants in the fall was as follows: “For many students, the global perspective fostered by Wharton’s international community is brought into focus through immersive learning opportunities like Global Modular Courses (GMCs). GMCs are full-credit courses in an intensive workshop format that take place in a location relevant Read more
Published: February 22, 2018
Listening to LiveWire: Importance of the Interview
As MBA hopefuls endeavor to succeed in the admissions process, the pathway to an acceptance call or letter can be wrought with challenges. Clear Admit offers tools, such as MBA LiveWire, so community members can come together and ease each other’s way to business school. Today we’re taking a closer look at an entry in MBA LiveWire, dealing with angst over an interview at Chicago Booth. The original poster sought feedback on their interview experience: Some candidates in the same boat offered reassuring perspectives: Read more
Published: February 22, 2018
Snagging a Job at Amazon—A Ross Business School Student Shares How He Did It
Fridays from the Frontline Amazon is a leading recruiter of MBA students—indeed, the top hirer on many business school campuses. Among those is Michigan’s Ross School of Business, which has supplied a steady stream of reliable talent to the e-commerce giant. As Amazon’s plans for HQ2 continue to unfold—much to everyone’s anticipation and consternation—many applicants applying to business school want to know: what’s the behind-the-scenes process of landing a job at Amazon really like? When the soaring mortar boards return to earth, how can they, too, be among the MBA grads headed off toward a career at Amazon. Dhanishth Khosla Read more
Published: February 21, 2018
Why You Should Consider Yourself Lucky to Get to Write the MIT Sloan Pre-Interview Essay
Did you get invited to interview at MIT Sloan today? If so, a hearty congratulations. And if not—there’s still hope! Another batch of invites is slated to go out a week from today, on March 1st. In case you don’t know it already, for those of you who did or still might receive an invitation to interview—you’re also going to get to write an additional essay. That’s right. MIT Sloan is unique among top business schools in that it saves an application essay question for only those candidates it invites to interview. Before you groan and say, “Another essay?” you’d do Read more
Published: February 21, 2018
MBA News You Need: Judge Launches LGBTQ Scholarship, Yale SOM Tackles Water Crisis/Hosts Cannabis Conference, New Digs for McCombs MBA Students, and More
Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print to give you a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of Feb 22, 2018.  Read more
Published: February 20, 2018
An MBA Likely to Earn Less After Getting His Degree? Vincent Kompany Doesn’t Mind
When it comes to soccer (err, football) Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany is one of the most widely known center backs in the world. The Belgian international joined City way back in 2006 and went on to lead his club to victory, helping bring the team its first Premier League title in more than four decades in 2012, and then again in 2014. Read more
Published: February 20, 2018
Your 3-Phase GMAT Study Plan
Perhaps the most common question students ask about the GMAT is some variation of “how many hours per week do I need to study for the GMAT?” and “how long should I study for the GMAT?” And while these questions aren’t completely off base, they’re at least somewhat misguided. The key to studying for the GMAT isn’t as much the quantity of your study, it’s the quality. So let’s talk about how to get the most value out of your GMAT study plan, by paying attention to three very important phases. 1. Learn The single biggest mistake that test-takers make Read more
Published: February 19, 2018
Real Humans of Goizueta’s MBA Class of 2019
With just 172 students in the two-year full-time MBA Class of 2019, intimate is a word that comes up frequently as many at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School describe the MBA experience. In fact, the class size was smaller than usual—down nine students from the year prior. Overall application volume fell, from 1,432 to 1,136, with the bulk of that slippage among international applicants. Of the students in the Goizueta Class of 2019, women make up 30 percent, a six-point gain over the previous year. Associate Dean of MBA Admissions Julie Barefoot credits some of that growth Read more
Published: February 19, 2018
MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Undecided about CMU / Tepper, Emory / Goizueta, INSEAD, or USC / Marshall
In this edition of MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we take a closer look at a candidate considering  CMU / Tepper, Emory / Goizueta, INSEAD, or USC / Marshall for consulting with some scholarship funding. The candidate laid out the options and shared more about their plans in the initial post: Our resident expert, Alex Brown, kicked off the conversation: Read more
Published: February 18, 2018
Celebrating Diversity During One Wharton Week
As part of a commitment to celebrating and examining diversity, the MBA community at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School has, since 2015, observed an annual Return on Equality (ROE) Week—recently renamed One Wharton Week. Throughout the week, held this year from February 12th through 15th, MBA students gather to build community and create an open dialogue about diversity through lectures, panels, and other special events. Read more
Published: February 15, 2018
How Far Would You Go for the One You Love?
Fridays from the Frontline The process of moving to a new city to start business school is tough, but one could argue that it’s tougher on folks who make the move to support their partner. The Booth Partners Club is a student club that provides events and group activities throughout the school year specifically designed to support significant others and spouses of Booth MBA students. The Partners Club touts itself as a “budget-friendly way to make some instant friends and have some fun in the city.” In addition to the opportunities for networking—and friendship—that the Partners Club Read more
Published: February 14, 2018
What MBA Students Need to Know About the Smart Machine Age
The smart machine age (SMA) is here: an age of technological advancement in technology that could be as disruptive as the industrial revolution. The SMA is expected to redefine the workplace, presenting both business opportunities and challenges. According to Edward Hess, a professor of business administration and Batten executive-in-residence at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, MBAs are poised to experience a transformative era—on they'd do well to prepare for.  Read more
Published: February 14, 2018
MBA News You Need: New Darden Analytics Degree, Wharton Announces Graduation Speakers, Parents Paying for MBAs, and More
Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print to give you a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of Feb 12, 2018. Read more
Published: February 12, 2018
Real Humans of the Fuqua MBA Class of 2019
Last July, when the 439 new members of the MBA Class of 2019 arrived on Duke’s Fuqua School of Business campus, they brought with them impressive academic chops. Average GMAT score for the class was 702, up seven points over the year before. The median score—710—jumped 10 points in the same span. GPAs also rose ever so slightly, .03 of a point to 3.5. But as you’ll see in the profiles of several members of the class, the rising scores certainly don’t seem to signify that Fuqua has swayed at all from seeking out other factors long Read more
Published: February 12, 2018
DecisionWire Spotlight: Undecided about Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, or UVA / Darden with Scholarships
In this week’s MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we round up responses to a candidate considering Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, and UVA / Darden for consulting with some scholarship funding. The candidate laid out the options in the initial post: The first response cut right to the chase: Read more
Published: February 8, 2018
Is B-School Student Globetrotting Killing the Earth? MIT Students Take Action
Fridays from the Frontline MIT’s two-year Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program is a unique dual-degree offering that the Sloan School of Management established in partnership with the School of Engineering. The LGO program merges a state-of-the-art management curriculum with advanced engineering training to prepare students to handle global operations, product development, and manufacturing problems with aplomb. LGO students pursue six-month research internships at a wide range of partner companies in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, energy, high-tech, and global supply chain industries. Notable LGO alumni like Verizon’s Chief Supply Chain Officer Viju Menon (LGO ’94), Tesla’s Read more
Published: February 7, 2018
Which Business School to Choose? MBA DecisionWire Delivers Great Peer Advice
We know many of you have your eyes glued on MBA LiveWire for updates on Round 2 interview invitations, which began flowing out from several schools in recent weeks and keep coming. But we’ve also seen an uptick in entries on MBA DecisionWire as some Round 1 applicants begin to share the decisions they’ve made about where to enroll and others seek advice from peers based on their options. For anyone unfamiliar with MBA DecisionWire, it’s a sister resource to MBA LiveWire that lets successful applicants share where they have decided to go to business school after all the acceptances are Read more
Published: February 5, 2018
5 Steps Women Need to Follow to Become CEO
What does it take for a woman to become a CEO? Quite a bit, if the numbers are anything to go by. According to a recent study conducted by the Fortune Knowledge Group (FKG) and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), only 4.2 percent of Fortune 500 firms are led by female CEOs. That’s right. Only 21 of the 500 largest companies in the United States have a woman at the helm. So, what does it take for women to break into the elusive CEO role? That’s what researchers at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School set out to investigate in a new study. Read more
Published: February 5, 2018
DecisionWire Spotlight: Undecided about CMU / Tepper, Duke / Fuqua, UNC Kenan-Flagler with Scholarships
In this week’s MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we round up responses to a candidate considering CMU / Tepper, Duke / Fuqua, or UNC Kenan-Flagler for sustainability and energy with some scholarship funding. The candidate laid out the options in the initial post: A candidate in a similar situation kicked off the discussion: Read more
Published: February 4, 2018
Amazon—Not Eagles—Wins Super Bowl, According to Kellogg Ad Review
Philadelphia football fans took to the streets, toppling cars, scaling street lamps, and setting at least one fire to celebrate their beloved Eagles’ first-ever Super Bowl win, 41 to 33 against the New England Patriots. But according to MBA students at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, e-commerce giant Amazon was the victor in terms of best ads of the night. On Sunday, as the game got underway in minus-2-degree Fahrenheit Minneapolis, approximately 50 Kellogg students teamed up with marketing professors Tim Calkins and Derek Rucker to determine the night’s winners and losers in the battle of the Read more
Published: February 1, 2018
Why Traveling and the MBA Should Go Hand in Hand—A Dartmouth Tuck MBA Student Weighs In
Fridays from the Frontline If you’re budgeting for your MBA experience, you might think that traveling is outside of your reach. After all, who has extra money to spend on a trip overseas when you have tuition and books to pay for? According to Tanvi Nayar, an MBA student at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, that’s the exact wrong attitude to have. Traveling and exploring different countries has been the best part of Nayar’s past year at Tuck. “I cannot, cannot, CANNOT stress enough the importance of traveling and exploring different cultures,” Nayar shared in a recent blog Read more
Published: January 31, 2018
McDonough Entrepreneurs Win Big in Inaugural “Bark Tank” Pitch Contest
Last month, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business held its inaugural Leonsis Family Entrepreneurship Prize “Bark Tank” Pitch Competition, named in honor of the school's mascot, the bulldog. Put together by a team of expert entrepreneurs at the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative, the goal of the competition was to support students and alumni in their startup ventures. Overall, nearly a dozen teams and individuals competed for $100,000 in prize money. Read more
Published: January 30, 2018
Inaugural Dean of Cornell’s Johnson College of Business Steps Down Abruptly, No Reason Given
Soumitra Dutta, who has served as the first-ever dean of the S.C. Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, resigned abruptly yesterday, and neither the school nor Dutta has provided any reason for his sudden departure, according to a report in the Cornell Daily Sun. The College of Business, launched in July 2016, merged the Johnson Graduate School of Management, the School of Hotel Administration, and the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Dutta also oversaw the Cornell Tech MBA program at Cornell’s campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Cornell Provost Read more
Published: January 29, 2018
Not-to-Miss Ross Interview Tips Straight from the Admissions Director
If you’ve gone to schedule an on-campus Round 2 interview at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business only to learn that all the slots are full, you’re not alone. Soojin Kwon, Ross managing director of full-time MBA admissions and program, shared these and other updates—as well as valuable Ross interview tips—in a post today to her MBA Admissions Blog. “Shortly after posting the interview schedule, nearly all of our on-campus slots filled up,” she wrote. So her team reached out to student interviewers to volunteer more time and opened up more slots—only those filled, too! Read more

MBA Applywire

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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 13, 2024 11:52am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Georgetown / McDonough, Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, USC / Marshall
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Real Estate Development Analyst and Acquisitions Project Manager
Post-MBA Target Industry: Private Equity, Family Business, Entrepreneurship Companies: Other
GPA: 3.44
Years of Work Experience: 3
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MBA LiveWire

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
November 16, 2024 10:45am ET
Accepted to Boston College / Carroll
Round: Round 1
Received via phone on November 12, 2024
GPA: 3.91
GRE: 318
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: Texaa
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