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Published: August 5, 2015
LiveWire Data Offers Interesting Insights into Admissions Results
Clear Admit launched its MBA LiveWire feature in December 2014, giving applicants unique real-time insight into how their peers are faring in the admissions process at 33 leading MBA programs around the world. Perhaps most fun, LiveWire lets people share the good news when they are accepted to their target school. It also gives those still waiting to hear a heads up that decisions are rolling out. But more than that, seeing the self-reported GMAT scores and GPAs of other applicants also enables those who follow LiveWire to benchmark their own credentials against their peers. Now, with almost eight months of collected data, LiveWire also provides a means of analyzing prior admissions cycles. In fact, we have just undertaken the first analysis of LiveWire responses, and the scatterplot here showcases what we’ve found. Read more
Published: August 5, 2015
Admissions Director Q&A: Sara Neher of UVA’s Darden School of Business
We recently caught up with Sara Neher, director of MBA admissions at Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia (UVA), who had just returned from a family trip to celebrate her dad’s 70th birthday in the mountains of Colorado. Trading one beautiful environment for another, she’s back now in Charlottesville and ready to dive into the MBA admissions cycle just as it begins to heat up. Neher, who celebrates her ninth anniversary as director of admissions this month, says she initially turned down an invitation to work at Darden. After five years in sales at Proctor & Gamble—including completing an MBA at Emory’s Goizueta School of Business while working—she returned to her home state and undergraduate alma mater to work for the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, which offers merit-based scholarship aid to exceptional undergraduates, graduate students and professors to come study and teach at UVA. During that time, the foundation launched a scholarship program with Darden for MBA students. “I met the dean—everyone was speaking my MBA language—and they said they had a vacancy at Darden in admissions,” she recalls. To which she replied, “No, I love my job.” Read more
Published: August 3, 2015
Leadership? At Kenan-Flagler, There’s an App for That
Leadership development is a primary focus at top business schools all over the world, with professors, core courses, initiatives and centers all devoted to shaping MBA students into the leaders of tomorrow. The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is taking things to a new level with the launch of its Leadership App, a digital tool designed to deliver the school’s signature leadership development content directly to students on their iPads. Kenan-Flagler launched its leadership initiative in 2005 to give its MBA students a competitive advantage in the job market, according to Mindy Storrie, director of leadership development at UNC Kenan-Flagler. In the ten years since, the school has customized the leadership content for all of its degree programs. Read more
Published: August 2, 2015
Yale SOM Hosts Pre-Application Seminar for Prospective Minority MBA Applicants
This past weekend, the Yale School of Management (SOM) partnered with nonprofit organization Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) to host more than 280 prospective minority MBA applicants for a three-day event designed to showcase the benefits of a graduate management education. The MBA pre-application seminar featured information on MBA admissions, panels on career development and networking opportunities with current MBA students and alumni. The event was part of MLT’s MBA Prep Fellows Program, one of four primary programs the organization runs to provide resources and guidance to minorities in various stages of their careers. MLT, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, is dedicated to growing the pipeline of high-potential minorities in the field of business. So far, more than 2,000 MBA Prep Fellows have gained admission to a top MBA program, MLT reports. Read more
Published: July 30, 2015
Wharton India Economic Forum to Take Place in Both India and Philadelphia
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.  The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will hold its annual India-focused conference next year in India for the first time. The Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF), which is marking its 20th anniversary, has historically been held on Wharton's Philadelphia campus. The 2016 conference will be held both in Mumbai and Philadelphia. The main goal of the conference is to bring together industry leaders, investors, government leaders and Wharton professors to discuss specific challenges facing the Indian economy and Indian businesses. Read more
Published: July 28, 2015
Haas-Accenture Partnership Creates New Big Data Curriculum
From financial services to retail to utilities, companies in an ever-increasing range of industries are exploring and implementing big data and analytics. To equip its MBAs with the tools they need to understand how data science stands to transform business, the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley has forged a new partnership with global management consulting, technology and outsourcing company Accenture. Together, they have launched a multi-phase initiative designed to position big data squarely within the Haas curriculum. “Today, every company is a technology company, every company is a software company, every company is a data company,” says Gregory La Blanc, a finance and technology lecturer at Haas. “To be successful, our students need to know how to navigate the strategic landscape in a world filled with all this data.” Read more
Published: July 26, 2015
CMU’s Tepper School Appoints New MBA Program Head
The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) recently appointed a new head of its MBA program, the school announced last week. Kathryn (Kate) Barraclough comes to Tepper from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, where she served as director of the school’s Masters in Finance program while also teaching a range of finance courses. “Kate Barraclough brings an impressive and broad background, ranging from academia to financial services,” Tepper School Dean Robert Dammon said in a statement announcing her appointment. “Her achievements as a scholar, researcher and educational leader were fundamental qualities that led to her appointment.” Read more
Published: July 24, 2015
GMAC Debuts Interactive Post-MBA Salary Estimator
Especially given the price tag that accompanies obtaining an MBA from a leading business school, it would be foolhardy for prospective applicants not to give careful consideration to the degree’s return on investment (ROI). This, of course, will depend on the career you pursue after graduation and the salary you are able to command in that role. Turns out you’re in luck. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which administers the GMAT entrance exam, has created a new tool designed to help prospective applicants estimate the salary they can expect to earn after completing their degree. Prospective students enter their intended industry and job function, and the tool then parses data compiled by GMAC's surveys of thousands of MBA alumni to return a tailored salary estimate.  Read more
Published: July 22, 2015
Introducing the New and Enhanced Clear Admit Website
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new and enhanced Clear Admit website, which includes a range of interactive features, exclusive content and improved navigation to help prospective MBA applicants quickly and easily find resources to guide them through the admissions process for the top MBA programs. This comprehensive site redesign reflects our mission as the leading independent resource for top-tier MBA applicants and helps us share the admissions expertise we have developed over the past 14 years. Read more
Published: July 21, 2015
Darden’s Dean Is Bullish on School’s Future as He Prepares to Depart
We had the distinct pleasure of speaking recently with Bob Bruner, who for the past 10 years has served as dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He will step down at the end of this month, when Scott Beardsley becomes the ninth dean of the school. In the wide-ranging interview that follows, Dean Bruner reflects on his time at Darden, the strengths his successor will bring in his role as Darden's dean, the state of graduate management education and why he is optimistic about Darden’s future. As always, he was thoughtful and engaging, with valuable insights for anyone considering business school, whether at Darden or elsewhere. We are so grateful to him for making the time to speak with us. Read more
Published: July 20, 2015
Citi CIO Debby Hopkins Named Haas’ Newest Executive Fellow
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source metromba.com.  The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley recently named Citi Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) Debby Hopkins as Haas’ newest executive fellow. Hopkins, who is also CEO of Citi Ventures, is returning to Haas in this new role after speaking as part of the Haas Dean’s Speaker Series in 2012. “Debby is a trailblazer, continuing to question the status quo in her industry,” Haas Dean Rich Lyons said in a statement. “Her views on innovative leadership and social enterprise deeply resonate with our school's identity—we're thrilled to welcome her back.” Read more
Published: July 19, 2015
New Associate Dean to Spearhead Growing Entrepreneurship at Yale SOM
As a reflection of the growing importance of entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management (SOM), the director of the school’s entrepreneurship initiatives has been appointed associate dean, the school announced earlier this month. Kyle Jensen joined Yale SOM last year as the inaugural Shanna and Eric Bass ’05 Director of Entrepreneurship. Under his leadership, the school’s Program on Entrepreneurship added seven new entrepreneurship courses last year, drawing students from the entire university. Read more
Published: July 17, 2015
MIT Sloan Admissions to Host Women’s Week, August 3rd – 6th
The MIT Sloan School of Management admissions team has planned a week of events in early August designed to showcase the diverse paths and accomplishments of its women students and graduates to prospective female applicants. The week, which will take place from August 3rd through 6th, will include a Google Hangout open to prospective applicants anywhere in the world, as well as alumnae panels in five U.S. cities. “Our female students bring unique backgrounds, perspectives and beliefs to MIT Sloan, building a diverse campus community filled with opportunity,” reads an announcement about the events on the school’s website. “Their collective experiences create a rich educational experience and fuel the experimentation and transformation that develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world.” Read more
Published: July 13, 2015
Admissions Director Offers Advice on Kellogg’s New Essay Questions
We caught up with Director of Admissions Beth Tidmarsh late last week to discuss the new essay questions posted by the Kellogg School of Mangement on July 8th. Though the wording and order of the questions has changed slightly this year, applicants are asked, like last year, to respond to two required prompts and given 900 words in which to provide their answers. As in past years, applicants also have the opportunity to respond to an additional optional essay with no word limit. Leadership and collaboration once again factor prominently into Kellogg’s new essay questions this year, but Tidmarsh and her team hope the prompts provide applicants with a great deal of latitude in how they respond. Read more
Published: July 12, 2015
Entrepreneurship at Ross Gets Major Boost with $60 Million Alumni Gift
A generous new pledge from longstanding benefactors to the University of Michigan will supercharge entrepreneurship studies at the Ross School of Business, the school announced today. The $60 million gift, from the Zell Family Foundation, will provide endowed support for the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies. The institute was originally established in 1999 with a $10 million gift from the Zell Family Foundation and the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Family Foundation. This newest injection of cash will support continued development of entrepreneurship programs for students and alumni, including $10 million dedicated to a new fund that will invest in new student business ventures. Read more
Published: July 10, 2015
UCLA Anderson Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Helps Kick Start Vets
This post has been reproduced in its entirety from its original source metromba.com. On Saturday, July 11th, a group of disabled veterans will use their military abilities of resilience, focus and leadership to learn the basics of business ownership at the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) at UCLA Anderson. The event, co-hosted by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) and the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA Anderson School of Management, helps post-9/11 veterans with service-connected disabilities develop skills and tools needed to launch, grow and lead successful businesses. Read more
Published: July 9, 2015
Seven Schools Join Forces for Events Focused on Women in Business School
Starting next week, seven leading business schools will host a series of events around the country designed to showcase the value of the MBA for women and the experiences of women in business school. Participating schools include Michigan’s Ross School, the Haas School at UC Berkeley, Cornell Johnson, UVA’s Darden School, Duke’s Fuqua School, NYU Stern and the Yale School of Management. Admissions representatives and alumnae from all the schools will gather for each of five events, scheduled for Chicago, Washington, DC; New York City, Boston and San Francisco. The events will each feature a panel discussion in which female alums from each school will discuss the implications and value of an MBA degree for women in business today. Participants will also have an opportunity to meet fellow prospective applicants, network with alumnae, get tips on the application process and learn more about life on campus and recruiting. Read more
Published: July 8, 2015
New HEC Paris Dean Appointed to Succeed Outgoing Bernard Ramanantsoa
Leading French business school HEC Paris yesterday announced a new dean to succeed Bernard Ramanantsoa, who steps down at the end of August after 20 years in the role. Respected researcher and professor Peter Todd will take Ramanantsoa’s place beginning September 1st, serving as the school’s first-ever non-French dean. The Canadian-born Todd, an expert in the fields of innovation management and information technologies, also brings significant experience managing MBA programs. Until 2014, he served as dean of the Desautels School at Canada’s McGill University, where he himself obtained his undergraduate degree. Read more
Published: July 7, 2015
Harvard Business School Case Method Video Slated for Makeover
If you’ve looked at the new essay prompt for Harvard Business School (HBS) this year, you may have noticed that applicants are encouraged to view a video before starting to write. If you hadn’t noticed, you’re welcome. HBS Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Dee Leopold is passionate about applicants watching this video, which brings to life the signature HBS case method. “I am a nut about that,” she confesses. “If I could require that applicants watch it, I would.” Read more
Published: July 5, 2015
Chicago Booth Gears Up to Welcome Summer Business Scholars
Want to test drive an MBA? The University of Chicago Booth School of Business provides an opportunity to do just that through its Summer Business Scholars Program (SBSP). This unique program convenes participants from around the globe on Booth’s campus for three weeks during the summer to study accounting, finance, marketing and leadership while gaining valuable career development insight and networking opportunities with Chicago-based companies. The goal of the SBSP is to give participating scholars a unique opportunity to learn business principles and gain hands-on experience before starting their careers. This year, Chicago Booth has carefully reviewed applications to assemble a diverse group of 65 participants from 25 different countries. Beyond their international diversity, the group also represents a wide range of undergraduate majors, from economics to art history to biomedical engineering. Read more
Published: July 1, 2015
A PEEK Is All It Takes: HBS’s Innovative Initiative to Woo Women
HBS Professor Youngme Moon teaching PEEK students Photo credit: Evgenia Eliseeva For Priyanka Krishnamoorthy, a 2015 Mt. Holyoke graduate working in investment banking at Bank of America, a recent weekend at Harvard Business School (HBS) helped set her sights on pursuing an MBA. The Sri Lankan native majored in economics and minored in math and had been thinking about business school for a while. She originally read about PEEK—an innovative weekend program HBS debuted last month for students from women’s colleges—in an article in the paper. She decided to apply after attending an information session HBS held at neighboring Smith College. “They pitched it really well as a way to see what HBS is like,” she recalls. “On campus you hear a lot about PhD programs and law school, but not about business school.” For Krishnamoorthy, the highlight of the weekend was getting to meet current HBS students and alumnae and hearing about the decisions they made both before and after business school. Just a few weeks into her own first job, she found their choices really eye-opening. “I thought there was a set path to it, but they all said, ‘No, you can come from anywhere.’” She was encouraged multiple times throughout the weekend to think of the MBA more as a master’s in leadership than a master’s in business administration. Read more
Published: June 30, 2015
NYU Stern Ranked Number One in Support of LGBTQ MBA Students
Last week’s momentous Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality helped more people than ever before feel like the United States is a great place to be part of the LGBTQ community. Maybe it got you wondering about which business schools are the best places to be part of that community? As it turns out, there’s a ranking for that. And this year, New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business soared to the top, winning recognition for getting more of its student body involved to help foster an LGBTQ-inclusive campus culture than any other top business school. The MBA Ally Challenge rankings, released in June, are the culmination of a year-long competition launched by nonprofit organization Friendfactor as part of an effort to encourage straight people to become visible and active allies in their workplace and campus communities. Twenty-three schools participated this year, shattering prior records. Together, the business schools involved 9,000 students as allies—more than double last year’s participation of 4,300—and hosted more than 280 events and activities. Collectively, the schools improved LGBTQ inclusiveness on campuses by 30 percent based on measures taken at the beginning and again at the end of the school year, Friendfactor reports. Read more
Published: June 29, 2015
Fuqua Admissions Dean Dishes on Essays and Life
It’s not every admissions director who will make time during her vacation to discuss how prospective business school applicants should approach their essays. And yet Liz Riley Hargrove, associate dean for admissions at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, did just that. Speaking from North Carolina’s Outer Banks this morning, before the kids woke up ready to head to the beach, she shared insights with Clear Admit on the essay prompts released last week. Not a lot has changed this year in terms of Fuqua’s application, it turns out. Applicants will find they have twice as much space in which to answer three short-answer prompts—one on short-term goals, one on long-term goals and one on an alternative plan should that first short-term goal not pan out. This year candidates get 500 characters for each response, up from 250 last year. “We wanted to give candidates a little more opportunity to expand upon their responses,” she says of this year’s doubled answer field. Read more
Published: June 24, 2015
New Certificate Program at NYU Stern Lets Working Professionals Sample the MBA
Not sure you’re ready for a complete MBA? Why not try out a quarter of an MBA? A program introduced earlier this year at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business lets you do just that. The new Advanced Professional Certificate (APC) program lets participants take five courses in either finance, marketing or general business taught by Stern’s world-class faculty, alongside students in the school’s part-time MBA program. Upon completion of any of the three tracks, participants receive a certificate registered with the New York State Department of Education. The program is great for working professionals who want to quickly build knowledge in a specific area as well as for those who already have an MBA but want to refresh or supplement their expertise. Qualified candidates can apply for admission to the program and take courses on a part-time basis in MBA classes where there is capacity. Enrolled students will have up to two years to complete the five courses, or 15 credits, required for certification in any of the three tracks. Read more
Published: June 23, 2015
MBA Provides Both Immediate and Lasting Value, Say Graduates
Type “the MBA is” into Google, and the autocomplete box fills with inauspicious indicators of the degree’s value. “The MBA is losing its magic” is followed by “the MBA is worthless” and “why the MBA is a waste of time and money.” Students graduating with an MBA disagree—and quite emphatically—according to a survey report released today at the annual Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) Conference in Denver. “Business school graduates are clear in their judgment that their degrees not only provided immediate value, but lasting value,” Bob Alig, GMAC’s executive vice president for school products, said in a statement announcing the results. Indeed, nine out of 10 of the more than 3,000 graduating business school students who responded to the GMAC Global Management Education Graduate Survey (GMEGS) rate the value of their degree as good to outstanding, and 88 percent would recommend their program to others considering a graduate business degree. Read more

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January 22, 2025 10:27am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Georgia Tech / Scheller, Harvard Business School, Indiana / Kelley, NYU Stern, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UVA / Darden, Vanderbilt / Owen, Washington U. / Olin
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Finance
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG
GRE: 329
GPA: 3.49
Years of Work Experience: 5
Location: Africa
Post MBA Location: North America
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January 22, 2025 4:42am ET
Applying: Columbia, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Supply Chain, major blue chip healthcare company
Post-MBA Target Industry: Pharmaceutical Companies: Amgen , Pfizer
GRE: 329
GPA: 3.46
Years of Work Experience: 5.5
Location: US
Post MBA Location: Boston/NYC
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Double majors BS undergrad.
ORM nationality, female.
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January 21, 2025 7:55am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Rochester / Simon, SMU Cox, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Washington U. / Olin
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Data and Business Operations
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Asset Management, inc. HF, Commercial Banking, Media, Consumer Goods Companies: Bain , BCG , Deloitte , Ernst & Young , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan Chase , Amazon , Apple , Accell Partners , Charles River , First Round Capital , Goldman Sachs , Goldman Sachs , Walt Disney , PepsiCo , Proctor & Gamble
GRE: 328
GPA: 3.0
Years of Work Experience: 4
Location: Lagos
Post MBA Location: New york
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January 21, 2025 6:59am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Oxford / Saïd, Stanford GSB, U. Washington / Foster, UCLA Anderson
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Aerospace Engineering
Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology
GRE: 322
GPA: 3.15
Years of Work Experience: 4
Location: Colorado
Post MBA Location: USA
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January 21, 2025 2:20am ET
Applying: Columbia, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, IESE, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Rochester / Simon, Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Entrepreneur
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking Companies: Accenture , AT Kearney , Bain , BCG , McKinsey , Bank of America , Deutsche Bank , Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley , JP Morgan Chase , Wells Fargo Securities , Amazon , Apple , Facebook , Google , Hewlett Packard , LinkedIn , Microsoft , Oracle , Uber
GRE: 314
GPA: 3
Years of Work Experience: 4
Post MBA Location: New York
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January 22, 2025 10:17pm ET
Interview Invite to Yale SOM
Round: Round 2
Received via email on January 20, 2025
GPA: 3.64
GMAT: 655
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Application Location: NYC
January 22, 2025 8:53pm ET
Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua
Round: Round 2
Received via email January 22, 2025
GPA: 3.7
GMAT: 655
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Application Location: Midwest
January 22, 2025 6:08pm ET
Interview Invite to UNC Kenan-Flagler
Round: Round 2
Received via email on January 20, 2025
GPA: 3.55
GRE: 324
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Healthcare
Application Location: United States
January 22, 2025 5:55pm ET
Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua
Round: Round 2
Received via email January 22, 2025
GPA: 3.8
GRE: 317
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: Denver
January 22, 2025 5:07pm ET
Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua
Round: Round 2
Received via portal January 22, 2025
GPA: 3.725
GMAT: 635
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Other
Application Location: Washington, DC
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