Admissions Tip: School Hosted Blogs
As the summer progresses and applicants begin researching their target schools in more depth, we would like to highlight a valuable research tool: school-hosted blogs. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the number of MBA student blogs hosted by schools’ admissions offices, as well as in admissions offices’ use of blogs to keep applicants informed of deadlines, admissions policies and events.
Both types of blogs are useful throughout the admissions cycle; the factual information in the admissions office blogs is helpful in understanding and planning for the application process, while the student blogs offer valuable insights into student life, culture and academics.
Below we’ve provided links to some of the active blogs hosted by the leading MBA programs.
MBA Admissions Blogs
Berkeley / Haas School of Business MBA Admissions Blog
Boston College / Carroll MBA Admissions Blog
Chicago Booth MBA Admissions Blog
Dartmouth Tuck MBA Admissions Blog
Emory / Goizueta MBA Admissions Blog
Georgetown / McDonough MBA Admissions Blog
Harvard Business School Director’s Blog
Michigan / Ross MBA Admissions Blog
Rochester / Simon Admissions Blog
Toronto / Rotman Admissions Blog
UCLA Anderson MBA Admissions Blog
UT Austin McCombs MBA Admissions Blog
UVA Darden MBA Admissions Blog
School-Hosted Student Blogs
Fuqua Daytime MBA Student Blog
Emory / Goizueta: Voices of Goizueta Blog
Harvard Business School MBA Voices Blog
London Business School Student Blog
Northwestern / Kellogg: The Insider Perspective Blog
Penn / Wharton Student Diaries Blog
MBA Applywire
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.
I would like to attend a top business school to launch my career as a strong business leader. I am a senior dual major in Information Technology and Business Analytics. I'm involved in greek life at my school and also have founded and quickly grown my school's Finance Club. I will begin my career in investment banking but would like to gain admission to a deferred admission MBA track before I join the workforce.
MBA LiveWire
Applied 9/15, interviewed 10/07, got the call today 11/15 at 10:45 am ET.
formal letter and scholarship info to follow. super excited :)