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What to Do Between Now and Round 1 Deadlines
If you plan to apply to MBA programs this fall, you have a little more than four months until the first Round 1 deadlines hit. What’s one of the most important things you can do between now and then?...
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Your MBA Plan for the Next Two Months
This year's MBA applications will be released by the schools sometime in June or July (on average). So what can you be doingnow? A lot. If you start now, then you can knock out some of the low hanging...
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The Bigger Picture: Don’t Let the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good
Every night, without fail, I map out the following day in my calendar. I block off time for exercise, errands, family responsibilities, seeing friends and working on various projects. If I want...
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3 Steps for Applying to Business School with a Low Undergraduate GPA
Your grades show whether you previously performed well in an academic setting. If your college GPA is low, then you need to provide evidence that even though you may have faltered back then, now...
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Mid-Career, a Peruvian Economist-Engineer is Energized at CMU Tepper
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with an MBA student at...
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Texas MBA Receives $6M Gift to Support Real Estate Program
The UT McCombs School of Business announced it has received a $6 million gift from alum John Goff to support experiential learning initiatives and the real estate program at the Austin campus. The gift...
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Using leverage to get off the business school wait list
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Let’s face it: landing on the wait list at one of your target business schools can be frustrating. Even if you applied to several other schools –...
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Wharton MBA Program Announces Establishment of Moelis Advance Access Program
Ken Moelis W’80/WG’81 and Julie Taffet Moelis W’81 have made a $10 million gift to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to establish the Ken Moelis and Julie Taffet Moelis Advance...
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4 Tips For Team Interviews
"4 Tips For Team Interviews" is the latest post in our series Navigate the MBA Maze. Since so much of b-school life and learning includes team discussions, the adcom needed a tool for assessing how...
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Tuck School Names New Executive Director of Admissions, Financial Aid
After a three month search, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has named Luke Anthony Peña as its new Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, the school announced today. He succeeds...
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Applying to Stanford GSB 2017-2018
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Stanford GSB admissions has hired Kirsten Moss as the new assistant dean of admissions to replace Derrick Bolton. Despite this change in...
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Applying to Stanford GSB 2017-2018
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Stanford GSB admissions has hired Kirsten Moss as the new assistant dean of admissions to replace Derrick Bolton. Despite this change in...
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Paying for a Harvard MBA
In his recent update to the Director’s Blog, Harvard Business School‘s head of admissions and financial aid Chad Losee shared a few important points of how financial aid works at HBS. The inspiration...
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Columbia Business School Releases Essays For Class of 2020 – Personal MBA...
https://www.personalmbacoach.com/single-post/2017/05/05/Columbia-Business-School-Class-of-2020---Fall-2017-Essay-Question-Analysis Happy Cinco De Mayo! Once you are finished celebrating, you may want...
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The GMAT and the Law of Diminishing Returns
There is a time in every applicant’s life where you need to look long and hard at your GMAT score and ask: “Is my score high enough to get me into my schools of choice? Or should I retake the GMAT?...
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From Rwanda to Wharton to West Coast Start-Up: MP Davis’ Story [Episode 202]
Today’s guest, Mary-Patton Davis, earned her BA in Government and French from Georgetown in 2010. She worked in marketing in the U.S. and in Rwanda, started a yoga business in Rwanda among other...
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How MBA Adcoms Evaluate Your GPA
“But my undergrad school was highly competitive…” “But I worked 20 hours a week during college…” “But I was a varsity athlete at a Division I school…” “But even though it took me a couple of years,...
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Waitlisted. Now What?
“Waitlisted. Now What?” is the latest post in our series Navigate the MBA Maze. First, a word of introduction: Realize that receiving a wait-list letter means you qualify for admission. You pass. You...
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During my 15 years on admissions committee, I read thousands of recommendation letters. Every so often a letter would STOP. ME. IN. MY. TRACKS. This kind of letter would shine a whole new light on the...
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Plan Now to Leave Enough Time in Round 1
In high school or college—or maybe even recently on an important project at work—you might have been able to wait until the last minute to do something and still come out looking like a champ. But we...
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