Columbia Business School Admissions Director Answers Applicant Questions
Missed our AMA with Columbia Business School Admissions Director, Emily French Thomas? Watch the video below for some great questions and answers from the session: Topics covered in this video: • CBS...
View ArticleHow Uncertainty Around H-1B Visa Reform is Affecting MBAs, and Recruiters
By Judith Silverman Hodara, Director, Fortuna Admissions President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this year to curtail the “expedited option” for H-1B visa processing times – which previously had...
View ArticleShould I Still Try to Apply to B-school in Round One?
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Fall is here, and that can mean only one thing: Round one MBA admissions deadlines are nearly upon us. Most top MBA programs have their round one...
View ArticleTips for Applying to Business School as a Couple
This post originally appeared on Stacy’s ‘Strictly Business’ MBA blog on U.S. News For some professional couples, there comes a time when both partners realize that pursuing an MBA degree is the key...
View ArticleRejected last year? How much should your profile and application change...
I am commonly asked by new clients re-applying to business school: How much does my profile and application need to change this year if I got rejected last year? Here is my general advice on how to...
View Article“Never Set Your Goals Too Low: Apply Only to Those Schools You Dream of!”
Kate Katashinskaya, Darden School of Business graduate and MBA Strategy client, had met a school's representative at the MBA25 fair in 2014 and successfully applied in R3 in 2015. In this interview,...
View ArticleGeorgetown MBA Students Pledge Summer Pay to Social Impact Internship Fund
This spring, the Net Impact chapter at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business launched a fundraising campaign for the Social Impact Internship Fund (SIIF) to encourage first-year MBA students to...
View ArticleHow to Write a Great UVA Darden Essay
Darden has a new question this year and is giving applicants 500 words to answer: When preparing for class at Darden, students formulate an opinion on each case before meeting with their learning teams...
View ArticleUVA Darden MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
If you like the idea of constantly being thrown into the decision maker’s role, using the case method to navigate real-life business situations, then you may want to consider applying to the...
View ArticleAs Big as Texas: Tips for McCombs’ MBA Essays
How To Get Into University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business Learn How The McComb’s School of Business is looking for dynamic, driven people. The program gets better and stronger every year, and...
View ArticleNYU Stern: Tips to Making it to the Village
While known as a finance-focused school, Stern also places many graduates into consulting and the media & entertainment industry stemming from its location in Greenwich Village in New York City....
View ArticleYale SOM Executive MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Yale SOM’s Executive MBA is relatively new, but it fully reflects the character of the SOM and more broadly of Yale University: intensive community, holistic perspective, intellectual vigor, and...
View ArticleMBAnalysis: Round and Round We Go – A Timetable for Applying to Business School
So when should I apply to business school? At first blush this seems like a fairly straightforward question: apply by the deadline. Only here’s the rub: most business schools don’t have just one...
View Article4 Tips for Chinese Business School Applicants
It’s your job to demonstrate to the adcom that you stand out from the applicant pool and are exactly the person they want in their next MBA class. In this series, you’ll learn how to dig deep to...
View ArticleHow Your Social Media Profile Can Support Your MBA Candidacy
We’re going to tell you something you probably already know: if you’re applying to an MBA program this year, be careful about what you post online. It’s possible that business school adcom members...
View ArticleMBAnalysis: GMAT or GRE, Which Should I Take?
(Today’s MBAnalysis blog post is guest-written by Donna Bauman) Ahh… the great debate- GMAT vs GRE. Which test do you take if you are applying to MBA programs? This is a fairly recent dilemma as it has...
View ArticleWhy More Indonesian Students Are Leaving Home to Study Abroad
Jakarta is booming. Changing. Stretching. Anyone who’s stepped foot in Indonesia’s capital in the last five years can see this immediately. The skyscrapers seem to keep springing up out of nowhere and...
View ArticleINSEAD MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Communication is key for INSEAD – in part because it is a key factor that their recruiters look for. Hence the INSEAD application elicits your communication effectiveness. First, INSEAD asks you to...
View ArticleTuesday Tips: Georgetown McDonough Fall 2018 MBA Essay Tips
Georgetown McDonough School of Business’s location in Washington D.C. puts the school at the center of public policy and international business. The program requires all students to be part of the...
View Article5 Ways MBA Consultants Hurt B-School Applicants
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Being an effective MBA admissions consultant is about more than knowing the ins and outs of business school admissions. It requires being able to...
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