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MBA Admissions Advice for Career Changers
As an IT consultant, how do you know equity research is the right career for you? How do you know you can handle the hours, the more Darwinian industry and company culture, the stress of having a...
View Article9 Tips to Improve Your MBA Admissions Profile on LinkedIn
While you are waiting for R1 2018 applications to go live, this is an ideal time to review your social media presence in case one of the 35% of adcom members who said they’ve checked out an applicant’s...
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KEY TOUCHPOINTS FOR PERSONAL INTERACTION WITH BUSINESS SCHOOLS
From campus visits to MBA networking events, you want to take advantage of these key touchpoints on offer from your top schools. A major milestone in the business school application process is your...
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3 Key Ways to Stand Out Through Your EMBA Essays
This is the sixth post in our Ace the EMBA series on how to apply successfully to a top executive MBA program. After demonstrating that you’re a well qualified applicant comes the biggest challenge:...
View ArticleMBAnalysis Blog: Part of a Family Business? An MBA is Right for You! (Part 1)
An estimated 80% of all businesses are considered to be family businesses to some degree. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of business schools have one or more courses focused on the unique challenges...
View ArticleMBAnalysis Blog: Part of a Family Business? An MBA is Right for You! (Part 2)
While you may have the desire – and even the funds – to go to business school, you may be lacking one important thing: the time. While the idea of taking a couple of years off to learn business in a...
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Future Leaders: Is a General MBA Enough?
image source: racounter.net Globally, job markets are evolving. Studies foresee jobs being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated algorithms. We read about cryptocurrencies, and how...
View ArticleWhy Smart MBA Applicants Use Personal Branding to Get Admitted to the Best...
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Personal branding, to those who don’t understand it, can often seem like whistles and bells with little substance. In fact, I have heard it...
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Maximizing Your Personal Interaction With Business Schools
Part 2 of this article highlights key dos and don’ts for making the best possible impression at the key touchpoints for personal interaction offered by your top MBA programs. I had hundreds of...
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It’s Not Too Late to Improve Your B-School Candidacy
If you are planning on applying to business school in the upcoming admissions season, you may think there is nothing you can do to bolster your MBA candidacy in such a short amount of time. Not true!...
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An Interview with Dartmouth Tuck’s Admissions Director, Luke Pena [Episode 252]
It gives me great pleasure to have for the first time on AST, Luke Pena, Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Luke earned his bachelors in PR...
View ArticleSo Your Dream School Invited You to a Networking Brunch…Now What?
One of our clients was recently in this exact situation. Her Kellogg application was submitted and her interview was completed. She was just waiting for the final decision. Then, she received an email...
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More than One Admit? Decisions, Decisions
Are you one of the fortunate b-school applicants who is weighing acceptances from more than one MBA program? If so, congratulations! Before we go any further, let’s stop and take a moment to appreciate...
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The Bigger Picture: Trust the Process
I always knew what I wanted to be when I grew up: a brand manager at a big consumer packaged goods company, like Nestle or Proctor & Gamble. After I received my undergraduate degree from Wharton, I...
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You CAN Get into B-School with Low Stats!
Every year, MBA applicants call us to ask whether their profile is competitive at the schools they’re targeting. It’s a question we take seriously and address individually, because there are so many...
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Low GMAT Score? Don’t Panic…Yet.
Look at your scores in the context of a bigger picture. A low GMAT score or a low GPA is not necessarily an MBA deal breaker. No adcom is going to admit or dismiss a candidate based solely on one...
View ArticleHow an HBS Re-Applicant Made Sure That She Got In This Year
Putting in the time and effort to apply to top tier schools only to be rejected across the board is extremely disappointing. For many people, this defeat leads them to give up on business school...
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Customizing Your Resume For MBA Applications
All MBA applications require a resume. You may be thinking: “No problem, I already have a resume.” Unfortunately, it is not that easy. A business school resume differs from a professional one. These...
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Shortened GMAT Exam Debuts April 16
The Graduate Management Admission Council has announced it is shortening the length of the GMAT exam by 30 minutes as part of its ongoing focus on creating the best possible testing experience and...
View ArticleWharton Receives $4 Million for Leadership Fellows Program
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Sometimes the best resource MBA students have is each other, and the William P. Lauder Leadership Fellows Program at University of Pennsylvania’s...
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