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HBS 2+2 Interview Invitations Sent 2008-08-05 10:33:17 According to some of our own clients, last Wednesday Harvard Business School sent interview invitations to select HBS 2+2 Program applicants. (Congrats, folks!)HBS also sent rejection letters to applicants on the same day, and in the letter the school explained that there were over 600 applicants to the program. Given the estimated number of applicants Harvard will accept, this would put the proje Read more:Invitations
Yale SOM Application Essays and Deadlines for 2008-2009 2008-08-04 10:56:05 The Yale School of Management recently released its application essays and deadlines for the 2008-2009 admissions season. Our comments are in italics:Yale SOM Application
DeadlinesRound 1: October 22, 2008Round 2: January 7, 2009Round 3: March 18. 2009Yale SOM Application EssaysWhy a Yale MBA?What is the impact that you wish to have on the world? How will your previous experiences and a Yale MBA e
UT Austin (McCombs) Application Deadlines for 2008-2009 2008-08-01 12:09:01 While the UT Austin
(McCombs) admissions office won't release the school's full MBA application until next month, the school has recently posted its 2008-2009 application deadlines.McCombs uses a rolling admissions process (i.e., applications are evaluated as they come in, not in discrete batches based on rounds), but the admissions office normally publishes "suggested" deadlines:UT Austin (McComb Read more:Application
Chicago GSB Application Essays 2008-2009 2008-07-31 12:00:49 Although Chicago
GSB hasn't yet released its full 2008-2009 application, the school recently announced its admissions essays for the upcoming year. Our comments are in italics:Chicago GSB Application
EssaysWhy are you pursuing an MBA at this point in your career? (750 word maximum)(This is similar to last year's first question, although the maximim word count has been cut in half vs. last year.)Pl
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Dartmouth (Tuck) Application Essays 2008-2009 2008-07-30 10:58:51 Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business has confirmed that its 2008-2009 admissions essays will be the same as those in last year's application:Dartmouth (Tuck) Application
EssaysWhy is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? Why is Tuck the best MBA program for you?Tuck defines leadership as “inspiring others to strive and enabling them to accomplish great things.
NYU (Stern) Round One Application Deadline for 2008-2009 2008-07-28 10:30:57 NYU's Stern
School of Business has not yet released its application for 2008-2009, but the admissions office wanted to give a nod to the early birds in the applicant pool. A recent message on the school's web site announced that Stern's Round One deadline will be November 15, 2008. The full Stern MBA application will be available by late August.For more advice on applying to NYU Stern, visit the V Read more:Application
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Scoretop update 2008-07-27 22:43:12 (If you haven't heard about the Scoretop scandal yet, you might want to check out our earlier posts on the subject: GMAC Addresses GMAT Cheating Scandal and More on the Scoretop Scandal)One of the biggest areas of concern for past users of Scoretop, and an area of interest for many outsiders to this whole situation, is how schools will react to the canceling of scores. Yesterday afternoon, Busines
Specialized MBA Programs Keep Growing 2008-07-27 15:33:51 A recent BusinessWeek article explored the growth of specialized MBA programs, especially at schools outside of the top ten MBA programs. These programs are one way for lesser-known schools to stand out from the pack, but are they always a good choice for business school students?"Not necessarily," writes Fancesca Levy for BusinessWeek. "While established programs have placement records on par wit Read more:Growing
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Economic Slowdown = MBA Upswing 2008-07-26 00:05:07 As many people probably have heard (especially if you've been getting your applicant profiles looked over on online forums), this year is going to be more competitive for MBA applicants. The reason for this is that as the economy slows, people are more likely to return to school and ride it out, so they'll be able to put their brand new MBA to use when the economy strengthens up.There is an intere Read more:Economic
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UVA (Darden) Application Deadlines for 2008-2009 2008-07-25 12:00:50 The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business has released its deadlines for the 2008-2009 application season:Darden Application
DeadlinesRound 1: October 28, 2008Round 2: January 7, 2009Round 3: March 4, 2009Note that Darden traditionally offers an Early Action (non-binding) round for applicants who are especially interested in the school. Darden has not yet released Early Action info fo
Michigan (Ross) Application Essays for 2008-2009 2008-07-24 11:08:46 University of Michigan
's Ross School of Business has released its application essays for the 2008-2009 season. Our comments are in italics:Ross Application
EssaysLong Answers: (500 word max)Briefly describe your short-term and long-term career goals. Why is an MBA the best choice at this point in your career? What and/or who influenced your decision to apply to Ross?Describe your most significant
Tony Blair to Teach at Yale 2008-07-23 13:37:14 Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair
was recently appointed the 2008-2009 Howland Distinguished Fellow at Yale. He will lead a seminar on faith and globalization, which is going to be a joint effort between Yale's School of Management and the Yale Divinity School.You can read the full post from Yale here.And if you're planning to apply to Yale for the 2008-2009 school year, visit our Yale School of Read more:Tony Blair
And So It Continues... 2008-07-22 12:39:29 Apparently, the Scoretop scandal isn't the only case of cheating that the GMAT has experienced lately. Another form of cheating has been going on, where students pay others to take the GMAT for them. GMAC president David Wilson won't let on the extent of this form of cheating, but he did say that 590 cases of "proxy" test-taking broken up by federal authorities "underscored the problem."So, to cou
New Dean at UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 2008-07-22 11:24:59 What's in a name? Plenty, if your last name is "Dean." Last week UNC's Kenan
-Flagler Business School named Professor James W. Dean, Jr., as its new dean, pending approval by UNC's Board of Trustees. The appointment is expected to take effect August 1.Dean has been at Kenan-Flagler since 1997, serving as a professor of organizational behavior and strategy. His work focuses in the areas of leadershi
Kellogg Application Deadlines for 2008-2009 2008-07-21 10:55:14 While Kellogg
released its application essays back in June, the admissions office has put out its application deadlines for the 2008-2009 season.If you look at the Kellogg page, you'll notice that it's fairly confusing. For each round, what you should pay attention to most is the date by which you need to contact the office for your interveiw and submit Part 1 of your application. Also, note that Read more:Application
New Dean at Haas 2008-07-18 17:04:05 Yesterday, the UC Regents approved the appointment of Richard K. Lyons to the position of Dean at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Prior to his appointment, Lyons served as a professor at the school, and as the chief learning officer of Goldman Sachs, New York. As the chief learning officer, he directed the group in charge of developing leadership in Goldman Sach's managing directors and partne
UC Berkeley (Haas) Application Essays and Deadlines for 2008-2009 2008-07-18 15:26:41 The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley
has just released its application deadlines and admissions essays for the 2008-2009 season. Note that as of 7/16/08 Haas still notes on its web site that these are subject to change for the 2008-2009 application season. Our comments are in italics:Haas Application
DeadlinesRound 1: November 4, 2008Round 2: December 9, 2008Round 3: January 30, 2009Round 4:
Wharton Application Essays and Deadlines for 2008-2009 2008-07-18 13:08:03 Wharton has released its application deadlines and admissions essays for the 2008-2009 season. Here they are, taken from Wharton's site. Our comments are in italics:Wharton Application
DeadlinesRound 1: October 9, 2008Round 2: January 8, 2009Round 3: March 5, 2009(No big changes from last year... All deadlines are within a week of the 2007-2008 season's respective deadlines.)Wharton Application Es
MIT Sloan Application Essays for 2008-2009 2008-07-18 13:06:58 Attention, MIT Sloan applicants! Sloan has released its application deadlines and admissions essays for the 2008-2009 season. Our comments are in italics:MIT Sloan Application
DeadlinesRound 1: October 28, 2008Round 2: January 13, 2009(These dates are virtually the same as last year's. Note that Sloan has just two rounds of admissions, while most other top programs have three.)MIT Sloan Applicatio
Announcing MBA LaunchPad 2008 2008-07-11 18:12:01 We're pleased to announce MBA LaunchPad 2008 -- our first annual event designed to help business school-bound students prepare to hit the ground running from the moment they set foot on campus. MBA Launchpad 2008 will be held on August 5th and 6th in New York City at NYU's Kimmel Center.For years we have helped applicants get into the most competitive business schools, and many of them have asked
PowerPoint 2008-07-09 14:04:48 PowerPoint presentations are a fairly common occurrence nowadays. And, more often than not, they aren't as good as they could be. I've had gripes with the way most PowerPoint presentations are run for some time... the slides usually just say exactly what the presenter is, so I get bored watching them (I can read faster than they can talk).Because presentations are an important piece of the busines Read more:PowerPoint
Free Sample GMAT Exam Now Available 2008-07-09 14:02:03 Big news for everyone who's studying for the GMAT! For the first time, you can get a free practice GMAT exam from Veritas Prep.For years we have offered our students 15 computer-adaptive practice GMAT tests -- by far the most practice GMAT exams in the industry. Now, we are pleased to make a practice test available to everyone in the MBA community, at no charge. Use this sample test to see where y Read more:Free Sample
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What's in a Game Plan? 2008-07-03 13:19:06 The phrase "game plan" gets thrown around a lot in the hallowed offices of Veritas Prep. Our director of research, Scott Shrum, literally co-wrote the book on MBA admissions and named it Your MBA Game Plan
. We offer a Personalized Game Plan as part of every admissions consulting package. There are a lot of people in our office that love college football and study the art of game planning for blitz
Announcing Law School Admissions Consulting Services 2008-08-19 10:44:00 We are pleased to announce the newest arrival to the Veritas Prep family of services: Law School
Admissions Consulting
. Taking the strongest elements of our successful MBA admissions consulting services and combining them with approaches specifically tailored to law school applicants, Veritas Prep has added another customized feature to a series of offerings that stand alone as the most expansive Read more:Services
What Counts as Significant International Work Experience? 2008-08-18 17:13:00 For international experience to be significant it has to be something that you can write about at length and appropriately in a b-school essay. Can you articulate how you lead a team in a multi-national or cross border environment? This is what the adcom would want to see if you were writing an essay. A lot of applicants have worked occasionally overseas. More important is what you learned, Read more:Counts
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Applying to B-School in a Few Years? Maximize Your Candidacy Today. 2008-08-18 17:10:00 A significant portion of my MBA admissions consulting applicants come to be with little to no extracurricular experience since their undergraduate days. While this is a problem that can be addressed, it can show a lack of proper planning over the long term. A lot of applicants don’t think about the impact of their actions on their applicant competitiveness when the graduate from undergrad. To Read more:Candidacy
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Cornell (Johnson) Application Deadlines for 2008-2009 2008-08-18 12:22:00 The Johnson
School at Cornell
Univerity won't release its 2008-2009 MBA application for a couple more weeks, but the school has released its deadlines for the upcoming year:Cornell (Johnson) Application
DeadlinesRound 1: October 6, 2008Round 2: November 17, 2008Round 3: January 12, 2009Round 4: March 23, 2009For advice on applying to Cornell, visit the Veritas Prep Cornell (Johnson) information pa
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