This is in the category of, maybe you already know it, but maybe you’ve gone through life wondering what this stuff means and how everyone else knows it but you. None of this really matters that much in the process of applying for an MBA. You can go through the entire cycle and get accepted […]
Continue reading...($) Are we seeing stronger applicants this year?
Yesterday we went reminiscing about what last year’s admissions season was looking like in mid-October of 2019. You may have read that and thought, “Who cares!??” If you did, thank you for humoring us anyway. Yesterday’s post sets up today’s: What are the trends and expectations that we are perceiving NOW, for the CURRENT admissions […]
Continue reading...($) What we were seeing at this point in the season last year
Not that last year’s trends relate to this year. This year is different in so, so many ways. But still. Since we’re now in that quasi-lull where the frenzy of Round 1 is mostly behind you (with the exception of some final scrambles for schools like NYU or Duke), and you’re in the Waiting Game […]
Continue reading...What is this “holistic review” thing?
It’s been an exciting week for many of you already! Thank you to Michigan Ross for issuing interview invitations before Harvard. Talk about a well-deserved boost of confidence for many! You could already be in interview-prep mode based on news that’s come out for some Round 1 apps to date, or you’re in wait-and-see mode, […]
Continue reading...Which school will do it first?
Some of you may be too young to remember the details, but about 12 years ago, we had that big financial crisis involving mortgages and Wall Street and fancy-dancy securities called collateral debt obligations and all that jazz. The part you probably do remember is that it made the housing market melt down, and people […]
Continue reading...($) International applicants: Should you even be focusing on USA for your MBA?
tl;dr: Yes but. Big sigh. It seems like every day there’s more bad news coming out of the US. This country has not been made great over the last four years. If anything, the opposite is happening. 🙁 We could rant for days on social issues, but in the […]
Continue reading...A call to the business schools: TRANSPARENCY
First: Why do we say “Asian-American” and “African-American” and “Native American” – but not “Caucasian-American”? Shouldn’t we start to use that explicit label? Who cares that Caucasians are the majority. Just saying that Caucasians are “American” means that when we say “American” we expect it to mean “a white person” which is a flaw of […]
Continue reading...($) A Stanford applicant case study: Avoidable mistakes
Reblahgging because based on some profiles and BSers we’ve seen, this may be useful again!! We got an essay submitted for a freebie review last November and we spent a day reviewing it for everyone right before Round 2 (Stanford “What matters most and why?”) (tl;dr: getting rejected from Stanford is no indication of...
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Continue reading...($) So how competitive will MBA admissions be this year?
We could be totally off on this but… based on our reading of the tea leaves and examining the overall state of affairs in MBA admissions and the world so far with Round 1, we’re starting to wonder about things. We had been pretty confident when the season opened up that things would be stable...
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