If you’re planning on starting your MBA in the fall – regardless of whether you know where you will be attending yet or not – you may want to start doing some legwork to find sources of funding. (We talk about this topic and many others in greater depth in our Accepted Student’s Pre-MBA Guide.) […]
Continue reading...($) Columbia’s “Financing Your MBA” application question
We started talking about money in our post on “Can you make too much money to get into an MBA program?” so we figured we go into an actual dataset question that can cause some applicants to freeze up: MBA: Estimate how you will finance the cost of your total first-year budget. Premium content starts […]
Continue reading...($) How the schools are adapting to coronavirus and what it means for you: MBA Scholarship opportunities
Along with all the waitlist offers we’ve already started to see for Round 2, there’s one more unfortunate side effect of coronavirus on the admissions cycle right now, and that’s unfortunately a tightening of the pocketbook and a decrease in the amount of scholarships that schools are likely to dole out. This is for several […]
Continue reading...($) The factors that make you much more likely to get a scholarship award along with your MBA admit
Sure you want to get into a good program. But you also think it would be kinda nice to get a scholarship, too. Well…. we’re a little bit of the DownerSnark on that idea. They’re not gonna pay you to get an MBA. At least, not most of you. This may come as a surprise […]
Continue reading...($) Applying where the scholarships are (wherein we talk up Ross, Cornell, Darden, and others)
We’re not exactly advocating this as an actual strategy for selecting your MBA programs to target. But it’s something to consider! It’s certainly more practical and intelligent (yes we said it) than using rankings as the priority tool to choose where to apply. If a top MBA program has a special scholarship fund earmarked only […]
Continue reading...How are you going to pay for it?
We admit to being DownerSnark when the subject of MBA scholarships comes up. Mostly it’s because it’s….one of those things. Where applicants are often woefully misinformed or unaware of the realities of the situation. If you’re applying for a graduate program in almost any other field, there is plenty of free money available. That’s how […]
Continue reading...($) Success Story! Sometimes it takes awhile – and sometimes it really pays off!
This seriously happy note came in from a BSer in May last year and we figured it was appropriate to post it now, since so many of you are getting antsy waiting for admit decisions — here’s something that hopefully you can be looking forward to (or at least some variation of it) in the […]
Continue reading...($) App Dataset Dilemmas! Sticky questions about finances in MBA apps
One of the many ways things can get messed up with your MBA applications is rushing through the data entry task on your application. The app dataset is an important part of your pitch — not just a chore you need to get through as quickly as possible. We’ve offered a range of strategic comments […]
Continue reading...“If my GMAT score is good enough, will I…?”
NOTE: We’re reblahgging this from 2012, since it’s a timely topic that gets asked about a lot!! Had a Brave Supplicant ask us about GMAT scores and scholarships recently — something like, “If my score is impressive enough, will I get a full tuition grant at bschool?” Here’s what we said: It is actually […]
Continue reading...The value of a lower-ranked bschool.
Yesterday we posted a question that was asked by a Brave Supplicant who had been accepted to a school we don’t frequently mention. What we specifically said to this BSer was: The blahg focuses primarily on the competitive top MBA programs and so no, we don’t discuss [School 3] all that often (every client we’ve […]
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