This is a follow-up to our recent post describing the realities for those coming into the MBA application process from a no-name firm, and what the situation really looks like for candidates without brand-name company experience. Today is for those candidates who do have that experience, working for a Deloitte or a Merrill Lynch or […]
Continue reading...($) “I work for a small company nobody’s ever heard of. Can I still get into bschool?”
Short answer: YES! There’s a common myth that you have to work for well-known, marquee brand-name companies in order to make it into a well-known, marquee brand-name bschool. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. So the long answer to our question posed up top is also a YES. Definitely yes! […]
Continue reading...What if you work for a no-name company? Can you still get in to bschool?
We’ve told you before that in terms of getting into bschool, it does not matter if you don’t have a name like Deloitte or Tata or whatever impressive-sounding corporation you can think of on your resume already. We covered this in a “3 Myths” post back in 2013 and then expanded on it more fully […]
Continue reading...($) MBA application challenge: “I work for a small local employer…”
This is actually a pseudo-essay critique in disguise; we can’t claim it literally as a Wharton career goals essay critique since the Wharton essay questions haven’t been released yet. And this one is from a past season. But we’re going to talk mostly about a common question among the applicant crowd, about the size of...
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*Really* debunking the “big-name company” myth
In our 3 Myths about MBA Admissions post last week – one of which is the idea that you need to have brand-name firms on your resume to get into bschool – someone posted a comment basically saying “Prove it!” (They didn’t say it in a mean way, just a doubting and skeptical way.) Here’s […]
Continue reading...3 Myths about MBA Admissions
We should probably make a “READ THIS!” sticky post at some point, since these ideas about applying to business school seem to never go away. And they’re wrong. 1. “I’m at a disadvantage because I don’t have any ‘brand name’ companies on my resume.” Not true, buckaroo. The adcoms totally don’t care where you work; […]
Continue reading...Success Story! From an oversubscribed pool, a no-name school and below average GPA!
Even though we’re still in Reapplicant Month, this guest post is from a BSer who made it through the first time. One point of clarification: They started the process much more than 9 months ago. The first contact we got from them was back in December 2011 after they’d purchased one of our essay guides […]
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