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To me, the jury is still out on MBA admissions consultants. The trend has been the industry’s friend however.
I know that several members of top 25 admissions committees have reached out to MBA admissions consulting companies over the last few seasons.
These admissions committees have shown that they are willing to collaborate with these consulting firms [...]
So you’ve had the axe swung on you during your initial attempt at business school applications. While it’s tough, you need to get back on your MBA application horse and solicit feedback from the admissions committee. This is the first step in successfully getting in the subsequent year.
Assess your feedback efforts through this questioning framework:
What [...]
Pay paticular attention to the question that every b-school application asks:
What Other Programs Are You Applying To?
The reason is this:
B-schools are keen to know who they are competing against. They want to know how applicants view the correlation between programs but also if you are using the school as a backup or safe school.
For instance, [...]
I tell my clients up front that they have to waive their right and that it is not really an option to not do so.
Not waiving your right could tell the adcom that you don’t trust your recommenders. It could tell them that you are paranoid or overly anxious.
It could tell them that this applicant [...]
A significant number of my clients are from India (non-US citizen). In my consulting conversations with them, the one thing I bring up with them is their status as an over-represented applicant group. That is, there are a lot of applicants applying from India, probably more so than any other group. Applicants to business [...]
I used to be a Kaplan tutor and instructor. Now I occasionally tutor students individually.It’s been my experience that if your aptitude is “average+” and you want to score above a 700 you need about 30 hours of instruction and then about another 50-70 hours of studying on your own. This seems like a lot [...]
Another good resource for the b-school applicant, is to utilize is the businessweek.com b-school forum. You have to pay for full access, but a big-timing prospective MBA (like yourself) should have no problems fronting the cash. I especially think its beneficial to read the Admissions Q&A with the Admissions Directors from the schools you are [...]
I taught the GMAT for about 3 years. In that time, I had the pleasure of teaching over 250 students. Along the way, I also had the privilege of helping a select few craft their admissions packages.
Based on my experience and in order of importance, I present the following 8 factors I consider [...]
Business school rankings are an attempt by different publications to apply a methodology to the various aspects of an MBA program. This methodology then allows for a fair (subjective) comparison between all the affected b-schools. Different publications place different weights on the varying aspects of each b-school program. Often these weights change from year to [...]
