42 Posts found for Author: John A. Byrne

In his 20 years of coaching people on the GMAT, Chris Kane has more than met Malcolm Gladwell’s popular dictum that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. Having guided and coached nearly 5,000 GMAT test takers, he boasts the accumulated knowledge and experience of a seasoned doctor treating health problems.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Chris Kane, John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: GMAT, Prospective

The least useful MBA ranking is the one that you look at without any awareness of the methodology, and how those metrics and comparisons really matter to you.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: MBA Program Rankings, Prospective

The latest revisions to the two exams that MBA and other graduate business school applicants take are yet more evidence of an ongoing arm’s race between the makers of the GMAT and the GRE. The Educational Testing Service (ETS), the administrator of the GRE exam, has wrested more and more of the business school market away from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: GMAT, Prospective

Your business school essays are about bringing your story to life, conveying your uniqueness, and distinguishing your profile. View three essential tips for crafting a standout MBA essay in this 7-minute video strategy session with Fortuna’s Melissa Joelson, former INSEAD Director of Communications.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: John A. Byrne, Melissa Joelson | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Getting In, Prospective

What does a successful MBA essay look like at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business? The answers will vary greatly from applicant to applicant, just as the essay prompts for these two schools differ dramatically.

Both prompts are notoriously challenging. Even if these schools had more generous acceptance rates (currently 10% and 6%, respectively), their essay prompts would still vex candidates with both … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Getting In, Prospective

As the only part of your MBA application not authored by you, your letters of recommendation are a vital element of your overall narrative. So who should you ask? And what can you do to best prepare recommenders to champion your candidacy? View three key tips for securing a powerful recommendation in this 6-minute video strategy session with Fortuna’s Silpa Sarma, former Stanford GSB Admissions … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: John A. Byrne, Silpa Sarma | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Getting In, Prospective

U.S. News‘ recently removed GMAT and GRE scores from its online MBA ranking process. If it does so for its full-time MBA ranking it could have a big impact on the future of those exams.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: GMAT, MBA Program Rankings, Prospective

Earning an MBA from your laptop has become increasingly popular. Online programs tend to be less expensive than their residential counterparts and students don’t have to quit their jobs to get an MBA. What’s more, students can generally set the pace for their degree, easing up on the demands of their education when personal or work demands increase.IS

According to the fourth annual ranking of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Online & Distance MBA, Prospective

Many students will argue that excursions and extracurricular activities are a necessity for the bonding and networking opportunities they provide. But they are also among the hidden costs of getting the degree and they add up fast. So when you are plugging into spreadsheet cells the loss of your salary, the cost of tuition and fees, and your estimates for living costs in a new … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Financing Your MBA

For the third consecutive time in three rankings of the best MBA programs for would-be entrepreneurs, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business came out on top, according to the new Financial Times’ 2017 list. But the results of this ranking–doubled to 50 schools from last year’s 25–is all over the place.

The FT cautioned readers not to compare this year’s ranking results with previous years due to … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Times Higher Education (THE) announced that it will team up with The Wall Street Journal to publish yet another set of rankings on MBA programs and specialty master’s programs in finance and management.

The British weekly magazine, which claims a readership of 380,000, will join an already crowded field of media players to publish its first rankings in the spring of 2018 after what it called … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Elliot Bendoly of Ohio State has co-authored a new research paper that is the latest attack on business school rankings.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Some applicants have horror stories to tell about their consultants, with experiences so bad that they have actually demanded refunds. They’ve been swayed from dream schools, put up with long response times, and even mediocre advice.

Not so with the counselors at the very top of the business. So who are the world’s most favorably reviewed MBA admission counselors. Poets&Quants has been soliciting client reviews on … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

For the third consecutive year, the online MBA program at Temple University’s Fox School of Business today (Jan. 10) won the No. 1 spot in U.S. News & World Report‘s ranking of the best MBAs delivered via the Internet. Among the top 24 ranked schools, there are some notable changes.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: MBA Program Rankings, Online & Distance MBA

JC Chang beat the odds to get himself off the waitlist last year and into Chicago Booth. His highly detailed account of how he did it is both inspirational and instructive.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

If the Guinness Book of Records tracked GMAT scores around the world, which country could lay claim to the highest average scores?

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: GMAT

Business schools that now accept the GRE as an alternative to the GMAT has reached an all-time high percentage, according to Kaplan Test Prep’s 2016 business school admissions officer survey. Some 92% of the schools now accept GRE scores, a huge jump from Kaplan’s 2009 survey — the first year Kaplan asked the question — when only 24% of business schools took GRE scores. But … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Getting In, GMAT

More than one in four people who took the GMAT exam this year cancelled their scores after learning the results, preventing business schools from ever seeing the scores. That’s a massive increase in the number of test takers who pay to take the test and then immediately discard it.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: GMAT

A regular series by Poets & Quants where prospective MBA candidate profiles are analyzed by admissions expert Sandy Kreisberg for their strengths and weaknesses and likelihood of getting into certain target programs.

Editor’s Note: I watched the video for one of the installments and it was really awful, enough so, honestly, to make me doubt anything Sandy Kreisberg actually says. Still, I will just assume … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: John A. Byrne, Sandy Kreisberg | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

Sixty years since its birth, the spectacular growth of the admissions exam mirrors the rise in popularity of the MBA degree, arguably the most successful educational product of the post-war period.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: GMAT