Five Years to B-School: The First Year

Typically, students enter business school five years after getting their undergrad degree. A new series takes a year-by-year look at positioning yourself for an MBA.

The Admissions Interview: Your Questions

A good admissions interview involves asking questions as well as answering them. Here’s how to be prepared

Clearing Up an Application Blemish

What do you do if you’ve got a legal or academic problem in your past? Here’s some advice for B-school applicants

MBA Admissions Web Sites: Not All Are Equal

We tested the virtual front doors of the Top 20 full-time MBA programs to see which Web sites delivered the goods. Here are the results.

How B-Schools Catch Résumé Liars

With résumé puffing almost a national sport, business schools keep a sharp eye for inventive applicants.

Self-Assessment Aids MBA Applicants

From professional exams to simply putting pen on paper, an honest self-assessment can help an MBA applicant target career choices and business school goals.

Five Ways to Ruin an Application Essay

Looking to write an application essay that will push you to the bottom of the applicant pool? Here are some good ways to do it.

More graduate schools accept GRE test scores

At a time when business schools are looking to diversify their applicant pools and to meet expectations from employers for more creative business leaders, growing numbers of institutions across the globe are accepting GRE(R) General Test scores for admission to graduate business school and MBA studies.

Bouncing Back from Rejection

If you’ve been turned down by a top program, you’re not alone. Here’s how to cope, and how to reapply.

How To Stand Out from the Herd

Does your paper profile look like everybody else’s? Stop thinking about yourself in terms of stereotypes and start emphasizing your unique traits.

Make Your B-School Application Stand Out

Admissions consultant Linda Abraham offers tips to prospective MBAs on ways to improve their applications.

MBA Buzz

MBA Buzz was founded by a group of MBA students and graduates who decided it would be cool to create technologies and a community that would help make the application process as transparent as possible. Hey, we were once in your shoes, and know what its like to apply to schools.

Below is a brief overview of current tools:
* PLOTTER – plot out MBA applicants … [ Read more ]

MBA Podcaster

MBA Podcaster is your online source for information, insight, and advice on the MBA admission process.

We deliver relevant information and advice through biweekly audio segments for those planning to apply for a Master in Business Administration. Topics include everything from a behind-the-scenes view of the admission process to post-MBA job opportunities and current market trends. Guests include Deans of various business schools, alumni, corporate … [ Read more ]

TOUCHDOWN!

TOUCHDOWN! is an MBA application service that trains Chinese business professionals to write winning essays through better understanding of their long-term career goals, leveraging their strengths, and expressing their passion in the most effective manner. Our philosophy is that successful MBA applicants need to first better understand themselves and be clear on their long-term and short-term career goals. We help our clients to gain confidence … [ Read more ]

mba4success.com

This site, run by Whitefield Consulting Worldwide (WCW), bills itself as The Business Education News Network. Site features include:
– MBA rankings
– Business education news
– Careers/recruitment news
– Business school factfiles
– Comments and analysis
– Arts and lifestyle
– MBA admission consulting
– GMAT/TOEFL
– Online directory
– Scholarships

Cambridge Essay Service

This site offers personalized business school application essay editing, admission evaluation, essay writing tools, and model answers.

Go4Bschool.com

College Admissions Services, Inc. is an Internet-based admissions counseling organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The basis of our services is our proprietary ChancesR™ technology, which allows us to predict a potential applicant’s percentage chances of admission at more than 50 U.S. graduate business schools. Our objective, statistics-based approach gives our clients access to accurate, personalized, and unbiased information. Armed with their percentage chances of admissions, … [ Read more ]