113 Posts found for Source: Poets & Quants

It’s best to start the MBA application process clear-eyed, and that means knowing exactly what makes your profile competitive (and where you may have weaknesses). This honest assessment will enable you to identify the right schools for you to apply to – schools that are a perfect match for your goals, and where your skills and experience make you a great fit.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Georgina Hannah, Linda Abraham | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

Caroline Diarte Edwards (former INSEAD Director of Admissions), Judith Silverman Hodara (former Wharton Director of Admissions) and Cassandra Pittman (former Admissions Officer at LBS and Columbia Business School alumna) offer six tips to stand out when the best isn’t the barometer.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Georgina Hannah, Matt Symonds | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

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

Of all the possible admissions decisions, being placed on the wait list is one of the most frustrating. For tips about how to get yourself moved off of the wait list and into the business school of your dreams, please read this post. For insight into why you were wait listed in the first place, please read on.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Georgina Hannah, Karen Marks | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

A look at some of the schools and programs found in the U.S. News ranking of online MBAs.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Marc Ethier | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Jeff Kavanaugh, a managing partner at Infosys and adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas Jindal School of Management, dropped a bombshell on big-headed business students everywhere with the results of a sweeping survey that covered 10,000 recruiters, 3,000 business students, and 500 B-school career center leaders. Kavanaugh found that all three constituencies had very different perceptions of what’s important and where they … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Jeff Schmitt | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Each year, when we compile our list of top MBA startups, we take a look at the schools producing the most ventures to make the list. The list ranks ventures founded by MBA graduates in the past five years solely on venture capital raised.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Nathan Allen | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

The best time to start planning your financing is before you apply to business school. After all, you’re committing to one of the biggest financial investments you’re likely to make at the same time you forego an annual salary. If cost is one of your key considerations, the good news is that there’s a vast array of financing options to make it all possible. But … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Caroline Diarte Edwards, Georgina Hannah | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Financing Your MBA

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

Developing and articulating a career vision is an essential element of your MBA application. It’s about conveying a clear picture of where you have come from, where you are going, and why an MBA is critical for getting there. B-schools want students who will get the utmost value from their program by achieving great things in the future.

Think of this as a two-fold approach: A … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Georgina Hannah, Nonie Mackie | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

The admissions processes for elite MBA programs can often be convoluted, vague, and tight-lipped outside of gatekeeper walls. Not surprisingly, a study published last month reveals current processes often lead to bias in admissions.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Nathan Allen | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

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

Asking for a recommendation is stressful. You are making yourself vulnerable and possibly learning what people really think of you. The news isn’t always good, but it’s crucial to pay attention to what your potential business school recommender is actually telegraphing. Here are signs that you have chosen the wrong business school recommender, and should ask someone else.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Karen Marks | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

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

A friend of mine who graduated from Tuck a few years ago is now writing a business school recommendation for one of his associates. He asked me how to really convey his genuine support for the candidate, which is an excellent question. Here are my suggestions, which may help you figure out what to tell your MBA recommenders.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Georgina Hannah | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

Demand for online MBA programs continues to grow, so why do so few of the world’s leading business schools offer an online MBA?

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Paolo Taticchi | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Online & Distance MBA

Ankit Khandelwal has cobbled together an education in global management for free. For more than two years, from May 2012 to June 2014, the native of the northern Indian state of Rajasthan slogged his way through some 50 online courses, ranging from An Introduction to Operations Management by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School to Global Strategy and Organization by MIT’s OpenCourseWare. He’s also completed … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Lauren Everitt | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources