One of the very best ways to differentiate your candidacy in an MBA application is to have a global work experience. Most of the students I have worked with who have had meaningful international experience have had little trouble getting accepted into top-ranked MBA schools.
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Like you, I don’t want to deal with the fact that the admissions cycle for 2014 matriculation is fast approaching. I’d rather think about spring and long days and warm weather (and for those south of the equator, you get to think about skiing.) But now is the time to start planning your campaign for the next few months.
So here are a few tips to get you going as...
The application to business school scares most people. Sure, it looks simple enough – fill out a few forms, take a GMAT or GRE test, send transcripts, answer some essay questions, get recommendations, and voilà, you’re in.
If only that were true.
As the founder of Master Admissions, a veteran of the investment banking and investment management worlds, a graduate of Harvard Business School and resume coach at the Stanford...
For those who are applying to business school, with or without the hope of a joint-degree program, the question arises: should I take the GMAT or the GRE?
To be honest, I think the answer is either, but it's not entirely black and white. Although more and more business schools accept it, not all take the GRE. I've created a table...
The Financial Times' Global Rankings came out recently, and it looks like everyone is a winner. This is one list of several, and fortunately, there’s no one definitive list, with a definitive methodology. That’s way many schools can slice and dice the data to claim theyare highly ranked according to someone.
I, for one, am glad that there are a...
You may have seen discussion on the internet about undergraduate schools to lead you to top MBA programs. Some websites, such as Poets & Quants, back into a list of the top feeder schools, (using Linkedin and Facebook), but all is not what it seems. You want to you want to be wary of assuming direct causation when there...
I get lots of questions from students who are thinking about an MBA, and people wonder what is the "right" path to get there. In truth, there are many paths, but here's a case of a student who already had one option, and is wondering about another.
Q: I have an offer to work at a small early stage venture capital firm straight from undergrad. I am interested in working in VC...
It's official. Your camera-ready self is the ticket to getting into business school. At least at the Chicago Booth School of Business. In the competitive world of MBA admissions Chicago Booth had a brilliant idea, and they are rolling it out for their wait-listed candidates. They are asking those prospective waitlisted students to put together 90-second infomercial about themselves.
