»October 14, 2009: New Business School Guides from Veritas Prep
Last week Veritas Prep introduced an important new resource for business school applicants: Veritas Prep Annual Reports, in-depth insider s guides to the world s top MBA programs, available free to everyone. There is no shortage of available information about the most competitive business schools, many applicants find that most of these schools tend to talk about the exact same things: "A ... ... (MORE)
»September 9, 2009: HBS 2+2 Program Admissions Statistics Released for 2009
This past week Harvard Business School released its admissions decisions for the HBS 2+2 Program. HBS has admitted 115 students, which is nine more than last year, according to an interview with Dee Leopold in the Harvard Crimson.This year 843 rising college seniors applied to the program, an increase of more than 33% since last year, when 630 students applied. The number of students admitted a... ... (MORE)
»August 11, 2009: Chicago Booth's Associate Dean of MBA Admissions on Reapplying
Recently Chicago Booth s Associate Dean for Student Recruitment and Admissions, Rose Martinelli, wrote a followup to her first blog post about how reapplicants can approach the MBA admissions process. While the first post gave very general information that our readers have seen multiple times, Rose s second post contains some more concrete info that provides a good insight into how Chicago Boot... ... (MORE)
»August 7, 2009: Duke (Fuqua) Application Deadlines
Duke University s Fuqua School of Business recently released its application deadlines for 2009-2010 (click on the "When to Apply" tab on the Fuqua site). Here they are, followed by our comments in italics:Duke (Fuqua) Application DeadlinesEarly Action Round: October 6, 2009Round 1: November 12, 2009Round 2: January 7, 2010Round 3: March 9, 2010 (Unlike most other schools Early Actio... ... (MORE)
»July 27, 2009: Berkeley (Haas) Application Essays for 2009-2010
The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley recently posted its admissions essays for the coming year. Our comments follow in italics:Haas Application Essays(Note that we present these essays in a different order than what you will see on the Haas web site.)Required Essays:Give us an example of a situation in which you displayed leadership. (500 words)(This question carries over from last year. ... ... (MORE)
