Business School Admissions News Archives
December 2004
Kellogg Dean Survives Tsunami: Click here to read more.
New
feature article! Entrepreneurship and the value of the MBA.
Click here
to read this article free of charge!
Wharton Round 1 decision deadline moved up 2 days:
This e-mail is being sent to
all candidates who were invited to interview for Round One.
We have decided to move the
decision release date up two days. All decisions will now be
released on Tuesday, December 21st.
Sincerely,
The Wharton MBA Admissions
Committee
November 2004
Exclusive Interview Transcript: "There are four areas we think about when we evaluate all
the components of the application." Interview with
Laurie Stewart, Executive Director of Masters Admissions at
Tepper. Click here to read the
full, 4-page transcript free of charge!
Chicago GSB Round 1 deadline extended: Due to an
unexpected need for computer maintenance, the University of
Chicago School of Business has extended the deadline for
receipt of Round 1 MBA applications. The new deadline is
12:00 p.m. CST (1:00 p.m. EST) on Monday, November 15.
For more information, visit the
Chicago GSB admissions Web page.
New Associate Dean for Chicago GSB: Rose Martinelli, the current Director of Admissions at
Wharton is joining the GSB as Associate Dean
for Student Recruitment and Admissions effective May 1,
2005. The announcement was made on Monday, November 1 the first
business day following a Friday appearance by Rose at a
Wharton Prospective Day. Click here to read Chicago's
announcement.
October 2004
Click here to read the abridged transcript of our chat with
Julie Barefoot, Director of Admissions at Emory's Goizueta
Business School.
Are you considering a joint degree? Click here to read a
very informative article on the subject.
The new rankings have been released by Business Week and
Economist Intelligence Unit. Please take all of these
rankings with a grain of salt and keep in mind that a school
ranked in the top 5 or 10 may not be ranked the same in 2
years' time.
Click here for the transcript of our interview with
Wharton Business School.
September 2004
Click here for the transcript of our interview with
Emory University Goizueta Business School.
Click here for the transcript of our interview with UT
Austin McCombs Business School.
Ever heard
of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business? You have now.
Actually, Stephen Ross is a real estate mogul who just
donated $100MM to
University of Michigan Business School and
had the school renamed after him.
August 2004
Click here for the transcript of our interview with
Kenan Flagler Business School.
July 2004
Click here for the transcript of our interview with
Michigan Business School.
Credential-verification companies are reporting a rise in
the number of job applicants with fake MBA degrees.
Click
here to read more.
June 2004
Are you considering a post-MBA career in management
consulting? You may want to read this noted author's
predictions for the consulting industry.
Click here to read
more.
McGill professor Henry Mintzberg wrote an interesting
article about new graduates being unprepared
to assume management positions.
Click here for more
information.
May 2004
Click here for the transcript of our interview with
MIT Sloan School of Management.
Harvard announces a new, fully-integrated joint MD/MBA
degree program between
Harvard Business School and Harvard
Medical School. Click here to read more about this joint
degree program.
April 2004
US News & World Report released its latest
business school
rankings. While they seemed to have moved a bit closer to
the public's general perception, they – like all other
rankings – should be taken with a grain of salt and should
not produce unreasonable pressure on your final b-school
selection decisions. (Rankings do change over time to a much
greater degree than the quality of the MBA programs they
purport to rank.)
March 2004
Carnegie Mellon changed the name of their program to
the Tepper School of
Business at Carnegie Mellon following a
$55 million contribution from David A. Tepper (MBA '82).
February 2004
Click here for the transcript of our interview with
University of Chicago GSB.
Online MBA program in Spanish started.
Click here to read more.
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