»October 26, 2007: MBA Chats: INSEAD, MIT Sloan, Cornell Johnson
On Monday October 29 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT Accepted will host INSEAD s Marketing Manager Cassandra Pittman in an online chat devoted to INSEAD. She will answer your questions about INSEAD s admissions policies, program, and student life. Please join us in the Accepted chat room this Monday. We have already post the MIT Sloan chat transcript from this past Monday s chat. An excer... ... (MORE)
»October 22, 2007: MBA Admissions Chats: MIT, Cornell, Yale, LBS
Mark your calendar for this week s chats:MIT Sloan Admissions with Jen Burke Burba, Associate Admissions Director at MIT Sloan, and two second-year Sloan MBA students. The chat will take place on Monday Oct. 22 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM EST/5:00 PM GMT. Cornell Johnson with Director of Admissions Randall Sawyer and additional staff and students. They will be available to answer your quest... ... (MORE)
»October 16, 2007: What Accepted Offers Round 1 and Round 2 Applicants
Accepted offers MBA applicants so many forms of assistance, I thought it would be a good idea to review what we have for MBA applicants at different stages in the process. For Round 1 applicants: Hopefully you are almost finished now with your MBA essays and soon will receive MBA interview invitations. You may want to consider a round 2 application to a safety school, especially if ... ... (MORE)
»October 12, 2007: Admissions Tip from Dr. Pausch's Last Lecture (Part 2)
In my last blog post I discussed some of the ways Dr. Pausch enlivened his lecture and engaged the reader, but his presentation was not just a collection of spiffy techniques; it has profound content and substance. Let s look at the substance, not in the context of his tragic circumstances -- he has cancer of he liver -- but in an admissions context. On p.5 of the transcript Dr. Pausch describe... ... (MORE)
»October 8, 2007: MBA Chat News
Accepted is hosting our first-ever Yale School of Management chat with its Director of Admissions, Bruce DelMonico, on Wednesday Oct. 10, 2007 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT. Please join us to learn about Yale s highly innovative curriculum, which has earned high marks from recruiters according to The Wall St. Journal. If you are interested in an integrated approach to management with a... ... (MORE)
»October 1, 2007: MBA Interview Questions
In the recent BusinessWeek chat, "Make Your B-School Application Stand Out," Cassidy asked me "I ve done my homework on a school and I am preparing for an interview. Any suggestion as to a good question I might be able to ask?" I thought I had a blog post that addressed this question. It turns out I didn t, so here goes. It is difficult to provide general advice on... ... (MORE)