Expert Tips on Getting into Business School
MBA Admissions Interview with Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business The following is an interview with Shari Hubert, Associate Dean of Admissions for Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. She shares behind-the-scenes tips on what business school admissions officers are looking for, how the GMAT factors into scholarship possibilities, what you should be doing now to prepare […]
MBA Interviews: Prepare Before Clicking “Submit”
Preparing for Your B-School Admissions Interview The following is a guest post from the admissions experts at Admit1mba.com, a personal admissions consulting firm located in NYC and helping global applicants in their MBA journey. If you are applying to business school by the first or second application deadline, you should start thinking about your MBA […]
How The Price is Right Helps You Score Higher on the GMAT
GMAT Scoring: What is a Computer Adaptive Test? You watch “The Price is Right” from time to time. Come on, admit it. Who do you like more as a host, Bob Barker or Drew Carey? Have you ever seen “The Clock Game?” It’s the game where the contestant has one minute to guess the exact […]
Tackling GMAT Problems You Don’t Know How to Solve
Uh-Oh, I Don’t Know This GMAT Question…Now What? Here’s the deal: I wrote a guest blog article for the MBA admissions consulting firm Accepted.com that was published on July 23, 2013. It’s really good. The premise of the article is this: What do you do when you come across a hard GMAT math question that […]
How Important is Integrated Reasoning?
GMAC on GMAT Integrated Reasoning Importance: “Wait and See” Now that the GMAT’s “new” Integrated Reasoning section has a year of statistical data under its belt, two obvious questions emerge: How are people doing on it? Do business schools even care what your IR score* is compared to your main 200-800 point collective Quant and […]
Basic GMAT Math Refresher – Basic Math Review
Beef Up Your Foundational Math for the GMAT “Help! I need to take the GMAT but haven’t studied math in 10 years. I don’t even remember how to do some of the most basic things like multiply and divide fractions!” Sound familiar? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. I always tell my students that they were […]
Choosing Your Business School Recommenders, Revisited
By Paul S. Bodine, Paul Bodine Admissions Consulting Never forget that admissions committees love recommendation letters from supervisors. These professionals have the seniority and leadership experience to judge employees, and evaluating people is frequently a key part of their managerial role. Their opinion comes with baked-in credibility. Even assuming that your immediate supervisor wrote your first […]
Insights into the MBA Application Process
AIGAC 2013 Survey Results – Prospective MBA Students “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Ben Franklin It’s appropriate that this year’s Association of International Graduate Admission Consultants (AIGAC) Conference was held in Philadelphia, the city of Benjamin Franklin who was a huge advocate for the importance of education and a successful businessman […]
Finding Your Self-Marketing Handle: Business School Essays
MBA Applications: Your Personal Marketing Message By Paul S. Bodine, Paul Bodine Admissions Consulting Writing essays for business school admission begins with introspection; there’s no short-cut around it. Before you begin writing, even before you know the questions your target schools ask, begin developing a short personal marketing message or “handle” that integrates the key themes […]
Legitimate Home Court Advantage in NBA Game 7’s?
Question the Pundits for a Higher GMAT CR Score There’s a huge game in the NBA tonight. Eastern Conference Finals. Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers. Game 7. Winner advances to the NBA Finals to meet the San Antonio Spurs. Loser goes home. It doesn’t get much bigger than this. The question is, who has the […]
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