P&Q’s Must Reads: Kellogg & Booth Disappear From The Consortium Website

Hello everyone  — Welcome back to Poets&Quants’ Must Reads, a quick, digestible recap of the top business school news, sponsored by CentreCourt, P&Q’s virtual admission events.

I’m your host, Kristy Bleizeffer, and I’ll be highlighting the most important P&Q stories you might have missed. So, let’s get to it. 

No. 1: Kellogg & Booth Disappear From The Consortium Website

Two more schools – both M7s – have disappeared from the member school website of The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management.

Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business no longer appear on the page, though both were listed as recently as last week.

If schools have left, it means that four U.S. business schools have departed the network since July 1, dropping the number of members from 25 at the start of summer to 21 today.

You can read more about this summer trend in this story, which you’ll find in our trending tab.

No. 2: The GMAT Time Bomb Awaiting Stanford MBA Applicants 

Less than a month before the round one application deadline for Stanford’s MBA program, many applicants have stumbled across an alarming time bomb buried on the school’s website: Stanford Graduate School of Business will not longer accept GMAT or GRE scores for up to five years.

The change, made without announcement or notice, puts the school out of step with all of its peers who continue to honor the validity of the test for up to five years.

Read more about what the change could mean for prospective candidates from our homepage.

No. 3: Inside The $120 Million Plan To Transform Delaware’s Lerner College

When Oliver Yao became dean of the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics in August 2023, he took the helm of a school with strong roots — and even bigger ambitions.

Now, as he enters his third year, Yao is unveiling the full scope of those ambitions. Through a five-year strategic plan called Transformative Excellence, Lerner is investing $120 million to reshape its academic programs, research culture, and national standing.

Read more about the plan from our news tab.

No. 4: Our Weekly Round Up of  News You Can Use

No matter where you are in your MBA journey, we bring several helpful stories for you this week.

First up: 5 Ways Online MBAs Use What They Learned At Work. This story offers advice from real students on using the degree to snag that promotion. Find it on our homepage.

Next: Why You Can’t ChatGPT Your Way Into Harvard. This article, which you can find in our admission hub, outlines how top MBA programs craft essay prompts AI can’t ace.

Finally: How To Prepare for The Wharton Team-Based Discussion. Learn to ace this stress-inducing group interview in this article, up now in our admissions hub.

And, that’s it for this week’s Must Reads recap. 

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Again, I’m Kristy Bleizeffer, and you can join me next week, right here, for a recap of what’s important in the world of business education. Thanks for listening.

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