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Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action In Higher Education Admissions (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: August 25, 2023

Affirmative action is dead, killed by the United States Supreme Court. On Thursday (June 29), the court released opinions in a pair of highly charged cases arising from challenges to the admissions processes at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Both suits were brought by a group called Students for Fair Admissions, led…

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At $20K A Pop, Alice van Harten’s MBA Admission Advice Doesn’t Come Cheap (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 20, 2023

It was while she was a consultant at Bain & Co. that a colleague asked for her help applying to Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Alice van Harten had no business background to speak of but she had lectured in the humanities at Stanford University for three years before joining Bain, partly by leveraging a…

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The Top MBA Admission Consultants Of 2023 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne & Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: April 25, 2023

Ask Emma Bond about her superpower as an MBA admissions coach and you'll quickly discover the not-very-secret reason for her remarkable success. "It's my ability to connect and empathize with my clients," confides Bond, a director at Fortuna Admissions who earned her people skills at London Business School and The Boston Consulting Group. She invests…

The Top 20 MBA Admission Consultants Of 2022 (NEWS)

By: Heather Soderquist & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: May 19, 2022

After being admitted to Harvard Business School with the help of admissions counselor Candy Lee La Balle, the MBA candidate who will be in the Class of 2024 was giddy with enthusiasm for the valuable advice received. "The investment in a person like Candy is 100% worth it!" the applicant wrote. "She helped me to…

MBA Now Or EMBA Later? How The Great Resignation Is Affecting Applicants’ Plans (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 22, 2022

The “Great Resignation” sounds ominous, and for some individuals and industries, it certainly is. As the global pandemic approaches its second anniversary, hundreds of thousands are leaving their jobs to pivot, drop out, or otherwise recast their careers in a massive shift that is further confusing — but also, in ways not yet entirely understood,…

GMAT Averages Exploded At The Top U.S. B-Schools In 2021 — Here’s Why (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

2020 was a bad year for Graduate Management Admission Test score averages at the top business schools — and for the test as a measure of readiness for graduate business education overall. Scores fell at 30 of 37 leading MBA programs in the United States, including seven of the top 10 B-schools, as questions grew…

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The Wall Street Journal Is Missing The Big Picture On MBA Applications (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: September 21, 2021

The headline blared: "MBA Applications At Some Of The Country's Best Colleges Fell This Year." The story began: "Some of the best-known MBA programs in the U.S. registered precipitous drops or sluggish interest from prospective candidates this year, following a 2020 admissions cycle in which applications soared." But The Wall Street Journal's story that ran…

Stanford GSB Warns MBA Applicants About Coaching (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 21, 2021

Stanford Graduate School of Business is telling prospective applicants that if they allow coaches "to craft any part" of their application to its MBA program they could be denied admission or an admit could be revoked. While the school isn't explicitly banning the use of an admissions coach, it appears to be openly discouraging their…

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The Top 20 MBA Admission Consultants Of 2021 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne & Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: May 4, 2022

When it comes to customer satisfaction, it's hard to beat Susan Cera, one of the MBA admission consultants at Stratus Admissions Counseling. After spending nearly a decade on the admissions committee at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, she joined Stratus Admissions Counseling in 2015 and has never looked back. Over the past half dozen…

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GRE Scores At The Top 50 MBA Programs In The U.S. (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: May 19, 2021

The Graduate Record Exam has been creeping up on the Graduate Management Admission Test for years, gaining enough market share by 2019 that the possibility could not be ignored that it might one day supplant the GMAT as the primary admissions test for graduate business education. Then came coronavirus. How did the pandemic — which spurred dozens…

The Top One-Year MBA Programs In The U.S. (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: June 10, 2021

A graduate degree was not something Samantha Wargolet had given a lot of thought to pursuing. Born and raised in Minnesota, she got her undergraduate degree in Ohio before returning home to work for consulting giant Deloitte in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Wargolet's career was humming along nicely, but higher education soon beckoned. Deloitte is one of…

Biden’s Election Seen As Certain To Boost International Apps To U.S. MBA Programs (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: November 18, 2020

Joe Biden's election this month foretells a resurgence in international applications to U.S. MBA programsIt wasn't just coronavirus. It was politics, too. International enrollment has been declining at business schools in the United States for the last four years, essentially since the election of Donald Trump, who explicitly proposed the rejection of wide swaths of…

Proposed U.S. Immigration Changes Could Hit B-Schools Hard (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: October 23, 2020

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a lengthy statement from Stanford University. This summer, business school leaders felt they dodged a major bullet when President Donald Trump's long-threatened changes to the visa system in the United States amounted only to a temporary suspension of the H-1B program, through which high-skilled, non-immigrant workers…

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These MBA Admission Consultants Got The Most Favorable Reviews In 2020 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne & Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: June 9, 2021

If you're applying to a highly selective MBA program at a world-class business school, the odds are against you. You'll be competing in a self-selecting pool of largely exceptional candidates. Stanford's Graduate School of Business, with the world's most selective MBA program, rejects 93% of its applicants. At INSEAD, the highest-ranked school outside the U.S.,…

U.S. To Foreign MBA Students: Take In-Person Classes Or Get Out (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: July 7, 2020

Business schools lamented President Trump's executive order last month that suspended the H-1B visa program through the end of 2020, while also breathing a sigh of relief that the Optional Practical Training program — through which international MBAs may qualify for up to three years' work stay in the United States — was left intact.…

What A Post-COVID-19 MBA Looks Like (NEWS)

By: Greg Yang | Last Updated: June 22, 2020

What a Post-COVID-19 MBA Looks Like The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the MBA. With courses cut short and face masks becoming the norm, the b-school education will look different. But just how different will the future look and how are b-schools preparing for tomorrow’s MBA? Business Insider recently spoke to experts on what a post-COVID-19…

U.S. Versus The World: The Battle Of GMAT Scores By School (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: April 23, 2020

The I's have it. International students fare better on the Graduate Management Admission Test — that much we've known for a long time — and the latest batch of data from U.S. News & World Report's 2021 MBA ranking does nothing to change the narrative. Tucked away in the mountain of numbers attached to each school…

Average GRE Scores At The Top 50 MBA Programs (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

The Graduate Management Admission Test remains the big dog when it comes to getting into the leading business schools. In the long term, even coronavirus is unlikely to change that. But a growing statistical mountain proves that the Graduate Record Exam is no longer the unloved step-child of business school admissions tests. According to data…

‘Beyond Darkness, There Is Light’: Consultants Weigh In On COVID-19 (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: March 22, 2020

"May you live in interesting times." The famous curse has come to pass for another generation of business school applicants — and for the schools themselves. But is it actually a bad time to apply to an MBA program? Is it a better idea to wait for the next application cycle, beginning in the fall…

This Year’s MBA Job Market: How Bad Will It Get? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 20, 2020

MBAs who will graduate this year have good reason to be worried about their job prospects. The U.S. economy is already in recession and the drop in second-quarter growth—when MBAs will be flowing out of business school—is now credibly expected to be steeper than it was in the worst quarter of the Great Recession. The…

Welcome To Iowa State, Where Gender Equity Has Become Reality (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 28, 2020

Among the 15 biggest business schools in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis is behind only the University of Minnesota in total enrollment, with 680 students across multiple MBA programs (among more than 1,100 total graduate students) as of fall 2019. But the Opus College full-time MBA has been struggling…

Another Top-50 MBA Program Joins STEM Tsunami (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 24, 2020

In 2019, the acceptance rate at the University of California-Davis Graduate School of Management jumped to 43.1% from 37%, a level where it had remained steady for two previous years. At the same time, the school was among 37 in the top 50 in the United States to see its yield decline. In fact, UC-Davis'…

MBA Essays: Data Mining Your Life (NEWS)

By: Paul S. Bodine | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

Once you have your self-marketing handle, you have the multipart message that should inform all your essays for every school (albeit with some tweaking here and there to match particular schools’ emphases). Now you need to ﬁnd the best speciﬁc stories that illustrate that message. Unlike medical and law schools, which often give you carte…

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By: consultant | Last Updated: February 20, 2023

Admitify offers you industry-leading experience and dream-school outcomes. Because we’re a boutique company, you’ll work with a dedicated coach for a truly personal, end-to-end experience. Our coaches are mentored by Paul Bodine based on his book Great Applications for Business School. Through intensive get-to-know-you interviews and rigorous macro and micro feedback, Paul and his team…

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By: consultant | Last Updated: February 20, 2023

Admitify offers you industry-leading experience and dream-school outcomes. Because we’re a boutique company, you’ll work with a dedicated coach for a truly personal, end-to-end experience. Our coaches are mentored by Paul Bodine based on his book Great Applications for Business School. Through intensive get-to-know-you interviews and rigorous macro and micro feedback, Paul and his team…

Julia McInnis (CONSULTANT)

By: dgutierrez | Last Updated: February 20, 2023

Admitify offers you industry-leading experience and dream-school outcomes. Because we’re a boutique company, you’ll work with a dedicated coach for a truly personal, end-to-end experience. Our coaches are mentored by Paul Bodine based on his book Great Applications for Business School. Through intensive get-to-know-you interviews and rigorous macro and micro feedback, Paul and his team…

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By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: May 16, 2023

Admitify offers you industry-leading experience and dream-school outcomes. Because we’re a boutique company, you’ll work with a dedicated coach for a truly personal, end-to-end experience. Our coaches are mentored by Paul Bodine based on his book Great Applications for Business School. Through intensive get-to-know-you interviews and rigorous macro and micro feedback, Paul and his team…

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