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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'…

Best Reviewed MBA Admission Consultants of 2019 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 8, 2019

He doesn’t work for one of the leading MBA admissions consulting firms in the world. His unimpressive website is the opposite of slick. And this admissions counselor hardly ever works with MBA hopefuls from either the U.S. or Europe. But Rajdeep Chimni can now rightly lay claim to being among the best MBA admissions consultants…

Ten Of The Best MBA Admission Consultants (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 4, 2019

A 2019 updated version of this article can be viewed here. Waitlisted at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in 2016, the MBA candidate was clearly frustrated with his outcomes. So he turned to an admissions consultant for advice. David White of Menlo Consulting agreed to go over all of his previous application…

Best Business School Admission Consultants (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 7, 2019

A 2019 updated version of this article can be viewed here. Other MBA admission consultants took one look at the stats and either ignored the candidate altogether or steered the young professional to second- and third-tier schools. It's not hard to see why: The would-be MBA applicant had a 3.1 GPA from a mid-ranked public…

How The Admissions Game Is Changing (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 11, 2015

How The MBA Admissions Game Is Changing Call it the law of unintended consequences. In recent years, MBA applicants have been breathing a sigh of relief. Once upon a time, Harvard Business School applicants would write essays for a half dozen questions. Now, that’s been stripped down to one. But, as The Financial Times reports,…

The Business Schools Winning The MBA Student Talent Wars (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne & Nathan Allen | Last Updated: June 15, 2015

Every year, the world's top business schools are engaged in an all-out talent war for the best MBA applicants on the market. To coax the most desirable prospective students to their campuses, they've been employing alumni as ambassadors, touting their programs and faculty, and using millions of dollars in scholarship money. So who's winning the…

Most Transparent MBA Admissons: Tuck, HBS, Ross & Fuqua (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne & Nathan Allen | Last Updated: June 11, 2015

Who does MBA admissions better than any other business school? Certainly, it's an admissions team that not only invests the time to know its applicants really well but also boasts an approach to admissions that allows for a high level of engagement. And secondly, it's a school that is as transparent as possible about the highly…

The Round Two Fire Drill To Apply (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 5, 2015

Like dominoes flipping over one after another, round two deadlines for applications at many of the elite business schools are unfolding this week, sending a literal deluge of apps to Wharton, Harvard, Stanford and other MBA programs. At 5 p.m. EST today (Jan. 5), the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School closes out its second and…

The Most Annoying MBA Essays Of 2014 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 29, 2014

With round two deadlines just about to pop and thousands of MBA applicants sweating over their essays, it might be a good time to ask a rather pointed question: Which application questions are the most annoying and unfair, the most incomprehensible and pointless? So that's exactly what we did. We asked ten highly prominent MBA…

D-Day At Harvard Business School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 9, 2014

As if by wizardry, the deadline for early bird MBA applicants at Harvard Business School is here. It's the earliest round one deadline at HBS ever and from all indications, this round will be a big one. It also opens the starting gate for the new 2014-2015 MBA application season at the most highly selective…

How Hult Became The World’s Largest Graduate Business School (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: April 6, 2020

Massive-scale telemarketing. Kickbacks for admissions consultants. Easy scholarships that critics say amount to little more than enticing tuition discounts. Those are core elements of the most aggressive recruitment machine in the business school world. And now Hult International Business School is taking aim at Latin America, amid a growing world-wide expansion campaign. The school’s global…

What MBA Admission Consultants Charge (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 4, 2020

Four years ago, a prospective MBA student to Harvard Business School had to complete four separate essays to apply for admission and submit letters of recommendation from three different people. Today, there’s just one optional essay and only two recommenders. It's not only HBS that has reduced its required essays. Stanford University's Graduate School of Business…

Smart Questions To Ask MBA Alumni (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Questions To Ask Alumni When Exploring B-School When it comes to picking an MBA program, prospective students consult the rankings, pore over the stats, query the consultants, and meet with the adcoms. Sometimes, they even visit the campus and talk to students. But if you want to know if a school is right for you,…

Heavy Round One Volume Expected (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 23, 2021

With just three months to go before the first prestige application deadline, MBA admission consultants are predicting record round one volume by early bird applicants to top business schools. Typically, only 30% of the applications that flow into business schools are filed by the first deadlines, with the majority arriving in round two that usually…

An Interview With Myself (NEWS)

By: MBABoy | Last Updated: December 1, 2021

I’ve always wanted to interview myself, so today I decided to interview myself on the books I used during my application process and whether they were actually useful. MBA Boy the Interviewer (MBI): Hi. MBA Boy the Interviewee (MBE): Hi. MBI: Thank you for doing this interview! MBE: [Fake smile] Of course. MBI: Let’s start by talking GMAT books. Which…

A Letter From Hyderabad (NEWS)

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

For a business school that was little more than an idea ten years ago, the Indian School of Business has come a very long way. First conceived in the late 1990s with the explicit goal of becoming "an internationally top-ranked, research-driven, independent management institution that grooms future leaders for India and the world," ISB has…

Writing the Self-Revelation Essay (NEWS)

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

Andrew wanted to get into Stanford, but I told him he wasn’t being realistic. His 700 GMAT was ﬁne, but didn’t compensate completely for his mediocre GPA in college, his hardly electrifying proﬁle (IT guy with a major consultancy), and his ﬁne but unremarkable extracurricular credentials. Then Andrew told me his story. Raised in one…

MBA Essays: Why The Goals Essay Is Critical (NEWS)

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

Make no mistake. Of all the essays you’ll write for your business school application, the goals essay is the most important. It’s the one essay in which schools most explicitly ask you to answer the central question that underlies your entire application—why exactly do you need an MBA? Not surprisingly, it’s also the essay that…

MBA Essays: Making a Lasting Impression (NEWS)

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

Imagine you’re at a tony cocktail party where you ﬁnd yourself competing with the best and brightest of your peers to make a lasting impression on your welcoming but overworked hosts. You’re all splendidly accomplished, well-rounded types, but you know your inﬂuential hosts are only likely to remember a handful of you when the evening’s done. When…

MBA Essays: 10 Crucial Things You Should Never Do (NEWS)

By: Paul S. Bodine | Last Updated: October 5, 2019

This is the season when most MBA applicants are frantically trying to complete their applications for their target schools. You probably already have your GMAT or GRE done and are now wrestling with your essays. It’s important to remember that when admissions committees must choose between equally qualiﬁed super-achievers, nothing helps them more than your…

Julia McInnis (CONSULTANT)

By: dgutierrez | Last Updated: March 24, 2025

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…

Pragya Gupta (CONSULTANT)

By: dgutierrez | Last Updated: March 24, 2025

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…