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UCLA’s Anderson School of Business Asks Applicants to Submit Audio Essays

"Applicants this year to the Anderson School of Business at the University of California at Los Angeles were invited to submit essays in audio format, the Financial Times reports.  Though the option was voluntary, 70 percent of applicants for the class of 2011 chose to record their essays, Mae Jennifer Shores, Anderson’s admissions director, told the FT. Furthermore, the submissions were “ethnic, gender and country neutral,” Shores says,with international applicants as eager to participate as U.S. students..."
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Source: ClearAdmit

Fall Back and Regroup

"... is a strategy basically used when somebody who is on uncertain or lost ground, falls back to a better known or secure position to regroup/reconsider and (hopefully) win the upper hand again. It’s widely used - military battles first come to mind, but this strategy is also effective in arguments, negotiations, academics, sports, etc....think about it and you’ll find situations where it can be valuable..."
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Source: Bizwiz’s Issues and Challenges of Life

Great Tool for GMAT Prep - An Error Log

"All the debriefs that i read of successful GMAT-beaters, recommend keeping a log of all the wrong answers while practicing. I never realized the significance and value of this until today. Yes, i had been keeping an Error Log and have logged all the questions that i got wrong while going thro’ the Official Guides..."
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Source: Memoirs of a MBA Aspirant

Admissions Tip: Considering the Campus

"Continuing our series of admissions tips geared towards those individuals who are just beginning to think about their MBA applications, we wanted to offer some advice on factors to consider with respect to a school’s facilities and location. Whether speaking with current students or touring the campus for oneself, it’s helpful to approach these information-gathering experiences with as clear a sense of what matters to you as possible. Here are a few broad categories to consider:.."
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Source: ClearAdmit

MBA Resources for Minority Applicants/Students

BCG Diversity Scholars Program
Management Leadership for Tomorrow
The Consortium
MBA Jumpstart
National Society of Hispanic MBAs

How Business Schools Have Failed Business

"Business school deans educational thought leaders are doing a lot of soul-searching concerning the role and culpability of graduate business schools in the economic downturn. Dean Robert Bruner of Darden on April 5 wrote on Twitter "Controversy over the role of B-schools in the crisis. Did they warn strongly enough about the risks of toxic assets? Probably not." Joel Podolny, formerly a professor at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business and previous dean of Yale’s School of Management, asks "Are Business Schools to Blame?" He critiques schools for..."
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Source: Accepted

U.S. News & World Report 2009 Business School Rankings Released

"U.S. News & World Report yesterday released its most recent ranking of the nation’s best business schools, revealing little change from last year among the very top spots. Harvard Business School remained at number one, a spot it shared last year with Stanford Graduate School of Business. Stanford slipped a little to number two.
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business, meanwhile, sidled up a spot to join the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in third place this year. And MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business tied for fifth place..."
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Source: ClearAdmit | U.S. News & World Report

How Should You Use Rankings? (Part 3 of 5)

"How should you use the rankings? For initial research and data mining. And maybe a little reputation checking if you are lucky enough to receive multiple acceptances.
First for that initial research: Let’s say you are looking into the schools you will apply to. You recognize that your academic qualifications are an important element in that decision so you want to know average test scores and GPA for the different schools..."
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Source: Accepted

Harvard Business School Podcast Series Features Student and Academic Services

"A new podcast in the Harvard Business School (HBS) admissions series features a conversation between MBA Admissions Associate Andrea Kimmel and Barbara Siegfriedt and Ron Peracchio, co-directors of HBS Student and Academic Services. The podcast, which first aired last week, provides insight into the programs and support offered to students during the two-year MBA program..."
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Source: ClearAdmit

The Rankings (Part 2)

"The rankings are not objective measures of educational quality that apply across the board to all students. Nothing fits that bill. Educational quality is highly subjective, and experts debate it endlessly. Moreover, student objectives vary so “quality” differs from student to student.  For example, a female student interested in strategy consulting wants to attend a business school with a strong women’s network. She is interested in the surveys conducted by US News and BusinessWeek on leading schools in general management. In addition, The Financial Times allows her to rank schools based on the percentage of women in class and on faculty..."
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Source: Accepted