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I write this one week on from the most exciting, social and fun experience of the Manchester MBA so far. No it wasn’t another stimulating piece of academia or even internship related shenanigans. It was instead the annual MBA Tournament (MBAT) held at HEC Paris.

The MBAT is a sporting tournament held every year held in the countryside outside ... Read More

Went from 590 to 620 to 710 so although it is tough, it is not impossible. It all comes down to unlocking the building blocks of both sections. At that point you read through the question and can pretty much predict the answer even before you see answer choices. Almost like Neo in the Matrix. haha Read More

If you’ve been scanning Apple’s newsstand recently, a new title may have caught your eye. MBA Intelligence is an online magazine for current and prospective MBA students that debuted in December 2012. Currently available on the iPad, the new publication has been attracting most of its readers from the United States, the United Kingdom, China [...]

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This year, Columbia Business School (CBS) continues a trend that has developed over the past three seasons, once again reducing the number of words applicants can use to tell their story. Last year, CBS allowed applicants 200 characters with which to respond to its short-answer question and 1,250 words total for its three essays—not much room to showcase ... Read More

Thanks to the folks at GMAT Cheat Sheet for sharing this great infographic!

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This is a must-see for all MBA applicants!

Linda Abraham shares four MBA resume tips that you simply need to know before you submit your application!

Accepted.com ~ Helping You Write Your Best

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The following is a set of four GMAT Integrated Reasoning MSR questions.   There are two information cards in this question.  You are allowed to use a calculator.  For the set of four, give yourself 10 minutes.

 

The cards

 

The questions 1. Player A initially draws three-of-a-kind and chooses not to discard at all on the discard ... Read More

In the final section of our Medical School Reapplicant Advice: 6 Tips for Success series, we’ll discuss how reapplicants should improve, and then present, their experiences.

One last factor that can seriously hurt your chances is a lack of substantive, ongoing experiences.

Medical schools want students who are passionate and committed – to the ... Read More

Well, this is it. It happened. I have now officially graduated from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, with a Masters of Business Administration and a specialization in Technology Leadership.I'll call adieu to the blog when I take the last step - getting a job. But for now, allow me to talk about the graduation ceremony.A couple of months ... Read More

A Brave Supplicant hit us up for some information about their situation recently and they agreed to let us post our answers to their questions here on the blahg – personal details appropriately omitted, of course. Here’s what they asked: Hello essay snark Hope you are doing great! I am from India and require 3…

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Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday, where we highlight special programs and policies at top business schools.  This week, we’re opening up the Clear Admit School Guide to the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth to learn about the school’s Allwin Initiative: “The Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship aims to familiarize ... Read More

This is the second of a three part series of posts on the overal topic of “Do you really need an MBA?” In the first post in this series, I discussed that overall question directly. I suggest reading that post,  “Do You Really an MBA,” before proceeding to the post below.

What Kind of MBA Do You Need? Assuming you have come to the conclusion ... Read More

Yes I'm back. I hit a bit of a roadblock and everything came to a stop. Staying focused on the GMAT is hard. A full time job and a family cuts into your study time a lot. So I had to back to the drawing board and figure out a schedule of how to fit it all in.Eric is right. Exercising consistently is key. The GMAT is a long test and I have yet to discipline ... Read More

Many of us leave the workforce to get an MBA for very similar reasons: to accelerate our careers.  The ambition is in and of itself very compelling, but I believe many of us are driven by the complementary goal of obtaining positions that we want, positions that will make us happy worker bees.  Obviously these goals are inter-related for most ... Read More

One of the questions we frequently get is how to prepare for case study discussions. For the really uninitiated, case studies recount real life business or management situations that present MBA students with a dilemma or uncertain outcome. The case describes the scenario in the context of the events, people and factors that influence it and enables ... Read More

Columbia and Berkeley published deadlines for their MBA programs beginning in 2014.Columbia:January 2014- 10/2/13Early Decision- August 2014- 10/2/13Regular Decision- August 2014- 9/4/14Berkeley:Round 1- 10/16/13Round 2- 1/8/14Round 3- 3/12/14Put Me in Business (applying in less than a year)Put Me in Business (applying in more than a year)Twitter Updates ... Read More

Columbia and Berkeley published deadlines for their MBA programs beginning in 2014.Columbia:January 2014- 10/2/13Early Decision- August 2014- 10/2/13Regular Decision- August 2014- 4/9/14Berkeley:Round 1- 10/16/13Round 2- 1/8/14Round 3- 3/12/14Put Me in Business (applying in less than a year)Put Me in Business (applying in more than a year) Read More

INSEAD and Michigan published deadlines for their 2014 MBA programs:INSEAD September 2014:Round 1 - 10/2/13Round 2 – 11/27/13Round 3 – 5/3/13Michigan:Round 1 – 1/10/13Round 2 – 2/1/14Round 3 – 3/3/14Put Me in Business (applying in less than a year)Put Me in Business (applying in more than a year) Read More

INSEAD and Michigan published deadlines for their 2014 MBA programs:INSEAD September 2014:Round 1 - 10/2/13Round 2 – 11/27/13Round 3 – 5/3/13Michigan:Round 1 – 1/10/13Round 2 – 2/1/14Round 3 – 3/3/14Put Me in Business (applying in less than a year)Put Me in Business (applying in more than a year)Twitter Updates from Vocaz Read More

Students at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business were seeing pink last week thanks to the annual school-wide PINK party, an initiative designed to raise awareness about the LGBTQ community at Booth. Sponsored by OUTreach, a Booth student organization for gay and lesbian members of the community and their allies, the PINK party [...]

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We’ll be hosting our MBA webinar, That GMAT Score: Implications for Your MBA Application, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET.

If you are applying to b-school and struggling to understand how your GMAT fits into your MBA profile and the rest of your application, then you won’t want to miss this event.

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One’s level of Emotional Intelligence (EI), sometimes referred to and measured as an Emotional Quotient (EQ), not to be confused with one’s Intelligence Quotient (IQ), is gaining more and more importance in the minds of psychologists, sociologists, human resource professionals, and, now, business school admissions officers – at least at Yale anyway. ... Read More

Are you applying to a top MBA program with a management consulting goal? Not sure which programs offer the best support and education for individuals with your goals?

Check out Accepted’s newest special report, MBA In Sight: Focus on Management Consulting.

This guide will highlight the career stats, courses, clubs, research centers, and study ... Read More

To start, here are a couple GMAT Critical Reasoning Practice questions of the “Find the Conclusion/Inference” type.

1) Diamond Enterprises is a store in Apisville that sells specialty luxury items.  For several years, Diamond reaped substantial profits and was considering building branch stores in nearby counties.   Stibium Industries, ... Read More

Journeys with Joshua: Joshua Wienczkowski walks us through med school at East Tennessee’s College of Medicine with his monthly blog updates. Get an inside look into med school down South through the eyes of a former professional songwriter with a whole lot of clinical experience — thanks Joshua for sharing this journey with us!

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I am little more than a month old in IIM Ahmedabad and what a month it was.

New subjects, long studying hours, sleep deprived days, surprise quizzes, individual and group assignments, daily case-study preparations, mid-terms, presentations and much more. It sounds really overwhelming isn't?

 

But the feeling of living inside IIMA and learning ... Read More

This is an interesting week in the webinar world, featuring several events targeted specifically to students in Asia. Of course, there’s also the regular fare of events for prospective undergraduates, MBAs, and law students.

As always, if you attend any of the below events, report back and let us know what you learned! (Use the comments, the Facebook ... Read More

GMAT RC Tip: Simplify for Better Comprehension Understanding GMAT reading comprehension passages can be difficult because the subject matter is often dense and uninteresting while the writing style and sentence structure the authors use is often complex and difficult to wade through. So, what to do about this? You can’t make excuses. Complaining ... Read More

What is mathematics?  The great mathematician David Hilbert (1862 – 1943) said, “Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.”  That’s great for a brilliant mathematician who, like Hilbert, can survey this entire realm, but what about someone preparing for the GMAT who ... Read More

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The REALLY BIG change with Columbia’s 2013 essays On Friday we did a brief review of how the Columbia MBA essays have changed for 2013.

What we failed to sufficiently discuss was the short-answer question.

The good news is, the completely overhauled, new-and-improved, massively updated 2013 SnarkStrategies MBA Application ... Read More

A growing number of military officers planning to leave the armed services realize that a business school education offers them compelling benefits that can last a lifetime:

•    Accelerated business knowledge Many occupational specialties (e.g., infantry, armor, nuclear warfare) in the military have no parallel job in the private ... Read More

Well its again been some time since i've written a post in my blog. Been quite busy preparing for the CAT entrance exam which is to be held in October 2013. My current preparation is mediocre and i'm looking to spruce things up a bit and devise a methodology of going about preparing for the worst case scenario and aiming for the top tier percentile!That ... Read More

In keeping with the recent Admissions Tips we have posted for the new crop of applicants to the Class of 2016, today we want to offer some tips on engaging the community of one’s target programs.  Communicating with b-school insiders can be beneficial for a number of reasons: In addition to learning about a given [...]

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BSOP 429 _Week 3_Assignment_Bottleneck and Non_Bottleneck work_A+Answer

BSOP 429 _Week 3_Assignment_Bottleneck and Non_Bottleneck work_A+Answer

BSOP 429 _Week 3_Assignment_Bottleneck and Non_Bottleneck work_A+Answer

Written Assignment What are the differences in how bottleneck and non-bottleneck work centers are scheduled under TOC? Why are these ... Read More

BSOP 429_Lab 2 of 6_Theory of Constraints_Maruchek makeshift manufacturing_Answer

BSOP 429_Lab 2 of 6_Theory of Constraints_Maruchek makeshift manufacturing_Answer

BSOP 429_Lab 2 of 6_Theory of Constraints_Maruchek makeshift manufacturing_Answer

Maruchek’s makeshift manufacturing facility has three departments: shaping, pickling, and packing. ... Read More

Despite the down economy of the past few years, the war for talent is real and, for companies that may not have the name recognition or reputation of a large company, it can be very difficult to identify and bring in the best of the best.

In the guest article below, a serial entrepreneur named Sharon Willis offers her thoughts on hiring and promotion ... Read More

Doctors Wages Up!

A Medscape.com article talks about the increase in physician compensation over the last year following a decline in pay during the previous several years. The numbers, which the article goes on to detail, are based on Medscape’s 2013 Physician Compensation Report which also talks about an increase in frustration associated ... Read More

There are a bunch of INSEAD application deadlines coming up, both for January 2014 intakes (class of 2014 – December) and for September 2014 intakes (class of 2015 – July).

Mark your calendars and please let us know how we can help you meet your INSEAD (or any other school) goals!

For January 2014 Start Date

- June 12, 2013 – R2 application ... Read More

Hiring through internal recruitment sources is less expensive and also faster method to recruit for an organization. Nevertheless there are also negative associated with internal recruitment. Internal sources of recruitment both have positive and negative side as well. So, let us evaluate and discuss advantage and disadvantage of internal recruiting ... Read More

Members of the first class of the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program will take in majestic views of San Francisco Bay tonight while enjoying dinner and hearing from a Nobel Laureate, all part of orientation for the new 19-month program, which began on Wednesday. Haas launched the new program after reaching a mutual decision last [...]

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Next in our med school blog post series, A Second Chance at Medical School, we’ll move from how to write killer postbac application essays to HOW to create a winning postbac application strategy. Read on for 5 fabulous tips…  

These tips can help you formulate the best strategy in applying to a postbac program. For over five years, I managed ... Read More

Victoria Knight

Get ready to read about our next student blogger, Victoria Knight, who blogs at Let’s Get Operating. Victoria talks about her experience in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program. Read on for more information!

Accepted: Let’s start by getting some basics: Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? ... Read More

The first part of the interview was a group discussion in which candidates shared an investment idea for innovation, one of Wharton’s “pillars.” The interview was completely unstructured – the two second year students who act as moderators sit in the corners of the room and take notes. For approximately 40 minutes, we all discussed ... Read More

Given that you still have significant time before this year’s first-round application deadlines, you have the opportunity to take some extra steps now to ensure you submit your strongest applications possible. One such step is doing some background work on your recommenders to make sure your choices are indeed “safe.”  After all, if you are playing ... Read More

Our completely overhauled, new-and-improved, massively updated 2013 SnarkStrategies MBA Application Guide for Columbia is now available (published on 5/20/13 – just four days after the essay questions were released!). Or, keep reading for our initial thoughts on the essays that we posted right when they came out.   As we blahgged yesterday, ... Read More

Hello and welcome to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly roundup of business school bloggers. This week, while the blogosphere buzzed with excitement regarding our announcement of the 2012-2013 Best of Blogging nominees, we checked in on bloggers who are preparing to begin their business school careers in the Class of 2015 and gleaned ... Read More

Last year I passed the CFA Level I exam with about 150 hours of study, working directly from the books provided by the CFA Institute. This year I am attempting to repeat the same process with the CFA Level II exam. It’s pretty well known that Level II is the most difficult of the three CFA exams. From my discussions with people who have have earned ... Read More

Here we go…my life is about to get crazy.  As of today, Columbia’s 2014 MBA application is now live and my other target schools won’t be far behind.  

Here are the essay questions I will be tackling for this application:

1. Given your individual background, why are you pursuing a Columbia MBA at this time? (500 words)

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Geographically, Kellogg is one of the closest MBA programs on my target list. Apart from that I wanted to visit Kellogg first because I have more connections there than any other school. I’m happy to say that I […] Read More

 

Hi, all! While all of us at Magoosh live and breathe the GMAT, we defer to admissions consultants for help on what happens after you get your GMAT score– the (often daunting) MBA application process. Accepted.com is having a webinar that we would highly recommend that you attend. More details below!

What Does that GMAT Score MEAN?

 

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