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Beat The GMAT Rockstar: fieldwolf
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyoWnKzhiek[/youtube] Each week in the Beat The GMAT Rockstar series, we highlight one exceptional forum member for his or her outstanding contributions. This week, we're excited to feature fieldwolf as our [...]
Bucket Lists and More: Some Final Things to Consider Before You Start Business School Next Month
Business school has been an incredible experience for me. Through business school, I've had amazing opportunities from going to the southernmost tip of Africa through our new FIELD program, to [...]
Michigan / Ross Essay Topic Analysis 2012-2013
Following up on our recent announcement of the Michigan Ross essay topics for the 2012-13 admissions season, we’d like to offer some guidance on each question as applicants begin thinking [...]
Everything You Need To Know About Time Management, Part 2
Welcome to the second half of our Time Management omnibus. In this updated version of our original time management series, section 4 has changed the most. If you've already read [...]
Everything You Need To Know About Time Management, Part 1
I haven’t picked too ambitious a title there, have I? Let’s see how we do! This article is an update of one that was originally published a couple of years [...]
Overriding a Low GPA and GMAT: Profiles of Real Admits to Top-10 Schools
Last week, we had a chat with Dr. Shel Watts, founder and CEO of MBAAdmit.com . She provided some great tips for gaining admittance into the top 10 business schools and [...]
Beat The GMAT Rockstar: eagleeye
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioq_GXEfGtY[/youtube] This is the third week of our Beat The GMAT Rockstars series, where we highlight one exceptional forum member for his or her outstanding contributions. This week, we're excited to [...]
Chicago Booth MBA Essay Tips
The updated Chicago Booth Essay Questions are posted for this admissions season, along with the deadlines. The overall goal of this application is to evaluate candidates on their ability to [...]
Non-Traditional MBA Candidates: How to Get Accepted
Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of hosting a live Q&A chat focused on answering profile-specific questions from our community members. Kofi Kankam, co-founder of Admit Advantage , was [...]
Adding an EMBA to Your Options
*Please note that no client details are ever shared in SBC Scoop or otherwise without complete sign off from client. Our client Luis had been weighing his options for a while [...]
What's The Flaw? Stretching Your Critical Reasoning Skills
We’ve talked about various types of Assumption Family questions in the past (find the assumption, strengthen, weaken, and evaluate the conclusion), but we haven’t yet tackled a Flaw question. This [...]
UC Berkeley Haas Essay Tips
This set of essays for admission to UC Berkeley Haas School of Business covers a variety of topics – from the song that expresses you to your quantitative skills. In [...]
Social Media Influences Curricula, Affects Applicants
MBA students and applicants live and breathe through social media, which is a good thing, considering the growing demand in the business world for employees with honed social media skills. [...]
Admissions Tip: School-Hosted Blogs
As the summer progresses and applicants begin researching their target schools in more depth, we would like to highlight a valuable research tool: school-hosted blogs. The last few years have [...]
Beat The GMAT Rockstar: karthikpandian19
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhSEo1VgQ9c[/youtube] This is the second week of our Beat The GMAT Rockstars series, where we highlight one exceptional forum member for his or her outstanding contributions. This week, we're excited to [...]
Managing Stress with a Timeline
*Please note that no client details are ever shared in SBC Scoop or otherwise without complete sign off from client. Just about a year ago our client Emily was starting to [...]
MIT Sloan School of Management MBA Essay Tips
On its website, MIT Sloan states that “innovation and collaboration [are] at the heart of what we do.“ Your task is to remain focused on your overall application strategy and [...]
Map Out Your MBA Timeline
This post originally appeared on Stacy's "Strictly Business" MBA blog on U.S.News.com Once you've decided to pursue an MBA, you've got your work cut out for you. MBA applicants need [...]
Confessions of an MBA Consultant: White Spaces
This post of Stacy's, the first in a series, originally appeared on Poets & Quants . I’d rather listen to Celine Dion on a loop, I think to myself knowing [...]
Decoding the Prime Disguise
How can the GMAT disguise a prime number (or any other) problem? I asked this question a couple of years ago at the start of a very important article entitled [...]
Beat The GMAT Rockstar: Birottam Dutta
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7p56NzAVKc[/youtube] We're starting a new series where we recognize awesome Beat The GMAT members each week. To kick things off, we'd like to recognize Birottam Dutta ! He's been on our [...]
GRE Trumps GMAT?
*Please note that no client details are ever shared in SBC Scoop or otherwise without complete sign off from client. Our client Terrence looked like a stellar candidate except for one [...]
Wharton MBA Essay Tips
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School has published the new essay questions for applicants seeking a space in the class of 2015, along with a new brand position: Knowledge for [...]
Making the Family Business Work For You
*Please note that no client details are ever shared in SBC Scoop or otherwise without complete sign off from client. Our client Bill came to us wondering if his atypical background [...]
Tackling the Lone Wolf GMATPrep Passage
This week, we’re going to tackle a dense GMATPrep® reading comprehension passage, along with a Specific Detail question. Let’s start with the passage and problem. Take up to 3 minutes to [...]