[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aycHj6URXoM&[/youtube] Shawn O'Connor, CEO & Founder of Stratus Prep, is an honors graduate of Harvard Business School. Watch this video as Shawn discusses insider tips and secrets that he has used [...]

Like my previous posts from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and the Chicago Booth School of Business , Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business wants to reassure skittish applicants that while applying [...]

A certain class of questions tends to have more going on than might be apparent on the surface. (I’m being intentionally vague as to the “certain class” – I’ll tell [...]

It's official: University of Michigan Ross School of Business will include some form of team-based interview component in the 2014 MBA admissions cycle. After traveling to China in January to [...]

You wouldn't buy a house you hadn't seen in person first, would you? With the average total cost of an MBA education at the most elite business schools  creeping upwards of $300,000 [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYSJE-247DY[/youtube] During this webinar, Trevor Reaske, GMAC Field Marketing Coordinator, and Betsy McIntyre, Director of Product Management, will provide you with a history of the GMAT exam and an overview of the structure [...]

We're really happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for this year's Beat The GMAT Scholarship Competition. This is the eighth annual edition of this contest and we're [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYS-TqDyJCc[/youtube] During this exclusive webinar, Albert Lopez Ramos, Assistant Director of Admissions at The Drucker School of Management, CGU, shared some tips and recommendations on how to develop the perfect formula for [...]

Wait - is that a typo? Maybe I meant “ Confucius ,” the Chinese teacher and philosopher? I actually do mean confusion. :) Journalist Annie Murphy Paul recently contributed a post [...]

Business school applicants are scaling back the number of schools that they apply to, according to the results of our recent Stacy Blackman Consulting survey. While 14% of respondents in [...]

With just a few weeks to go until the April 4th round three deadline, Kurt Ahlm , associate dean of student recruitment and admissions at Chicago Booth School of Business [...]

While all top-tier MBA programs are filled with smart students that have a strong quantitative background, the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School throws an ampersand into the mix when it comes [...]

Today I'm answering a question that's extremely common in the world of business school applications. MBA hopeful William contacted me with this conundrum: "Hi Stacy, I believe that I'm a strong [...]

Recently, I published an article challenging those going for a 750+ to answer a certain quant question in 30 seconds . I received a lot of positive feedback about that [...]

Many blog posts offer interview tips from the admissions committee's point of view, but a recent post from the Booth Insider blog at the Chicago Booth School of Business shares [...]

While there's a lot of truth to the commonly held wisdom that applying to business school in the final round means your chances of being admitted are wafer slim, UNC [...]

Students ask this all the time – they’ve heard that the scoring penalizes us for getting a lot of questions wrong in a row. That’s true, to some extent – there [...]

After a relatively sleepy February, March will soon be upon us with its extensive list of application deadlines and decision notification dates. Let’s take a look at part of the [...]

Lately, I’ve been speaking with a few different students who are aiming for a 750+ score – in other words, stratospheric! I’ve tried (and hope I’ve succeeded!) to impress upon [...]

The Graduate Management Admission Council announced the launch last week of its newest product, " Reflect ," a self-administered online assessment and soft-skills development program. Soft skills are an important set [...]