With acceptance rates at the most elite business schools ranging from 6.8 to 21.6 percent, a growing number of MBA hopefuls are relying on the services of admissions consultants to help them [...]

The Stanford Africa MBA Fellowship application is now live, and the  deadline to apply is June 13, 2014 . The Fellowship enables talented African citizens with a passion for making [...]

Yale School of Management   will now be better equipped to meet the needs of entrepreneurially-minded students with the launch of a formal Entrepreneurship Program . Dr. Kyle Jensen has [...]

When applying to the top schools, it is important to avoid “red flags” in your application. For the uninitiated, red flags are negative items that stand out in your file [...]

The Graduate Management Admission Council has announced the debut of a new web-based resource to help applicants prepare for the Integrated Reasoning section of the GMAT. The Official GMAT Integrated Reasoning [...]

A while back, we talked about the 4 math strategies that everyone needs to master . Today, I’ve got some additional practice for you with regard to one of those strategies: [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9TBXxeZ2E4[/youtube] In part one of this two-part webinar series, Kofi Kankam, Co-Founder of Admit Advantage and Harvard College/Wharton MBA alum, discusses what to do before and after you've submitted your application. [...]

While we devoted time last week to advice on  addressing weaknesses in one’s academic record , today we wanted to explore the other side of the issue: the strengths that [...]

One of the very first places a business school hopeful begins the school selection process is by looking at annual or biannual MBA rankings. The most frequently consulted lists [...]

The MBA Student Voice blog of UCLA Anderson School of Management recently posted some great advice from second-year student Nathan Adelman on how to make the most of your MBA [...]

Have you heard of the C-Trap? I’m not going to tell you what it is yet. Try this problem from GMATPrep® first and see whether you can avoid it: * “In [...]

In the latest installment of Bloomberg Businessweek journalist Amy S. Choi 's attempt to walk in the shoes of b-school applicants, the intrepid writer shares how being herself worked out [...]

Some b-school applicants balk at thinking of themselves as a "product" or "brand." However, by taking the time to really examine your personal qualities, values and aspirations, you’ll ultimately be [...]

While we often hear about the extremely low acceptance rates at MBA programs at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business — 11% and 7%, respectively — we [...]

Earlier this month, Stanford Graduate School of Business made the unprecedented move of nullifying the MBA degree of  Mathew Martoma , the SAC Capital Advisors LP employee convicted of insider [...]

A team of students from the Kellogg School of Management has taken first place in the 2014 Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge with their proposed investment vehicle that would remediate [...]

To follow up on  last month’s advice about GMAT preparation and timing , we wanted to offer some general comments about the role of academics in the admissions process. Many [...]

New York University Stern School of Business announced it has appointed alumnus Conor Grennan as Dean of Students for the MBA program , a position which acts as a liaison [...]

When it comes to making mistakes on a business school application, there are many places where candidates can run afoul and ruin their chances at admission. The road to an MBA contains [...]

More than 1 in 10 business school alumni are self-employed, and the longer they've been out of business school the more likely they are to have taken an entrepreneurial career [...]

I’m reviving an old article I first wrote five years ago (time flies!) because the topic is so important. I hope that no one ever again experiences a significant score [...]

Not even the Polar Vortex can hamper student and applicant excitement about the innovations happening at Michigan Ross School of Business . Ross MBA students recently fanned out across the [...]

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has launched a new website for sharing business knowledge. Darden Ideas to Action covers a broad range of subjects, including accounting, finance, [...]

The USC Marshall School of Business will offer a new  Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation  (MSEI) through its Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, USC Marshall has announced. [...]

As many of our readers know, a small number of leading MBA programs offer admissions feedback sessions to applicants who did not make the admissions cut in a given season. Though we’ve  [...]