When the boom hit a few years ago to begin including the GRE as a testing option for MBA admissions, uncertainty among applicants ran high. The idea of allowing students [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOwYJ2emXAg[/youtube] In part two of this two-part webinar series, Kofi Kankam, Co-Founder of Admit Advantage and Harvard College, Wharton MBA alumnus, discusses how to build your brand and polish your assets [...]

Emory University Provost Claire Sterk has announced that Erika Hayes James , Ph.D., has been appointed dean of the university’s Goizueta Business School . James will assume her new role on [...]

Two new deanships have been announced in recent weeks, and both are connected to UCLA Anderson School of Management . Professor and corporate finance scholar Mark Garmaise  has been named [...]

More companies plan to hire MBAs and other business school graduates in 2014, according to a recently published global survey of employers. Some 80% of business school recruiters plan to [...]

Congratulations to our 2014 Beat The GMAT Scholarship  winners! This year we had 255 applications, so it was incredibly tough to choose the eight winners. A big congrats to everyone who applied—it [...]

The University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business has updated the application deadlines for the 2014-2015 admissions cycle. The three deadlines are: Round 1 Deadline: October 1, 2014 Notification: January [...]

Memorize what? I’m not going to tell you yet. Try this problem from the GMATPrep® free practice tests first and see whether you can spot the most efficient solution. * “If [...]

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth has announced the MBA application deadlines for the 2014-2015 admissions season. The deadlines are: Early Action Round Deadline: October 8, 2014 Notification: December 18, [...]

The MIT Sloan School of Management has updated its MBA application deadlines for the 2014-2015 admissions season. The deadlines are: Round 1 Deadline: September 23, 2014 Notification: December 17, 2014 Round [...]

How many schools are applicants applying to? How important are MBA rankings? Should you consider submitting GRE scores rather than the GMAT? These are just a few of the questions [...]

Just one day after Harvard Business School sent out Round 3 decisions, director of MBA admissions and financial aid Dee Leopold was back on the blog with the news that [...]

Carnegie Mellon University has formally launched an Integrated Innovation Institute , a market-focused center that will cross-train students in the values, principles, thinking and methods of engineering, design and business—the [...]

The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School has announced the MBA application deadlines for the 2014-2015 admissions cycle. This year’s three deadlines are: Round 1 Deadline: October 1, 2014 Notification: December 16, [...]

The Stanford Graduate School of Business has updated its admissions website with the two essays required for the 2014-2015 MBA application. These questions remain essentially unchanged from last year’s application, [...]

Columbia Business School has announced the MBA application deadlines for the 2014-2015 admissions cycle. This year’s deadlines are: January 2015 Entry Deadline: October 8, 2014 August 2015 Entry Early Decision: [...]

Welcome to the final installment in a series of three articles about meaning and sentence structure in sentence correction. Our first one tested meaning and also covered issues related to [...]

Last time , we tried a problem that tested meaning; we also discussed how to compare entire chunks of the answer choices. Today, we're going to combine those two things [...]

Marketing efforts to attract lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender MBA applicants are not cut-and-dried. While business schools can easily target potential candidates by ethnicity, asking applicants to identify themselves based [...]

For the first time in ten years, Cornell University's Johnson School of Management has completely revamped the core MBA curriculum in order to better prepare students for the challenges of [...]

Sentence Correction tests grammar, yes, but it also tests meaning. In fact, a decent chunk of grammar actually revolves around meaning in the first place. Try this GMATPrep® problem from the [...]

Harvard Business School plans to raise $1 billion over the next five years, and has launched an alumni outreach program to increase engagement with and among alumni well in to [...]

With the MBA programs releasing their Round 3 notifications in the upcoming weeks, the 2013-2014 admissions season is coming to a close for the vast majority of MBA aspirants. We’d [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgluUuwi-7o[/youtube] Aimee Akimoff, Director of Recruitment at Willamette University , provides insight on how to select an MBA program that will help you meet your career goals and be a successful [...]

Yale University has announced the creation of the Yale Leadership Center in Beijing , which will host leadership programming offered by schools and centers across the university. The Yale Leadership [...]