Archive for July 2017

There are plenty of myths surrounding the business school application process. The problem with myths, however, is that they are not true. Yet many applicants rely on them and set themselves up for failure as a result. Here are some of the popular myths on applying to top MBA programs: Myth 1: You can’t get…

Harvard Business School has announced a new fellowship called the Forward Fellowship, for students from lower-income backgrounds. Rather than looking only at a student’s current financial situation, the Forward Fellowship takes into account financial history and family background. Applicants who are awarded a Forward Fellowship will receive between $10,000 and $20,000 per year, on top…

Recommendation letters are an important part of the MBA application. They give the admissions committee an outside perspective of your candidacy, and represent a “vote of confidence” from someone with first-hand knowledge about your ability to handle the rigors of business school. However, for early-career MBA applicants who are newer to the workforce – with…

As a business school admissions consultant for more than a decade, and a former member of the admissions committee at Harvard Business School, I get a lot of questions from MBA applicants about whether or not they’ll be able to get into b-school based on their background. Most of us have a pretty good idea…

Financial Times has published its 2017 list of top MBAs for entrepreneurship, which looks at how entrepreneurial alums from each program tend to be as well as how their business school education contributed to their experience as entrepreneurs. This year, the top ten schools are: Stanford Graduate School of Business MIT Sloan School of Management…

Times Higher Education have announced that they will team up with the Wall Street Journal to create a new set of business school rankings. The first edition of the rankings will debut in Spring 2018.  THE is known for its yearly ranking of international universities. And THE and WSJ already collaborate on college rankings that…

The Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants has released the results of their 2017 MBA Applicant Survey. The survey contains a range of insights into how applicants typically approach the business school application process and what sources they tend to rely on in researching schools. Among other things, the results show that while applicants are getting…