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28 Apr 2006
A Novel Question: Can Plagiarism Be Unintentional?
Can unintentional plagiarism creep into
an admissions essay the same way that Kaavya Viswanathan says it crept into her now-withdrawn Ivy League admissions novel?
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24 Apr 2006
Fortune Names the Most Sought-After MBA Employers
Fortune magazine has published its list of the 100 most popular MBA employers for 2006 – and the continuing popularity of
consulting and investment management raises a problem for B-school applicants who have their sights set on these fields.
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21 Apr 2006
Dean of Cornell's Johnson School Will Step Down in '07
Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management has announced that Dean Robert Swieringa will step down from his post at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year.
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18 Apr 2006
B-School Application Volume Climbs at Chicago and Yale
Application volume to the MBA programs at Chicago and Yale grew substantially in the 2005-2006 admissions season.
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11 Apr 2006
Sales Gain Ground in the B-School Curriculum
The growing respect paid to sales by b-schools is a noteworthy trend in itself. It also highlights a key aspect of MBA programs that people should
consider before they decide to pursue b-school admissions.
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10 Apr 2006
Signs Point to Rising B-School Application Volume
Last week we wrote about the correlation between rising application volume and shrinking acceptance rates in college admissions. Now comes news that Wharton's
overall 2006 graduate applicant pool grew by 12.2 per cent over last year. This suggests that we ought to say something similar
about b-school admissions.
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6 Apr 2006
More Schools Make SATs an Optional Part of Admissions
A growing list of colleges and universities are making standardized tests an optional part of the admissions process. Students should think carefully,
however, before deciding to limit their applications to SAT-optional schools.
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4 Apr 2006
Ivy League Applicant Pools Go Up – And Acceptance Rates Go Down
As the saying goes, 'What goes up, must come down.' When what goes up is the number of applications to a particular school,
what comes down has to be the school's acceptance rate. This is exactly what happened with 2006 Ivy League admissions.
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We'll start off our March blog with this repeat of our 31 March item, for anyone who didn't see it:
31 Mar 2006
US News & World Report B-School Rankings for 2007
US News & World Report has released its 2007 rankings of top business and graduate schools. As often happens, there was little change in the upper ranks of the top 50 b-schools. In the 'lower half' of the top 50, however, there were some interesting developments.
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