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31 March 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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30 March 2006
Are Girls Disadvantaged in College Admissions?
No one who works in college admissions can have been much surprised by the much-discussed New York Times op-ed in which Kenyon College's dean of admissions confessed that male applicants sometimes benefit from colleges' desire to preserve gender balance.
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27 March 2006
USC Adjunct Charged with Drawing Students into Investment Fraud
It looks like some USC Marshall students have gotten a stinging lesson about the risks of real estate investments – and that they got it the hard way.
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24 March 2006
Is Yale SOM Throwing '06 Admits a Curve?
News sources report that faculty at the Yale School of
Management voted unanimously this week in support of an extensively revised approach to
the School's core MBA curriculum.
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22 March 2006
College Applications: How Many Is Too Many?
The New York Times recently profiled a California high school senior who applied to 21 different universities and colleges.
Is this really necessary, or wise?
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17 March 2006
Friendly Fire from Helicopter Parents?
The term 'helicopter parent' first appeared in print about 15 years ago. It was coined by teachers to describe a type of
über-protective parent who hovered above their children as they entered the strange new world of school, doing all they could to ensure
that their children got their fair share of that world – and then some.
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15 March 2006
NYU/Stern MBA Students Get a Taste of the Film Business
The Stern School of Business has joined forces with NYU's film school to give MBA students a taste of what it's like to manage and produce a film.
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14 March 2006
SAT Scoring Gaffe Raises Questions on Standardized Tests
What are college applicants to do? On the one hand, they have to take the SAT or the ACT if they want to go to college. On the other hand, there is
evidently no guarantee of getting an accurate test score.
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9 March 2006
Darden Confirms Round 5 Deadline
Darden has announced that April 27 is the deadline for the additional admissions round (Round 5) added to this year's calendar. All application materials
must be submitted, and an interview completed, by 11:59 p.m. EST that day. Decisions will be announced during the week of June 5 to 9.
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7 March 2006
Simon Signs Direct Admission Agreement with Knox College
The University of Rochester's well-regarded Simon Graduate School of Business announced several weeks ago that it was actively recruiting younger applicants for its
full-time MBA program. Now it's been announced that Simon has set up a direct admission program for undergrads at Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois).
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3 March 2006
Common Application Makes Paperless HS Transcripts Possible
Many college applicants have been tripped up in recent years by the need to follow up online applications with paper copies of high school
transcripts. That will soon be a thing of the past – for applicants to Common Application member schools, at least.
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1 March 2006
Cornell Selects 2006 Park Fellows
We've just learned through one of our clients that Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management has begun notifying 2006 applicants who were chosen for this year's Park Fellowships.
Congratulations to the new Fellows (including our client)! They have every reason to be proud of their achievement and excited about the opportunities that lie ahead of them.
The Park Fellowships are a wonderful program. The
Johnson School awards up to 25 of the Fellowships to its MBA students each year, on the basis of leadership ability, outstanding professional, personal, and
academic accomplishment, and a commitment to community service. Each Fellow receives two years' full tuition plus a living stipend and takes part in a special
leadership development program. We don't know of a better way to gain the benefits of a top-ranked MBA education – for free.
We'll start off our March blog with this repeat of our 28 Feb item, for anyone who didn't see it:
28 Feb 2006
Darden Extends 2006 Application Deadline to April
The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business is adding a fifth application round for fall 2006 admissions. The deadline, which will be around April 20 or 26,
should be officially announced by early next week.
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