Blog: Archive for the “Business School” Category

We are pleased to release our new mbaMission Insider’s Guide to UCLA-Anderson. Through our guide, you will gain a powerful understanding of UCLA-Anderson, learning about the school’s unique attributes: Defining characteristics of the school’s location, class size, curriculum, teaching methods, facilities, alumni base/involvement and rankings Courses, experiential opportunities, faculty and clubs related to MBAs’ most common … Read More  

Earlier this year, we were quite fortunate to interview Sara Neher, Director of Admissions at UVA-Darden, who was particularly candid in sharing her thoughts. Some highlights include: Darden’s reasons for shifting and introducing some flexibility into its previously standardized curriculum Darden’s introduction of Skype-based video interviews and shift away from an open interview policy Neher’s encouragement of … Read More  

MBA candidates have a tendency to assume that only one type of applicant gets into Harvard (“leaders”), Kellogg (“team players”) or Columbia (“finance types”), for example. Of course, people are complex, and MBA students have more than one dimension. HBS’s Portrait Project provides an excellent opportunity for you to get to know students through their … Read More  

Update: Dawna Clarke is no longer the Director of Admissions at Dartmouth Tuck. After briefly serving as mbaMission’s Chief MBA Strategist, Clarke back at the admissions helm for the University of Virginia’s Darden School after almost a decade and a half since her previous tenure there. We were quite fortunate to have some time to speak with … Read More  

mbaMission founder Jeremy Shinewald recently spoke one-on-one with Bruce DelMonico, Director of MBA Admissions at the Yale SOM. Here, we offer some highlights from the interview, followed by a full transcript. Yale will be increasing its class size from about 200 to 220 and will be retunring top four cohorts, from three Mr. Delmonico discusses common application errors and how … Read More