Blog: Archive for the “News” Category

Wharton has released its application questions for the 2010-11 application season (http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admissions/apply-to-wharton.cfm).  Please note that these questions are different than the ones that Wharton briefly released and then retracted a few weeks  ago, and you should be answering these questions instead of those ones. Fall 2010 Essay Questions The Admissions Committee is interested in getting … Read More  

Columbia Business School has released its application questions for the 2010-11 season, with some significant changes.  The questions follow; our essay analysis will be posted shortly. Essay 1 What are your short-term and long-term post-MBA goals? How will Columbia Business School help you achieve these goals? (Recommended 750 word limit) Essay 2 Please tell us … Read More  

Yale School of Management has released its essay questions for the 2010-11 application season.  Our essay analyses will come shortly.  The questions are: Short Answers Please answer each of the four questions below with a short paragraph of no more than 150 words. This is an opportunity to distill your core ideas, values, goals and … Read More  

There is a first for everything and the following is – after four years – our first guest blog post ever. We recently blogged about a landmark tax case, wherein a nurse took on the IRS with regard to the deductibility of her MBA tuition and won. Soon after, Benjamin Post, an alumnus of the … Read More  

In this week’s New Yorker, Professors from Chicago Booth figure prominently in an article entitled “After the Blowup.” The article profiles Richard Posner, a former Chicago School economist (the market is efficient and self-correcting) who repudiates his long held ideas in favor of Keynesian economics (government intervention moderates economic problems) and thus takes on Chicago … Read More