Over the years, we have heard countless students invoke stereotypes about the top-MBA programs. “Columbia is only a finance school.” “Kellogg is for marketing students.” Moreover, we have listened as candidates have lamented just how hard it is to get to know their target MBA programs. So, now, we have responded with the MBA Mission Insider’s Guides Series – seven e-books designed to allow you to get to know more about your target schools’ unique academic offerings across disciplines.
Via the MBA Mission Insider’s Guides, we go beyond the stereotypes to educate you about each school’s resources throughout the professional and academic spectrum: marketing, consulting, finance, entrepreneurship, non-profit, international business and more. Further, we provide a lengthy appendix so that you can learn about the school’s curriculum, star professors and more.
MBA Mission Insider’s Guide to Harvard Business School
MBA Mission Insider’s Guide to the Stanford Graduate School of Business
MBA Mission Insider’s Guide to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
MBA Mission Insider’s Guide to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
MBA Mission Insider’s Guide to the Kellogg School of Management
MBA Mission Insider’s Guide to Columbia Business School
MBA Mission Insider’s Guide to the Tuck School of Business
Please return to our online store as we will be releasing more titles each month!
We are excited to announce that on September 11, 2008, we will be uniting with our friends at Manhattan GMAT to co-host a free essay writing seminar at their New York location. MbaMission Founder/President Jeremy Shinewald will lead a class of MBA aspirants through an evening-long program, helping them to identify unique ideas, create powerful introductions, articulate distinct goals, connect their goals to their target programs and much more.
Registration for the event is limited. Please sign up today via the following link: event registration.
In today’s Economist, an article sure to dishearten many an applicant appears: “MBAs and the Economy: Ports in the Storm.” The article’s unfortunate “highlight” is the quote, “Registrations for (GMAC’s) Graduate Management Admission Test are forecast to exceed 249,000 this year, an all-time high.” Dare we write, enjoy the article?
Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday.
Even though the admissions season is in its earliest stages, many eager MBA candidates are aggressively moving forward (as they should be!). One step that you might consider taking now is selecting your recommenders and then meeting with them to discuss your experiences together and your path going forward. Some candidates may wonder if such meetings are appropriate. At MBA Mission, we not only think that they are appropriate, but we recommend them — as does Derrick Bolton, Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, who blogged about this a few years ago in a post that remains on the GSB website. Bolton stated,
You then have occasion to have several candid conversations about your personal and professional development with these individuals who are committed to your success. Through these discussions, you can get feedback that will help you better understand your own strengths and development needs, make a larger impact in your current position, build stronger working relationships, and refine your personal and professional aspirations… If you do so, I believe your recommender will produce a more powerful letter of reference because the process itself will have been so compelling. Further, you will learn more this way!
Recommendations are a key part of the admissions process. While we strongly recommend that recommenders write their letters independently, we still suggest that candidates take time to reflect on their relationships with their recommenders in order to bring long forgotten stories to the surface and thus ensure that these letters are sincere and powerful.
Before we even had a chance to post news of this event on our blog, both days “sold out.” MBA Mission and Manhattan GMAT are hosting a two-day “Admissions Marathon,” July 12-13, wherein MBA Mission Founder, Jeremy Shinewald, will be meeting with prospective MBA candidates at Manhattan GMAT’s New York location for half an hour each, free of charge, to evaluate their respective profiles and discuss anything that these candidates might have on their respective minds. The good news is, because of the demand, we are adding to our schedule. So, if you are still interested in a free half hour session, please contact Dan McElroy at Manhattan GMAT ([email protected]) to inquire about these additional times.
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