UVA Darden Announces 2010-2011 MBA Application Deadlines and Essays
Aug 3rd
The UVA’s Darden School of Business recently announced the 2010-2011 MBA application deadlines and essays.
Deadlines
Round 1
Deadline: October 14, 2010
Notification: January 12, 2011
Round 2
Deadline: March 24, 2011
Notification: May 12, 2011
Round 3
Deadlines: March 30, 2011
Notification: May 12, 2011
Essays
1. The Darden MBA program expects students to actively participate in learning teams, the classroom, and the broader community. Please share one or two examples from your past experience that best illustrate(s) how you will contribute to this highly engaging and hands-on learning environment. (500 words)
2. Please discuss how a global event that has taken place in the past two years has impacted the way you think about leadership broadly and personally. (500 words)
University of Virginia may soon allow Early Action program for Prospective Undergraduate Applications
Aug 3rd
The University of Virginia (UVa) Board of Visitors is considering a plan for the university to adopt “early action” admission, in which students would apply earlier than they do now and find out far sooner if they are accepted, rejected or deferred acciring to an article in The Daily Progress.
Under an early action model, the university’s offer of early admission would not be binding and the student would have until the normal deadline of May 1 to make up their mind if they want to attend. Students can apply for early action admission to other schools Under a proposal before UVa’s board members, the early action admission model would be put in place for fall 2011.
The university’s current deadline for applying for regular admission is Jan. 1. Under the proposal, early action admission applications would be due Nov. 1. The university currently sends out its offers of admission to students by April 1. Under early action, the university would aim to make early offers of admission by mid-December.
Beginning in the 1960s, UVa offered students the option of applying for “early decision,” a model in which students apply early but had to agree to attend UVa if they were accepted. The university, however, dropped that model in fall 2008 over concerns that it was disadvantaging low-income students. Offering applicants a non-binding early admission option is not expected to decrease the number of low-income students at the university, according to Dean Roberts.
Such a move would, however, make UVa a more viable choice to students who want to complete the college application process as quickly as possible.
“Some students are just interested in getting this finished and done with,” Roberts said. “They don’t want to wait around until April.”
Plus, Roberts said, an early action model would put UVa in line with several of its peer institutions, such as the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, which offer students a similar non-binding application model.
The Board of Visitors is likely to take up the early action admission proposal in the coming months.
Wharton’s J.J. Cutler to head admissions and Career management
Aug 2nd
Business school admissions and career placement departments have traditionally remained quite distinct, but the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is now looking to change this. J.J. Cutler has been serving solely as the school’s dean of admissions, a role he assumed in January of 2009, until now. Now J.J. Cutler will serve as Deputy Vice Dean of MBA Admissions, Financial Aid, and Career Management. Wharton representatives point out that no other MBA program is taking this approach. J.J.Cutler has deep roots in the Penn community. He earned his BA in Communications from the College (School of Arts and Sciences) and his MBA in Operations Management and Strategic Management. While at Wharton, he served as a student advisor to the Academic Affairs office and a teaching assistant for the undergraduate Marketing 101 course. Cutler, who comes from a corporate background and helped New-Jersey based Johnson & Johnson develop an MBA recruiting strategy, says he thought it would be helpful for both students and employers to have one person overseeing both offices. Apparently, as admissions director, he found himself spending more and more time talking with students about their career options, as well as with employers interested in learning more about the incoming class. It seemed a natural step to “create more of a partnership” between the two offices, Cutler says. Ankar Kumar, a 2007 Wharton grad, has been promoted to the director of MBA admissions and will be overseeing the admissions office and the admission committee.
NYU Stern releases 2010-2011 MBA Application Deadlines and Essays
Aug 2nd
NYU’s Stern School of Business has just released its 2010-2011 MBA application deadlines and essays.
Deadlines
1st Deadline: November 15, 2010
Notification: February 15, 2011
2nd Deadline: January 15, 2011
Notification: April 1, 2011
3rd Deadline: March 15, 2011
Notification: June 1, 2011
Essays
1: Professional Aspirations
(750 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)
Think about the decisions you have made in your life. Answer the following:
(a) What choices have you made that led you to your current position?
(b) Why pursue an MBA at this point in your life?
(c) What is your career goal upon graduation from NYU Stern? What is your long-term career goal?
2: Your Stern Experience
(500 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)
We take great care to shape the Stern community with individuals who possess both intellectual and interpersonal strengths. We seek individuals who are highly intelligent, collaborative and committed to flourishing as Stern leaders. Please answer the following questions:
(a) What is your personal experience with the Stern community? Tell us what actions you have taken to learn about us.
(b) Describe what most excites you about Stern from both an academic and extracurricular perspective.
(c) How do you anticipate making your mark on the Stern community? Be specific about the roles you will take on and the impact you hope to achieve.
3: Personal Expression
Please describe yourself to your MBA classmates. You may use almost any method to convey your message (e.g. words, illustrations). Feel free to be creative.
Business Schools Start Focussing on Social Media
Aug 2nd
Last week, BusinessWeek reported that, B-schools are adding courses to teach students what it social media means for business. Harvard, Columbia, London Business School, INSEAD and HEC Paris are amongst the list of schools that have begun addressing the corporate demand for social-network-savvy employees. Given the popularity of social media networks, it is not surprising that employers are looking for these skills. Social media networks not only provide companies the opportunity to connect with their consumers, but also provide insight into what consumers are talking about – helping companies to understand their consumers better which in turn could impact future marketing strategies or new products.
Columbia Business School offers four Internet marketing courses, according to BusinessWeek’s article. Two of them, “Social Media,” taught by Rachel Sterne, CEO of GroundReport.com, and “Media and Technology,” taught by New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, will be offered for the first time next spring, according to professor Rajeev Kohli, chair of the Columbia marketing division.
Meanwhile at Harvard Business School, professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski introduced a second-year elective course, “Competing with Social Networks,” last fall and BusinessWeek says 172 students enrolled—three for every available seat.
INSEAD professor Andrew Stephen created the “Advertising and Social Media Strategy” course after joining the faculty in June 2009 to address what he saw as a need to train MBAs in non-traditional marketing techniques, says BusinessWeek. The two-month course made its debut in January of this year. “My feeling was that all the B-schools were lagging behind in preparing MBA students for dealing with the new media landscape,” he explains.
At LBS, students participate in the Google Online Marketing Challenge, running an online advertising campaign that will benefit a real business, according to the syllabus says. Student teams taking part in the challenge develop a strategy, assess the results of the campaign, and make recommendations for the company, according to the Google website.
CMU’s Tepper announces 2010-11 MBA Application Deadline
Aug 2nd
The Tepper School of Business at CMU has released its deadlines for the 2010-2011 MBA admissions season.
The deadlines are :
Round 1
Deadline: October 25, 2010
Notification: December 20, 2010
Round 2
Deadline: January 3, 2011
Notification: March 14, 2011
Round 3
Deadline: March 7, 2011
Notification: April 29, 2011
International applicants must apply by the Round 3 deadline
Round 4
Deadline: April 25, 2011
Notification: May 27, 2011
Round 4 deadline is reserved for U.S. citizens and permanent residents
Round 5
Deadline: June 1, 2011
Notification: Rolling
The Round 5 deadline is reserved for FlexTime and FlexMode candidates only
Michigan Ross now accpeting 3 year undergraduate degrees from India
Jul 26th
In the past, to apply to an MBA program at Michigan Ross mean that you required a 4 year undergraduate degree from India or a 3 year undergraduate degree and a masters degree.
Now, Michigan Ross has joined a long list of MBA programs that do accept a 3 year undergraduate degree from India – from August 2010 onwards.
Turning your summer internship into a permanent job offer
Jul 20th
Recently, the Dean of Darden blogged on the topic of turning your summer internship into a permanent job offer. Interestingly he focused in on the question of ‘fit’.
The blog started with this example:
“The recruiter tried to tell me why the MBA summer intern wasn’t given an offer of permanent employment: “She seemed to be technically proficient as did the other candidate. She was nice enough as a person. But we had two interns and were able to hire only one. The decision came down to “fit.” It wasn’t that she would have been a bad fit, but we just didn’t know her well enough to say that, in this tight employment environment, she would be a good fit. We knew what she could do; we just didn’t know who she was. The other candidate got the offer; there was less uncertainty about how well she would fit in.”
So what did he suggest you do to show that you fit in? I picked up some most interetsing questions he suggested you ask yourself and statements you try to make:
- Based on your summer internship, what seems to matter most to this firm and its competitors?
- What about who you are would be most relevant to the things that matter to this?
- Whom and what do you serve?
- What sense of purpose gets you up in the morning?
- Is there anything in the mission statement of your employer with which you especially identify?
- Whatever you decide to say, do not lose the opportunity to link who you are with the company you seek to join. Why is a job with this company consistent with where you’ve come from and who you are? It would help if there were some joy and enthusiasm in your closing.
Most importantly, he recommends you tell the truth and not try to morph yourself into what the company wants. Since most companies are looking for diversity, the fact that you think differently may well help you get that job.
To see the entire blog, go to http://www.darden.virginia.edu/html/DeansBlog.aspx
Cornell releases 2010-11 MBA Application Deadlines
Jul 20th
The Johnson School at Cornell University has released its MBA Application deadlines for the 2010-2011 admissions season. They are as follows:
Round 1
Deadline: October 5, 2010
Notification: December 21, 2010
Round 2
Deadline: November 9, 2010
Notification: February 15, 2011
Round 3
Deadline: January 4, 2011
Notification: March 22, 2011
Round 4
Deadline: March 22, 2011
Notification: April 21, 2011
