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Changes to Legal Education Round Up
This week’s law school admissions round up reflects turmoil in legal education. What has worked is no longer working. Law firms (and their clients) are demanding change, and the law schools may...
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College Admissions News Round Up
Last week we loaded you up on MBA admissions news; this week we’re all about undergraduate news. Here’s what’s been going on in the exciting world of college admissions: University of Pennsylvania’s...
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Selecting your high school courses: Is a B better than an A?
For many students, spring means time to look forward and select classes for the following fall. Each year, it presents the same question: “Should I take the AP (IB, honors, acc.) class and chance a B...
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GMAC Releases Results from 2010 Corporate Recruiters Survey
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveyed 2,367 employers about their experiences in recruiting and hiring business school graduates from top b-schools around the world. The goal of...
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New MBAs Offer Mixed Reviews on Job Market
A Wall Street Journal article, “State of the Job Market for M.B.A.s,” explores the ups and downs of the post-recession job search and how recent MBA grads are coping. While graduates from top business...
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Haas Reports Uptick in Class of 2010 Employment
Here is yet another article to suggest that the job market is finally, and slowly, improving. A Haas School Newsroom report shares the results its graduating class’s job statistics. Result highlights:...
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Mixed Reviews on College Grad Hiring Stats
Seems like every other day a new report is released stating that college grad hiring stats are positive…and then negative…and then positive—you get the picture. A recent Businessweek blog post argues...
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Money Talks: A College and MBA Admissions News Round Up
Here’s what’s going on in the world of college and MBA admissions…money-wise. Many b-school students will be returning to class this fall without having had the rosy summer internship experience they...
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MBA Applicants: What McKinsey (and HBS) Wants
They were looking for four things. I didn’t know until I’d made it to the third and last round of interviews, but McKinsey and Company, the strategy consulting firm perennially ranked among the top...
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American-Trained B-School Professors Wooed by Asia
Top Asian business schools are “courting” leading U.S. professors as part of their strategy to strengthen their programs’ credibility, reports a Wall Street Journal article, “Foreign Schools Target...
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Does an MBA Admissions Consultant need an MBA?
Last week, over a thank-you lunch with a lovely client, who got into 4 out of 5 schools to which he applied -including Harvard- his conversation turned to hiring an MBA consultant. “One of the main...
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Your MBA Goals Essay: Get Ready, Get Set, THINK!
It’s best to have some idea of what your goals are before you start working on your MBA application. Spend time with a notebook and pen (or a computer) and jot down possible topics that you’d be able...
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Why Recruiters Favor Large State Schools
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, “State universities have become the favorite of companies recruiting new hires because their big student populations and focus on teaching practical...
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MIT Sloan MBA Admissions: Interview with Rod Garcia
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Rod Garcia, Director of Admissions at the MIT Sloan School of Business. He was kind enough to provide an update on MIT Sloan admissions, and insight into...
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Irrelevance of Legal Education and What Can be Done
Many have been taking law schools to task due to the impracticality of their education, the latest being Georgetown University Law Center adjunct professor Brent Evan Newton, whose article, “Preaching...
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LL.M.s: How Valuable are They?
LL.M. degrees are on the rise. The number conferred by ABA-approved law schools increased by 65% from 1999 to 2009, according to The National Law Journal. However, it is unclear how beneficial these...
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MBA Admissions News Round Up
UVA Darden announced last week the launch of its new Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) program. The 20-month part-time program is designed for executives who are seeking to sharpen their skills in a global...
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Hiring Patterns in Legal Sector
We all know how the economy has hit the legal job market, but in an article from The Legal Intelligencer found on New York Lawyer, we can take a closer look at what law grads can expect when it comes...
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Study: Which MBAs Have the Highest Salaries, and Other Recent Trends
A recent survey on international recruiting trends was conducted by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The following findings were published in a New York Times article, “Bank Crisis Shifts Demand for MBA’s.”...
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MBA Hiring Trends
According to Nunzio Quacquarelli of QS Quacquarelli Symonds, MBA hiring is on the rise and will probably continue to grow. Quacquarelli is interviewed in a recent Businessweek article, “Global MBA Job...
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