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Archive for 2007/04


Boston MBA Admissions Panel Wrap-Up

The Boston Business School Admissions Panel took place last week, with 4 top 10 programs in attendance – Harvard, MIT Sloan, Columbia, and Northwestern.
One of the interesting trends was that MIT Sloan joined Harvard in favoring applicants from undergraduates. MIT, like Harvard, will waive your application fee is you are still an undergraduate, and [...]

GMAT “Official Guide Stopwatch”

One of our students (a very bright guy from the McKinsey corporate class) last month described a common problem with studying for the GMAT. He wanted to sit down and do timed blocks of practice questions, but it was cumbersome for him to use a stopwatch and time each ‘lap’ or question precisely, particularly [...]

Veritas Prep vs. ManhattanGMAT

[note: this posting has been updated in August 2009 to reflect new information]
The biggest differences between Veritas and ManhattanGMAT are the Instructor hiring and training processes.
Veritas DOES NOT conduct an in-person audition with its prospective Instructors. Every other test prep company (including Kaplan and Princeton Review) at least sees teachers in action before [...]

Use of Official Guides for GMAT Review

Last week, I was speaking to a student at the beginning of a course, when she made a surprising comment. She mentioned that she had completed a Kaplan course, but was seeing the Official Guides for the first time with us. Even though many of our students are refugees from [...]