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 will consider deferment. See MIT Sloan’s website for more details. (Click here for the past blog posting on Harvard’s similar policy).
It should be noted that this is still somewhat unusual among top schools. The admissions officer from Northwestern/Kellogg commented that they did NOT consider undergraduate applicants, as they require some work experience after college for successful applicants.
Another interesting fact from MIT Sloan - the admissions office emphasizes the recent experience of its applicants more heavily (i.e. what you’ve been doing the past 2 years) than what applicants did earlier in time in making its decisions.
More info to come from the business school panel later in the week.