Archive for 2008


SixFigureStart Free Coaching Call

Our friends at SixFigureStart, a career coaching firm, will be holding a free coaching teleclass this coming Friday, December 19th, from 12 noon – 12:45 p.m. EST. The topic, apropos for the time, will be “How to Effectively Handle a Job Layoff & Move Forward.” SixFigureStart co-founders Connie Thanasoulis and Caroline Ceniza-Levine will co-lead: If [...]

3rd Edition Strategy Guides – 1 month out

Our 3rd Edition Strategy Guides have been out for about a month now, and the feedback has been tremendously positive. Most of the feedback has centered on the obvious additions (e.g. advanced chapters of math content, new idiom list), which have been welcome to many students. At the same time, we’re very conscious of the [...]

What Business School Admissions Officers are Saying

ManhattanGMAT was fortunate enough to host several Admissions Officers from top business school programs earlier this month in our New York center.  The panel featured: NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Heather Daly, Senior Associate Director of MBA Admissions THE WHARTON SCHOOL Ainsley Parker, Associate Director in the Office of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid KELLOGG [...]

Accepted.com telethon Nov. 19th

If you are applying for Round 2 or later for Fall 2009 (or thereafter) and have questions about applying, we’ve got some good news: our friends at Accepted.com are holding a telethon during which you can talk to an admissions consultant for FREE. Go to the telethon page on Accepted.com for more info and to [...]

Washington Post article

A recent Washington Post article heavily referenced ManhattanGMAT, and even included a snippet of video from our Washington D.C. location. If you squint, you can see a couple of ManhattanGMAT Instructors, and our Strategy Guides make a star turn. :) The article itself discusses more generally how it’s a very competitive landscape out there as [...]

Bschool Admissions Panel in New York on November 6th

We are very proud to announce that ManhattanGMAT’s New York office will host an Admissions Panel next week consisting of Admissions officers from 3 of the world’s top business schools. Ainsley Parker, Associate Director of MBA Admissions at Wharton, Yhana Chavis, Assistant Director of Admissions at Kellogg, and Heather Daly, Senior Associate Director of MBA [...]

The 3rd Edition ManhattanGMAT Strategy Guides have arrived!

After months of work, the 3rd Edition Strategy Guides have landed! The new guides include 200+ new pages of material spread over 8 books. We’re always trying to offer the most sophisticated and thorough preparation materials around, and these books reflect hundreds of hours of development work by some of our best Instructors. If you [...]

“The 2nd round is still okay” according to many top Bschools

As this year is something of an unusual year, many applicants might think that the current uptick in applications has upset the customary dynamic that the 2nd round is just as good as the 1st. To address this concern, Jeremy Shinewald, founder of MBA Mission, did a little bit of one-on-one with the horses’ mouths [...]