Archive for 2011/05


Relationships in Business School

The two authors of Case Studies and Cocktails, Chris Ryan and Carrie Shuchart, were recently interviewed on The MBA Show. See what they have to say below about dating, relationships, sex, and b-school jargon: Share this:

Take a Practice AWA and Earn Yourself $30

If you want a little extra practice with your Analytical Writing Essays, we’ve just come across a great resource for you. The GMAC is hosting a survey that includes having participants write out two essays. If you are studying for the GMAT, this gives you a great chance to see more sample essay questions as [...]

Columbia University (Columbia Business School) Essay Analysis, 2011–2012

This post orignally appeared on the mbaMission blog. Read the introduction below and find the full post here. Columbia Business School (CBS) whittled its essay questions from four to three to two over the past five years but is now back to posing three essay questions. Maybe the school’s admissions committee felt that, with just [...]

From The Bench To B-School: A Scientist’s Road To Enrollment (Part I)

by Jonathan McEuen, guest blogger Jonathan McEueun is a Manhattan GMAT grad who is off to Wharton this fall. We asked him to share his application process with us. What follows is Part 1 of 5 posts in a series about his experiences. We hope it gives those of you who are going down a [...]

Evaluating Your Practice Tests

Practice tests are an invaluable component of any test-taker’s study plan, but the most valuable thing is actually not the act of taking the practice test. Just taking a test doesn’t help us to improve all that much. While taking a test, we are concentrating on doing (using everything we’ve learned up to that point); [...]