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Patty’s Path to Wharton: Staying Sane While Waiting To Hear Back (Part 8 of 8)

Tom Williams —  December 6, 2011 — 5 Comments

Patty at WhartonThis is part 8 of a series featuring b-school advice gleaned from one of Manhattan GMAT’s own. Until recently, Patty managed marketing and student services for our sister company, Manhattan LSAT. But she chose to return to business school and started at Wharton last fall. She has agreed to share her application experiences with us in a series called, “Patty’s Path to Wharton.” Read Part 7 here.

Today, we talk to Patty about the dreaded waiting period. “The process was agonizing, because you have nothing else to do,” she says.

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Jeremy Shinewald Talks About the Admissions Process

cclay —  October 5, 2011 — 4 Comments

Jeremy Shinewald, the founder and president of our partners over at mbaMission, was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about the MBA application process. In this interview, he talks about the value of the application essay, what is so special about those top few schools, and why the GMAT is only one important part of the whole application process.

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mbaMission’s Exclusive Interview with University of Pennsylvania – Wharton Director of Admissions Ankur Kumar

cclay —  September 21, 2011 — 7 Comments

Ankur Kumar, Wharton Director of AdmissionsThis post appears in its entirety on the mbaMission blog.

Recently,  mbaMission was fortunate enough to speak with Ankur Kumar, the new director of admissions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Here are some highlights from our conversation, followed by the full transcript below.

  • During the upcoming admissions cycle, Wharton plans to pilot a group interview exercise, which could become a mandatory application component in the future.
  • Students often see class profiles as a set of preferences, but they only reveal the industries that students came from immediately prior to business school; industry experience is much deeper than it may appear.
  • Wharton is seeking quality experience, not a target age or number of years of work experience.

mbaMission: So my first question is, Wharton kind of caused a stir when it switched to behavioral interviews last year, and I was curious why the change was made and what Wharton was trying to learn that it maybe couldn’t learn from its previous process.

Read the rest of the interview here.

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Exclusive Interview with Chicago Booth Dean

cclay —  April 27, 2011 — 6 Comments

Our friends at mbaMission have interviewed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Associate Dean for Student Recruitment and Admissions Kurt Ahlm. Read the highlights below and find the full post here.

Here are some highlights from the interview:

  • Chicago Booth does not employ any quotas in its application review process but looks to enroll a diverse, smart group of students who fit well with the school’s values and culture.
  • Ahlm discusses how an application is reviewed at Chicago Booth.
  • Chicago Booth interviews 40%–50% of applicants, though depending on the strength of the applicant pool, the percentage can vary from year to year.

You can find the full interview transcript here.

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Admissions Myths Destroyed: I Did Not Go to an Ivy!

cclay —  May 4, 2010 — Leave a comment

Our partners over at mbaMission recently wrote a post about what it takes – and doesn’t take – to get into a good business school.  Based on data released by top business schools like HBS and Stanford, many would be surprised to find that graduating from a non-Ivy school  does not decrease their chances of acceptance.  As Jeremy Shinewald puts it:

The admissions committees are more interested in your performance – academic, professional, volunteer, personal – than your pedigree. Further, the admissions committee is interested in diversity. We don’t feel that we are going out on a limb stating that Wharton does not want and cannot have a class of 850 UPenn undergrads, because they simply want the best potential business leaders out there and thus must jump into a much deeper pool.

You can read the full post here.

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