Lena Maratea
GMAT Tip: Completing the Critical Reasoning Blank
While strengthen, weaken, and inference questions tend to make up the bulk of GMAT Critical Reasoning questions, another question Critical Reasoning type that appears often is those that require completing the blank, following the prompt: Which of the following most logically completes the argument below? These question types are asking you to figure out what makes sense, typically as part of a plan of action based upon data, surveys, or other kinds of feedback. Let’s take a look at a sample problem below: Which of the following most logically completes the argument below? NowNews, although still the most popular magazine... Read more »
Waiting on a Wharton R1 Interview Invitation? Join the Clear Admit MBA Chat!
If you’re waiting on a Round 1 interview invitation from UPenn / Wharton join the conversation here with your peers: UPenn / Wharton Enjoy and good luck!
Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview, Part IV
The following is the final part of our four-part interview series, which we first published three years ago, and are reintroducing again this season. We’ve tackled open versus invitation-only, blind versus non-blind and the newer team-based discussion interview. MBA Admissions Interviews: What’s left to discuss? In this, our final post in our MBA admissions interview series, we’re going to take a closer look at a few of the anomalies in the interview arena—special approaches thus far embraced by just one or two schools. Of course, the team-based discussion was itself an anomaly not so many years ago, so these could also be harbingers of... Read more »
The Week Ahead: MBA Deadlines & Decisions – 10.29.18
Welcome back to the series, The Week Ahead. In this weekly series, we provide a brief rundown of what we know is happening in the week ahead, as far as admissions related MBA deadlines and decisions are concerned at the top business schools. Last week Michigan / Ross released its Round 1 interview invites, MIT / Sloan released its first batch of invites, as reported on LiveWire. Other programs, including UCLA Anderson, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck and Northwestern Kellogg, also released some Round 1 interview invites, on a rolling basis. Tuesday, October 30, UPenn / Wharton is scheduled to release its Round... Read more »
Waiting on a Michigan / Ross R1 Interview Invitation? Join the Clear Admit MBA Chat!
If you’re waiting on a Round 1 interview invitation from Michigan / Ross join the conversation here with your peers: Michigan / Ross Enjoy and good luck!
Waiting on a Michigan / Ross or MIT Sloan Interview Invitation? Join the Clear Admit MBA Chat!
If you’re waiting on a Round 1 interview invitation from Michigan / Ross or MIT Sloan join the conversation here with your peers: MIT Sloan Michigan / Ross The first batch of MIT Sloan interview invitations will go out by the end of the day! The rest will go out Nov. 1st and 2nd. The Sloan admissions team asks to please note that invitations are not sent in any preferential order. Enjoy and good luck!
GMAT Tip: Quantitative Intimidation
The biggest challenge that we hear from students is not necessarily how to factor algebra questions or solve for the area of a circle, but rather, even being able to figure out the first step in solving a data sufficiency or problem solving question. Once that first step is determined, the next steps fall into place, and for some test takers, from there it is just a matter of efficiency. But, how really do we figure out that very first step? In today’s post we’ll start with one huge helpful tip: Start by writing out what you know. Dissecting a... Read more »
Waiting on an Interview Invitation? Tune into Clear Admit’s LiveWire and MBA Chats
Since we know some of you may be waiting anxiously in the next few weeks for interview invitations, we wanted to remind you about two key resources that can help you through this busy—and often stressful—time: MBA LiveWire: Live reports from real candidates throughout the admissions process. Find the profiles of other applicants who applied to your target schools. Get live updates of those who have received an interview invitation or an admissions decision. Sort by school, admissions round, and the status of each entry to find the information you’re looking for. MBA Chats: Chat rooms dedicated to the top schools below, in which you can connect with... Read more »
Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview, Part III
In this, our third installment of our interview series, which we first launched three years ago and are reproducing for this season, we’ll take a closer look at one of the more recent interview permutations—the group interview or team-based discussion. You can view the first two parts of this interview series here: open interviews versus interview invites and blind interviews versus non-blind interviews. What Is the Team-Based Discussion? A few years ago, the admissions office at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School partnered with the Wharton Innovation group to launch a new evaluation method, the team-based discussion (TBD). As its name suggests, as part of... Read more »
The Week Ahead: MBA Deadlines & Decisions – 10.22.18
Welcome back to the series, The Week Ahead. In this weekly series, we provide a brief rundown of what we know is happening in the week ahead, as far as admissions related MBA deadlines and decisions are concerned at the top business schools. Last week Chicago / Booth released its Round 1 interview invites, Duke / Fuqua and UVA / Darden released their Early Action Round decisions, as reported on LiveWire. Other programs, including UCLA Anderson, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck and Northwestern Kellogg, also released some Round 1 interview invites. Monday, October 22, Forte Foundation has its MBA Launch Round 3 deadline.... Read more »
Waiting on a Duke / Fuqua Early Action Decision? Join the Clear Admit MBA Chat!
Waiting on a Duke / Fuqua Early Action Decision? join the conversation here with your peers: Duke / Fuqua Enjoy and good luck!
Waiting on a Chicago / Booth R1 Interview Invite? Join the Clear Admit MBA Chat!
Recent activity on MBA LiveWire suggests an initial wave of Chicago / Booth interview invites are on their way out! If you’re waiting on a Round 1 interview invitation from Chicago / Booth join the conversation here with your peers: Chicago / Booth Enjoy and good luck!
Waiting on a UT Austin / McCombs R1 Interview Invitation? Join the Clear Admit MBA Chat!
Recent activity on MBA LiveWire suggests a wave of UT Austin / McCombs R1 interview invitations are on their way out! If you’re waiting on a Round 1 interview invitation from UT Austin / McCombs join the conversation here with your peers: UT Austin / McCombs Enjoy and good luck!
GMAT Tip: Scan for the Obvious
One of the biggest differences between 500/600 and 700+ test takers is the ability to get around feeling like, at first pass, you have no idea how to answer a test question. Smart test takers recognize that the best place to uncover clues on how to answer a challenging question is to scan the answer choices. A trend you may have noticed from previous posts is – and we’ll say it again! – the GMAT is not really testing your ability to do math or understand complex grammar rules, but rather, how you critically think and reason. This is why... Read more »
Waiting on a Stanford GSB R1 Interview Invite? Join the Clear Admit MBA Chat!
Data from last year on MBA LiveWire suggests an initial wave of invites may be forthcoming later this week! If you’re waiting on a Round 1 interview invitation from Stanford GSB join the conversation here with your peers: Stanford GSB Enjoy and good luck!
The Week Ahead: MBA Deadlines & Decisions – 10.15.18
Welcome back to the series, The Week Ahead. In this weekly series, we provide a brief rundown of what we know is happening in the week ahead, as far as admissions related MBA deadlines and decisions are concerned at the top business schools. Last week LBS released its Round 1 interview invites, as reported on LiveWire. Other programs, including UCLA Anderson, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck and Northwestern Kellogg, also released some Round 1 interview invites. Other schools continue with their Round 1 application deadlines, while a few MBA programs are releasing their final decisions for their early rounds. Monday, October 15, NYU... Read more »
Waiting on a London Business School R1 Interview Invite? Join the Clear Admit MBA Chat!
Waiting on a Round 1 interview invitation from London Business School? You can join the conversation here: London Business School Enjoy and good luck!
GMAT Tip: Focus on Sentence Corrections
GMAT test takers tend to get really focused on the quantitative section. Somehow, it seems like that in order to score a 700+ on the GMAT, we must work on endless amounts of algebra and geometry concepts, coupled with hundreds of problem solving and data sufficiency questions. The verbal section must be easier right? You scored a 54% in quantitative and a 43% in verbal, but you were just not having a great grammar day, right? Not necessarily. The vast majority of GMAT students overlook the obvious and, often, more attainable question types – particularly sentence correction. In some instances,... Read more »
The MBA Interview Archive: Your Go-To Resource for Round 1 Interviews
To help guide those who will soon be happily on their way to an MBA interview, we wanted to highlight our MBA Interview Archive. For the unfamiliar, Clear Admit’s MBA Interview Archive is a repository of first-hand accounts shared directly by MBA applicants after they have interviewed with one or more of their target top-tier business schools. Easy to sort by round or school, the Interview Archive was developed with applicants’ needs in mind. And the details shared in these reports—from the types of questions to expect to what the applicant would do differently if they had to do it over—provide invaluable information to future... Read more »
LIMITED TIME: Add to MBA VisitWire & enter to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card!
Have you visited a top MBA program? Last month we announced the launch of our newest applicant resource, Clear Admit’s MBA VisitWire, an admissions tool designed to help MBA candidates learn more about their target schools by reading about the campus visit experiences of others. We were so thrilled to have had many early users help us introduce the tool by sharing tips for fellow applicants planning visits that we’ve decided to reward one of them by putting all entry numbers into a randomizer and… (drum roll, please), the winner is.. Congrats to this MBA candidate who visited London Business School, shared their... Read more »
