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GMAT Tips: Identifying the Conclusion in Critical Reasoning
Today’s GMAT tip comes to us from Veritas Prep. In today’s blog post, they provide helpful tips on how to identify the conclusion in a Critical Reasoning questions. Read on to see what they have to say! On the GMAT, Critical Reasoning questions often ask you to strengthen a conclusion, weaken... Read more »
GMAT Tips: The Two Biggest Mistakes GMAT Studiers Make
Today’s GMAT tip comes from test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. In this article, they provide helpful information on mistakes to avoid when studying for the GMAT. Read on to see what they have to say! Recently, a new student asked me what he could do to get the most out of our... Read more »
GMAT Tips: Preparing for a Computer-Adaptive Test
Today’s GMAT tip comes to us from Veritas Prep. In today’s blog post, they discuss ways to prepare for the computer-adaptive nature of the GMAT. Read on to see what they have to say! If you have spent more than a few minutes researching the GMAT, you know that it’s a... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Hima Badu of the Indian School of Business
Hima Badu oversees admissions and financial aid for the Indian School of Business (ISB), which has campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali. Badu has a background in English literature and a master in management and worked for a marketing agency before joining ISB. In the interview that follows, she shares some... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Sherry Wallace of the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School
Our 2014 Admissions Director Q&A with Kenan-Flagler's Sherry Wallace is now available. Sherry Wallace, director of MBA admissions at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, told us that she wants to make the admissions process as transparent as possible. “There is no advantage to us in our... Read more »
GMAT Tips – Sample Problem: Critical Reasoning, Bolded Statement Question
Today’s GMAT Tip comes to us from Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan GMAT instructor Bret Ruber explains how to tackle a Critical Reasoning question involving bolded statements: The practice GMAT problem below is an example of a Critical Reasoning bolded statement question. On bolded statement questions with two separate bold statements,... Read more »
Clear Admit Co-Founder Graham Richmond Contributes to Wall Street Journal Article on MIT Sloan’s Oversubscribed Incoming Class
The Wall Street Journal consulted Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond as part of an article today about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Sloan School of Management, which has given scholarships to a handful of students scheduled to enter this fall in exchange for their agreeing to defer for a... Read more »
Clear Admit’s Stacey Oyler Featured in Article on Harvard Business School’s Application Changes
Marking yesterday’s round one application deadline at Harvard Business School (HBS), Poets&Quants today ran an article asking admissions consultants how the applicants they worked with on this year’s application to HBS felt about the school’s move to reduce its required essays from four to two. According to the P&Q report,... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: IESE’s Itziar de Ros
Itziar de Ros is MBA admissions director and president of the MBA Admissions Committee at IESE in Barcelona, Spain, where she herself obtained an MBA in 2006. After working as a marketing and sales consultant at DuPont, de Ros returned to IESE in 2007, holding roles in admissions, marketing and... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Rodrigo Malta of the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business
Our 2014 interview with McCombs' Rodrigo Malta is available now. Rodrigo Malta, a native of Brazil, moved to the United States for high school and college and ultimately graduated from the McCombs full-time MBA program in 2007. While a student at McCombs, he was highly involved in admissions activities, and... Read more »
GMAT Tips: How to Analyze an IR Two-Part Question
Today’s GMAT tip comes from test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. In this article, they provide helpful information on analyzing a two-part Integrated Reasoning question. Read on to see what they have to say! This is the latest in a series of “How To Analyze” articles that began with the general “How To... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Katelyn Rosa Stephenson of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University
We were lucky enough to catch Katelyn Rosa Stephenson just weeks into her role as interim assistant dean and director of MBA admissions at the McDonough School of Business. But though she is new to heading up admissions, she is not new to McDonough. She joined the admissions staff in March... Read more »
Clear Admit’s Stacey Oyler Featured in Article on Business School Admissions Staffers Turned Admissions Consultants
Stacey Oyler, a senior admissions counselor here at Clear Admit who came to us from the admissions office at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, was recently featured prominently in a Poets&Quants article about that very topic – namely, former admissions committee members at top MBA programs who become admissions consultants... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Stephan Chambers of the Saïd Business School at Oxford University
Over the past decade plus, Stephan Chambers, the current MBA director at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, has gotten to watch the school grow from about 50 students to more than 200 and from nowhere in the rankings to the top 20 in the world. Chambers, who is also the... Read more »
GMAT Tips – GMAT Sentence Correction Question Type: Modifiers
Today’s GMAT Tip comes to us from Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan GMAT instructor Bret Ruber provides helpful advice on answering Sentence Correction questions with modification errors: Of all of the common errors that appear in the sentence correction portion of the GMAT, modifiers are usually the last type for... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: James Frick of the Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon University
James Frick calls himself a lifer at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. “I have been at Tepper since 1998," he says "Scary! How did that happen?” Frick began on the program side, which means that for his first five years there his function was much more working with... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Megan Lynam of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
In our most recent interview as part of our continuing Admissions Director Q&A Series, we got to know Megan Lynam, the director of admissions for MBA and MMS programs at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Lynam is no stranger to Fuqua. She earned her MBA there in 2003 and... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Megan Lynam of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
In our most recent interview as part of our continuing Admissions Director Q&A Series, we got to know Megan Lynam, the director of admissions for MBA and MMS programs at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Lynam is no stranger to Fuqua. She earned her MBA there in 2003 and... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Christine Sneva of Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Christine Sneva has been director of admissions at Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson School of Management since May 2011 and spent several years before that directing the school’s International Academic Exchange Program. There are a lot of interesting things happening right now at Johnson, she tells us. Not the least of... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Christine Sneva of Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Christine Sneva has been director of admissions at Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson School of Management since May 2011 and spent several years before that directing the school’s International Academic Exchange Program. There are a lot of interesting things happening right now at Johnson, she tells us. Not the least of... Read more »
