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Created ten years ago, the renowned Access MBA Tour travels to 65 cities every year with a hundred international business schools. Access MBA gives selected candidates the chance to meet individually with admissions directors of top-tier MBA programs. MBA candidates have twenty minutes to convince admissions representatives of their strengths as a candidate as well as to determine which MBA program is the best for them.
Representatives of full-time, part-time and distance learning programs will be present at the sixth annual New York City One-to-One event taking place Wednesday, May 22nd 2013 from 4pm to 9:30pm at the Warwick New York Hotel.
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For the ninth year running, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Office of Full-Time Admissions will partner with the Chicago Women in Business Alumnae Network (CWIBAN) to host events in cities around the world for female prospective and newly admitted students. Women’s Week 2013 will take place from May 4th through 22nd, featuring a range of events from Los Angeles to New York to London to Shanghai.
The casual, informal events are designed to help female prospective applicants and newly admitted students learn from Chicago Booth current students and alumnae about what they have done to be successful at Booth and beyond.
“Depending on your city, some events are intimate, while others are quite large,” wrote Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Legler in a recent post on the Booth Insider Blog. “No matter the size or location, CWIBAN and Admissions plan these events each year to give you a chance to speak to a group of women who have been there, done that, and thrived both as Booth students and in their careers,” she continued.
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The QS World MBA Tour is scheduled to visit New York City this May. Designed by MBA graduates, the QS World Tour features free workshops led by experts and MBA alumni to help prospective applicants understand the differences among MBA programs and stand the best chance of getting into the business schools of their choice. During each event, attendees have the chance to meet face-to-face with admissions directors from top business schools around the world. Additional features of the QS World MBA Tour include: $1,200,000 (USD) of exclusive scholarships available for attendees, workshops designed
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Today and tomorrow, April 4th and 5th, Harvard Business School (HBS) is hosting a summit designed to help accelerate the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world.
Called the W50 Summit, the two-day event is part of a year-long celebration marking the 50th anniversary of women being admitted to the two-year MBA program.
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Later this week, students at Wharton | San Francisco, the West Coast campus of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, will host the Wharton San Francisco Social Impact Conference. The event, which will take place on April 4th, marks one of the first times students at the San Francisco campus have organized and run their own conference.
The event this week builds on an inaugural conference students organized last year jointly with the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, the Baker Retailing Center and the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership. “The half-day event was attended by more than 120 Wharton students, alumni and friends and was a great success,” wrote Raghavan Anand in a Wharton Magazine blog post. “So we decided to continue the tradition, except to organize and run it ourselves this time around,” he continued.
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‘Tis the season for MBA fairs and forums. Prospective MBA applicants are invited to register for the QS World MBA Tour, which will include 70 events in 39 countries beginning in September and continuing through November 2011.
Designed by MBA graduates, the QS World Tour features free workshops led by experts and alumni to help prospective applicants improve their admissions skills and stand the best chance of getting into the MBA programs of their choice.
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Admissions staff from top schools like Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania are circling the globe in the weeks ahead to meet prospective applicants in the countries where they live.
Next week, HBS will host MBA Admissions events in Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai* and Beijing. South American events, in Peru and Argentina, are scheduled for later in the summer, in July. These outreach events are designed to give prospective applicants an opportunity to meet representatives from the HBS community and learn more about the MBA program and the admissions process. Interested participants are asked to register online to attend upcoming events. For a full schedule, click here.
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Applying:
Berkeley / Haas,
Cornell / Johnson,
Duke / Fuqua,
HEC Paris,
London Business School,
NYU Stern
Intake Year: 2028
Pre-MBA Career: FPI Tax Advisory at Deloitte South Asia LLP
Post MBA Career:
Finance,
Asset Management,
Investment Banking
GMAT: 735
GPA: 3.17
Years of Work Experience: 4
Location: Mumbai
Notes:
Currently working at Big4 Tax Advisory for Foreign Portfolio and Institutional Investors. Have a low GPA but positive trajectory from 2.00 in Semester 1 to 3.73 in Semester 6 and a Finance Major GPA of 3.64. CFA L3 candidate, hopefully cleared by the time I join.
Profile handicaps also include a 3 year gap post graduation and had to repeat Year 1 in college due to failing a subject.
Applying:
Berkeley / Haas,
Columbia Business School,
Duke / Fuqua,
Northwestern / Kellogg,
UVA / Darden,
Yale SOM
Intake Year: 2027
Pre-MBA Career: Analytics Consulting
Post MBA Career:
Consulting,
Bain,
BCG,
McKinsey,
Management Consulting
GMAT: 725
GPA: 7.38
Years of Work Experience: 4
Location: Hyderabad, India
Notes:
4 YoE at matriculation. T1 Indian engineering college (Mech Eng.). Long term entrepreneurial goal building sports infrastructure and improving access to high quality training facilities and credible pathways to professional leagues. Played football (soccer) extensively through school and college as captain in school. Football community head in Hyderabad with around 60-70 members.
Applying:
Chicago Booth,
Columbia Business School,
Dartmouth / Tuck,
Duke / Fuqua,
Northwestern / Kellogg,
NYU Stern,
Penn / Wharton,
UVA / Darden
Intake Year: 2027
Pre-MBA Career: Medical device sales
Post MBA Career:
Finance,
Investment Banking
GPA: 3.3
Years of Work Experience: 4
Location: Boston
Post MBA Location: NYC
Notes:
-5 year Division I student athlete
-3x captain
-3.97 masters gpa (business analytics)
-undergrad major is sport management
-4 years at Fortune 500 med tech company (3 different positions)
-started a fund 5 years ago to help families affected by cancer in memory of my mom (plan annual events, present to 200+ people per event, allocate funds to event beneficiaries)
-targeting round 2
-Taking the GRE in Oct
Any advice on a range for a target GRE score and based on my profile do you think the 3.3 will hold me back from those top M7/T15 schools that I plan to apply to?
(I assume to help offset the 3.3, my GRE score will need to be pretty high)
