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Free Harvard Business School Guide !
The Clear Admit team knows that many of our readers are in the midst of finalizing their HBS applications as Tuesday’s first round deadline approaches. While we’re confident that our HBS essay topic analysis has been helpful and we know that you’re working hard, we wanted to make one more... Read more »
FREE Columbia School Guide – 24 Hours Only!
In honor of our new Admissions Counselor Erin Hale, who joins us after three years in the Columbia Business School admissions office, Clear Admit is excited to offer applicants one FREE school guide to Columbia Business School. Available for immediate download, each Clear Admit School Guide offers informative and detailed profiles of leading... Read more »
Clear Admit Welcomes New Admissions Counselor from Columbia Business School
Clear Admit this month welcomed a new Admissions Counselor to our team of experts. Erin Hale joins us from Columbia Business School (CBS), where she worked in admissions for three years as a member of both the recruitment and operations teams. Erin brings not only her in-depth knowledge of the CBS... Read more »
Yale School of Management Hosts Annual Pre-MBA Leadership Program
Yale School of Management (SOM) today kicked off its annual Pre-MBA Leadership Program, welcoming 59 students from 24 countries to its New Haven campus. Now in its fifth year, the two-week program targets second-, third- and fourth-year university students, as well as recent graduates, from under-represented minority populations. Two years... Read more »
Best of Blogging Awards 2013-2014 Timeline Announced
Another application cycle is rapidly drawing to a close, and summer is ahead of us. A good deal of clarity and news has been delivered to this year’s MBA applicant pool: interview invitations, admissions decisions, and, of course, the announcement of our annual Best of Blogging Awards (also known as... Read more »
Attend a FREE MBA Admissions Workshop
Thinking about applying to business school this fall? Get a head start by signing up for one of Clear Admit’s free MBA Admissions Workshops to hear from a seasoned expert in MBA admissions and get answers to your questions early on in the admissions process. Clear Admit will be hosting... Read more »
Stanford Graduate School of Business: MBA vs MSx
You know about the two-year, full-time MBA program at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). But did you know the school also offers a second masters degree focused on general management? Stanford’s MSx Program offers a Master of Science in Management degree, a one-year, full-time program geared toward experienced... Read more »
Which Top U.S. Business School Are You?
Trying to decide which MBA program is your best match? Whether you’ve already been accepted or are just now starting to make a list of target programs, today Clear Admit is releasing a groundbreaking new MBA tool. Take our quiz to see which leading U.S. business school is the best... Read more »
Last Chance to Win $500 by taking the MBA Applicant Survey!
Help the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) to improve the MBA admissions process by filling out this year’s AIGAC survey and be entered to win $500! Since you’ve experienced the MBA admissions process first hand, your insight and perspective is very valuable to the AIGAC community! The process works like... Read more »
Get a FREE School Guide by taking the Clear Admit Survey!
Spend only 5 minutes to complete the Clear Admit Survey and get a free Clear Admit School Guide! Choose from 27 different Clear Admit School Guides, which offer informative and detailed profiles of leading business schools that combine the views of admissions officers, faculty, students, alumni and the popular press. The School Guides are... Read more »
Inaugural Class Graduates from University of Michigan’s Master’s Degree Program in Entrepreneurship
The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, together with its College of Engineering, awarded its first master’s degrees in entrepreneurship last week, the university announced. Degrees were conferred upon 17 students as part of the joint program, which draws upon the strengths of both schools to help students transform... Read more »
Fill Out AIGAC’s MBA Applicant Survey, Three Respondents Win $100 Each
Business school applicants turn to Clear Admit as a source of reliable information and valuable advice on the MBA admissions process. As Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) members, we are conducting a survey to help us better understand our readers’ goals and needs. To facilitate this, we created... Read more »
Columbia Business School Launches New Website for Current and Future Students, Alumni
Columbia Business School (CBS) this week launched Notes to the Next Class, a new online space where current and past students can share their experience with future CBS classes through photos, videos, advice and more. The website is organized into sections corresponding to major milestones CBS students will experience in... Read more »
Tips for Telling Your Boss You’re Headed to Business School
For those happy applicants who now hold acceptance letters from their target business schools, there still may be important work ahead: namely, breaking the news to your current employer. In a post to the Forté Foundation’s Virtual Campus website, a Forté Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of... Read more »