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UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 3 / 2nd-Year / On-Campus
The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! Group interview to begin. 10-15 minutes one-on-one with a 2nd year after, asking three questions: How do you think the group exercise went? Did your performance accurately reflect your leadership style... Read more »
Fridays from the Frontline: MBA Mama and Stanford GSB Student Valerie Rivera
This week’s Friday from the Frontline comes to us via our content partner, MBA Mama, an online platform designed to share the stories of women successfully navigating both motherhood and the MBA. As its January Mama of the Month (MotM), MBA Mama featured second-year Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB)... Read more »
USC Marshall Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following USC Marshall MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! My interviewer asked basic questions. No questions were unexpected and the atmosphere was very relaxed. I provided a copy of my résumé. She asked: Tell me about yourself Why an MBA, why now?... Read more »
USC Marshall Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus
The following USC Marshall MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! Overall the interview was very relaxed. I was able to interview on-campus with a member of the Adcom. The interviewer told me he had reviewed my application and had my résumé with him... Read more »
Five Tips for Keeping Love Alive in Business School
Republished from last year, the tips in this post seem as useful to us now as they did then. Enjoy—and Happy Valentine’s Day from Clear Admit! As any business school student will tell you, the pressures of a top-tier MBA program can be overwhelming. And as anyone who’s been in a... Read more »
Fridays from the Frontline: From Herat to Haas, An Afghan Student’s Journey
Today’s Friday from the Frontline is a bit of a departure from our usual practice of sharing first-person accounts—but the story of Sal Parsa on the Berkeley Haas blog so captivated us that we wanted to make sure the Clear Admit audience didn’t miss it. Below, learn how Parsa went... Read more »
If at First You Don’t Succeed…You May End Up Stronger for It, Says Columbia Professor
Who knew there was an “intelligent way of failing”? According to Columbia Business School Professor Rita McGrath, there is indeed—and put into practice it can actually make organizations stronger. McGrath, a leading expert on strategy and disruption, outlined four key principles to intelligent failure in a recent video on the... Read more »
Stanford Ignite Program Celebrates 10 Years, With No Signs of Slowing
The final weeks in December for many mean last-minute gift shopping, overindulgence with friends and family, a winding down of work and the culmination of another year. All of that may well have been afoot at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last month, but so, too, was a celebration... Read more »
Johnson Welcomes Vets as Part of Annual Military Preview Event
With an ever-increasing enrollment of military veterans at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, the school recently welcomed a new group of distinguished prospective applicants on campus. Johnson hosted 30 military veterans last month, part of its annual Military Preview event held each year on or... Read more »
Top 10 MBA LiveWire Threads of 2016
As the new year approaches, those of us here at Clear Admit can’t seem to resist getting on the “Best of 2016” list bandwagon. Forgive us! Looking back on the year, we thought we’d take this opportunity to highlight some of the best conversations that have ensued between applicants on... Read more »
UPenn / Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub – London
The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I arrived 15 minutes prior to the scheduled team-based discussion. Met with the fellow prospective students who are part of my team-based exercise. We were six prospective students coming from various backgrounds. The atmosphere was... Read more »
Jones Veterans in Business Association Aids MBA Transition
The Rice University—Jones Graduate School of Business (Rice Business) recently highlighted its Veterans in Business Association (VIBA)—a unique student club that works to increase the number of veterans in Rice Business’s MBA program and bring a national awareness to their efforts—as part of a feature article in Rice Magazine. VIBA was founded in... Read more »
MBA Admissions Mashup: Veterans Day 2016
Every Wednesday, we share a round-up of the latest news from MBA admissions blogs at the top business schools. Since last week was Veterans Day, we’ve pulled together military-related posts from the past week. At Dartmouth / Tuck, veterans participated in an eight-person panel, fielding questions from the audience. Questions... Read more »
Wharton Observes Veterans Day by Honoring Its Women Warriors
To commemorate Veterans Day, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School yesterday held a “Spotlight on Female Wharton Warriors” panel, part of a week of events recognizing the former military service members who are part of the Wharton community. Wharton MBA students Meredith Sandberg and Sophie Hilaire joined other women vets... Read more »
From Mosul to an MBA: Veteran Kyle Shelato’s Path to Cornell’s Johnson School
Kyle Shelato came to Lehigh University as an undergraduate with a single-minded focus. “I am interested in being an Apache helicopter pilot—how can I do that?” he asked as soon as he arrived on campus. For him, the answer involved participation in ROTC throughout college while also pursuing dual degrees in... Read more »
