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Published: November 9, 2014

U.S. GMAT Percentile Scores Drop as Asia-Pacific Test Takers Dominate Quant Section

Increasing numbers of prospective business school applicants from Asia-Pacific countries such as India and China are taking the GMAT and outperforming U.S. students on the quantitative portion of the exam, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. As a result, though U.S. students’ raw scores have remained consistent over the past several years, their percentile ranking has slipped as more higher-scoring international applicants take the exam. The lower percentile rankings can seem to suggest that U.S. student aptitude is declining, GMAC CEO Sangeet Chowfla told the Journal. Ten years ago, a raw score of 48 on the quantitative section (for which scores typically range between 0 and 51) would have yielded a ranking in the 86th percentile, whereas today the same raw score places a test-taker in just the 74th percentile. Read more

Published: November 4, 2014

Stanford Graduate School of Business to Launch New Ignite NYC Program

Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) is taking its Ignite program for innovators to the Big Apple, the school announced recently. It will launch its New York-based Stanford Ignite program in March 2015. The nine-week, part-time program – aimed at participants with strong scientific, medical or technical backgrounds who don’t have advanced business degrees – was developed to help teach innovators how get their ideas to market. The New York program is one of six Ignite programs now offered in cities around the world to help expand access to Silicon Valley and Stanford’s entrepreneurship and management education. Read more

Published: November 3, 2014

Columbia Business School to Offer “StreetWise ‘MBA’” Curriculum for Small Neighborhood Businesses

The Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center at Columbia Business School (CBS) this winter will unveil a new “StreetWise ‘MBA’” curriculum designed to help neighborhood small businesses grow. The curriculum will cover topics including financial management, marketing and sales, human resources tactics, business strategy development and access to capital and new contracts. The new program is supported by Citi Community Development, a division of global bank Citi, and uses a curriculum created by Interise, a nonprofit committed to helping underserved small businesses scale. Already in use in 36 other communities across the nation, the StreetWise MBA curriculum allows small business owners to focus on their own operations rather than study other businesses, in contrast to many other continuing education programs. Read more

Published: November 2, 2014

Wharton MBA Class of 2014 Career Report Reveals Record Job Offers

A whopping 98.2 percent of Wharton MBA Class of 2014 students seeking employment received full-time offers, according to a career report released today by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. That’s an improvement over last year’s 97.8 percent, which was itself the best number the school had seen in more than 10 years. Read more

Published: October 30, 2014

Stanford Graduate School of Business Calls It Quits for MBA Admission Blog

Don’t look for future posts on the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) MBA Admissions Blog. In a final entry earlier this week, the school announced that it was saying goodbye to its blog. All prior blog content will remain accessible through mid-December, after which prospective applicants will need to keep up with news and developments regarding Stanford MBA admissions via other means. “Our blog has begun to resemble a Tesla at a gas station,” wrote admissions staffer Victoria Hendel De La O as part of a final post on October 29th. She attributed the decline of the blog to the school’s increasing reliance on other forms of social media to communicate updates. Indeed, posts to the Stanford MBA Admissions blog have grown increasingly infrequent over the past year – with the last post going up back in June. Read more

Published: October 29, 2014

Dean’s Speaker Series Draws Janet Napolitano, Biz Stone to UC Berkeley’s Haas School

Two big names will visit the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley next week to address MBA students as part of the school’s Dean’s Speaker Series. Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California system and the former United States Secretary of Homeland Security, will share leadership lessons on November 4th, and Biz Stone, co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries and co-founder of Twitter, will talk about his experiences on November 6th. Speaking on Election Day, Napolitano is scheduled to answer questions about the political climate in both California and the nation as a whole. She will also address the challenge of getting more young people involved in politics and public service, as well as her own leadership approach, her experiences as a female in leadership and more. Read more

Published: October 28, 2014

Stanford Graduate School of Business Launches New International Policy and Business Dual-Degree Program

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) has partnered with the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences to offer a new dual MA/MBA program for students who wish to study international policy and business, the schools announced this week. Interested candidates may apply to the new program beginning this fall. Students who complete the three-year program will be awarded two degrees, an MBA from Stanford GSB and an MA from the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies (IPS) at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Read more

Published: October 26, 2014

IMD, Tuck School of Business Launch Joint Executive Education Program in Leadership

Switzerland’s IMD and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth earlier this month announced a new collaboration designed to help global organizations develop leadership skills among their management. The Transition to Business Leadership (TBL) executive education program, launched earlier this year by IMD, will be offered in two modules alternating between the two schools, beginning in spring 2015. The program is designed to help prepare experienced functional managers at leading global organizations develop necessary skills and expertise to shift into business leadership positions. Participating executives will examine the challenges and pitfalls that go hand in hand with transitioning into a leadership role. Read more

Published: October 23, 2014

UPenn’s Wharton School to Send Round 1 Interview Invitations October 31st

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School will send invitations to interview out to Round 1 applicants on Friday, October 31st, according to a recent post on the school’s MBA Admissions Blog. Applicants who snag one of these coveted interview spots will have an opportunity to take part in Wharton’s Team-Based Discussion interviews in a range locations around the globe. For Round 1, off-campus interviews will be held in Dubai, London, Mumbai, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. Candidates can also, of course, choose to interview on campus in Philadelphia. “All invited candidates are encouraged to interview on-campus or in the off-campus location that is most convenient for you,” the MBA Admissions Team wrote on its blog. Read more

Published: October 22, 2014

U.S. News & World Report Ranks Business Schools by Graduates’ Indebtedness

Rankings of graduate management education programs abound, each with their own particular criteria for assessing which business schools ultimately come out on top. Separate from its overall business school rankings, U.S. News & World Report recently used data collected from schools to determine the top 10 programs from which MBA students graduate with the most debt. The number one spot goes to Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where full-time MBA students from the 2013 class who borrowed for business school had an average indebtedness of $108,186. Fuqua’s full-time MBA students had more debt than any of the other 86 ranked institutions, according to data submitted to U.S. News. Read more

Published: October 21, 2014

Majority of Business Schools Now Accept GRE, But More Applicants Stick with GMAT

A whopping 85 percent of U.S. business schools now accept the GRE as an admissions test alternative to the GMAT, according to a 2014 survey by Kaplan Test Prep. That’s up from only 24 percent of business schools who said they accepted the GRE in 2009, when Kaplan first began tracking the issue. GRE acceptance by business schools has been growing steadily year over year, Kaplan reports. But even as more schools report accepting scores from the GRE, most MBA applicants are still choosing to submit scores from the more traditional GMAT. More than half of the admissions officers surveyed by Kaplan this year reported that only one in 10 or fewer applicants chose to submit GRE scores instead of GMAT scores, representing a slight increase from Kaplan’s past surveys. Read more

Published: October 20, 2014

New Light Installation Commissioned for MIT Sloan School of Management Main Building

When Building E52, the main facility for the MIT Sloan School of Management, reopens after extensive renovations in January 2016, it will feature a new light installation by artist Leo Villareal, the school announced recently. Villareal, who last year created The Bay Lights on the San Francisco Bay Bridge West Span, was recently awarded an MIT Percent-for-Art commission to create a light installation for MIT’s Building E52. His plans for E52 include a light sculpture in the north vestibule of the building as part of a new, glass-enclosed entrance. The sculpture will feature 240 hanging LED rods – each approximately 9 feet tall with 72 individual LEDs – arranged from the ceiling in rows. As part of the work, Villareal will create a software code programming the LEDs to cycle through a randomly generated series of combinations. Read more

Published: October 19, 2014

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Awards Scholarships to Half of Full-time MBA Class

The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley set a new record this year, awarding scholarships to a full half of its entering full-time MBA class, the school announced earlier this month. In all, Haas will provide almost $6 million in scholarship aid to students across its three MBA programs, with an average award of $26,000 for students in the full-time MBA program. “It’s a real tipping point, and we plan to continue the trend of providing the highest level of financial support possible to help our students achieve their academic goals,” Daniel Roddick, Haas director of financial aid, said in a statement. Read more

Published: October 16, 2014

Bloomberg Businessweek Unveils Social Media Campaign #WhyMBA

Yesterday, Bloomberg Businessweek launched #WhyMBA, a social media campaign designed to get MBA hopefuls, students, alumni, and business leaders talking about the value of a graduate education in business. The #WhyMBA campaign is part of the run-up to the release of Bloomberg Businessweek’s full-time MBA program rankings on Tuesday, November 11. Every day until the release, Bloomberg will post daily questions on Twitter with the hashtag #WhyMBA, and track the ensuing conversation on the campaign’s website. The Business Education Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, Francesca Levy, explains that Businessweek created the social media campaign to prompt a wider look at business education. Read more

Published: October 15, 2014

UNC Kenan-Flagler Publishes New MBA Application Guide for Prospective Applicants

MBA@UNC, the online MBA program at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, has just released a new MBA application guide designed to aid prospective applicants in the admissions process. Though produced by Kenan-Flagler, the guide was designed to serve as a resource for students applying to any business school. Through a series of online articles, MBA@UNC has compiled best practices along with tips and advice for preparing the strongest possible MBA application. Articles in the series delve into topics ranging from choosing between the GMAT and the GRE to how to secure strong letters of recommendation. You’ll also find posts devoted to strengthening your resume, writing compelling essays and acing the interview. Read more

Published: October 14, 2014

Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business Announces Semi-Finalists in Inaugural Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge

Entrepreneurship has certainly become a buzz word at business schools, but “rural entrepreneurship” is a term you don’t hear quite as often. Unless you’re at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where rural entrepreneurship is currently front and center. McDonough yesterday hosted the National Summit on Rural Entrepreneurship, which included the announcement of 10 national semi-finalists in the first-ever Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge. The challenge – a joint venture between the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), McDonough’s Global Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI) and the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative’s Startup Hoyas – is an opportunity for individuals to showcase innovation taking place in rural regions of the United States. Read more

Published: October 13, 2014

Chicago Booth Releases Interview Notification Timeline

Did you apply to the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business Round One this year? Tyler Smith, an Assistant Director of Admissions at Booth, has written a post titled “Behind the Scenes of Round One,” where he provides crucial details of Booth’s admissions process for Round One applicants, including Booth’s timeline for Round One interview notifications. The Admissions Committee at Booth is currently reviewing Round One applications. Applications are read in random order and interview decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Booth will notify candidates whether they have been invited back Read more

Published: October 12, 2014

Survey Finds GMAT Integrated Reasoning Section Scores Unimportant to Most B-School Admissions Officers

A majority of admissions officers from more than 200 U.S. business schools surveyed this fall say that an applicant’s score on the GMAT’s Integrated Reasoning section is not currently an important part of their evaluation of a prospective applicant’s overall GMAT score, according to Kaplan Test Prep, which conducted the survey. Kaplan found that 60 percent of admissions officers surveyed this year said that performance on the IR section was not important, an uptick from 57 percent of those surveyed last year. That said, Kaplan reports that 50 percent of business schools surveyed point to a low overall GMAT score as “the biggest application killer.” For its 2014 survey, Kaplan polled admissions officers from 204 business schools from across the United States, including 11 of the top 30 MBA programs as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. Read more

Published: October 8, 2014

Yale School of Management to Host Online Career Panels for Prospective Applicants

The Yale School of Management (SOM) admissions team will kick off a new series of online events later this month designed to showcase for prospective applicants the many MBA career paths the school’s students choose to follow. The live events will each focus on a different industry and will feature relationship managers from the Career Development Office joined by current SOM students. Read more

Published: October 7, 2014

LinkedIn Launches New University Rankings Tool Charting Career Placement Success

LinkedIn has launched an innovative new rankings system that analyzes career and education data shared by its more than 300 million users to rank undergraduate institutions according to where their graduates land jobs. Violà! You can now use LinkedIn not only to network for jobs following graduation, but also to assess which schools will best position you for the jobs you want before you even reach the job search phase. Using its vast troves of employment data, LinkedIn analyzes the patterns of individual career choices to define the most desirable jobs, the most desirable companies within professions and the most relevant graduates for those jobs. It then uses these data points to rank universities based on the percentage of relevant graduates who have obtained desirable jobs. Read more

Published: October 5, 2014

New Loan Program Launches for International MBA Students at U.S. Schools

A new pilot loan program will provide expanded options for international MBA students at a number of top programs in the United States, according to a recent report in Poestandquants. The program, offered by Prodigy Finance, will extend to international students and U.S. residents with non-permanent status who are studying at 16 top schools, including Harvard Business School, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Especially in recent years, banks have been reluctant to lend to students who are studying internationally. Prodigy Finance seeks to fill this need using a “community finance” model. Basically, alumni from participating schools fund loans for current students, banking on the value of a degree from their alma mater and the likelihood that future alums will repay. Interest rates on the loans vary between 6 and 12 percent, depending on the school, the individual borrower’s profile and current rates. Read more

Published: October 5, 2014

Admissions Director Q&A: Itziar de Ros of IESE

Itziar de Ros has been leading the charge since 2011 as MBA admissions director and president of the MBA Admissions Committee at IESE in Barcelona, Spain. She is responsible for global marketing, student selection and administration of scholarships for the IESE MBA class of 280 students. No stranger to the school, de Ros herself obtained an IESE MBA in 2006. She worked as a marketing and sales consultant at DuPont before returning to IESE in 2007, where she held roles in admissions, marketing and communications and development before stepping into her current role. Read more

Published: September 30, 2014

GMAC Reports Application Volume Growth for Full-Time Two-Year MBA Programs

The number of people applying to full-time two-year MBA programs increased for the third consecutive year, according to recent data from the Graduate Management Admissions Council. GMAC’s 2014 Application Trends Survey, released earlier this week, showed that as two-year programs enjoyed application volume gains, other graduate management programs saw flattening or decreasing numbers of applicants. The survey also revealed an increasingly global applicant pool, with GMAT testing trends showing that more students are seeking to study outside their country of citizenship. According to GMAC, these candidates make up a sizeable portion of the applicant pool for many MBA and non-MBA graduate management programs. Read more

Published: September 29, 2014

UPenn’s Wharton School Welcomes Exceptionally Entrepreneurial Class

Students entering the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School this fall bring with them record levels of entrepreneurial experience and aspirations, according to a recent blog post by Nadine Kavanaugh, associate director of Wharton Entrepreneurship. “We’re especially excited because the Class of 2016 is already incredibly entrepreneurial,” wrote Kavanaugh. “We can’t wait to see what amazing startups they’ll start.” Read more

Published: September 28, 2014

Johnson’s Career Management Dean Shares How to Accelerate Your Job Search Before Business School

Fred Staudmyer, assistant dean for career management at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, has more than 25 years of experience in executive recruitment, human resources, human capital consulting and entrepreneurship. Before joining Johnson in 2009, he led the Garrett Sayer Group, an executive search and specialty staffing firm focused on technology, financial services and consulting industries. Prior to that, Staudmyer held a range of other senior positions including human resources officer for Ziff Communications focused on human resources and recruitment and head of worldwide talent management for Chase Manhattan Bank. He also happens to be a “dual Cornellian,” having obtained both his undergraduate and MBA degrees from the university. “I’ve always been a career geek,” Staudmyer confessed in a recent interview with Clear Admit. Indeed, he knows a thing or two about helping people shape their careers. We caught up with him last week, when he generously shared some top tips for prospective MBA applicants to jump start the career search before arriving at business school. Read on and take note – you might even discover that some of Staudmyer’s advice will help you in the MBA admissions process, too. Read more

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MBA Applywire

January 11, 2026 8:51pm ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Toronto / Rotman, UCLA Anderson, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Business Planning in leading MNC in home country

Post MBA Career: Marketing

GRE: 316

GPA: 3.58

Years of Work Experience: 6

Post MBA Location: USA, Canada

Notes:

Work Experience
• Strategy- and analysis-focused role at the country’s leading company
• Commercially launched and drive new technologies, business streams with direct positive revenue impact.
• Previously worked on budgeting, revenue planning, forecasting, and national target setting
• As a student, worked at the country’s leading startup, contributing to new business launches; the company later became the first local startup to raise Series B funding.
• Closely worked with CXOs who will be willing to write LORs

Leadership & Volunteering
• Trained 100+ high school students on leadership and community impact projects at a leadership training center.
• Founded a platform connecting students with volunteering opportunities; secured funding.
• Started a digital marketing agency employing 8 team members and serving 15+ clients (closed due to employer policy).
• Represented my country as a selected delegate at multiple international conferences.
• Founding board member of an alumni organization for a Youth Leadership Center with 5,000+ members.
Life:
• My parents passed away by the time I was 10yrs old and I grew up with severe financial and social difficulties. I have worked since school. I bear the cost of my younger siblings’ hence I could not plan to pursue MBA earlier. I have always hustled and tried to do most of the opportunities I could get. I have now reached a comfortable phase in life which may have seemed impossible given the life journey I have had.
I have 316 GRE score (162 Q), I plan to retake it.

January 11, 2026 2:55pm ET

Applying: MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Software Engineer

Post MBA Career: Finance, FinTech, Private Equity

GMAT: 720

GPA: 4.0

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Online 2023

Notes:

- Planning to take GMAT FE in ~6 months, looking for 99th percentile if possible
- Already accepted to UVA Darden deferred admissions program ($), reapplying to a select number of M7 programs
- Undergraduate degree in applied physics with emphasis in computer science and a double minor in computer science and Spanish from a #100-120 school in the US; 2024 grad
- 2 years academic research with name on a couple publications in physics during undergrad
- 1 year as independent contractor data analyst post-graduation
- 1 year currently + next 1 year before matriculation as web developer at a large, public, financial services/brokerage firm (3 years of post-graduation work experience total before 2027 matriculation)
- Self-taught Spanish while living in Argentina for ~1 year, taught English classes there also
- Summer internship in Madrid, Spain in IT consulting
- From US, spent several years of secondary school in UK/Australia
- Hobbies: skiing, recreational sports, guitar, mobile app development

January 10, 2026 5:11pm ET

Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson, UT Austin / McCombs

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Data Engineer

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Management Consulting

GRE: 313

GPA: 77.5

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: Charlotte

Notes:

From India completed my MS in business analytics from UT Dallas 3.48/4 class of 2020.
168Q/145V - applied to above univ via test wavier (wavier got accepted except Duke)

January 9, 2026 8:02pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Corporate Venture Capital

Post MBA Career: Other Industries

GMAT: 645

GPA: 3.7

Years of Work Experience: 10

Location: SF

Post MBA Location: US

January 8, 2026 10:05pm ET

Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Cornell / Johnson, Northwestern / Kellogg, UCLA Anderson, Washington / Foster

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Sports

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Management Consulting

GRE: 325

GPA: 3.72

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: India

Post MBA Location: USA

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January 12, 2026 5:06am ET

Applied to Yale SOM

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 8.9

GMAT: 715

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Finance, Investment Banking

Application Location: India

January 12, 2026 3:11am ET

Waitlisted at Columbia Business School

Round: Round 1

Received via email on November 14, 2025

Standardized Test: Executive Assessment (EA)

EA: 166

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: Japan

January 12, 2026 2:11am ET

Applied to Stanford GSB

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.59

GMAT: 715

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Other Industries

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

Application Location: Seattle

Note:

Applied 1/6

January 12, 2026 2:10am ET

Applied to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.59

GMAT: 715

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Other Industries

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

Application Location: Seattle

Note:

Applied 1/6

January 12, 2026 2:09am ET

Applied to MIT Sloan

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.59

GMAT: 715

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Other Industries

Target Career: Entrepreneurship

Application Location: Seattle

Note:

Applied 1/11

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