November 18, 2008

Stanford's take on the relation between the interview invitation and the chance of admission

In his post on Stanford Admissions Blog, Director of Admissions Derrick Bolton answers the question that has been bothering many aspirants - whether there is a relationship between the timing of your interview invitation and your chance of admission?
He states
, " Please be assured that your likelihood of admission bears no relationship to when you receive your interview invitation; the timing of your invitation simply depends on when we review your file--and there is no pattern to application review."
He further says, "No matter when you receive your invitation to interview, you have the same chance of admission as any other candidate"

Regarding the interview invites for Round 1 the Director wrote, " Interviews for Round 1 applicants start as soon as possible after the application deadline-- typically early November--and last through mid January. We expect to send Round 1 interview invitations pretty regularly, every business day or so, through mid December. Even during Stanford's winter shutdown (22 December 2008 through 5 January 2009) we continue to read feverishly but tend to bundle invitations and send them every few days. (One reason for the bundling is that our building is unheated for the entire shutdown and we are thin-blooded Californians!)

We hope to send almost all Round 1 interview invitations by mid-January 2009, though some will go out later. We also may ask some of you to join the waitlist without an interview"

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November 17, 2008

New ISB Campus to come up at Knowledge City, Mohali

The Government of Punjab together with Indian School of Business (ISB) and four Indian Business Leaders will set up a second ISB campus at Knowledge City, Mohali

Analjit Singh Chairman & Managing Director of Max India Limited, Rakesh Bharti Mittal Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises Limited, Sunil Kant Munjal Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Hero Corporate Service Limited & Atul Punj Chairman, Punj Lloyd Group, jointly commit funding of Rs. 200 crores, with individual contribution of a sum of Rs. 50 crores each.

The ISB, with the support of existing associate schools, Wharton School and Kellogg School of Management, will set-up and run the Mohali campus, just like its Hyderabad campus. The Mohali campus will have the following four specialist Institutes, termed as Centres of Excellence, for promoting research and offering additional specialisations in the Post Graduate Programme:

-- Max India Institute of Healthcare Management
-- Bharti Institute of Public Policy
-- BML Munjal Institute of Manufacturing and Operation Excellence
-- Punj Lloyd Institute of Physical Infrastructure Management

The ISB campus at Mohali proposes to have 280 seats in its Post Graduate Programme. It will also have several short duration Executive Education Programmes where approximately 750 professionals will be able to participate.

For more read here: Press Release


November 14, 2008

Best Schools by Specialty: Business Week

Best Schools by Specialty: Finance

Schools with Top Finance Programs (Listed in alphabetical order, not ranked)

University of Chicago
Columbia University
Duke University
Harvard University
University of Michigan
New York University
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin

Also consider:
University of VirginiaMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Rochester
Stanford University

Best Schools by Specialty: Management

Top Schools for Management (Listed in alphabetical order, not ranked)

University of Chicago
Columbia University
Duke University
Harvard University
University of Michigan
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia

Also consider:
Dartmouth College

Yale University
Indiana University

Best Schools by Specialty: Entrepreneurship

Best Schools for Entrepreneurship (List in alphabetical order, not ranked)

Babson College
University of California-Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University

Also consider:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
Dartmouth College
Harvard University


Best Schools by Specialty: Marketing

Schools With Top Marketing Programs (In alphabetical order, not ranked)

University of California-Berkeley

Duke University

Harvard University

Indiana University

University of Michigan

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

University of Pennsylvania

Northwestern University

University of Texas-Austin

University of Virginia

Also consider:
Dartmouth College

New York University

University of Rochester


Link: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/mbainsider/schools_by_specialty.html













B - School Ranking 2008 - Business Week

# 1 University of Chicago
# 2 Harvard University
# 3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
# 4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
# 5 University of Michigan (Ross)
# 6 Stanford University
# 7 Columbia University
# 8 Duke University (Fuqua)
# 9 MIT (Sloan)
# 10 UC Berkeley (Haas)
# 11 Cornell University (Johnson)
# 12 Dartmouth (Tuck)
# 13 NYU (Stern)
# 14 UCLA (Anderson)
# 15 Indiana University (Kelley)
# 16 University of Virginia (Darden)
# 17 UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
# 18 Southern Methodist (Cox)
# 19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
# 20 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
# 21 Texas - Austin
# 22 Brigham Young (Marriott)
# 23 Emory University (Goizueta)
# 24 Yale University
# 25 University of Southern California (Marshall)
# 26 University of Maryland (Smith)
# 27 University of Washington (Foster)
# 28 Washington University (Olin)
# 29 Georgia Tech
# 30 Vanderbilt University (Owen)

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/

November 13, 2008

Tuck School of Business at Darmouth launches its Admissions Blog

The Tuck admissions blog gives you the chance to percieve the Tuck experience through the eyes of students and partners. Bloggers come from a variety of professional, geographic , and life experience backgrounds. Furthermore, an admissions officer (and occasional guest bloggers) share thoughts and advice on applying to B-school

Blog Address: http://tuckschool.blogspot.com/

Link: http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/connect/blog.html

HBS sends out Round One Interview Invitations

HBS Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, Dee Leopold informed in her blogpost on November 11 that HBS has sent 750 Round 1 Interview invitations and ultimately will send 100 more by the notification date, January 21.

Read here: http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog.html#post-2008-11-11_2

November 7, 2008

Chicago GSB renamed as the Booth School of Business in recognition of largest gift by alumnus David Booth in the University’s history

Alumnus David Booth gives $300 million to University of Chicago business school; Largest gift in the University’s history. School to be renamed in his honor.

An entrepreneur and visionary marketer who built his successful investment firm on finance principles he learned at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business has returned the favor by making the largest donation in the University’s history and the largest gift to any business school in the world, the school announced today (Thursday, November 6).

The donor is David G. Booth, founder and chief executive of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment firm, his wife Suzanne Booth and their family. David Booth received an M.B.A. from the school in 1971. The combination of an up-front payment, the income stream, and the equity interest provided by the Booth gift is valued at $300 million. In recognition of the gift, the school will be renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

For more read: Press release

Stanford announces Grameen Fellows Program for Bangladeshi students

The Grameen Fellows program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business aims to support promising Bangladeshi students with financial need in obtaining an MBA at Stanford

The program will cover all financial costs related to tuition, living expenses, and application and examination fees associated wit the admissions process.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/mba/blog/

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/financial_aid/grameen.html

For Stanford Graduate School of Business Fellowships and Scholarships click here

HBS - Loans for International Students

October 31, 2008 - Harvard Business School is pleased to announce that Harvard MBA students will continue to have access to need-based loans, despite the pressures on loan availability for students in the current economic climate. This is true for U.S. students as well as international students, who will not be required to find a U.S. co-signer.

http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/loans.html
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