How will you get your ticket to a top MBA?
Are you a huge fan of Taylor Swift? Beyoncé? Maroon 5? Have you ever tried to purchase tickets through an online service like Ticketmaster to see them perform live? There are only so many seats in...
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Stacy Blackman B-School Application Survey
It’s that time again, folks! We at Stacy Blackman Consulting want to check the pulse of this year’s crop of b-school applicants by polling them about their MBA plans. The survey poses 13 simple...
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Using social media to impress and engage business schools
Delece Smith-Barrow, education reporter at U.S. News, asked MBA Prep School’s Tyler Cormney about how to use (and not use!) social media to impress and engage with business schools. His advice...
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IE Business School Revamps its International MBA Program
Spain’s IE Business School recently announced it has redesigned its one-year international MBA degree to allow students to design a custom program in accordance with their own specific interests and...
View ArticleFour Week Countdown: Strategize Now, Before MBA Applications Are Released
The Boys Scouts weren’t kidding: preparation is essential. There are approximately four weeks until MBA applications are released for the 2015-16 admission season. While it may seem like a waiting...
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Funding Your MBA – International Students
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Prodigy Finance (PF), a funding organization that was started by three INSEAD MBA graduates, has revolutionized the student financing landscape in...
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UC Berkeley Haas to Study Crowdfunding
Earlier this month, researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership announced the establishment of CrowdBerkeley to better understand...
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Jon Medved and OurCrowd: The Remarkable Story of an Entrepreneur
The Admissions Straight Talk podcast has hit the 100-episode mark! And in honor of our big milestone we invited a most exciting guest yet. Want to know what one of the most prominent entrepreneurs of...
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Georgetown McDonough’s New Global Real Estate Center
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business recently announced it has received a gift of $10 million from alumnus Robert Steers and his wife Lauren Steers to launch a new center focused on global real...
View ArticleInterview of a Wisconsin Student
Poonam, CEO and founder of myEssayReview, is publishing interviews of her successful students. This is the latest in the series. Here is a chat with Fatima, first year student at the full time MBA...
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Stanford Business School Profile
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% The Stanford Business School graduate program is designed to offer world-class education to a diverse pool of students by focusing strongly on...
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SBC Celebrates!
We’ve had a tremendous year at Stacy Blackman Consulting, and there’s nothing I like better than celebrating success with the people who make it all possible: our amazing team of consultants, editors,...
View ArticleMBA Jobs: 4 Key Skills Entrepreneurs Look for When Hiring New MBAs
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% What goes through an entrepreneur’s head when they’re hiring a new MBA? Don’t you wish there was some way of understanding what specific skills...
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What to Do Before Heading to B-School
You did it! You got into business school—congratulations! It might seem like years ago that you first started your applications, or you might feel like the whole process flew by. Either way, you now...
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Columbia Business School 2016 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Columbia tweaked last year's questions for this year. Relatively minor changes. Specifically: • Its short-answer question about your immediate post-MBA goal has gone from 75 to 50 characters. Yes, that...
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How to get into MIT from Someone that Did
Congratulations to Doug (not his real name), a re-applicant who turned his story around to get into MIT and INSEAD! He took some time out from his blog TopDogMBA and being a general badass to answer a...
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Stacy Blackman B-School Application Survey
Today’s the day, folks! We at Stacy Blackman Consulting want to check the pulse of this year’s crop of b-school applicants by polling them about their MBA plans. The survey poses 13 super simple...
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Gearing Up for Round 1 at Harvard Business School
With the official end of the 2014-2015 MBA admissions season just over a week away, Harvard Business School‘s Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Dee Leopold previewed what’s ahead for next...
View Article4 bad reasons to delay your MBA admissions campaign
Which of these issues is keeping you from pursuing your b-school plans? 1. You're gathering and analyzing essential information. There's a lot of research and thought required to fully present your...
View ArticleMBA Admissions: HBS Announces 2016 Application Deadline
EXPARTUS MBA Admissions Consulting%%www.expartus.com%% Will Harvard Business School admissions board change the application essay question this year? This is the question every applicant, who is...
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