Admissions officers at selective MBA programs continue to welcome applicants with non-business majors in their undergraduate years. In fact, majoring in business as an undergraduate may make it more competitive to gain entrance to B-School. According to Sara Neher, Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions at the University of Virginia’s Darden ...
According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, overall college enrollment fell for the second year in a row in 2013 by about 1.5 percent – from about 20.2 million students in the fall of 2012 to about 19.9 million – with the total decrease over two years marking the ...
Deciding when to attend medical school – and therefore when to apply -- is one of the most important decisions that you’ll face as an applicant. Sometimes, taking a gap year before applying can be a good decision, both personally and academically. In addition to taking a break after college ...
There are many reasons you may decide you want to transfer from your initial college. Perhaps the college is different than what you expected: it might be more social, less social, more academic, less academic. Perhaps you have changed or clarified what’s important to you; you now realize that you ...
With rising tuition costs and tough job markets, more and more focus has been placed not only on the comparative affordability of colleges, but on major choices as well. Across the media, discussion abounds over which majors are the most profitable, the declining popularity of the humanities, and the ...
You don’t have to be a literary genius to write a successful college admissions essay. You do, however, have to master the basics of grammar. While a missing comma or run-on sentence won’t earn you an immediate rejection, the fact is that admissions officers pay a lot of attention to ...
An increasing number of students are seeking transfer admissions, according to Alexander Ott, a past president of the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association. In fact, about a third of all college students transfer at some point in their college career, including transfers between community colleges and four-year colleges, ...
Cleaning House: How to Tidy Up Your Social Media Footprint In our last blog, we discussed why you should tidy up your social media activity in preparation for college admissions. Now, we’ll tell you how. As The Telegraph suggests, googling yourself is a good place to start, as it will ...
Almost since the dawn of college itself, current, past and prospective students alike have donned all manner of swag. Nearly every item of clothing imaginable, from sweatshirts to neckties (and even onesies!), is now available for purchase, specially branded with the college logo of your choice. Also (and this is ...
Applicants to graduate schools of management now have the option to submit GRE scores in addition to, or instead of, GMAT scores. More than 800 MBA programs worldwide now accept the revised GRE as an alternative to the GMAT, including top schools like Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn and Yale. Traditionally, ...