Making your Business School Application Work
Once you have completed your research, attended MBA Fairs, spoken to recruiters, and visited the campuses, you may now have a shortlist of schools. So, when should you apply to business school? We've seen thousands of candidates go through this process, and very often, the proper timing makes or breaks their quest. Once you have taken the decision to do an MBA, and drawn up your shortlist, you are then confronted with the deadlines used by the schools in the application process. Despite the claims from certain schools that there is no ideal time to apply, the majority of schools admit that timing can play an important role in the admissions process. Some schools use what they call a rolling admission process. This means, quite simply, that they are constantly receiving and reviewing dossiers throughout the academic year. They accept or reject the dossiers as they are reviewed (including a waiting list option for borderline applications), and provide a response within four to six weeks of reception.
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Who should attend?
When you walk through the door of a Connect event, you find yourself at any point in the process of considering or applying to study an MBA. We would like to introduce some of candidates that attended Connect events, and the stages they were at when they walked through the door. If you can relate to any of these people, then chances are that attending a Connect event could benefit you.
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Financing your MBA
Resigning from a secure job, moving country, even leaving behind family and friends; potential MBAs seem to take such obstacles in their stride. But with programmes at top-flight school now costing as much as US $75,000, one question seems to occupy business school applicants more than any other: just how can I find the money to pay for my education?
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Planning your MBA Application
This is a transcript of the Expert Chat that TopMBA Scorecard runs at monthly intervals throughout the year and will feature in the TopMBA.com newsletter. Each month, registered users get the chance to ask targeted questions of an MBA expert on a variety of topics.
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Achieving a top GMAT score
Considering an MBA degree is a big step, but before you can even begin studying at an MBA school, you need to sit a test – the GMAT test. Manhattan Review gave the QS TopMBA Career Guide the top tips to get a top score in the GMAT Math test.
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Getting the right recommendation
Recommendations are a vital part of any application to business school and it is important you get them right. Ann Graham spoke to The Princeton Review about who candidates should approach for recommendations.
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Applying for an MBA
Interview with David Edwards, Director of the Career Centre at Queen's Business School
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An MBA in an uncertain climate
MBAs and top business schools seem to be ideally placed to bypass the effects of the credit crunch that has some financial institutions running for cover.
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