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Handicapping Your Odds Of Getting Into A Great Business School
This time our MBA handicapping series goes after some provocative targets: HBSGuru.com founder Sandy Kreisberg tells a Stanford wanna-be with some powerful touch points how she could write her...
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Handicapping Your Shot At An Elite MBA
After working in India as a software programmer for a major software company, this Indian-born engineer managed to land a strategy job with a global insurance company in Chicago. A 26-year-old who...
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Do You Really Need A Consultant?
Josh Eddy opted not to use an admissions consultant Josh Eddy, 33, and his mom rarely disagreed–about anything. Then, he decided to apply to business school. “There were raised voices, which had never...
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What Are Your Odds Of Getting In?
She’s a 24-year-old community manager at a well-known digital media agency in New York. With a 690 GMAT and a 3.5 GPA from Barnard College, she plans to apply to a top business school next year to help...
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Sandy’s Take On The New Harvard Business School Essay Book
Over the next several days, Sanford Kreisberg, the HBSGURU and beloved odds-maker here at Poets&Quants, will be reviewing the essays in The Harbus e-book to give us his idea of what made them work...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
Our highly popular MBA handicapping series is back, with a new video and four great legacy assessments of real candidates who want to get into a top business school. After focusing on his round one and...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
For the past three years, he’s been working in strategy and operations consulting for Deloitte Consulting. With a 690 GMAt and a 3.7 grade point average from a ‘Little Ivy,’ this 25-year-old white male...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
This 27-year-old management consultant in India already has an MBA degree from an Indian business school. But with a 730 GMAT and a goal of running a non-profit in his home country, he now wants to...
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With a background in a successful real estate tech start-up, mobile aps and drone ventures, this 22-year old self-starter wants to know his chances of getting into Stanford or Harvard. In addition to...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
After a two-year stint with a middle-tier bulge bracket bank, this 25-year-old professional works for a private equity fund in the real estate space. With an impressive 740 GMAT and a double major from...
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10 Comments That Made Us LOL In 2015
Trolls aren’t funny. But it can be awfully amusing to see them put in their place. Fortunately for our editorial team and our readers, most of those who visit our pages have a strong and serious...
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The 10 Most Colorful Quotes Of 2015
Tuck ’97 MBA, former Facebook exec, and comedian Paul Ollinger Dull topics mean dull commentary. But the world of business school education is rarely dull, and discussions about events, issues, and...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
After gaining her undergraduate degree from a top New England college in 2012, this 25-year-old woman landed a job with a global consulting firm. But her true love is the social sector and more...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
Call her the Marlboro Woman. She got her start working on the best-selling brand of cigarettes in the world and moved into the pharma industry after a pair of promotions. With a 720 GMAT but a lowly...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
His raw numbers are awfully impressive: A 750 GMAT that puts him in the 98% percentile of all test takers, and a equally stunning 4.0 grade point average at a private university in Chicago. For the...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
After a year as an operations analyst for a major New York bank, she went west and has worked for nearly four years in Silicon Valley for a major social media player in supply chain operations. This...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
She’s a 25-year-old software engineer at a leading tech firm in Silicon Valley. with a 730 GMAT and a 3.7 GPA from a Canadian university, she hopes to go to business school as a stepping stone...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
After working for Oppenheimer & Co. in private equity, this 29-year-old male professional raised $5 million to start up a small oil company that had a $12 million valuation in just 16 months....
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
He’s a 29-year-old military man with a highly unconventional background that includes a master’s degree in religion from a top-tier Ivy League school. After teaching for a year at a public school, he...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
Poets&Quants Editor John A. Byrne & HBSGuru Founder Sandy Kreisberg assess the odds of MBA applicants He’s a junior at a top 10 public university, with a 3.9 grade point average and a triple...
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