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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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Fridays With Sandy: Mock MBA Admissions Interviews With Sandy Kreisberg
Fridays With Sandy In this debut episode which launched on March 23rd on Facebook Live, HBSGuru Sandy Kreisberg does a mock MBA interview with a soon-to-be candidate for a top business school’s MBA...
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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds
This 29-year-old white male professional has two super hot things going for him: He works for a FANG company (that would be Facebook, Amazon, Netflix or Google), and he works in analytics, one of the...
View ArticleCan You Get Into HBS From Two Small NGOs? This Candidate May!
Can You Get Into Harvard Business School From Two Small NBOs? This Candidate May! On Friday’s with Sandy, HBSGuru Sandy Kreisberg assesses the chances of an MBA applicant who currently works for a...
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The New Reality For Female MBA Applicants… We Spill The Beans and Good News By the time she applies to business school, this young female professional will have four solid years of working in the...
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Diaries Of A Darkhorse: Lessons From A Sandy Shellacking
HBS Guru Sandy Kreisberg and Poets&Quants Founder & Editor John A. Byrne Ben Fouch, an aspiring member of the MBA Class of 2021, is documenting his journey as an applicant every other week in...
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Let Sandy Analyze Your HBS Ding
Harvard Business School is about to disappoint thousands of extraordinary MBA applicants on Thursday, Oct. 4th, at noon EST. That’s when the school will issue its euphemistically dubbed ‘early...
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The Most Popular Stories Of 2019
The best of 2019 Picture a newsroom. Along with communal tables, scribes hunch over their monitors. Their fingers race across their keyboards like a grand pianist…under a 30-minute deadline. Sure,...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Mexican Engineer A Fit For Haas & MIT?
Agustin applied to three schools this past admissions cycle: Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. After an outright turn...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Harvard/Stanford/Wharton For This Silver, Not Gold Resume?
A recruited athlete to Iowa State University, Robert left his home town of Boston to play division one football. But in his sophomore year, he decided to buckle down on the academics and his own...
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Most Popular Stories Of All-Time At Poets&Quants
Writers love clicks. In a world driven by rankings and records, clicks supply immediate gratification. They reflect which stories broke out beyond core readers to resonate with a wider audience. In...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Too Young For HBS, Even With A 750?
If you had these stats–a 750 GMAT with great quant/verbal splits and a 3.64 GPA in a demanding major like engineering from Purdue–you would think you are well on your way into a great business school....
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Three Oddball Jobs Need Explaining, Including Dog DNA
Josh has the elements of a highly successful application to all of his target schools, from Harvard Business School to Stanford Graduate School of Business. He’s an Ivy League grad, with a degree from...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: How To Move From Pure Tech To Strategy Consulting
The good news? Gokul has a 760 GMAT score, with a 94% on the verbal and an 86% quant. The bad news? Gokul has a 2.5 grade point average in computer science from Osmania University. He’s working as a...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Minority Candidate, 550 GMAT, Wait List At MIT — Advice On...
Jaime is a fascinating MBA candidate. At the age of 28, he’s worked his way ito a senior associate role in PwC’s consulting arm over the past two and one-half years. He got that gig after a year in...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: 3.2 GPA — How Damaging For This Mexican Star (740 GMAT!)?
Javier has worked as a lead process engineer for his family’s $18 million (sales) firm in Mexico. But now he would like to land a job in consulting with McKinsey, Bain or BCG (MBB) and want to get an...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Indispensable Advice For International MBA Applicants
For a 27-year-old young professional who wants to get an MBA from a top U.S. business school, Linh has a lot going for her. A first-generation college graduate from a family of farmers in Vietnam, she...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Indian Applicants NOT From IIT
Handicapping your MBA odds is always tricky business because there are a lot of unknowns about every candidate. Yet the chances of an elite MBA admission for Raunak, a 25-year-old analyst in New Delhi...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Applying From Pakistan — And Other Less Represented Countries
Only 612 GMAT exams were taken in Pakistan in testing year 2021 and just 70 of them had scores of 700 or above. Hammad was one of them. He scored a 730 on the test and with that score, he is applying...
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Indian MBA Applicants: Advice For Getting In
740 GMAT? Check. IIT alum who graduated among the top 10% of their class? Check. Four years in a blue-chip firm with international management experience? Check. Chances of getting into a top MBA...
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