Welcome to another installment of Knewton’s MBA News Roundup! This week, check out articles on Wharton’s new program in India, non-traditional MBA career paths, and how students are using social media to figure out b-schools. 1. Wharton Announces New Business Certificate Program in India Wharton b-school is launching a Global Engagement series in Mumbai, designed to meet the needs of high-potential business leaders in India. 2. New Book Discusses Roots of Modern Business School Education… Read more

This MBA admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admission advice, check out their blog. With MBA programs’ Round One deadlines just around the corner, we wanted to offer some words of advice about an often overlooked element of one’s file: the application data forms. All too often, we see candidates leave these online application forms for the last minute, even rushing to enter all the required… Read more

This weekly MBA admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. As Round One deadlines approach,  applicants are coming to understand that applying to business school is an incredibly demanding process. In addition to taking the GMAT, assembling academic transcripts and providing recommendation letters, candidates are required to draft multiple essays, job descriptions, lists of activities and more. With the obvious incentive… Read more

This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. We realize that the questions of whether to answer an optional essay and, if so, what to say, are ones that loom large for many b-school applicants at this time of year. While we’ve been offering a great deal of school-specific essay advice over the past few months, we wanted to take some time… Read more

This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit.. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. For all those applicants who have recently opened a calendar to plot out the next few months only to realize they can’t possibly fit in campus visits on top of full time jobs and essay writing, never fear!  It’s true that traveling to a school’s campus is the ideal way to learn about their… Read more

This weekly MBA admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert b-school admissions advice, check out their blog. As many of our readers know, it has become increasingly common for younger individuals to apply to MBA programs.  Whereas the average age at the leading business schools has traditionally hovered at around 28 and the average amount of work experience at around five years, many programs are now carefully considering… Read more

This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert law school admissions advice, check out their blog. Several law schools offer applicants the option to enroll in an Early Decision (ED) program. Although this is similar to undergraduate ED programs with which law school applicants may be familiar, today we’d like to take some time to discuss law school ED to help applicants decide whether or not this option is… Read more

This MBA admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. Anyone who’s familiar with the MBA application process knows that August moves forward at an accelerated pace, and come September, entire weeks seem to disappear.  To help this year’s Round One applicants avoid the classic time crunch, today’s blog post offers some basic advice on how to approach the Round One deadlines… Read more

This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert law school admissions advice, check out their blog. Most law schools require applicants to be registered for the Credential Assembly Service (CAS), which is a function of the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), the organization that oversees the law school admissions process, including administrating the LSAT. CAS is an organizational tool that serves to streamline the application process for both applicants… Read more