Sep, 20, 2009
This is the second in a series of five posts on the University of Chicago Booth’s MBA application essays for Fall 2010 admission. The parts are Essay 1, Essay 2, Slide Presentation, Optional Essay, and Overall Plan. In this post, I will analyze the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Fall 2010 MBA Question […]
Sep, 17, 2009
This is the first in a series of five posts on the University of Chicago Booth’s MBA application essays for Fall 2010 admission. The parts are Essay 1, Essay 2, Slide Presentation, Optional Essay, and Overall Plan. As is usual, Chicago Booth has again changed Questions 1 and 2. I have taken the questions from […]
Sep, 15, 2009
This is the forth in a series of five posts on the University of Chicago Booth’s MBA application essays for Fall 2010 admission. The parts are Essay 1, Essay 2, Slide Presentation, Optional Essay, and Overall Plan. The University of Chicago Booth’s MBA application for the Class of 2012 also includes space for an optional […]
Sep, 15, 2009
This is the third in a series of five posts on the University of Chicago Booth’s MBA application essays for Fall 2010 admission. The parts are Essay 1, Essay 2, Slide Presentation, Optional Essay, and Overall Plan. This is the third year that the University of Chicago Booth has required a slide presentation as part […]
Aug, 28, 2009
At the Chicago Booth information Session last night in Tokyo, Rose Martinelli (Associate Dean, Recruitment and Admissions) made it perfectly clear that she would like to increase the number of Japanese applicants and admits to Booth. Two years ago, Booth was receiving 100 applications from Japanese. This last year it was down to 50. There […]
Jan, 23, 2009
If you are preparing for a Chicago Booth interview, read this post after you read my general post on interview strategy. If you are looking for my analysis of Booth’s essays, you can find it here. I have reviewed reports of University of Chicago Booth interviews found at accepted.com and clearadmit.com. These reports reveal that […]
Nov, 13, 2008
DON’T CALL IT GSB. DEALBREAKER has published an email from Dean Ted Snyder on what to call Chicago Booth. All Booth applicants should only use one of the three names below. When you want to only use one word, call it “Booth,” and never call it “GSB.” And if you applied before the announcement, don’t […]
Nov, 07, 2008
The financial change the University of Chicago Business School has been looking for has arrived. Chicago GSB is dead. Long live Chicago Booth! It will be about three months before I can change the “Chicago GSB” name and tags in my posts, but what is in a name? Well in this case $300 million. Chicago […]
Oct, 18, 2008
There are two reasons that I am analyzing NYU’s essays for Fall 2009 Admission. The first is that I am working with a number of clients applying there. The second is that I really like Essay 3. I have worked with a number of clients admitted to NYU. You can find a testimonial from one […]
Sep, 07, 2008
My apologies to anyone who was expecting my report on the Chicago GSB September 7, 2008 Admissions Event. As my intrepid camerawoman(wife) and I left our home, we were rained upon and even with big umbrellas found ourselves soaked to the bone. Beating a hasty retreat home, we took it as a sign that this […]
