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Upcoming 2009 MBA Admissions Telethon I would like to invite all 2009 MBA applicants to sign up for the second 2009 MBA Admissions Telethon on Tuesday, May 13th between 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM PT (1:30 PM ET - 3:30 PM ET; 6:00 PM GMT - 8:00 PM GMT). What is the MBA Admissions Telethon? Two hours when 6 MBA admissions experts will be available to answer your individual questions via telephone. Prior to calling in, you will receive a brief, 6-question questionnaire and submit it along with your resume to a designated email address. (No essays, please.) When you call in, your consultant will review the information you provide, and you will have 15 minutes to discuss with him or her your most pressing MBA admissions questions. Oh, by the way, the 2009 MBA Admission Telethon is free. You can learn more details and sign up at 2009 MBA Admissions Telethon. Posted by Linda Abraham on Thu, 01 May 2008 17:15:50 +0000 | Permalink | Post a comment

US News Grad Rankings Are Out The US News released its 2008 Grad School Rankings today. I'm going to list the top ten for business school, law school, and medical school and provide links to the ranking methodology for each category. For other graduate specialties, please visit the US News site. Business School Rankings and methodology  1. Harvard 1. Stanford 3. Wharton 4.  MIT Sloan 4. Northwestern Kellogg 4. Univ. of Chicago 7. Dartmouth Tuck 7. UC Berkeley Haas 9. Columbia 10. NYU Stern Law School Rankings 1. Yale 2. Harvard 2. Stanford 4. Columbia 5. NYU 6. UC Berkeley 7. Univ. of Chicago 7. Penn 9. Northwestern 9. Univ. of Michigan 9. Univ. of Virginia ( I am not including a link to the law school methodology because as I am writing the link provided is a bad link.) Medical School Rankings (Research)  and Methodology 1. Harvard 2. Johns Hopkins 3. Washington U (St. Louis) 4. Penn 5. UCSF 6. Duke 6. Univ. of Washington 8. Stanford 9. UCLA 9. Yale A few caveats: My strong recommendation is to use the rankings as a library of raw data  conveniently compiled in one location and not as a tried and true guide of educational quality. They are not the latter. They are the former. To the extent you are going to use the rankings as a guide to school reputation and brand value, you must understand the methodology behind them and what they are measuring. Be cognizant of the differences between what is important to you and what is important to the rankings. A few observations on the rankings themselves: There are many ties in the rankings, which implies that the differences in reputation are almost imperceptible when talking about closely ranked programs. For example the difference between being "in the top ten" and out of the top ten (i.e. #11) for MBA programs is 1 point,  for the top law schools is 2 points, and for the top medical schools is 1 point. Don't get hung up on these differences. The "top ten" changes little from year to year. In most cases, if you compare these rankings to the 2007 version, it looks as if US News just reshuffled the deck a little. For more on rankings, please see: Rankings: Controversy and Magazine Sales Thoughtful Dean Looks at Rankings Law School Admissions: Study Says Rankings Influence Decision Makers Posted by Linda Abraham on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:00:37 +0000 | Permalink | Post a comment

Average 2007 GMAT: 699
Average 2007 Acceptance Rate: 31%
Average 2007 GPA: 3.4
Class Size: 410
2008 application deadlines: November 1, 2007; January 3, 2008; March 3, 2008
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