Illuminations, from Shine

MBA School Tours (Fall 2011)

Shine — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:40:48 +0000

______________________________________________________________________ FORTE FORUMS: from September 13-October 14, 2011 About: • Meet with Women MBA Student Leaders • Take a virtual tour of MBA programs to find the school for you • Event stops across cities across the U.S. and London, England ______________________________________________________________________ ACCESS MBA TOUR: from September-December 2011 About: • Meet face-to-face with representatives from [...]

“Writing Like a Future MBA”

Shine — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:12:27 +0000

When you think of common business school application mistakes, I’ll bet some of the famed horror stories come to mind: the wrong-school typo, the too-personal essay topic, the inappropriate Facebook photo… What about writing ability? Not the baseline question of whether you can put an English sentence together—but the little things. The ones that aren’t [...]

“When To Re-Take The GMAT”

Shine — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:02:26 +0000

Raise your hands if you’ve ever second-guessed whether your GMAT score is good enough. Now, keep your hands raised if you’ve scored over 720 and wondered the same thing. Thought so. Hands down please. There are very few applicants who haven’t at least wondered, if not worried, whether their candidacy is at risk due to [...]

“The Road To Be Traveled”

Shine — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:54:11 +0000

The dreaded “career essay” What are your career aspirations and why? Why do you want your MBA (at our school)? It’s causing you angst to no end. Of course you don’t know 100% what you’re going to do after you graduate. Even if you think you do, you probably don’t. There’s a whole professional [...]

“What To Write About”

Shine — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:25:15 +0000

For my first ever blog entry (which I’d been putting off because I didn’t know what to write about), I thought it only fitting to write about…what to write about. It’s the concern I’ve heard most this week from the business school candidates I work with privately. “I can’t think of any good leadership examples!” [...]