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College student with question about handling a post-internship offer

by Marquis | Oct 8, 2014 | career, internship, professional advice, recruiting

The email below is from a college student that I’ve known for a couple of years now. This student emailed me at the end of the summer toward the end of his internship with some questions about how to manage a full-time offer (if one were to come). Check out the...

Soon-to-be Freshman undergrad business student with questions about majors

by Marquis | Sep 24, 2014 | Business School, Education

As I’ve mentioned a few times on here, I have had a relationship with a subsection of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business for a few years through one of my long-time friends. Through this relationship, I am invited to travel down to Bloomington...

Pre-Frosh with questions about how to best position himself for McK/Bain/BCG

by Marquis | Sep 6, 2014 | Business, career, consulting, Education, management consulting, recruiting

The email below is from a reader who sounds like an incredibly driven young man. He’s currently 18 years old and is in the midst of a post-high school gap year abroad after having graduated a year early. In his message, he lays out a plan to start off at a local...

A few tips on addressing Impostor Syndrome for a new Stanford MBA admit

by Marquis | Aug 22, 2014 | About Marquis, Business School, career, Education, mba, professional advice, real life stuff, Self-confidence, Stanford GSB

The email below came from a reader who received deferred admission to the Stanford MBA program during this year’s admissions cycle. He reached out because he’s battling with Impostor Syndrome, which is something that my longtime readers will recognize from...

Follow-up: College student asking about deferred enrollment at the GSB and HBS

by Marquis | Aug 6, 2014 | Bschool admissions, Business, Business School, career, Education, mba, younger applicants

In my last blog entry, I posted an email from a Brazilian college student who reached out to ask for my thoughts on his chances for get deferred MBA admission at Stanford and Harvard. Having never worked for the Admissions Office of either school, I gave him my read...
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