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Answering several user emails in a single entry

by Marquis | Aug 2, 2008 | APD recruiting, application process, Bschool admissions, consulting, other blogs, professional advice, recruiting, Technology-related, venture capital

What’s good, everyone. Recently, I’ve had a few emails asking relatively straightforward questions that I’ve been able to crank out pretty quickly. I thought about making separate entries for them, but each would have been so short that it made more...

How to start your B-school research

by Marquis | Jul 23, 2008 | Bschool admissions, Business School, notable organizations, other blogs, other sites

What’s good, y’all. I hope you’re having a good week. I’m writing a quick post to pass along some information that might be useful to those of you planning to apply to B-school this year. By now, you’ve seen references to a couple of blog...

Question from an undergrad about choosing extracurricular activities

by Marquis | Jul 21, 2008 | Bschool admissions, extracurricular activities

Hello all. I’ve got an email below from a student at Cornell who is considering applying to the schools M.Eng program, but hopes to get an MBA in the future. Sounds similar to the reader whose email I addressed a few days ago, right? Well, this guy has a...

Questions from a reader planning for 2009-10 application cycle

by Marquis | Jul 11, 2008 | application process, Bschool admissions, career, consulting, internship, recruiting

Hello, all. The email below is from a business school aspirant with a background in manufacturing consulting who has questions about how he should approach the application process. In fact, he even typed up a 1.5 page description of his background to provide...

Moving into consulting after a Master’s degree but before an MBA

by Marquis | Jul 10, 2008 | Bschool admissions, consulting, mba, pre-MBA grad degrees, recruiting

What’s good, everyone. The message below is from a reader who will soon be starting an M.Eng program at Cornell and would like to eventually follow it up with an MBA. When I got this email, I had to chuckle a bit because it was the third message I’d...

Question from an MBA aspirant light on work experience

by Marquis | Jun 21, 2008 | Bschool admissions, mba, Stanford GSB

What’s up, readers. As you can tell, I’m trying to get to more of my reader emails lately, so I’ll be posting a little more regularly to cut down on the backlog. This entry is my response to a reader who is pretty young, but has a strong desire to...
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