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Giving advice to a very worried MBA re-applicant

by Marquis | Aug 21, 2008 | application process, Bschool admissions, mba, Stanford GSB

What’s good, folk. I hope you’re all doing well and enjoying your summers as the days tick by in August. The email below is from a prospective re-applicant to Stanford GSB who really seems to be buggin’ out as she approaches the new application...

Question from an aspiring non-profit endowment manager

by Marquis | Aug 14, 2008 | Bschool experience, Education, Joint degree, Non-profit

Hey, everyone. After the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes this weekend, I was seriously thrown for a loop. Now that it’s all settled in, I thought I should get back to addressing entries because my Inbox is getting extra, extra backed up.The email below is...

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...
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