How Do We Address Cheating in Remote Education?
Imagine, for a moment, that you are about to take the most important test of your life. For some, that might be the SAT. Others, the…
Posted on February 1, 2021A Columbia University alumni and seasoned writer, Alex is an expert on higher education and university admissions. When not teasing out the latest happenings in the world of B-school and college for readers of the Admissionado blog, he can be found writing fiction and maundering about obscure moments in history.
Imagine, for a moment, that you are about to take the most important test of your life. For some, that might be the SAT. Others, the…
Posted on February 1, 2021The first MBA programs may have started in the U.S., but don’t count out top European MBA programs. Europe dominates rankings for the best non-U.S. MBA…
Posted on December 1, 2020In October 2011, three years into the wake of the 2008 US financial crisis, federal agents in Manhattan arrested Rajat Gupta on charges of insider trading….
Posted on July 1, 2020One of the first questions any MBA applicant will have is “how hard is it to get in?” You might turn to acceptance rates to get…
Posted on March 4, 2020Acceptance rates say more about the college admissions process than they do about school quality. Getting into a highly selective school can feel like winning the…
Posted on September 17, 2019Billionaires—love them, hate them, or love to hate them—run our world. The top one percent controls 45% of all wealth according to Credit Suisse, a number…
Posted on May 21, 2019Last season, we encountered a novel problem with one of our deferred admissions program clients. The young man had written about his desire to attend networking…
Posted on May 17, 2019[Don’t forget to dig into Part I, Part II and Part III of this series! Wahoo!] Dartmouth Tuck used to ask applicants to “tell us about…
Posted on May 13, 2019[Don’t forget to dig into Part II of this series! Wahoo!] Dartmouth Tuck used to ask applicants to “tell us about a time you: received tough…
Posted on May 10, 2019[Don’t forget to dig into Part I of this series! Wahoo!] Dartmouth Tuck used to ask applicants to “tell us about a time you: received tough…
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