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MBA applicants can get carried away with rankings. In this series, we profile amazing programs at business schools that are typically ranked outside the top 15. Thanks to its proximity to the Tech Coast, the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, offers significant opportunities for students with an eye toward … Read More  

Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday. As Round 2 application deadlines approach, many candidates find themselves immersed in stress, busy juggling multiple essays and constantly revising their resume. Often in the midst of all this, an alarming question suddenly springs to mind: “What if my … Read More  

Thanksgiving is upon us, and we here at mbaMission are celebrating by offering an exclusive discount on all our Insider’s, Interview, and Admissions Guides. From midnight on Black Friday (11/28) through 11:59 p.m. EST on Cyber Monday (12/1), when you buy one or several of the guides in our store, you can take 50% off … Read More  

From time to time, we at mbaMission visit admissions officers at the leading business schools, which gives us the opportunity to ask rather frank questions. On one such visit, we pushed an admissions officer on the extent of alumni influence in the admissions process and ultimately received a surprising response: “We get ten letters each … Read More  

With regard to the GMAT, raw intellectual horsepower helps, but it is not everything. In this blog series, Manhattan GMAT’s Stacey Koprince teaches you how to perform at your best on test day by using some common sense. Thus far, the still relatively “new” Integrated Reasoning (IR) section of the GMAT (added in June 2012) … Read More