Blog: Archive for the “Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)” Category

Twice a year, in the fall and in the spring, MIT Sloan students organize charity auctions. Each “ocean” (the 60-person cohort with which students take their first-semester core classes) selects a charity to support and identifies items to be auctioned, from lunch with a professor to a home-cooked meal by a student to more unusual … Read More  

Although quantifying a school’s profile certainly does not tell you everything, it can sometimes be helpful in simplifying the many differences between the various MBA programs. Each week, we bring you a chart to help you decide which of the schools’ strengths speak to you. The nerd/geek label seems, by today’s standards, a fairly imprecise … Read More  

Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we profile Arnold Barnett from the MIT Sloan School of Management. MIT Sloan’s George … Read More  

How does MIT Sloan review applications? True to the rigorous analytic nature of its curriculum—in a rigorous analytic fashion! When the admissions office receives an application, the candidate’s information is loaded into a database and the application is printed. Rod Garcia, who has been admissions director for MIT Sloan for the past decade, first reviews … Read More  

Last week, the Wall Street Journal online published an article about MIT Sloan’s miscalculation for the incoming Class of 2014 (“Bad Math:  MIT Miscounts Its New B-School Students”).  A little background first:  A school has a target class size (Sloan’s is about 400), and it has an applicant pool from which to choose people to fill … Read More