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Dear Achievers,
Greetings from the Achievers Point

The ISB is having its official Information Session in Delhi on the July 11^th 2010 at The Sheraton Hotel. Here, you would get to interact with Director – Admissions, Senior ISB Alums and the Regional Placement Head of the ISB. The session will not only give you information about the school but also its admissions process followed by a detailed Q & A session. As a prospective applicant you may use this opportunity to connect with Senior Alumni of the ISB and get all your doubts about placements clarified from the Regional Placements Heads.

We believe that if you are serious about applying to the ISB this year you register and attend this session.

The registration for the session is free, but essential. To register, please click http://www.isb.edu/infosessions

Details:

For further details please do not hesitate to reach out to the ISB in any of the following ways:

• Call: +91 40 23187474 / 84 / 94
• Email: pgpadmissions@isb.edu

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Dear Team,

The online application for PGP 2011-12 will go live in a couple of hours.

Here is some key information on this:

Key Dates:

Application Fee:

Admission Fee:

Essay Questions:

Mandatory:
1)     If we were to admit one more student to the class of 2011, make a compelling argument as to why that student should be you? (300 words)

2)     What are your short term and long term goals? How will the ISB help you achieve the same? (300 words)

3)     Please provide additional information, that will significantly affect the consideration of your application to the ISB. (300 words)

Re-applicants:
Above 3 essays and the usual re-applicant’s essay.

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V. Srinath
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The number of GMAT exams administered in 2009 hit 267,000, just slightly eclipsing the 264,700 given in 2008. That’s an all-time high and the largest number of tests GMAT ever administered in one testing year, even though it’s just an uptick of 2,300 exams over last year.  According to analysis of the most recent GMAT testing year, which ran from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009, approximately 51 percent of the exams administered during the period were taken by citizens of nations other than the United States.

The number of GMAT takers were in Indian location was 21,781 but the number of Indian citizens took 30,633 GMAT exams, a 7 % increase over 2008. “Approximately 9,000 Indians took the GMAT outside India. Majority of them come from IT background posted outside India.” said Managing Director of Achievers Point (http://www.achieverspoint.com ), Mr. Shyam Bahadur.

Fast Fact:
The GMAT is used as an assessment tool by more than 4,700 MBA and graduate management programs in nearly 2,000 schools worldwide.

Twenty-one percent of all GMATs are taken by repeat test-takers; the test can be taken up to 5 times every 12 months.

African Americans and Hispanic Americans are also taking the GMAT in greater numbers, GMAC reported. The number of African Americans taking the exam is up 27 percent since 2005, to 10,751, and Hispanic American test takers have increased 16 percent, to 7,339. Finally, the number of test takers from undergraduate fields other than business is also growing rapidly, GMAC reported.

The number of GMAT exams taken by women hit a record 104,880 during testing year 2009, an increase of 36 percent during the past five years and the first time female test takers have exceeded 100,000 in a single testing year. The number of GMAT test takers under 24 grew to 79,577 in 2009, a 132 percent increase from 2005.

The Admit Office’s Hate List
Excuses don’t cut it, say seasoned admissions officials. Here’s what not to say, from the folks who have heard it all

Whether it be gaps in your employment history, significant job-hopping, or a lower-than-you’d like GPA or GMAT score, many prospective B-schoolers have something in their applications that they worry doesn’t reflect their true abilities. Is the worry justified? Actually, say admissions counselors, yes. “If you think the admissions committee will question something, we probably will,” says Alison Merzel, co-director of MBA admissions at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business].

You can try gloss over the shortcomings, or you can make excuses. Either way, you won’t win any points with B-schools admissions offices. Fortunately, most schools’ applications include an optional essay with an open-ended question like, “Is there any further information that you wish to provide to the Admissions Committee?” that’s designed so you can explain any mitigating factors behind the data. “The more information that we have about you, the better,” says Beth Flye, assistant dean and director of admissions and financial aid at Kellogg.

While some applicants might think that drawing extra attention to a problem could be a bad approach, admissions officers say addressing problems head-on—and demonstrating why you can succeed in spite of them—is a much better strategy than trying to hide behind them. “Don’t leave a gap in your application that would leave us wondering. Address it, and then move on,” says Christina Ballenger, co-director of MBA admissions at Ohio State.

But how you address the problem can make all the difference. In fact, admissions directors say MBA candidates sometimes go overboard trying to compensate for the weaknesses (or perceived weaknesses) in their applications. Here’s what they say are some of the most common tactics that backfire. (Source and complete article: http://www.businessweek.com )

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April 27 (Bloomberg) — The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, the U.S.’s oldest business college, has the best undergraduate business program in the nation, a new poll says.

Business Week magazine’s first poll of business programs offering bachelor’s degrees ranked University of Virginia’s program second, followed by University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emory University in Atlanta.

University of Michigan’s undergraduate business program was ranked sixth, followed by New York University; Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; University of Texas at Austin and Indiana University in Bloomington, according to the survey.

The poll marks the second time Wharton’s undergraduate program has been ranked the top business school in a national survey. U.S. News & World Report magazine selected Wharton, in Philadelphia, as the best undergraduate business program among U.S. colleges last year.

“They do just about everything right,” said Louis Lavelle, 45, Business Week’s associate editor in charge of the magazine’s business-school coverage. He spoke in a telephone interview today about Wharton. “The academic quality is off the charts.”

Two calls to Wharton spokeswoman Tracy Liebman seeking comment about Wharton’s top ranking in the survey weren’t immediately returned.

Top Degree Helps

Business Week, published by McGraw-Hill Cos., has ranked graduate schools of business since 1988, he said. A degree from a top-ranked school can help students in the job market, Lavelle said.

“Business schools aren’t giving up on the MBA, but they’re shifting their attention to the undergraduates,” Lavelle said. “One reason is that they’re cheaper, and undergraduates can be molded.”

Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate school of business in the U.S., Wharton has about 2,400 undergraduate students and 280 faculty, according to its Web site.

Among Wharton’s key strengths are its researchers and professors, a median annual starting salary of $55,000 last year for graduating seniors, and an 8.8-to-1 student/faculty ratio, Lavelle said.

Wharton ranked third in Business Week’s 2004 survey of best MBA programs behind top-ranked Northwestern University and University of Chicago.

`Doing it Right’

“You’ve got a lot of synergy — when you do it right as Wharton has — with a good doctoral program that attracts great faculty,” said David Wilson, president of the Graduate Management Admission Council which administers the GMAT test, in a telephone interview today. “That feeds into the master’s program, and bachelor’s-degree students benefit from that.”

The magazine conducted an online survey of students and schools beginning in November 2005, looking at a number of features including course work, students’ starting salaries, student-to-faculty ratio and job placement, Lavelle said.

Business Week asked about 100 business school programs in the U.S. to participate in the survey and 84 agreed to do so, Lavelle said. The magazine asked 100,000 business majors to rate their programs on features ranging from curriculum to grading policies, he said. About 22 percent of the students contacted responded to the poll, Lavelle said.

To contact the reporter on this story:
Patrick Cole in New York at? pcole3@bloomberg.net.(Source:bloomberg.com)

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 19 (AScribe Newswire) — Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, the nation’s No. 3 business school according to the 2006 Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive poll of corporate recruiters, enrolled 137 new full-time MBA students this fall with an average Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score of 696 out of a possible 800. The score reflects the fifth consecutive year of increasing test scores for the Tepper School’s incoming class.

Overall, 28 percent of Tepper students are international, with students from 25 countries in this year’s class compared to 21 last year. Women represent about one-fifth of Tepper’s entering class and underrepresented minorities (African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans) continued at about 10 percent.

About 92 percent of incoming students held full-time jobs before entering the MBA program, and the average number of years on the job held steady at just more than four years. Included among the incoming students are a neurosurgery resident, a member of the Peace Corps who worked in Cameroon, a patent examiner and a member of the U.S. Coast Guard.

“Tepper’s focus on the intersection of technology and business teaches future leaders of any background the analytical skills for solving complex problems in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. That experience develops the confidence to make an immediate and strategic impact on their organizations,” said John Mather, executive director of the Tepper School’s master’s programs.

This year also saw a large increase in enrollment in Tepper’s FlexTime program, offered to Pittsburgh-area students who want to earn their MBA while continuing to work. The FlexTime program has 68 new students this year compared to 55 last year – a 24 percent increase. In addition, 61 new students enrolled in Tepper’s corporate-sponsored FlexMode program, in which professors teach students at companies throughout the country via live video conferencing. Students receive the same MBA curriculum from the same instructors in each of the three methods of delivering the program (full-time, FlexTime and FlexMode).

Tepper’s innovative Master of Science in Computational Finance (MSCF) program – taught both at the Tepper School in Pittsburgh and in New York – welcomed 83 new students for 2006. The interdisciplinary MSCF degree is a 17-month program that draws its course content from four Carnegie Mellon colleges: the Mellon College of Science (math), the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (statistics), the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management (information technology), and the Tepper School (finance). Tepper also enrolled 20 new Ph.D. candidates, representing 10 countries. Of the new doctoral candidates, eight (40 percent) are women.

Enrollment in the Tepper School’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration program numbers 82, representing eight different countries, with an average SAT score of 1360. About 43 percent are women.

Tepper is one of 27 U.S. schools to maintain membership in the Forte Foundation, which aims to increase the number of women in business by encouraging their admission into graduate business programs. It is also one of 13 U.S. schools that belong to the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a 40-year-old organization that promotes diversity and inclusion in American business.

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MBA FULL-TIME CLASS PROFILE: 2006, 2007, 2008

Class Size: 151, 165, 137

Women: 20 percent 22 percent 21 percent

Minorities (see note): 3 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent

International: 27 percent 30 percent 28.5 percent

Countries represented: 15, 21, 25

Average years of full-time professional experience: 4.3, 4.2, 4.3

Percent with full-time professional experience: 92.7 percent, 91.5 percent, 92 percent

(Note: The category “minorities” includes African American, Native American and Hispanic only.)

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: 2006, 2007, 2008

Undergraduate GPA average: 3.3, 3.38, 3.4

3.5 or higher: 28 percent, 42 percent, 40 percent

3.0-3.49: 50 percent, 45 percent, 49 percent

2.5-2.99: 19 percent, 12 percent, 8 percent

2.49 or below: 3 percent, 1 percent, 3 percent

GMAT Average: 691, 692, 696

700 or higher: 47 percent, 53 percent, 56 percent

600-699: 52 percent, 45 percent, 43 percent

Less than 600: 1 percent, 2 percent, 1 percent

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ABOUT THE TEPPER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Founded in 1949, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon (www.tepper.cmu.edu) is a pioneer in the field of management science and analytical decision-making. The school’s notable contributions to the intellectual community include six Nobel laureates and a consistent presence in the top tier of business school rankings. The Wall Street Journal recently ranked the Tepper School as the third-best business school in the United States.

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CONTACT: Geof Becker, Tepper media relations, 412-268-3486, gbecker@andrew.cmu.edu
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