By Barbara Selmo | August 24, 2012
Dry runs are a great idea. I believe in drafts. I believe in visualizing the presentation, the talk. I live for the event walk-through. Most of the time, I can handle the unexpected if I feel that I’ve mastered the expected. What do you expect from your application? You expect it to be a physical manifestation of…
By Barbara Selmo | August 17, 2012
Some of you may well remember your undergraduate college visit tour. You may have gone with your parents; you may have shared the back seat with a sibling or two. You may have been the driver, figuratively and literally, and scheduled the tour to only include schools you thought you would like. Some of you may…
By Barbara Selmo | August 10, 2012
Last week I talked about starting your MBA program exploration at a tour, fair or forum. To put some context on these visits, let’s say that they are the first step in your action research project. What is your research project about? MBA programs. More specifically, the MBA programs you want to apply to and…
By Barbara Selmo | August 2, 2012
It’s August, which means that fall recruitment has indeed begun. As I promised in my last post, I am going to use my blog in the next several months to inform you about all things Babson MBA admissions, to continue introducing you to the staff, and hopefully, to give you advice you can use to…
By Barbara Selmo | July 13, 2012
As promised, I am going to introduce you to another member of the Graduate Admissions team, Petia Whitmore. Petia is a Babson MBA alumna and will soon be a one-year veteran of Graduate Admissions. She will be on the road starting next month, recruiting in New York City, Washington DC, and Asia (Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong…
By Barbara Selmo | July 6, 2012
I’ve been out for a little summer hiatus–GMAC conference, days off–but now, I’m jumping back in to address a topic that’s important to me, as well as to my staff and all candidates for an MBA in 2013: the recruitment season. Along with my other B-school colleagues, we at Babson Grad Admissions engage in tours,…
By Barbara Selmo | May 31, 2012
Commencement has come and gone, and at Babson that means that the Graduate School is as busy as ever. We welcomed our One-Year MBA’s and our GEP cohort to Babson. We welcomed a new group of Evening MBA’s who started their program this May. But we also continue to work with a newly admitted Two-Year…
By Barbara Selmo | May 21, 2012
Welcome to the One-Year MBA Class of 2013! We in Admissions, and all of us at Babson, are excited to have you join us at your Orientation on May 24. For those of you reading this blog who are not part of that class but are interested in learning more about the One-Year MBA program,…
By Barbara Selmo | May 10, 2012
May is college and university commencement month, and I have been thinking about the many beginnings and endings that are happening at Babson. Students are graduating, and new classes are enrolling. Despite all this leave-taking and in-coming, I am also thinking about the transformations that have happened here at Babson. Not only will our students…
By Barbara Selmo | April 26, 2012
Two posts ago, I provided a top ten list of reasons why you should consider the part-time programs at Babson. In this post, I feature a quick highlight of the Fast Track program and the three Fast Track recruiters through my recurring “Meet the Staff” segment. The Fast Track MBA program is one of the…