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May 1 and Babson Graduate Admissions

May 1 is a big day at Babson Graduate Admissions.  Here’s why: Second-deposit day for the Two-Year MBA admits First application deadline for Evening MBA, September 2013 enrollment First application deadline for Fast Track October 2013 enrollment Tips about the three events listed above: We are moving to the end of the Two-Year Full-time program decision…

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Babson Entrepreneurship Forum, Friday November 9/Babson in Asia

What do students at Babson do when they are not in class? More activities and pursuits than I have space to write about, that is what they do. And the 11th annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Forum is an example of one of those activities.  Not only is this Forum a place for student leadership, ideas and initiatives,…

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Babson Graduate Admissions goes to Toronto

Greetings from Toronto, Canada, where my colleague Domenic and I are attending two recruitment events this week.  Last night, we participated in the Forte Foundation Forum. This was Babson’s and the Forte Foundation’s first foray to Toronto, and from Babson’s perspective, we will certainly be returning.  We spoke with many engaged, entrepreneurial-thinking women interested in…

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Rehearsing Your MBA Application

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…

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MBA Recruitment events–making them work for you

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…

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Profile: Two-Year Recruiter,Babson MBA Admissions

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…

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Deposits and extensions: Time to commit

Commitment. That is what every MBA admissions office wants at this time of year. Your commitment.  It’s not like we’ve been casually dating, but let’s face it, we have been building a relationship, right? We first met at Kaplan Road to Business School event, or at a Forté Foundation fair, or here on the Wellesley,…

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Are You LinkedIn?

We in Admissions talk, strategize, and puzzle over communicating with candidates at every stage of the admissions process.  One of our challenges is determining what is the best way to communicate with you. My staff and I have entered a really exciting time of year, one in which we have released many rounds of decisions…

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B-Women–Women’s History Month at Babson

The United States is in the middle of the 2012 National Women’s History Month. At Babson, we celebrate our entire community of amazing female leaders through a variety of events–social, celebratory, and educative. On March 1, we kicked off the month with the annual “Nan Langowitz Women Who Make a Difference” award ceremony, where one…

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Interviews, Interviews

Greetings from Babson Park, where it never snows and our New England winter is almost over (wishful thinking)! We in the Admissions Office are really in the thick of it—another application deadline this week (February 15), admissions committee meetings (just finished another round of decisions), and Welcome Day Events for new admits—all on the calendar. I’m…