B-Schooled: Get Your MBA Admit
Stacy Blackman Consulting, the leading MBA admissions consulting firm
B-Schooled: Get Your MBA Admit, a podcast from top MBA admissions consulting firm Stacy Blackman Consulting, covers all aspects of the MBA application and admissions process. We offer insight and advice on how to pull together your personal-best business school materials — and make the most of your time once you get on campus. We’ll occasionally hold interviews with current business school students and recent graduates, as well as other important players along a typical candidate’s MBA admissions journey.
Episodes
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Mar 10, 2021 • 21min
Social media & your MBA candidacy: B-Schooled episode 46
This episode covers how an MBA applicant's social media behavior might affect his or her candidacy — both positively and negatively.
Mar 3, 2021 • 16min
How to approach the "Bird in Hand" dilemma: B-Schooled episode 45
In this episode we discuss 4 things MBA candidates should consider when facing the “Bird in Hand” dilemma: namely, when they have been admitted to at least one program, but are considering not claiming their spot, forgoing the sure thing and taking the risk of trying again in the future in the hopes of getting into a program they’re even more interested in.
Feb 24, 2021 • 22min
Negotiating merit scholarships: B-Schooled episode 44
This episode discusses how accepted MBA candidates should go about asking for an increase in merit aid; the four situations a candidate might be in and their associated negotiating tactics; and detailed advice for approaching such an ask over the phone vs. email.
Feb 17, 2021 • 15min
Similar MBA candidates, different outcomes: B-Schooled episode 43
This episode covers 3 reasons why candidates who seem similar on paper could end up with drastically different MBA admissions results.
Feb 10, 2021 • 22min
Wharton's team-based discussion interviews: B-schooled episode 42
Erika talks with Anthony Penna, a fellow SBC admissions consultant who spent 10 years with the Wharton School in Career Management and as Associate Director of Admissions for the full-time MBA program. As Anthony served on the implementation and design team for Wharton's Team Based Discussion (TBD) interview format, this episode focuses on his insight advice for MBA candidates who will be interviewing with Wharton.
Feb 3, 2021 • 25min
HBS interviews: B-Schooled episode 41
This episode offers insight into Harvard Business School's unique type of MBA interview, as well as advice on how to prepare.
Jan 27, 2021 • 21min
Round 3 (or final round) considerations: B-Schooled episode 40
This episode focuses on when it does or doesn’t make sense to apply in a school’s final application round.
Jan 20, 2021 • 24min
Deciding between MBA programs: B-Schooled episode 39
Are you in the extraordinarily enviable position of having to decide between two or more MBA programs? Are you nervous about your choice or unsure of how to go about making such a huge commitment? This episode pulls together advice from the entire Stacy Blackman Consulting staff on how to approach this decision and what factors to consider (both short-term and long-term).
Jan 13, 2021 • 34min
For waitlisted applicants: B-Schooled episode 38
MBA candidates who've been waitlisted can feel like they're in some sort of admissions purgatory. In this episode, our host Erika and her colleague and former MBA admissions director Lisa discuss what options waitlisted candidates have to learn more about why they were waitlisted and what, if anything, they can do to increase their chances of admission.
Jan 6, 2021 • 18min
A real application review, part 2 of 2: B-Schooled episode 37
In this episode we share another extensive profile of an applicant Stacy Blackman Consulting worked with. We explain how the former admissions committee members on our staff assessed his candidacy and what ended up happening.
