B-Schooled: Get Your MBA Admit

This two-part series of episodes outlines 12 things that admitted MBA applicants should do between now and matriculation. Part 2 covers budgeting for your MBA, planning to relocate, and figuring out how to best spend your time between now and matriculation (when you aren't attending to all of the other to do's!). As a reminder, in Part 1 (episode 48) we discussed how to head off possible issues with your background check after you're admitted. If that's something that concerns you, be sure to check out SBC's new MBA PreCheck service (on our website under "Work With Us").

This two-part series of episodes outlines 12 things that admitted MBA applicants should do between now and matriculation. Part 1 covers To Do's related to an applicant's current and future networks, as well as other important actions to take before leaving a job. We also discuss how to head off possible issues with your background check after you're admitted. If that's something that concerns you, be sure to check out SBC's new MBA PreCheck service (on our website under "Work With Us").

If you know you want to pursue an MBA in the future, but that future is still at least a few years away, what could (and should) you do now to build a strong candidacy? This episode gives actionable advice for all aspects of an eventual-applicant's profile.

This episode covers how an MBA applicant's social media behavior might affect his or her candidacy — both positively and negatively.

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.

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.

This episode covers 3 reasons why candidates who seem similar on paper could end up with drastically different MBA admissions results.

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.

This episode offers insight into Harvard Business School's unique type of MBA interview, as well as advice on how to prepare.

This episode focuses on when it does or doesn't make sense to apply in a school's final application round.