Yale SOM has released its MBA Application Deadlines for the upcoming year.
MBA Application Deadlines
Round One Deadline: September 25, 2013
Round Two Deadline: January 9, 2014
Round Three Deadline: April 24, 2014
MBA Application Deadlines
Round 1 Deadline: October 4, 2012
Round 2 Deadline: January 8, 2013
Round 3 Deadline: April 18, 2013
MBA Essay Questions
1. What prompted your decision to get an MBA? When did you realize that this was a step you wanted – or needed – to take? (150-word limit)
2. Describe a difficult professional decision you had to make. What were the consequences, and what, if anything, did you learn? Would you make the same decision again? (300-word limit)
3. The Yale School of Management provides a leadership education characterized by broad-minded and intellectually curious students with diverse backgrounds, a distinctive integrated curriculum, connections to one of the great research universities in the world, and the broad reach of an innovative and expanding global network of top business schools. What will you contribute to the Yale SOM community, and how will being part of it help you extend your professional vision? (300-word limit)
4. What do you consider to be your most significant accomplishment? Why? (300-word limit)
5. Required for reapplicants: You must answer three essay questions: Question 1., Question 4., and then a response to the question “What steps have you taken to improve your candidacy since your last application? (300-word limit)
Many schools now have integrated JD/MBA programs that allow participants to complete the combined programs in 3 years (instead of the usual 4 years) and/or to include both legal and business perspectives in an integrated curriculum. Each program has its own unique structure. Four of the most well-known programs are listed below:
Penn Law/Wharton Business 3-Year JD/MBA Degree
Northwestern Law/Kellogg Business 3-Year JD/MBA Degree
Yale Law/Yale SOM 3-Year JD/MBA Degree
Cornell Law/Johnson Graduate School of Management 3-Year Program
From Darden Admissions & MBA Blog:
Europe, here we come!
Fall is here, and all of us in Admissions are taking to the skies to meet prospective students and to share some Darden love. As Associate Director of Admissions & European Recruiting, I’m particularly excited about some events next week with some of our peer schools in London (Sept. 22), Brussels (Sept. 24), Paris (Sept. 26), and Frankfurt (Sept. 28). We will share the stage with Yale, Cornell, NYU, UC Berkeley, Michigan and Duke in an effort to educate prospective students about the vast array of U.S. MBA options out there. We have some amazing alumni ready to greet you and to share a little about their Darden experience, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more of your stories.
Please visit our Events & Receptions page to register, and we hope to see you there!
Haley Whitlock Gyory
Associate Director of Admissions & European Recruiting
gyoryh@darden.virginia.edu
Many MBA applicants wish to launch businesses directly from school. Yale Entrepreneurial Institute serves as an incubator. Since 2007, YEI has launched 47 ventures that have raised a total of $37 million. This year 10 new student-created ventures were launched as part of YEI’s summer fellowship program. For more information about this process read more at the Yale Daily Bulletin:
As student business ideas evolve and expand, so does YEI
Like the many of the 47 new companies it has helped create since 2007, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) has outgrown the adjective “start-up.”
The institute, envisioned as a place where Yale students could get advice on implementing their business ideas, has evolved and expanded. It has moved from the cramped York Street office of its younger days into a larger, more formal office at 55 Whitney Ave.
At an open house scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 7, YEI officials plan to show off the 10 new student-created ventures whose founders recently completed a summer fellowship program, as well as YEI’s own increasingly ambitious and sophisticated programs for connecting the entrepreneurial community at Yale and the region. (See related story, “To market, to market: 10 student enterprises”)
For the complete article go to http://bulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8816.
Yale MBA Admissions Team will be travelling around the globe to educate prospective students on what makes Yale special including its distinct integrated curriculum. Prospective students will be able to talk with admissions officers and alumni at these events.
For more information go to http://mba.yale.edu/MBA/admissions/events.asp.
Anaheim, CA
| October 13 – 15 | National Society of Hispanic MBAs Conference |
| October 15 | Consortium MAPS |
| October 26 – 30 | Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference |
Atlanta, GA
| September 26 | Forté Forum |
| October 4 – 8 | National Black MBA Association Conference |
| October 6 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
| October 8 | Consortium MAPS |
Austin, TX
| October 10 | Joint MBA Admissions Event – Registration info TBA |
Beijing, China
| September 13 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Bogotá, Colombia
| September 2 | QS World MBA Tour |
Boston, MA
| August 16 | Road to Business School |
| September 8 | Consortium MAPS |
| September 28 | Forté Forum |
| October 4 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Brussels, Belgium
| September 24 | MBA2U |
Budapest, Hungary
| November 13 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Buenos Aires, Argentina
| August 2 | MBA Tour |
| August 3 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Charlotte, NC
| October 3 | Joint MBA Admissions Event – Registration info TBA |
Chicago, IL
| September 14 | Consortium MAPS |
| September 28 | Yale SOM Admissions Lunch |
| September 29 | Forté Forum |
Dallas, TX
| October 13 | Joint MBA Admissions Event – Registration info TBA |
| October 13 – 16 | Reaching Out Conference |
Detroit, MI
| September 7 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Durant, OK
| November 4 – 5 | Choctaw Nation Ivy League & Friends Event |
Frankfurt, Germany
| September 26 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Houston, TX
| September 15 | Forté Forum |
| October 11 | Joint MBA Admissions Event – Registration info TBA |
Indianapolis, IN
| September 8 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Istanbul, Turkey
| November 9 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Las Vegas, NV
| September 14 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
London, England
| September 22 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
| October 4 | Forté Forum |
Los Angeles, CA
| August 14 | Road to Business School |
| September 13 | Forté Forum |
| September 14 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Mexico City, Mexico
| August 31 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Miami, FL
| October 4 | Joint MBA Admissions Event – Registration info TBA |
Minneapolis, MN
| September 22 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
| November 10 – 12 | American Indian Science and Engineering Conference |
Mumbai, India
| September 14 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Nashville, TN
| September 6 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
New Haven, CT
| November 6 – 7 | Explore Diversity |
New York, NY
| August 3 | Joint MBA Admissions Women’s Panel |
| August 20 | Road to Business School |
| September 19 | Forté Forum |
| September 20 | Forté Forum |
| September 20 | Consortium MAPS |
| September 27 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
| October 20 | Yale SOM Women’s Admissions Reception |
Online
| August 25 | Yale SOM Application Tips Chat |
| September 20 | Yale SOM Online Admissions Reception |
| October TBD | Consortium Student Chat |
| November TBD | Africa and Middle East Student Chat |
| November TBD | Europe Student Chat |
| November TBD | Latin America Student Chat |
| November TBD | Women Student Chat |
| November TBD | Asia Student Chat |
| November TBD | Nonprofit Chat |
| November TBD | Veterans Chat |
| December TBD | Entrepreneurship Chat |
| December TBD | Finance Chat |
| December TBD | Healthcare Chat |
| December TBD | LGBT Student Chat |
| December TBD | Consulting Chat |
Paris, France
| September 26 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Phildelphia, PA
| August 23 | Road to Business School |
Phoenix, AZ
| September 15 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Portland, OR
| September 20 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Salt Lake City, UT
| September 13 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
San Francisco, CA
| August 4 | Joint MBA Admissions Women’s Panel |
| August 13 | Road to Business School |
| September 14 | Forté Forum |
| September 15 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Santiago, Chile
| August 10 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Sao Paulo, Brazil
| August 5 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Seattle, WA
| September 21 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Seoul, South Korea
| September 14 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Shanghai, China
| September 8 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Singapore
| September 6 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Sofia, Bulgaria
| November 11 | Joint MBA Admissions Event |
Tokyo, Japan
| September 16 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
Washington D.C.
| August 2 | Joint MBA Admissions Women’s Panel |
| August 18 | Road to Business School |
| September 21 | Consortium MAPS |
| September 26 | Yale SOM Admissions Reception |
| September 27 | Forté Forum |
BloombergBusinessWeek recently ranked the most popular professors across the Top 30 U.S. full-time MBA programs. Surveys were sent to more than 3500 students. The top 10 professors teach at NYU Stern School of Business, Michigan Ross School of Business, UT Austin McCombs School of Business, Berkeley Haas School of Business, Emory Goizueta Business School, Yale School of Management, Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and Rice Jones Graduate School of Business.
From BloombergBusinessWeek:
Most Popular Profs at Top Business Schools
The most popular business school professors are good teachers, plain and simple. They’re not rock stars, CEOs or celebrity researchers. Their names may not look familiar. But they’ve earned a place in the hearts and minds of their students by bringing to life accounting, finance and management, learning their names and helping them find jobs. Their students come first and it shows.
To determine which professors at the Top 30 U.S. full-time MBA programs were most popular, Bloomberg Businessweekused surveys sent to 2010 graduates asking them to identify their two favorites. Professors were ranked in order of absolute popularity. In all, the responses of 3,732 students were used to calculate this ranking; only schools that had more than 60 student responses were counted. At least one in every five survey respondents from each of the schools listed wrote down these names chosen for our top ten list as their favorite professor—pretty amazing considering they had hundreds of faculty members to choose from. Read on after the jump for the list.
For the complete article.
Yale discusses how students partner with the Yale Center for Customer Insights and companies like PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and IBM in tackling real world projects.
From Yale SOM Latest News:
Curriculum: The Consulting Project
Each year, a handful of students are chosen by the Yale Center for Customer Insights to collaborate with major corporations on projects to improve marketing, brand awareness, and customer relations. Students work closely with YCCI faculty and top leaders from clients such as PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and IBM to provide solutions for real-world problems.
Two of the companies students worked for this year were Visa and Sears Canada. For Visa, they were tasked with researching and evaluating a new phenomenon called media multitasking, where consumers access content on multiple screens—such as a TV, a laptop, and a mobile device—at once. The Sears Canada group investigated why people are often slow to replace old, energy-hogging appliances with more efficient ones, and to find strategies to convince them to do it sooner. Students spent months researching their topics, gathering information, and analyzing it before presenting a series of recommendations to senior executives at each corporation.
“These are much higher level questions than MBAs just out of school are asked,” says Ravi Dhar, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Marketing and the center’s director. “We’re forcing them to go beyond what we’ve taught them. The expectations are very high. It’s a discovery process at many levels for the students.”
Yale had introduced its new curriculum that emphasizes perspectives which are cross-functional covering many disciplines. In Yale SOM Community Blog, a student shares her viewpoint on the Innovator Perspective and its applicability to her summer internship.
From Yale SOM Community Blog:
Innovator’s Perspective
Part of the Yale SOM first-year core curriculum is the Innovator’s Perspective, a course that I think is really unique and a critical part of our integrated management education. The class is not just about defining or solidifying “innovation” as the corporate Holy Grail, but rather it focuses on preparing students for the very real but also predictable barriers to innovation in organizations. It has by far been my favorite class at Yale. And, luckily enough, my summer internship has been like “Innovator” on steroids.
I have spent the last twelve weeks (finishing up this Friday) at Innosight, a management consultancy co-founded by innovation strategist Mark Johnson and Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, whose concept of disruptive innovation fundamentally changed the way that I (and more importantly, companies) think about business problems. The Innovator’s Dilemma differentiated between sustaining innovations, or incremental improvements to existing technologies or systems, and disruptive innovations, which often create new markets and performance measurements. The theory explains how even the best-run companies have collapsed in the face of technologies and strategies that address consumer needs more cheaply, easily, or quickly than incumbents. That is kind of a mouthful—the basic idea is that companies innovate faster than customers’ lives change, so they end up generating goods and services that overshoot customer needs on traditional dimensions. This natural tendency (the result of good management habits) leaves wide open the opportunity for a disruptor to offer a simpler, more convenient or affordable alternative.
At any rate, we work with some of the leading companies in the world and help them think about and implement new growth and innovation strategies. To sum it up quickly: this is both really challenging and fun! I have worked on two interesting projects in financial services. While I must refrain from too much detail for client confidentiality purposes (thanks for the legal tips, Professor Scott Morton!), I will say that I have been pleasantly surprised by the proof that even the “good ole boys” finance industry can embrace and apply principles of innovation. Coming from a financial services background pre-Yale SOM, I think this lesson alone speaks for the experience of my internship. Our own Dick Foster presented the need for education in innovation in a very useful way for me: our whole lives, we are presented with problems and asked to find the one, right answer. The real world is a lot more ambiguous than that. It takes a different type of mental training (especially for MBAs) to figure out how to first ask the right questions. Think about it: how are you going to model a market that might not even exist yet? Exactly.
This summer has also been a wonderful opportunity to live in Boston for the first time. Being the Southerner that I am, I found a delicious barbeque place and an outdoor bar that plays country music. Not going to lie though: this week’s GPSCY update email brought tears of joy to my eyes in anticipation of our return to New Haven. Only 27 days left!
Yale SOM Director of Admissions, Bruce Delmonico recently announced Yale’s MBA application deadlines and MBA essay questions:
From Yale SOM Community Blog:
2011-2012 Yale SOM application is now live!
I am very pleased to announce that the 2011-2012 online application for the Yale School of Management MBA Program is now live. To access the application and begin working on it, click here.
In addition, although this information is contained in the application itself, below are the 2011-2012 Yale SOM application deadlines and essay questions.
Application Deadlines
Round 1
Application Deadline: October 6, 2011
Decision Notification: December 15, 2011
Round 2
Application Deadline: January 5, 2012
Decision Notification: March 22, 2012
Round 3
Application Deadline: April 12, 2012
Decision Notification: May 17, 2012
For those candidates applying to Yale SOM through the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, whose mission is to enhance diversity and inclusion in American business, the deadlines for that application are November 15, 2011 (Round 1) and January 5, 2012 (Round 2). For both of these Consortium rounds, we aim to have decisions to applicants by the end of February.
(Please note: If you are looking for information about the MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program, please visit their website.)
Essay Questions
This year the application will continue to contain four short answer questions of 150 words each and two longer personal statements of 500 words each. Applicants must answer all four short answer questions. The personal statements contain a list of three essay topics, from which you must choose two topics and answer them in essay form. If you are a reapplicant, you must answer the reapplicant question as one of your personal statement essay responses. The questions are:
Short Answers
Please answer each of the four (4) questions below with a short paragraph of no more than 150 words. This is an opportunity to distill your core ideas, values, goals and motivations into a set of snapshots that help tell us who you are, where you are going professionally, and why. (600 words total)
1. What are your professional goals immediately after you receive your MBA?
2. What are your long‐term career aspirations?
3. Why are you choosing to pursue an MBA? (If you plan to use your Yale MBA to make a significant change in the nature of your career, please tell us what you have done to prepare for this transition.)
4. The intentions of our students to engage in a broad-minded business school community and to connect to an eminent and purposeful university greatly influence the Yale MBA experience. How do you plan to be involved in the Yale SOM and greater Yale communities?
Personal Statements
Choose two (2) of the following topics and answer them in essay form. Please indicate the topic number at the beginning of your essay. (500 words maximum)
1. At the Yale School of Management, we believe the world needs leaders who:
- - Understand organizations, teams, networks and the complex nature of leadership;
- - Understand markets and competition in different contexts; and
- - Understand the diversity of economies throughout the world and the relationships between business and society.
What experiences have you had that demonstrate your strength in one or more of these areas?
2. What is the most difficult feedback you have received from another person or the most significant weakness you perceive in yourself? What steps have you taken to address it and how will business school contribute to this process?
3. Imagine yourself meeting your learning team members for the first time in Orientation. What is the most important thing your teammates should know about you?
4. Required for reapplicants: What steps have you taken to improve your candidacy since your last application?
In the coming month we will post our fall recruiting schedule so that you will know how you can meet us — both virtually and in person — to learn more about the Yale School of Management. These events will include our online Application Tips Chat, which provides strategies and insights into the Yale SOM application. In the meantime, you can learn more through this blog (which I am committed to using more frequently this year!) and our online Discussion Board.
Best of luck in the application process!
