In addition to sharing our own advice with you, each year, we like to share our past clients’ recommendations of the resources they found most helpful in applying to business school.
Whether you’re gathering information about your target b-schools, preparing for the GMAT, or looking for the best approaches to a particular essay question, our most recent client alumni recommended the following resources:
GMAT/GRE Prep
To help increase their test scores by those precious points, our clients reported that they took advantage of the following publications, websites, practice tests, private tutors, and prep classes:
- Veritas Prep
- Manhattan Prep
- Kaplan
- Princeton Review
- Dominate the GMAT
- Advantage Testing
- Beat The GMAT
- GMAT Club
- GMAT Hacks
- Khan Academy
- The Official Guide to GMAT Review by GMAC
- Game Plan for the GMAT by Brandon Royal
School & Admissions Insights (Including Interview Prep)
There’s no question that your research should begin at the source, namely:
- School websites/blogs/social media pages
- Campus visits
- Conversations with students/alumni
Beyond that, our clients cited the following publications as the most helpful to them for insight and advice:
- Shine blog (Illuminations)
- US News & World Report school profiles
- Bloomberg Businessweek school profiles
- Bloomberg Businessweek MBA articles
- Clear Admit
- Poets and Quants
- Beat The GMAT blog
- GMAT Club “Calling All Applicants” threads
- Stacy Blackman blog
- Vince Prep blog
- Adam Markus blog
- MBA Mission blog
- MBAadmission.com
- Admissionado blog
- Unofficial HBS Admissions & Interview Guide by Harbus
- How To Get Into The Top MBA Programs by Richard Montauk
- 65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays by Dan Erck
- The Complete Start-to-Finish MBA Admissions Guide by Jeremy Shinewald
- Great Applications for Business School, 2nd Edition by Paul Bodine
- 50 MBA Essays That Worked by Admissionado
Do you have any additional resources you’d recommend to future MBA applicants? Please comment here, or share them on our Facebook or Twitter pages using #mbaapplicantresources.
[For additional applicant resources, or general MBA admissions advice, contact us at info@shineadmissions.com]
Please note that Shine does not endorse any particular service, product or publication listed above and makes no representation, guarantee or warranty (express or implied) as to the ability, competence, quality, or reliability of any services, products or publications other than their own.
© Shine/ MBA Admissions Consulting, June 10, 2018, 3:46pm PST