MBA Admissions: LATE Deadline Extensions

By: Dr. Kristen Willmott

If you’ve been even slightly entertaining the idea of applying for an MBA program, May 2020 is THE month to do it. This is an unprecedented time. The name on your MBA diploma MATTERS. An MBA follows you on your resume for life, as do your faculty and peer contacts, the internships you land while there, and the networking opportunities you are exposed to for decades post-degree.

TOP MBA PROGRAMS STILL SEEKING APPLICANTS

Some of the top MBA programs in the world are telling us they’re still eager for applicants this spring. They’re not screaming it from the rooftops, but they’re ever so quietly updating their admissions websites, and we are taking NOTICE. MBA programs are:

relaxing their standardized testing requirements more than has ever been done since their programs started;
stating that they’ll take into account the disruptions that COVID-19 has caused for all when they review your transcript (as MIT noted);
waiving MBA application fees (some); and
allowing later rounds of MBA admissions than have never existed (hello UGA’s round 5, we’re talking to you!).

TOP TEN U.S. MBA PROGRAMS WITH SUPER LATE DEADLINE EXTENSIONS

Dartmouth Tuck: Round 4 due June 1
Duke Fuqua: Round 4 due June 1
MIT Sloan: Round 4 due June 15
UMichigan Ross: Round 3 due May 29
Northwestern Kellogg: Round 4 due June 1
Vanderbilt Owen: Round 4 due June 1
UCLA Anderson: Round 3 due June 1
UChicago Booth: Round 4 due May 31
UGeorgia Terry: Round 5 due Aug. 1
UVA Darden: Round 4 due July 15

STILL TIME

So…. you’ve got time to apply still for a fall 2020 start. Use it wisely!

Duke Fuqua’s MBA app essay # 1 wants to know 25 random things about you. Maybe 1 of those 25 is how you used 3 months of solo isolation in an 800-square foot studio apartment to re-gear not just your resume but your graduate school aims, your career track, your leadership ladder, your overall life plans.

Time to dust off that GRE or GMAT score, or book a remote GMAT or GRE in the coming weeks (you can now take it on your laptop in your bedroom wearing your PJs –that sounds like a testing advantage to us if we’ve ever heard one!), update that resume that screams of your entrepreneurial spirit, and craft some stellar MBA applications. Let us help!

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Dr. Kristen Willmott

Senior Private Counselor & Graduate School Admissions Director at Top Tier Admissions

A former Admissions and Financial Aid Officer for Harvard University, Kristen brings over 20 years of experience working in higher education. Kristen has a PhD in Education with a concentration in Higher Education, an M.S. in Business Management, and a B.A. in English. Her PhD dissertation won the International Susan B. Anthony Institute Dissertation Award. In her role at Harvard, Kristen oversaw admissions for 17 departments and was also responsible for distributing funding from the National Science Foundation Fellowships Program and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Student Research Fellowship Program. Kristen previously worked as a substitute K-12 teacher, as adjunct faculty at three universities in MA and NY, and as an educational researcher. Kristen recently published a book (Information Age Publishing) on faculty and tenure in academia which Stanford University Libraries featured on their recommended "Gender and Education Books" list. Kristen has written for Entrepreneur Magazine and published in journals such as the Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs and the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences Journal. Kristen has also been featured in and interviewed for publications such as U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Examiner, Yahoo News, and Business Insider.

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