The New School to Hold a Grand Expo and Open House

The New School in New York City, a progressive academic institution with increasing number of adult learners, is organizing and hosting a grand expo and open house.

Purpose of the grand expo/open house

The grand expo/open house organized by The New School aims to guide prospective students to the complete admissions process. It will also tackle the issue of financial aid, so early on, prospective students who are planning to avail of financial aid will know what they have to do and where they have to go. Faculty, admissions officers, and The New School graduate students are available to answer the prospective students’ questions. The New School is composed of eight schools and has about 6,400 adult learners. While younger prospective students may still be looking for a career, adult learners may be seeking a means to change their career path. Both set of prospective students will be enlightened during the grand expo/open house.

Details of the event

The New School’s Grand Expo/Open House will be held on November 20, 2010, a Saturday, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, New York time. Admission to the event is free but it is still best to register beforehand. For inquiries, the contact email address is gradexpo@newschool.edu.

Getting Accepted into Your Chosen School through an MBA Workshop

For those planning to get into their dream MBA school, there is another way to improve their chances. Most students aspiring to earn an MBA know that the GMAT is an important factor in getting into the business school they prefer. Even though the economic crisis has created a damper on the status of some of the top business schools, causing a lowering of admissions standards, as reported lately, it is always safe to aim for high GMAT scores.

Webinar briefing on workshop and MBA preparation

MBA Prep School is hosting an MBA webinar on October 27 at 10 am, Pacific Standard Time. This way, anyone from all over the world can attend this event to get to know more about what MBA Prep School can offer in terms of MBA admissions and GMAT preparation. The prep school advises that the prospective student should take months or even years of preparation before finally applying into an MBA school.

The coverage of the webinar

The webinar will give the prospective student the overview of the strategies that are taught by the MBA Prep School. Because it is a seminar, although web-based, the guests can ask a few questions. Guests who RSVP immediately will be getting $100 off their MBA Prep School fees.

Giving People with Disabilities the Opportunity to Pursue Med School Education

According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, the law recognizes the capabilities of disabled persons and forbids any form of discrimination, which may occur when the disabled are denied access to the a particular field of study due to their handicap or disability. Of course, the applicant must first meet the basic qualifications to be granted an admissions slot after going through the process, along with other applicants. In response to this, however, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in 1993, came out with guidelines saying that students must have “intellectual, physical and emotional capabilities necessary to undertake the required curriculum in a reasonable independent manner, without having to rely on intermediaries, and that all students must be able to achieve the levels of competence required by the faculty.” Based on these, it can be said that the main concern in accepting disabled students to med school comes from their questioned ability to function as physicians, which can be affected by their disability. Another concern is the resources and personnel needed to assist with the training. Some, however, think that the AAMC guidelines are quite high and that the admissions criteria should go past the stereotypes and consider what people with disabilities can actually contribute to the profession.

Successful med students with disabilities

Years ago, doors to medical school admission are almost closed for people with disabilities. There were instances when the applicant would even talk to the admissions directors, submit all the application requirements, and even secure letters of recommendation from previous professors. But to no avail, most would come home deprived of their chance to pursue a degree in their chosen field. Fortunately, nowadays, people with disabilities are now given better opportunities to enter into med school.

Even the differently-abled deserves an equal chance to pursue higher education in the medical sciences field, and one good proof that even with a handicap a determined student can accomplish just as much is Timothy Cordes. Being a blind man didn’t stop Cordes from pursuing his dreams as he later became the University of Notre Dame’s class valedictorian and M.D. and Ph.D. degree holder in biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. He is now a resident physician in a pscyhiatry department. There are other stories like Tim’s, and like him, they proved that their handicap is not an obstacle to their accomplishments.

St Johns Graduate School of Education to Hold an Open House

St. Johns University’s Graduate School will be holding an open house this fall in preparation for the next school year. The open house will be held to assist students with university application and more.

About the open house

This open house is just like any other academic open house. The agenda is mostly to introduce some choice programs, reveal some information and details about the admissions process, share some tips on scholarship grants, and entertain other concerns and questions coming from prospective students. Here are the programs that will be tackled during the open house:

- Continuing and Field Change (changing content area within education),

- Teachers in Adolescent, Early Childhood and Childhood Education, Gifted Extension

Interested guests may also be ready with their questions about their chosen courses. They may also conduct their research before proceeding to the open house to find out if the said event can still offer additional information.

Details about the open house

The St. Johns University Graduate School of Education open house will be held on November 9, 2010 starting from 7 pm. The exact location will be the Sullivan Hall, Dean’s Lounge, Garden Level Queens Campus. For more information, interested guests can contact the school through the landline (718) 990-2304 or through the email address graded@stjohns.edu. Online registration may also be done through http://www.stjohns.edu/admission/graduate/events/form.stj. It would help to contact the school for registration or inquiry purposes before the event itself to secure admission into the open house.

Source: St. John’s University News

All about the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business

The Haas School of Business is a graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley. Having been established in 1898, Haas School of Business is the country’s oldest business school at a public institution and it is the country’s second oldest business school. Read on to learn more about Haas and how to get your application accepted.

Degrees offered

Haas School of Business offers a lot of different programs, including those for full-time MBA, evening and weekend MBA, executive MBA, PhD, undergraduate, joint-degree, and dual-degree. Among the concurrent degree programs are the JD/MBA Program, the MBA/MPH Program in Health Management, and the MBA/MA Program in International Area Studies.

Alumni

Among some of the well-known alumni to come from Haas are the following members:
- Arun Sarin – ex-CEO of Vodafone
- Scott Adams – creator of Dilbert comic strip
- Rick Cronk – former chairman and president of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream
- Donald Fisher – chairman and founder of Gap Inc.
- John Hanke – Founder and CEO of Keyhole Inc., Co-creator and Product Director of Google Earth
- Norman Mineta – US Secretary of Transportation
- Paul Otellini – President and CEO of Intel
- Rudolph A. Peterson – President and CEO of Bank of America
- Rodrigo Rato – IMF Managing Director, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Spain

Rankings and reviews

Some of the rankings that the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business include the following:
- US News & World Report Best Graduate Schools 2011: 7th nationally
- Economist Intelligence Unit, full-time MBA rankings 2009: 1st internationally
- US News & World Report, full-time MBA rankings 2010: 7th nationally
- BusinessWeek, full-time MBA rankings 2008: 8th nationally
- Financial Times, full-time MBA rankings 2006: 16th internationally

Admission tips

If application time is nearing, then there isn’t much that you can do to improve your resume and basic application information. For this reason, you may want to try and focus on coming up with an application essay that will knock the socks off the admissions committee. Reflect and inject a lot of personality and character into your essay. Remember to edit and rewrite it multiple times until you get the perfect copy come submission time.

Admission facts

Student Enrollment:
- 2,264 students in six degree programs

Class of 2010
- Applicants: 4064
- Enrolled: 239
- International: 31%
- Women: 28%
- Ethnic minority: 30%
- Median Age: 28
- Median years work experience: 5 years
- HS GPA of 3.75 or higher: 83%
- HS GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 16%

SAT scores for full-time entering business students on 1600 scale:
- Mean: 1,400
- Median: 1,420
- SAT middle 50% range on 1600 scale: 1,330 – 1,500

Contact info

Haas School of Business
545 Student Services #1900 (mail address)
2220 Piedmont Avenue (delivery address)
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900

Full-time MBA Program Admissions
1-510-642-1405

http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/contact.html