Guide to MBA Applications

All About the Case Study Method Used by MBA Programmes| The Red Pen

All About the Case Study Method Used by MBA Programmes

While researching business schools and their different teaching methods, you will come across something called the case study method. A teaching method employed by many business schools, the case study method focuses on a “learning by doing” approach. Here, students are expected to provide solutions to complex real-life scenarios that are dependent on many variables. …

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What Should You Do After You Get Accepted to Business School? | The Red Pen

What Should You Do After You Get Accepted to Business School?

Congratulations on securing an admit! Getting that acceptance letter after months of hard work, including taking the GMAT, submitting your application and interview rounds, is cause for celebration. But after the initial excitement settles, you must be wondering, ‘What’s next? How do I use the time before business school starts?’ One option is to take …

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6 Strategies to Get Off the Waitlist at Your Top Choice MBA Programme | The Red Pen

6 Strategies to Get Off the Waitlist at Your Top Choice MBA Programme

MBA round one and early results are out and some of you may be celebrating with exciting news while some may be processing being rejected from your dream business school. However, some of you might have been placed on a business school’s waitlist. We understand that it’s unsettling and disappointing when there is no clear …

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Dinged Everywhere? Here’s What Business School Applicants Can Do | The Red Pen

Dinged Everywhere? Here’s What Business School Applicants Can Do

Okay, so it seems the worst has happened. After a long and arduous MBA application process, despite all your hard work, you didn’t get accepted to a single MBA programme where you applied. We realise this is disappointing, even demoralising. As you struggle to understand why this happened, what you should do and whether you …

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