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Darden Round 3 Admissions Decisions

Admissions decisions for all Darden Round 3 applicants will be released on Wednesday, 8 May. You can view your official decision by logging into your Darden application status page. Waitlisted? Watch Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions Sara Neher’s video blog from March 2012 for good advice on actions to take if you are placed on [...]

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Peter Thiel at Yale: We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters

Peter Thiel just came to Yale to spread his contrarian gospel.  The rate of technological innovation is decelerating, he argued, despite our collective belief that there are smart scientists in labs somewhere, working to solve our problems.  Government regulation is largely to blame.  And inventive minds are too focused on the internet and too neglectful [...]

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Admissions Q&A: Round 3 timeline and application questions for next year

Question: Can you shed some light on the processing / notification timeline for Round 3 applications? Answer: Our Round 3 deadline was 28 March. Currently, members of our Admissions Committee are reading through the applications. We will be sending out interview invitations in late April, and our decisions will be released 8 May. Question: I [...]

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Investment Advice from George Wyper ’84

The secret to investing success? There isn’t a single answer, according to George Wyper ’84, managing director of Royce and Associates and a member of the Yale SOM Board of Advisors, who spoke to a student audience at Yale SOM on March 25. The Career Development Office and the Development and Alumni Relations Office sponsored [...]

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Round 3 Application Due Tomorrow, 28 March

Darden’s Round 3 application is due at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time tomorrow (28 March 2013). If you encounter any technical difficulties, please sign-out of the application system and log back in. If this does not solve your issue, contact us at admissionstechsupport@darden.virginia.edu or call us at +1 434-924-1051. Good luck and we look forward to reading your [...]

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25 Things About Me

Fuqua’s final application deadline for the Daytime program is in a couple days! So, in the spirit of essay writing, I wanted to give this year’s new essay a try. I actually love this essay prompt — it really gives you a chance to express yourself in a non-traditional manner. So here goes, 25 random [...]

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Darden Round 2 Decision Notification

Admissions decisions for all Darden Round 2 applicants will be released tomorrow, 20 March. You can view your official decision by logging into your Darden application status page. Waitlisted? Watch Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions Sara Neher’s video blog from March 2012 for good advice on actions to take if you are placed on the [...]

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An Hour of Inspiration from the Etsy CEO

The other week, I heard an inspiring presentation by a man who took his hard-earned Duke undergrad degree and leveraged his newfound alumni network to score the job of a lifetime — pizza delivery guy. Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson. Fortunately, he didn’t stop there; otherwise I think Fuqua would have found someone different to present [...]

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SOM in the Bush

Greetings from South Africa, where my friend Katherine Miller, SOM ’14, and I just completed our first African safari! While our International Experience (IE)—a mandatory part of the first-year curriculum that happens in the spring—doesn’t begin until tomorrow, most of our classmates in the South Africa IE cohort made pre-trip plans like ours. at South [...]

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Admissions Q&A: Academic Curriculum, Social Entrepreneurship and Application Updates

Question: Can you tell us about the global curriculum at Darden? Answer:  Global Economies and Markets is actually a part of the core curriculum of Darden, so all students are exposed to it in their First Year. In addition, approximately 1/3 of our student body is international, so the global perspective is well-represented in the case [...]

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