by Karen Marks | May 4, 2014 | Business School Admissions, General Admissions, Uncategorized
Are you wait-listed or planning to reapply to business school? If so, you may be offered feedback. These sessions can be incredibly useful, but also nerve-wracking. How should you prepare? Do you have to do what they say? Also, what is the admissions committee really...
by Karen Marks | Apr 25, 2014 | Business School Admissions, General Admissions, Uncategorized
Despite what you may have heard, it is absolutely possible to get into a top MBA program with a low GPA. I have recently helped several North Star clients succeed despite having shaky undergraduate records. Just how low were these GPA’s? I have helped clients with...
by Karen Marks | Apr 1, 2014 | Business School Admissions, College Admissions, General Admissions, Uncategorized
As the former lead diversity recruiter at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, I interacted with thousands of women who were applying to graduate school. As the President of North Star Admissions Consulting I have gotten to know even more – bright,...
by Karen Marks | Mar 25, 2014 | College Admissions, General Admissions, Uncategorized
If you are a high school junior (or the parent of a high school junior) you are probably starting to investigate schools. While exciting, this can seem like an overwhelming step. How do you identify schools where you will be happy? How many schools should you look...
by Karen Marks | Mar 25, 2014 | Business School Admissions, General Admissions, Uncategorized
All of your hard work has paid off, and you are now in the enviable position of deciding between business schools. While this is an undeniably great problem to have, it can be extremely difficult to decide where you should matriculate. I often help my clients...
by Karen Marks | Mar 12, 2014 | Business School Admissions, General Admissions, Uncategorized
Since 2012, North Star’s MBA clients have been offered more than 10 million dollars in scholarships, including full tuition to Tuck, Haas, UCLA, Darden, Ross, Yale, Cornell, UNC, Emory, and Rice and at least half tuition at Harvard, Wharton, MIT, Booth, Kellogg, Duke...
