by Karen Marks | Apr 21, 2014 | Business School Admissions, College Admissions, General Admissions
There is a lot of curiosity about why people hire admissions consultants for college and business school. Can’t they do it on their own? How can they find the right fit? Most importantly, do consultants really make a difference? At the risk of sounding salesy, overly...
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 | 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...
by Karen Marks | Feb 26, 2014 | Business School Admissions, College Admissions, General Admissions
Of all the possible admissions decisions, being placed on the wait list is one of the most frustrating. For tips about how to get yourself moved off of the wait list and into the college, business school or medical school of your dreams, please read this post. For...