TopMBA Weekly Pulse December 4 | TopMBA.com

TopMBA Weekly Pulse December 4

By Mike Grill

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Much like Thanksgiving, the holiday that keeps giving (inches to waists) in America, the Pulse is back with another stuffed-like-a-turkey edition

2 Years at HBS starts things off with some excellent pictures of their Thanksgiving turkey – and the realization that graduation is right around the corner to help with that post-fowl digestion, while VoA guest blogger Gwen Mugodi shares her thoughts about a white Thanksgiving in the northeastern US.

Defying Gravity is back after a long absence, but don’t get too used to it, as it’s looking like she will be swamped with her HBS finals.

Naija Girl MBA is back on track with her next interview and she is crackling with nervous energy. Our advice? Take a deep breath!

GMAT Pro is not quite convinced that the GMAT scores he’s raking up in his practice runs are going to get him into a school on his list of schools be believes will offer a good ROI –  pretty important given his plans to tie the knot in the nest couple of years...

MBA Data Guru comes at us with some rather interesting stats about acceptance rates at Wharton; not necessarily happiness-inducing for would-be Whartonites…

Top Dog MBA helps us all see what happens during a good interview when there is some level of familiarity.

Who loves lists? We all love lists (have you sent yours off to Santa yet?)! Thanks to My Life of Bliss for coming through in a huge way and supplying all of us with her final b-school list!

As it is rankings season (check out the QS Global 200 here, by the way) EF Essays has complied an aggregate ranking for the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Business.

Finally, some advice and reflections from a first year after almost a whole year at UCD Smurfit.

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