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Conversation with Kaneisha Grayson, Founder of The Art of Applying

Published on November 17, 2010 by Marquis in admissions consulting, application resources, Bschool admissions, Bschool experience, career, Conversations, entrepreneurship, Joint degree, mba, other sites

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This edition of the Conversations series features Kaneisha Grayson, a 2010 Harvard MBA/MPA and well-known blogger and entrepreneur. My long-time readers have seen me mention her on this site before, but, for my newer members, I’ll give a quick introduction.

Kaneisha is a long-time member of the MBA blogosphere, starting with her personal blog back in the day when she was approaching the MBA application process. She ended up gaining admission to a joint MBA/MPA program at Harvard and, during her time at Harvard, she became a relationship and dating advisor and launched Crazy Girl Nation, a site … Read the rest

Information resource to find general info on undergrad and graduate degree programs

Published on May 21, 2010 by Marquis in Business School, Education, Joint degree, mba, other blogs, other sites, pre-MBA grad degrees

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Hey, everyone. As my long-time readers know, I like to inform my readers about resources that might be helpful to them. This entry is a quick one to do just that.

I was recently contacted by the folks at Emagister.net with an introduction to their site, which they thought would be a great tool for the members of my reader community who are interested in graduate degree programs. I just visited their site and found it to be a good collection of general information about degree programs across several disciplines, including Business Administration, so I thought it would be a … Read the rest

Query about identifying dual degree MBA and MS in CS programs

Published on March 20, 2010 by Marquis in Joint degree, mba, Technology-related

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The email below is from a college student who is in his final year of completing his final year of studies in Computer Science in India. He’s interested in pursuing an integrated MBA and Master’s in Computer Science program in the United States. I can’t say that I’ve seen too many programs of this type over the years, but that might be simply because I haven’t really saught out those programs. Given that I don’t know much about those programs, I’ve laid out a few tips on the approach that the reader can use to find good schools where he… Read the rest

Passing along the link to a new JD/MBA-focused student blog

Published on August 4, 2009 by Marquis in Joint degree, other blogs

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What’s going on, everyone. This is going to be a really short entry for me to tell you about an interesting new blog that I stumbled upon recently. This new blog is from a Stanford alum (gotta show love for my fellow Stanford folks) named Jeremy W. who will be starting the JD/MBA program at Northwestern University in the Fall. The link to his blog can be found at THIS LINK… Read the rest. Jeremy emailed me recently to tell me about his site (his email is below) and, since then, I’ve been checking out his posts…he’s getting off to a really

Question about whether my dual degree complemented or distracted from my MBA

Published on June 10, 2009 by Marquis in Joint degree, mba, Stanford GSB

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What’s good, peoples. The message below is from a prospective Stanford GSB applicant who is interested in pursuing a joint-degree program while there. He’s concerned about whether the second degree will distract him from his MBA studies and has asked about my experience with that as I pursued the MA.Ed along with my own MBA. I’ve been asked about issues related to the joint degree before, but I think this may be the first time the question has come from this angle. Hopefully, my response gives him the kind of info he’s seeking.

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SO wrote:

“Hi Marquis,

I’m a… Read the rest

Question from an aspiring non-profit endowment manager

Published on August 14, 2008 by Marquis in Bschool experience, Education, Joint degree, Non-profit

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Hey, everyone. After the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes this weekend, I was seriously thrown for a loop. Now that it’s all settled in, I thought I should get back to addressing entries because my Inbox is getting extra, extra backed up.

The email below is from a prospective applicant to the joint degree program that I completed at Stanford. He’s interested in becoming a non-profit endowment mnager after school and is wondering whether he might be a fit for the program. He’s asked some questions that might be better suited for folks in the admissions office, but… Read the rest

Answering some questions about going through the Stanford joint-degree program

Published on February 3, 2008 by Marquis in Bschool experience, Joint degree, Stanford GSB

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What’s good, folk. The email below is from a Round 1 applicant to the GSB who was applying for the MBA/MA.Ed joint-degree program. Unfortunately, my backlog of emails kept me from being able to respond until now and those decisions went out a couple of weeks ago. I hope he got admitted…

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RH wrote:

“Hi Marquis,

I came across your blog when looking at some older BusinessWeek forum posts, what luck! Lots of really good stuff there, thank you for providing such a valuable resource to the crazed masses.

I interviewed yesterday morning with Stanford and hope to get… Read the rest

Question about my perspective on JD/MBA programs

Published on November 3, 2007 by Marquis in Joint degree, mba

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What’s going on, peoples. The following email is from a consultant at Accenture that I met at a networking event a couple of months ago. His question is about JD/MBA programs and, while my answer is short, I posted it anyway because I thought it was an interesting question. I welcome folks to post their own opinions to his question as comments on this post because I’m interested in seeing what others think about it.

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E wrote:

“What’s up Marquis,

I believe we met briefly at the COCO/Accenture networking social at Sugar.

I was just researching the web (don’t… Read the rest