Tulane University Freeman School BLOG

Don’t listen to me. This is why you should come to New Orleans. This renews my faith in humanity.

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Honestly, I had no idea that I would be this excited for school to start. At the end of last semester everyone was so ready to get out of the classroom and into exciting summer internships that we all ran for the hills. Now, as summer winds to a close, people are excited to hit […]

Will: Does applying early increase my chances for acceptance? Scholarship money? Prestige? Fortune?
Bill: I have always advocated applying early – or late in the admissions cycle. Here’s the rationale: Applicants early in the cycle have chances at the full set of seats. If a class is to be 100, and your background […]

I have been reading a lot about teamwork at Tulane. (On this very blog).
”It is going to be tough”. “It might frustrate you”……
I finally got a taste of teamwork at Freeman. In fact, 16 other international students too got an idea.
We were asked to do a team presentation at the end of our Management Communication […]

There is now 13 minutes left in my summer internship. I have just turned in the final proforma project to be sent off for approval. My biggest take home about what it means to have an MBA is this:
Work assignments before the MBA included the following:

an hour-long explanation about how the project should work
a concrete […]

We’re gearing back up for school now. Many of my fellow students finished internships last week. Most of the rest of us are finishing full-time work at the end of this week. Today my boss took me out to lunch. We’ve been trying to wrap up all the projects we’ve been working on all Summer. […]

The #1 thing: It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
Yep, after all’s said and done it boils down to this. Bschool, like life, is about relationships. Your knowledge (past and present) and coursework will maybe, MAYBE, get your foot in the door. After that, it’s your personality, connections […]

People. It’s impossible to get lost at the Freeman School; there simply aren’t enough people to allow you to slip through the cracks. This in and of itself is awesome: the personal attention you get from professors and staff is above and beyond what you’ll find at a larger school. I […]

The Princeton Review of the best 368 colleges for 2009 has hit the shelves. While it is really a survey among undergraduates, we do share everything that isn’t academic with them. This being business school and all, let’s go straight for the numbers! Tulane is ranked:
#10 Happiest Students
#10 Students Happy With Financial Aid
#13 Great College […]

Most of us have heard of it, but very few have actually done it.
I would put is as a “more involved method that employs real life business situations”. Wikipedia provides more details. Tulane provides a short introductory course on the case study method. It is a great way to get acquainted to the process, since […]