Welcome to the Carlson MBA Blog!

Welcome to the Carlson School of Management's Admissions Blog.  This blog will serve to inform you of relevant ...too formal.  I've been told that this blog will be written in a manner less formal than a web page or official school letter.  So let me begin again.

You found it!  The new Carlson Admissions blog.  If you found this blog, you probably know what a blog is and don't need to be told its purpose.  So what's this blog about?
We, the Admissions team, will be writing blog posts regarding our recruiting activities, most commonly asked questions and perhaps other tidbits you may not know.  So this is really a content driven
effort to address items relating to admissions and recruiting.  We'll be self promoting too, i.e. our Twitter account, Facebook fan pages.  Good stuff, I promise.

As this is an introduction, I should continue the theme and describe the "We" in the paragraph above.  Who are the Admission people? What are they like? As one functioning unit, we work very well
together.  Operations makes up one group within the department, recruiting the other.  Some serve in both capacities.  So what you have here are people making sure that the admissions process runs smoothly, such as the online application, constant reporting, database development, and another focused on building and maintaining relationships with our MBA candidates, evaluating and voting on applications, planning and implementing recruitment events.  And we have no silos here, meaning one team manages all 3 MBA options, Executive, Full-Time, Part-Time.

Individually, we have a down to earth, well rounded, academically diverse group of people making admissions decisions.  One is a pretty good tennis player, another sings with her office door closed and is really quite good, one loves jazz and is surprisingly proficient at Dance Dance Revolution, another gardens and pridefully maintains herbs and tomatoes, one is an Olympic caliber swimmer and the tallest person in the office, another loves dogs and has decades of institutional knowledge, one makes awesome creme brulee french toast, another is short, short, short but full of life (literally) and one is head over heels in love with (html) style, colors and fonts.

When all is said and done, this group is very approachable and happy to speak to anyone that is interested in being a student in one of our MBA programs.  You'll see differing styles from each of our contributors but all singularly focused on admitting the best students anywhere.

Welcome to the Carlson Admissions blog.

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This page contains a single entry by green801 published on October 20, 2009 3:10 PM.

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