Matt Symonds on Forbes, 05 Aug 2009
Applications to business school are up. Way, way up. The economic downturn, the demographic boom of Gen Y and ... dare we whisper it? A handful of top schools are encouraging younger applicants to apply, some even straight out of college.
It's not just the triumvirate of Harvard, Stanford and Wharton whose admissions offices are awash with applications from former East Coast bankers, fretting Midwest auto industry managers and disenfranchised West Coast software experts. With the number of people taking the GMAT admissions text expected to reach a record level by the end of 2009, the competition for places in the world's top business school classrooms is fierce.




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