At the beginning of my career, I worked in strategy and marketing analysis for over 6 years in financial services. I am a graduate of Stern School of Business and have been working at one of the top strategy consulting firms since I graduated in 2016. I am passionate about numbers and analysis, so I created this website to answer all the questions an MBA applicant would want answered. My undergraduate degree was in engineering, but I was 2 classes short of a double major in applied math and statistics.
My goal with this site is to provide an unbiased and data-driven resource for those applying to MBAs, particularly to more competitive programs. I’ve been through the process myself and know how difficult it is, not only to put together the application, but even to get a clear understanding of your chances at different programs. I hope I can provide some interesting insights that are also strategically useful as you decide where to apply and how to approach the process. I will be focusing on the top 25 schools because they are the schools people are most interested in and they have the most data available. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for new analyses.
The data used to create the analysis on this website comes from several main sources: GMAT Club’s Decision Tracker, ClearAdmit’s MBA LiveWire, and Poets&Quants’ MBA Admissions Consulting Directory. Combining a few data sources allows me to get a more representative picture of the MBA admissions landscape than just using one. Even so, these sources can only account for a small percentage of total applicants, and may be biased in various ways. Therefore, the results of my analyses should always be taken with a grain of salt, but I make them as robust as possible and comment on potential biases or anomalies when relevant.
This is a great site and I`m sure lot of MBA Aspirants will find it useful. After all, statistics won`t lie
It went well, I got into NYU and I am attending right now. Going to business school was the best decision I ever made.
This is an amazing site! How did your application season go?
Amazing blog. Have started making notes and sure to follow your analysis on the BIG MBA world. Looking forward to hearing more from you on life at Stern Campus.
this is a great site–good application of stats too (I can appreciate the inclusion of P-values in some analysis 😀
Can you do a Anderson Acceptance Rate Analysis?
Hi Rafael, I working like 70 hours these days so unfortunately I don’t have time to review resumes. Have you checked out the admissions calculator? Best of luck applying!
Hello Wayne!
I would love to get my profile evaluated by you.
I am brazilian, 26, engineering and have a family business background.
If it is possible, how can I send you my Resume and get it evaluated?
Thanks!
Great idea. I don’t have as much time as I used to for this now that I’m working as a consultant, but I think web scraping could add a lot of value.
Wayne, contact me through Github (@eflores89), I have experience scraping web data, we could do some of these stats with a larger or different sample (for example clearadmit livewire or linkedin).
Super interesting site and congrats on getting started, there is certainly a huge lack of data out there for us applicants, apart from what the schools deem to share…
I did all of those analyses a while ago and can’t remember. Generally speaking, if there is a factor that has any noticeable impact on acceptance rate then I included it in the school analysis article. So if it is missing then it means there was little to no impact.
I loved the UNC Kenan-Flagler analysis by round. I noticed that Michigan’s Ross SoB has a lot in common with UNC. Did you do a round analysis for Ross? Was the data set at UNC small for the results you found at UNC?
Great resource overall! Thank you for your effort!