Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

Prepare For Business School Over the Summer (U.S. News Education)

Complete a self-assessment over at U.S. News to figure out which aspect of business is the best career fit for you.

Should You Head Back to Business School? (My Fox Philly)

Many young working professionals wonder whether or not it is worth going back to business school and getting their Master of Business Administration.

B-Schools Know How You Think, But How Do You Feel? (The Wall Street Journal)

Forget what you know, says The Wall Street Journal. Business schools increasingly want to know what you feel.

For MBA Students, an Alumni Network is a Valuable Resource (Graduate Guide)

Prospective MBA students may not realize it, but business school alumni networks can serve as very useful resources before, during and after their graduate studies.

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We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week’s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap paper and start solving!
Here is this week’s problem:

In a certain type of tiling called Penrose P3 tiling, two types of rhombi fill a space without gaps or overlaps: wide rhombi and narrow rhombi. If five of the wide rhombi can meet symmetrically at a single point, while ten of the narrow rhombi can, what is the ratio of the largest angle in one narrow rhombus to the largest angle in one wide rhombus?

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Here are the free GMAT events we’re holding this week. All times are local unless otherwise specified.

4/29/13– Denver, CO – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/29/13– Boston, MA  – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

5/2/13– Online- Thursdays with Ron– 7:30PM-8:03PM (EDT)

5/4/13– Santa Monica, CA – Free Trial Class-  2:00PM-5:00PM

5/5/13– Online – Free Trial Class-  7:00PM- 10:00PM (EDT)

5/5/13– New York, NY – Free Trial Class – 2:00PM- 5:00PM

4/25/13– London  – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

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Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

Sleep in Graduate School: Why Depriving Yourself of Sleep is a Terrible Idea (Grad Hacker)

Cutting back on sleep is never a good solution to getting your work done. In fact the opposite is true: healthy, sound sleep can be your key to success in graduate school.

Military MBA Enrollment Surges (Poets & Quants)

This week Poets & Quants reports that military students enrolled in MBA programs has nearly doubled in the past two years.
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We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week’s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap paper and start solving!
Here is this week’s problem:

If x is positive, what is the value of |x “ 3| “ 2|x “ 4| + 2|x “ 6| “ |x “ 7| ?

(1) x is an odd integer.

(2) x > 6

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Here are the free GMAT events we’re holding this week. All times are local unless otherwise specified.

4/23/13– Arlington, VA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/23/13– Santa Monica, CA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/23/13– New York, NY- MBA Admissions Myths Destroyed presented by mbaMission– 7:30PM-9:00PM

4/23/13– San Antonio, TX – Free Trial Class-  6:30PM-9:30PM

4/24/13– San Francisco, CA – Free Trial Class-  6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/24/13– New York, NY – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/25/13– London  – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/25/13– Chicago, IL – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/25/13– Online – Free Trial Class- 8:00PM- 11:00PM (EDT)

4/28/13– San Francisco, CA – Free Trial Class- 5:30PM- 8:30PM

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Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

Networking Tips for Online MBA Students (U.S. News Education)

Networking is just as important for online MBA students as it is for on-campus students. Take advantage of face-to-face meetings and pick up the phone to network in an online MBA program.

Ranking Business Schools on Research (Poets & Quants)

A fresh look at business school rankings. This week Poets & Quants shares which business schools’ professors crank out the most research.

Getting Down To Business In The Business Schools (Forbes)

Larry Zicklin, current professor at NYU’s Stern School, has a revolutionary proposal to fix the crisis of irrelevance that today’s business schools are facing: business school teachers should teach business!
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We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week’s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap paper and start solving!
Here is this week’s problem:

The value of investment Q increased by q percent from the beginning of a particular year through June 30 of that year, and then experienced no net change from June 30 to the end of the year. The value of investment P increased by p percent from the beginning of that year to June 30, and the new value increased again by p percent from June 30 to the end of the year. If the percent increase in value from the beginning to the end of the year was the same for both investments, which of the following expressions gives the value of p in terms of q?

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Here are the free GMAT events we’re holding this week. All times are local unless otherwise specified.

4/15/13– Silicon Valley, CA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/15/13– Bellevue, WA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/15/13– Austin, TX – Free Trial Class- 6:30PM-9:30PM

4/16/13– Irvine, CA – Free Trial Class-  6:30PM-9:30PM

4/16/13– Online- Free Trial Class- 9:00PM- 12:00AM (EDT)

4/16/13– Toronto, ON – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/17/13– Boston, MA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/17/13– Glendale, CZ – Free Trial Class- 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/17/13– Washington, DC – Free Trial Class- 6:30PM- 9:30PM

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Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

10 B-Schools Where Full-Time Students Have the Highest GMAT Scores (U.S. News Education)

This week U.S. News shares its short list of the top business schools where full-time students average the highest GMAT scores.

The Exorbitant Cost of An MBA Has to Go Down (Business Insider)

According to NYU Stern School of Business professor Larry Zicklin, the days when getting an MBA costs well north of $100,000 are coming to an end.

U.S. Business Schools See Slower Growth From Foreign Applicants (Bloomberg)

According to Bloomberg News, international applications to U.S. graduate business programs are taking an unexpected plunge in the number of potential candidates from China.

Old-School Business Practices Worth Bringing Back (Harvard Business Review)

Harvard Business Review shares four elements of mid-twentieth-century business  culture that may be worth preserving.

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