Black MBA - Winter 2007/2008 - (Page 48) EDUCATION Enrollment Rates recommendations,” Gallogly said. “We look at the whole package because we want to know if they can excel in the classroom, how well they will do as a professional and if they are a good fit for Stern.” Both Gallogly and Gabriela Snyder, MBA admissions associate director at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, say good relationships with professional organizations – both internal and external – are an integral part of their diversity focus. “We always participate in the NBMBAA® conferences,” Snyder said. “We also work with student groups to make certain that anyone applying to Wharton has a touch point with a current student. We want them to have contact with someone who can tell them about this experience from a student’s perspective.” For many Blacks who enter graduate school at predominantly white universities, the view of the world changes for these individuals once inside the school. “I grew up in St. Louis. There, everything was mostly Black or white and there wasn’t much in between,” said Kelley Staples, a second-year student at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business. When she was an undergraduate student at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, Staples studied for a while abroad and experienced some of the world’s diversity. At Northwestern, she said, this exposure to other cultures has been enhanced. “There are a lot of international students,” she said, “and there are people here from all walks of life.” Staples, who is working toward an MBA and a master’s degree in engineering management, plans to study in France this winter before graduating in the spring. Already, she is interviewing for jobs. Admissions officers and other business school administrators say that if “We want them to have contact with someone who can tell them about this experience from a student’s perspective.” Minority Representation Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management University of Chicago Graduate School of Business New York University Stern School of Business University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business Columbia University Columbia School of Business Harvard University Harvard School of Business Massachusetts School of Technology Sloan School of Management Stanford University Graduate School of Business University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth 27.7% 26.8 24.4 23.6 23.4 22 22 21.2 19.9 15.5 Minority Enrollment 2,368 2,631 2,720 1,244 1,242 1,821 781 764 1.594 490 U.S. News Ranking 5 5 10 8 9 1 4 2 3 7 Enrollment data and percentages are based on the 2006 school year as reported to U.S. News and World Report. The business school rankings also are based on the report of best business schools published by U.S. News and World Report. 48 BlackMBA • Winter 2007/2008 • www.nbmbaa.org http://www.nbmbaa.org
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