Darden School of Business Admissions Blog

Application Advice: Dawna Clarke on Crafting Great Essays

Our application tips series keeps rolling along! In today’s post, Dawna Clarke offers her top tips for writing great essays.As Dawna notes, the essay section of our application is an opportunity for us to get to know you better: “If you’ve reviewed [our essays], you likely noticed…

By Brett Twitty- December 14, 2018

Application Tips

Applicant FAQs: Quantitative Experience

With our Round 2 deadline (10 January) less than a month away, it’s officially application season on the Discover Darden blog! Today, we continue our Application Tips series with a question we frequently receive from some of our applicants. New to the series? Be sure to review our earlier…

By Brett Twitty- December 13, 2018

Charlottesville, Darden Community

Student Club Spotlight: Community Consultants of Darden!

Darden has over 50 (!) student clubs. True story. In today’s post, we highlight Community Consultants of Darden, one of several clubs at Darden focused on community outreach. And be sure to check out the Student Clubs webpage for more information about the many clubs and organizations that shape the…

By Brett Twitty- December 13, 2018

Executive MBA

Explorations in Enterprise Leadership Course – A Q&A with Barbara Millar

Earlier this fall, we announced a number of exciting innovations to our Executive MBA Program. In this ongoing blog series, we explore each of the innovations in more detail. Today, we catch up with Assistant Dean, Barbara Millar, about the Explorations in Enterprise Leadership (EEL) course she is currently leading…

By Brett Twitty- December 12, 2018

Darden Community, Full-Time MBA

Get to Know Darden’s Resilience Week!

Darden’s 2nd Annual Resilience Week took place 22-25 October, offering students, faculty and staff a chance to reset, regroup and reenergize.The week kicked off with a First Coffee where cold-pressed juice and a healthy breakfast from The Juice Place were served. Other events throughout the week…

By Brett Twitty- December 11, 2018

Admissions, Full-Time MBA

Get to Know Marc Paulo Guzman, Associate Director for Diversity Recruitment!

Today on the blog we catch up with our Admissions colleague, Marc Paulo Guzman! Marc Paulo is Associate Director for Diversity Recruitment at Darden, and we recently sat down to talk with him about what brought him to the business school, why he’s passionate about diversity and his advice…

By Brett Twitty- December 10, 2018

Application Tips

Application Advice! Dawna Clarke Shares Additional Resume Insights

Today we continue our application tips video series with a few more of Dawna Clarke’s best resume tips. If you’re new to the series, be sure to also check out our previous posts on resumes and interviews. Your resume is more than just a statement of your work…

By Brett Twitty- December 7, 2018