ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to thank those people who have been so helpful to the development and writing of How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs:

First, the admissions directors and program directors at leading business schools around the world who have been so generous with their time and knowledge in discussing how decisions are made at their schools. In particular, I would like to thank those I interviewed for this book and who have allowed themselves to be quoted at length throughout the text:

Katherine Lilygren and Linda Baldwin (Anderson/UCLA); Rose Martinelli, Patty Keegan, and Don Martin (Chicago); Linda Meehan (Columbia); Sara E. Neher, Barbara Millar, and Jon Megibow (Darden/Virginia); Dan McCleary and Kelli Kilpatrick (Fuqua/Duke); Peter Johnson, Marjorie DeGraca, and Fran Hill (Haas/UC Berkeley); Dee Leopold, Brit Dewey, and James Miller (Harvard); Tom Hambury and Ann W. Richards (Johnson/Cornell); Michele Rogers and Brian Sorge (Kellogg); James Hayes, David Ardis, and Judith Goodman (Ross/Michigan); Rod Garcia and Meg Manderson (Sloan/MIT); Sharon J. Hoffman (Stanford); Isser Gallogly, Jaki Sitterle, and Mary Miller (Stern/NYU); Fran Forbes (Texas); Sally Jaeger, Dawna Clarke, and Henry Malin (Tuck/Dartmouth); J. J. Cutler, Thomas Caleel, Professor Howard Kaufold, and Suzanne Cordatos (Wharton); Bruce DelMonico and Anne Coyle (Yale); Rossana Camera and Gabriella Aliatis (Bocconi, Italy); Séan Rickard, Dr. John Mapes, and Professor Leo Murray (Cranfield, UK); Christy Moody (ENPC, France); Mary Granger (ESADE, Spain); Isabelle Cota, Pantea de Noyelle, Jean Loup Ardoin, and Jason Sedine (HEC, France); Ling Tee, Genevieve Slonim, and Mary Clark (IESE, Spain); Katty Ooms Suter and Kal Denzel (IMD, Switzerland); Janine Serieys, Joelle du Lac, Carol Giraud, Helen Henderson, and Professor Ludo van der Heyden (INSEAD, France); David Bach and Gamaliel Martinez (Instituto de Empresa, Spain); Dr. Simon Learmount (Judge/Cambridge, UK); Stephen Chadwick, Julia Tyler, Lyn Hoffman, and Claire Harniman (London); Andrew Dyson and Helen Ward (Manchester, UK); Maryke Steenkamp, Kirt Wood, Connie Tai, and Gea Tromp (Rotterdam, Netherlands); Anna Farrús, Alison Owen, and Maxine Hewitt (Saïd/Oxford, UK); Maryke Sreekamp, and Erin O’Brien (TRIUM program—HEC/Paris, LSE, Stern/NYU).

Second, the career services directors at leading business schools: Glenn Sykes (Chicago); Regina Resnick (Columbia); Everette Fortner and John Worth (Darden/Virginia); Roxanne Hori (Kellogg); Andy Chan (Stanford); Pamela Mittman (Stern/NYU); Peter Degnan (Wharton); Katty Ooms Suter (IMD, Switzerland); Mary Boss (INSEAD, France); and Graham Hastie and Chris Bristow (London).

Third, the financial aid directors: Marta Klock (Anderson/UCLA); Priscilla Parker (Chicago); Kathleen Swan (Columbia); Larry Mueller (Darden/Virginia); Paul West (Fuqua/Duke); Debi Fidler (Haas/UC Berkeley); James Millar (Harvard); Ann W. Richards (Johnson/Cornell); Charles Munro (Kellogg); Pamela Fowler and Michael White (Ross/Michigan); Colleen MacDonald (Stanford); Julia Min (Stern/NYU); Sharon Brooks (Wharton); and Karen Wellman (Yale).

Fourth, our clients, from whom we have learned a great deal, and particularly those who have allowed their work to be reproduced in Part IV and elsewhere in the book.

Fifth, my colleagues in the United States and Europe (particularly Krista Klein and Christa Weil Menegas), who have been instrumental to the development of my thinking about the applications “game” and to the development of this book as well.

—Richard Montauk