アイルラン 留学フェスティバル2008

My friends at Japan's Enterprise Ireland Office asked me to announce that they will be holding an education fair in Osaka and Tokyo. The English version follows the Japanese.
-Adam

開催名称　 ：　アイルランド留学フェスティバル2008
会期 ：　10月11日（土）大阪；13日（月）東京

アイルランド留学フェスティバルに行こう！
大学や語学学校の代表者から直接情報収集できるアイルランド留学フェスティバルに参加しませんか？

アイルランド政府商務庁とアイルランド政府観光庁は「アイルランド留学フェスティバル2008」を今年の10月に共催します。フェスティバルでは、アイルランドより約15校の代表者が来日を予定しており、直接来場者と各校別のブースにて留学相談をして頂けます。当日は教育制度や大学及び語学学校などの各種留学セミナーだけではなく、アイルランドのユニークな文化
（人気のケルト音楽、アイリッシュダンス、スポーツ、美味しいアイリッシュ・フードなど）を紹介します。「オールウェイズ　ウェルカム」アイルランドへの扉を開けてみませんか？

主催 ：　アイルランド政府商務庁　アイルランド政府観光庁
開催名称　 ：　アイルランド留学フェスティバル2008
大阪
会期 ：　10月1１日（土）1３：00～1８：00
会場 ：　読売新聞ホール
東京
会期 ：　10月1３日（月、祭日）1１：00～1８：00
会場 ：　読売新聞ホール

参加校 ：　大学、カレッジ、語学学校、約20校予定（通訳付き）
入場料 ：　入場無料
ウェブサイト ：　www.study-ireland.jp


Ireland Study Abroad Festival 2008
October 11th (sat) in Osaka; October 13th (Mon) in Tokyo

Want to Live, Laugh and Learn in Ireland? The Ireland Study Abroad Festival 2008 gives you a great opportunity to talk directly with representatives from Irish universities, colleges and English language schools – as well as get a taste of Irish culture!

Following on the success of last year's festival Enterprise Ireland, supported by Tourism Ireland are organising an Ireland Study Abroad Festival in Osaka and Tokyo in October. Representatives from 15 Irish universities, colleges and language schools will attend and will be available for free study abroad counselling at their booths. There will be presentations on Study Abroad in Ireland for colleges and language schools and the Festival will feature key aspects of Irish culture such as Irish music, dance, sport and food.

Come along to the Irish Study Abroad Festivals to see how you can Live, Laugh and Learn in Ireland!

Organisers : Enterprise Ireland supported by Tourism Ireland
Event : Ireland Study Abroad Festival 2008
Osaka
Date & Time: 13:00 – 18:00, Saturday October 11th, 2008
Place : Yomiuri Shimbun Hall, Osaka
Tokyo
Date & Time: 11:00 – 18:00, Monday October 13th (National Holiday), 2008
Place : Yomiuri Shimbun Hall, Tokyo
Participants : Representatives from Irish Universities, Colleges and English Language Schools
Fee : Free!
Website : www.study-ireland.jp

The Scoretop 84

GMAC announced that they canceled the GMAT scores of 84 Scoretop users:

The Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®) has announced the completion of its investigation of GMAT® test takers who paid to receive active test questions on the Web site Scoretop.com, in violation of GMAC testing policies and procedures.

As a result of the investigation, GMAC has canceled the scores of a total of 84 test-takers. Twelve posted live GMAT questions on the Scoretop Web site and will not be eligible to take the test again for a minimum of three years. The remaining 72 wrote messages on Scoretop confirming that they saw items from the site on their GMAT exam. The scores of these individuals were also canceled; however, they are now allowed to re-test. Schools to which test scores of the students have been sent have also received notification of this action.

Business Week reports that of 12 barred for three years and 72 who need to retake it, some have already been admitted or graduated from business school.

-Adam Markus

Tokyo MBA Tour Event Report

Steve Green and I attended the Tokyo MBA Tour last night. It was a very well attended event. For us it was a good opportunity to meet some alums we know, gather a couple of brochures, and see which schools were attracting the most attention. Among the big name programs in attendance were Yale, Cornell, Univ. of Michigan, INSEAD, and LBS. A number of other "Top 20" and "Top 100" programs were there. If you have not attended events like the MBA Tour and can do so, I suggest if it you are still trying to figure out where to attend or just simply to do some networking.

Here is Steve's initial reaction to the event:


In this next video, I talk about school selection as well as the death of my pet theory about the pens:


Bottom line: Do enough research to figure out where you want to go and just don't focus on schools whose names you know. Become informed, compare, and then come up with your list. For more about school selection, please see my earlier posts on the subject.


Write comments or contact me directly at adammarkus@gmail.com. Please see my FAQ regarding the types of questions I will respond to. Before emailing me questions about your chances for admission or personal profile, please see "Why I don't analyze profiles without consulting with the applicant."

If you are interested in Steve's graduate admission consulting services,please click here. If you are interested in my graduate admission consulting services, please click here.

-Adam Markus
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Need to calculate your GPA?

If you need to calculate your 4.0 scale GPA, please see http://www.back2college.com/gpa.htm. This page provides a very clear explanation of how to do so. It also provides a calculator for determining GPA for every semester.
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At The MBA Tour Tonight 9/8 in Tokyo

Regardless of the weather, I will be at The MBA Tour tonight at The Palace Hotel.

My colleague and fellow blogger, Steve Green, will also be attending. While I suspect I will do a bit of Twitter, mostly I will be gathering some brochures. Some video reporting will follow.

If you go to this or another fair, just remember one thing: He or she who collects the most free pens wins. As I suggested in a much earlier post, the best pens are usually given away by lower ranked programs.

Write comments or contact me directly at adammarkus@gmail.com. Please see my FAQ regarding the types of questions I will respond to. Before emailing me questions about your chances for admission or personal profile, please see "Why I don't analyze profiles without consulting with the applicant." If you are interested in my graduate admission consulting services, please click here.

-Adam Markus
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