In Focus The Stories
February 2013 Issue #11
A Letter from Sherry Wallace, MBA Admissions Director Chair
Thank you, UNC Consortium Alumni, for your continuous engagement and support. You join us at admissions events in your local areas, and many of you trek back to Chapel Hill for campus events like IKF, Women’s Workshop and Admit Weekend. You refer and advise applicants, post internship and full-time job opportunities with our Career Management Center, encourage your firms to recruit UNC students, come to campus as “Lessons of Experience” speakers and donate to UNC Kenan-Flagler and to the Consortium. We appreciate your presence and contributions.
Please continue to be visible and active ambassadors for UNC Kenan-Flagler. A school’s alumni network is one of the top drivers of MBA program selection. Wave that UNC Kenan-Flagler banner so the marketplace will know that your sharp skills were honed at UNC. We don’t want to spoil our reputation of being successful leaders with humility, but a little swagger goes a long way.
Greater alumni visibility will drive more applicants to UNC Kenan-Flagler and will increase our enrollment of Consortium students. For the 2012 entering class, the Consortium received 1038 applications. UNC garnered 158 of those applicants, ranking us just 12th among the 17 Consortium member schools. UNC’s enrollment of 16 Consortium students ranked us 13th among the 17 member schools. We can improve these stats with your help.
A perfect way for you to help yield more admitted applicants is just around the corner. April 5-7 is UNC Kenan-Flagler Alumni Weekend in Chapel Hill. It is also MBA Admit Weekend, our huge sell weekend for admitted MBA applicants. Some of the social events will be jointly-hosted so that admitted applicants and alumni can meet each other. Please come reconnect with classmates, faculty, and staff, and at the same time, help us yield admitted applicants. http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/alumni/alumni-weekend
Hope to see you there. Please stay in touch. I love hearing from you. Reach me at (919) 962-3655, [email protected], Linked In, or Facebook. Thanks for everything you do.
Sherry Ford Wallace, Director MBA Admissions
Consortium-UNC Class of 1987