Acknowledgments<br >9he student I interviewed summed up his business school eduea-<br >:ion by calling it a "group experience." While working on this<br >~ook， I learned how right he was. Not only does the admissions<br >~rocess require the interaction of many different people before<br >t concludes with acceptance or rejection; but in order to get the<br >host from it， and later from the business-school curriculum，<br >~ ~ldents must be prepared to work actively with their profes-<br >vrs and fellow classmates.<br > Doing the research for this book was definitely a kind of<br >roup experience<br >r for me. I called on the knowledge， time， and<br >ll~pport of a great many people. I want to thank my parents，<br > and Betty， who supported me all the way through<br >h~eton ~d the earlier chapters of my life. I also thank my<br >W~other Rioh~d for always asking more questions about my<br >!~t~ To m~ agent， Susan Zeckendorf， I offer special thanks;<br >~e h~ ba~n with me from the beginning<br > ! W~Uld like to .express !ny sincere gratitude to the following<br >g~P~ for ~ the time to talk to me about business school:<br >;~t~th Nflt bf Harvard Business School， Dave Ewing of Pace<br >~1， Dr. Donald G. Hester of SUNY Albany Busi-<br > ~hebl~ Nancy Rikoon， Gary Pedorowsky， Jeremy Cohen，<br >e， llie Fagens0n， Young Suk Chi， Lawrence Hamdan， Adam<br >ottlieb， Sheen Tannenhanser， Thomas Ruddy， Juli Robbins，<br >Idy Schwartz， and Ted Higgins.<br > Last， I d like to thank my editors， Barbara Alpert and Jona-<br >