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Students securing summer internships 100% Average monthly salary for summer internships $5,817 Region of employment (Class of 2011) WEST MIDWEST EAST SOUTH 14% 35% 23% 23% INTERNATIONAL 5% Ranked #24 by Bloomberg Businessweek —2010 Interterm Intensives enter cyberspace This past winter, an innovative virtual case competition gave prospective MBA students the chance to experience Interterm Intensives and win a grand prize of a $10,000 fellowship plus other prizes. The Mini Deep-Dive Challenge, conducted entirely online, required participants to submit a one-page Corporate Social Responsibility campaign proposal for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, maker of single-serving Keurig coffee brewers. A prospective student from Philadelphia won with her plan to enable Keurig consumers to earn "K-cash" every time they use one of the company's K-Cup portion packs. The K-cash could then be directed to support specific projects of community organizations. More than 400 people registered for the competition. Admissions turns to whole-person approach Notre Dame MBA Admissions is pioneering a new approach to applicant evaluation that looks beyond grade-point averages and scores on the GMAT. Now, in MBA Program addition to submitting test scores, applicants complete a 150-question Personal Characteristics Inventory (PCI), designed to assess character and personality attributes that can contribute to a candidate's success in the program and beyond. Administered by global HR consulting firm Talent Plus, PCI aims to gain a fuller measure of the person. This, in turn, allows the Notre Dame program to take a deeper look at students who may not have the highest test scores, but would do very well in the program. Such questionnaires are used by Fortune 500 companies to identify candidates who are best suited to a particular job or corporate culture. Admissions also has replaced personal letters of recommendation with a new measure called the ETS Personal Potential Index, a Web-based tool that provides information on six key attributes considered important for graduate study. This tool provides a quantitative baseline for comparing applicants. Welcome, military vets The MBA admissions office has stepped up its recruitment of military personnel and for good reason: They've proven to be among the most successful students in the program, says Brian Lohr, MBA admissions director. Since 2009, about 10 percent of each incoming class has consisted of former military personnel. Lohr says such students tend to be great teammates on group projects and have a positive attitude. Military MBA alums include Army Rangers, a U.S. Marine Corps battery commander, and husband-and-wife helicopter pilots. The admissions staff now routinely visits military bases to recruit students and has added military liaison positions in both the one- and two-year programs. Notre Dame MBA recently doubled its commitment to the Department of Veterans Affairs' Yellow Ribbon Program, a provision of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, so that admitted vets now receive a $15,000 fellowship. For each of the past three years, Notre Dame has been designated a military-friendly school by G.I. Jobs, a publication aimed at helping military personnel transition to civilian life. from left: Brian Lohr, director of MBA admissions with U.S. Army SSG Kurt W. Wilson and U.S. Army Major Sean C. McCaffery, both MBA Class of 2013 13