Veritas Prep’s Strategy and Operations Manager, Jason Sun, recently took the GMAT scoring an incredible 780! Here he shares the strategies that helped him with this amazing accomplishment:   Note that many of these strategies overlap heavily with Veritas Prep’s own GMAT prep philosophy — I do...

NYU’s Stern School of Business has released its MBA admissions essays and deadlines for the Class of 2014. Here they are, followed by our comments: NYU Stern Admissions Deadlines Round 1: November 15, 2011 Round 2: January 15, 2012 Round 3: March 15, 2012 These deadlines are identical to last...

UCLA’s Anderson School of Management recently released its admissions essays and deadlines for the Class of 2012. At first glance, there aren’t a lot of changes this year, but what is most interesting with Anderson’s essays this year is something that is  not...

Tuck’s  close-knit culture and rigorous curriculum make it a school that everyone should look at closely, particularly those who are interested in pursuing careers in the Northeast. But, besides knowing that it’s a top-ranked school with a strong community, how well...

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has released its MBA application essays and deadlines for the Class of 2014. Haas made some big changes to its essays (lots of short ones!) this year. Here are the school’s application deadlines and essays, followed...

Perhaps no GMAT item is as emblematic of the test as is a Data Sufficiency question.  It is  unique to the GMAT and true to the aims of this specific test: to reward those who show the higher-order reasoning skills that will...

Wharton has released its MBA application deadlines and admissions essays for the coming year. Last year Wharton really stirred the pot by introducing radically different essays. Here are Wharton’s deadlines and essays for the Class of 2014, followed by our comments in italics: Wharton Application...

Veritas Prep is conducting its second annual survey of applicants to the world’s most competitive MBA programs. We want to hear from YOU why you’re applying to grad school, where you are in the process, and what matters most to you as...

Of all the question types on the GMAT,  Sentence Correction may seem the most arbitrary to prospective examinees.  Math we get: nearly all MBA graduates will have to make decisions using numbers and nearly all MBA programs require coursework in areas like...

Admit it: You had at least a class or two in school for which you thrived on partial credit – you wouldn’t get many answers correct, but with participation points and partial credit for doing most of the steps correctly you could...