Why am I writing about next year’s MBA application cycle when we are only at the end of the second round of this season? Because each year, the application cycle…
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Harvard Business School (HBS) offers an excellent MBA program—this is largely a given, and we are not questioning that. However, what we will call into question is whether HBS (or any other school,…
What exactly UCLA Anderson is trying to achieve with its incredibly straightforward approach to application essays is hard to figure out. The school wants to know that you have purpose…
As MBA programs move toward PowerPoint presentations, creative essays and essays without word limits, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College sticks to its tried and true approach: three…
Many MBA applicants will be relieved to see that MIT Sloan has dropped its longstanding “essay” question that involved writing a cover letter to Senior Director of Admissions Rod Garcia,…
New York University’s (NYU’s) Stern School of Business jumps on the “less is more” bandwagon this application season by reducing its essay count from three to two. However, that is…
Harvard Business School (HBS) is taking a bold new approach to its application essays this year by offering just one question—and one that is much more open to interpretation than…
The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) is apparently content with its essay questions, because it has made no changes to them or to the allowed word count this season.…
This year, Columbia Business School (CBS) continues a trend that has developed over the past three seasons, once again reducing the number of words applicants can use to tell their…
We are pleased to announce our MBA Application Writing Boot Camp dates for the 2013–2014 business school application season! Through nine hours of instruction and 30 minutes of one-on-one feedback from your expert instructor,…