How much time is too much time to prepare your MBA application? The answer: there is never too much time! To apply successfully to business school, you can’t be hasty. You need to clarify your goals, take the GMAT or GRE, research schools, prepare your essays, fill...

Pounce on an opportunity to target weaknesses and come back stronger than ever! Photo by Bruno Cervera on Unsplash Rejections are always disheartening. They are especially discouraging when a great deal of time, money, and effort has been invested, like in the MBA application. Psychologists from the University of...

The turnout to our webinar, 7 Steps to MBA Acceptance in 2020, was amazing! Attendees learned what they can do right now and over the next few months to ensure that their b-school applications next year are as strong as they can possibly be. If you...

There’s still time to register for this week’s webinar, 7 Steps to MBA Acceptance in 2020! If you’re planning to apply to business school next fall or winter, what you do over the next several months could literally make or break your application. This is your...

  We know that right now, next year’s b-school application deadlines look comfortably far away. But deadlines have a way of sneaking up on you – and one of the things we’ve learned from guiding thousands of MBA applicants to admission at top programs is that...

Whether you’re applying to b-school, law school, med school, grad school, or college, this checklist will be the same. Don’t hit that “Submit” button until you’ve checked off the following 5 to-do’s: You’ve made sure that your application presents a holistic, multi-dimensional picture of you. Each section...

You already know what you need TO DO. Now let’s take a look at three things you DON’T want to do if you want to get accepted to your top-choice MBA program. Don’t make these mistakes when applying to b-school: Mistake #1: Applying without a clear idea...

“Writing a Powerful Leadership/Achievement Essay" is excerpted from MBA Admission for Smarties: The No-Nonsense Guide to Acceptance at Top Business Schools, by Linda Abraham and Judy Gruen. Essays that ask you to write about significant achievements fall under the category of what are known as behavioral or...

As you prepare your MBA applications, don’t let the focus on the longer essays take away your attention from the short answer application boxes. The application boxes aren’t merely the fields of your online application that ask you for your personal and professional information, reason...

By the time you sit down to work on your b-school applications, you’ve already laid much of the groundwork for your candidacy, and a lot of the pieces of your profile are already set. (There’s no going back in time to change your undergrad record!)...