{"id":38302,"date":"2017-07-16T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/mba-admissions-tips-optional-essay-dos-and-donts\/"},"modified":"2017-07-16T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:31:35","slug":"mba-admissions-tips-optional-essay-dos-and-donts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/mba-admissions-tips-optional-essay-dos-and-donts\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA Admissions Tips: Optional Essay Do\u2019s And Don\u2019ts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is tempting to think that you can win the heart of the admissions committee by adding an optional essay. You may be burning to expand upon the cross-cultural insights you learned from your trek to Peru. But, before you power up your PC, think about the point of the optional essay. Quite simply, it... <a href=\"https:\/\/stratusadmissionscounseling.com\/mba-admissions-tips-optional-essay-dos-donts\/\">View Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/stratusadmissionscounseling.com\/mba-admissions-tips-optional-essay-dos-donts\/\">MBA Admissions Tips: Optional Essay Do\u2019s And Don\u2019ts<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/stratusadmissionscounseling.com\">Stratus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is tempting to think that you can win the heart of the admissions committee by adding an optional essay. You may be burning to expand upon the cross-cultural insights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,902,775,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-stratus-admissions-counseling","category-admission-consultants","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}