Welcome 2025-2026 Kellogg Applicants Welcome, all Kellogg class of 2028 hopefuls. Let's use this platform to know each other, exchange ideas, and discuss app strategies. Who all are applying? Let us know by commenting below. Follow the thread and bookmark this post. https://gmatclub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/kellogg-chat.png https://gmatclub.com/forum/download/file.php?id=71421 Kellogg in 30 Seconds | Kellogg Application Walkthrough https://gmatclub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/kellogg-campus.jpg Kellogg Data Point Value US News Ranking 2 Applicants 4187 Accepted 1316 Enrolled 503 Acceptance 31% Yield Rate 38% GPA 3.7 Average WE 62 % GMAT 76% Average GMAT 729 Median GMAT 730 GMAT Domestic NA GMAT International NA % GRE NA Average GRE Q 163 Average GRE V 162 Employed at Graduation 87% Employed 3 Months 97% Average Salary $158,938 Average Bonus $34,981 Salary and Bonus $189,342 Application Deadlines: Application Round Application Deadline Decision Released Round 1 Sept. 10, 2025 Dec 10, 2025 Round 2 Jan. 7, 2026 March 25, 2026 Round 3 April 1, 2026 May 13, 2026 Essays: Essay 1: Intentionality is a key aspect of what makes our graduates successful Kellogg leaders. Help us understand your journey by articulating your motivations for pursuing an MBA, the specific goals you aim to achieve, and why you believe now is the right moment. Moreover, share why you feel Kellogg is best suited to serve as a catalyst for your career aspirations and what you will contribute to our community of lifelong learners during your time here. (450 words) Essay 2: Kellogg leaders are primed to tackle challenges everywhere, from the boardroom to their neighborhoods. Describe a specific professional experience where you had to make a difficult decision. Reflecting on this experience, identify the values that guided your decision-making process and how it impacted your leadership style. (450 words) Reapplicants: How have you grown or changed personally and professionally since you previously applied and what steps have you taken to become the strongest candidate you can be? (250 words) Additional Information: We know that life is full of extenuating circumstances. Whether you want to explain gaps in work experience, your choice of recommenders, inconsistent or questionable academic performance or something else, you can use this section to briefly tell us anything we need to know about your application. (280 words) Video Essays: We’ve read your essays, we’ve read your resume — now we want you to bring all that to life in a video. Show us the person behind all those carefully crafted words. The video will be comprised of three questions, each designed to help you showcase your personality and share some of the experiences that brought you here today. View the full Kellogg Class Profile --> https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/class-profile.aspx Kellogg.jpeg

Great, this is super helpful. Thanks a lot!

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Years of full-time work experience (upon matriculation, excludes internships): to include 2026 aug as well?

I have given this data as of August 2025

I am conflicted since in other schools it is clear to include 2026

When schools ask for years of full-time work experience upon matriculation, they mean up to the month you would actually start the MBA program (usually August/September of the intake year). So If you’re applying for Fall 2026 intake, matriculation is August 2026. One should count your full-time work experience through August 2026, not stop at August 2025.