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Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose which business school to attend, but the educational experience itself is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we focus … Read More  

Writing can be challenging for many business school applicants, and some have particular difficulty changing their essay structure from one essay to the next. For example, a candidate might choose to use a quote at the beginning of an essay to create a sense of urgency: “This cannot be fixed. This cannot be fixed!” I … Read More  

MBA applicants can get carried away with rankings. In this series, we profile amazing programs at business schools that are typically ranked outside the top 15. With the launch of a full-time, one-year MBA program based in New York City (NYC), Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management is strengthening its appeal to applicants with backgrounds in … Read More  

Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday. When candidates ask us whether they should take the GMAT again, our instinct is always to reply with this key question: “Do you think you can do better?” If the candidate does indeed believe that he/she can improve, the … Read More  

When you are writing a compelling story, conflict can actually be a very important element. Of course, we mean conflict in the literary sense, not in the physical or emotional sense (no one wants to hear about you hotheadedly instigating a confrontation). In literary terms, conflict occurs at the moment an oppositional force helps shape … Read More