Blog: Archive for the “MBA Essay Tips” Category

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. Having made slight tweaks to its prompts in recent years, the GSB’s MBA admissions committee seems to have found an approach that elicits the information … Read More  

Update: Click here for the 2015-2016 Columbia Business School Essay Analysis  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 story. Last year, CBS allowed applicants 200 characters with which to respond to its … Read More  

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is changing things up this application season, most interestingly, joining the ranks of schools with creative essay questions (e.g., NYU Stern, Chicago , Cornell) with its prompt asking candidates to list “25 random things” about themselves. Maybe we have a maverick admissions committee in our midst! We will see … Read More  

UCLA Anderson keeps things short and sweet this application season, with one personal essay question and one forward-looking professional essay prompt. As always, think carefully about what you want to say before you begin writing, and be especially careful to craft a concise and eye-catching resume. We emphasize the word concise! Do not overstuff your resume with … Read More  

Is Darden trying to keep aspiring consultants at bay? Does the school just not have the resources to read a large number of essays? We have no real way of knowing, of course, but we have a hard time imagining that the admissions committee can get a full and accurate impression of a candidate from … Read More