Blog: Archive for the “MBA Essay Tips” Category

Kellogg’s essays have barely changed over the past decade—but everything is different now! This application season, Kellogg candidates will be working with four completely new essay prompts, and one of the required essays is a mere 25 words long. We suspect this should make for some entertaining reading for the school’s admissions committee! This mini … Read More  

Chicago Booth continues to stand out thanks to its quirks—and we write that affectionately. So many applications are boring to construct, but never Chicago Booth’s, with its PowerPoint slides and its short, 200-word essays.  In breaking the mold, Chicago Booth truly gives applicants the chance to make an impression. Use the school’s prompts wisely… 1. … Read More  

The trend toward fewer application essays this season continues with the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, which has dropped one full essay from last year and is now down to three required, and very straightforward, essay questions: one about career goals and Tuck, one about leadership and one about failure. As always, take … Read More  

The Haas School of Business at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, always marches to its own beat with its application essay prompts. The admissions committee has stuck with its format of short essays of 250 words each this year, though the total number of these essays has dropped from five to four, and the … Read More  

Johnson at Cornell University has made some changes to its application essay questions this year, most notably making its unique and often befuddling “table of contents” essay prompt one of three options rather than a required, standalone one. Cornell is actually bucking the trend set by other programs this season and has increased its total … Read More