Blog: Archive for the “MBA Essay Tips” Category

The MIT Sloan School of Management has tweaked all of its essay questions this year and has dropped one question entirely, going with what appears to be a trend this application season toward giving business school candidates less opportunity to provide qualitative information about themselves. Many applicants will be disappointed to see that Sloan’s quirky … Read More  

The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan has released its essay questions for 2012–2013 and made small but important changes from last year’s application. Our analysis of the school’s essay topics for this application season follows… 1. Introduce yourself to your future Ross classmates in 100 words or less. How many words … Read More  

The Yale School of Management (SOM) joins the brigade of MBA programs that are reducing the word count for their application essays this year— likely making things more difficult for candidates who strive to differentiate themselves. Last year, Yale gave candidates 1,600 words with which to impart qualitative information—that number is now just 1,350. This … Read More  

Harvard Business School (HBS) made a splash this application season by introducing a reduced essay count, and then Wharton… keeps its essay count exactly the same but reduces the total word count across all of its essays by 100 words (even though they add 100 words for essay 1). Is that some kind of reaction … Read More  

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) has tweaked its essay questions and word limits this year, moving from an 1,800 word count across four essays to a 1,600 word count across three. Some quick math will reveal that you have more words per essay now—maybe the admissions committee felt it was not getting the … Read More