Blog: Archive for the “MBA Essay Tips” Category

UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has streamlined their essays somewhat this year, finally removing a small piece that was arguably redundant, and that pertained to your research on the school (wasn’t that covered in the broader personal statement?). Haas still peppers you with a few quick hits of 250 words—five of them, in fact—that will … Read More  

Harvard Business School’s (HBS’s) 2+2 essay questions are not all that different from HBS’s full-time MBA essay questions, the main difference being a mandatory question about the candidate’s undergraduate academic experience, rather than an opportunity to pose a question of your own. Still, the 2+2 questions have changed significantly from past years, most notably with … Read More  

Update: Click here for the 2015-2016 Columbia Business School Essay Analysis  Columbia Business School (CBS) whittled its essay questions from four to three to two over the past five years but is now back to posing three essay questions. Maybe the school’s admissions committee felt that with just two questions, they were not learning enough about … Read More  

The 2011–2012 MBA application season is officially afoot. Harvard Business School (HBS) has just released its essay questions, maintaining its tradition of being the first school to do so each year. HBS usually strikes first in early May, and the other top 15 schools follow suit shortly after, throughout May and even into early June. … Read More  

Earlier today, Harvard Business School released its application deadlines and essay questions for the Class of 2014. Below are the deadlines for each of three admissions rounds, as well as the four mandatory essay questions for applicants to the full-time MBA program. Our analysis of these essay questions is coming soon, so check back with … Read More