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How to Use the GMAC Common Letter of Recommendation to Enhance Your MBA Profile
July 8, 2024
When Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl this year, they had a playbook that they followed for every game situation. In an emergency room, doctors follow predefined protocols and procedures when handling medical emergencies such as suspected heart attacks and strokes. In military situations, standard operating procedures guide soldiers in…
Tips for Your Duke Fuqua Application Essays
July 3, 2024
Duke Fuqua Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Duke Fuqua presents its applicants with one of the most creative, and maybe challenging, essay prompts out there—asking candidates to come up with a list of more than two dozen “random” bits of information about themselves. Then, applicants need to craft a more traditional essay in which they explain…
Should You Take an MBA Admissions Test Even If It’s Not Required?
July 3, 2024
The global coronavirus pandemic disrupted standardized testing, making it challenging for MBA applicants in some parts of the world to secure a seat in a testing center. As a result, test takers could also opt to take an online (at-home) version of the GMAT, GRE, and Executive Assessment (EA), but this was not an option for…
Seven Must-Do Things in July to Move Your MBA Applications Forward
July 1, 2024
Early July is about two months before the first regular-decision MBA application deadlines. If you’re preparing to apply to business school, you’re likely pretty overwhelmed by all there is to do, but it helps to lay out the tasks in steps to keep all the moving parts together. Here are some things you should do in…
Tips for Your Harvard Business School Application Essays
June 28, 2024
Harvard Business School Essay Tips, 2024-2025 For the first time in more than ten years, Harvard Business School (HBS) has changed the essay questions for its MBA application. This year’s essays veer away from the open-ended, 900-word “What more would you like us to know?” and toward three shorter essays. In these essays, HBS seeks…
How to Build Your MBA Leadership Profile at Work
June 28, 2024
MBA programs are focused on developing future business leaders. However, they expect that MBA applicants already will have started flexing their leadership skills before matriculation. For many applicants in the early stages of their careers, managing people, projects, or budgets is not part of their role. And young professionals working long hours often cannot commit…
Five Ways to Be a Compelling MPP Candidate
June 27, 2024
Applying to an MPP program means assembling a clear, compelling application that reflects what you value, what you’ve accomplished, and what you aim to do in the future. Here are five tips that can help your application make its mark: 1. Be Genuine. There’s only one you, so don’t pretend to be someone you’re not!…
Tips for Your London Business School Application Essays
June 25, 2024
London Business School Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 According to London Business School (LBS), what makes its program so unique and valuable is its continued business impact, global growth, and world-class people. LBS is particularly proud of its multinational students who hail from a variety of professional and personal backgrounds. The school’s application has just one…
Tips for Your Stanford Graduate School of Business Application Essays
June 24, 2024
Stanford GSB Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 And then there were 1,000… The application essays for the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) are among the more expansive and demanding of those for the top MBA programs; the GSB truly wants to get to know you. With a 650-word essay that necessitates some soul-searching, 350 words…
Tips for Your NYU Stern Application Essays
June 24, 2024
NYU Stern Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Stern’s collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture is truly shaped by the school’s location in the heart of New York City and can be defined simply as IQ + EQ. The cocurricular program “Change: Studio” highlights Stern’s commitment to embracing and facilitating change, and the school’s essay questions for this…
Tips for Your Dartmouth Tuck Application Essays
June 24, 2024
Dartmouth Tuck MBA Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Known for its extremely close-knit, down-to-earth community, Dartmouth Tuck wants to learn about you and how you will embody and add to its culture. Through its application essays, Tuck asks you three questions intended to highlight a side of you that is not conveyed in the other parts…
Three Questions to Answer Before Applying to MPP Programs
June 21, 2024
If you’ve already gotten a sense that a policy program might be right for you and you’d like to start preparing for the application process, it’s time to ask yourself three essential questions: How Do You Want to Serve? Lots of students apply to policy programs because they have a general sense that they’d like…