This is the sixth post in our Ace the EMBA series on how to apply successfully to a top executive MBA program. After demonstrating that you’re a well qualified applicant comes the biggest challenge: differentiating yourself. You must show your uniqueness and value as an individual and as an applicant in a way that is relevant to the…
MBA Admissions Advice for Career Changers
As an IT consultant, how do you know equity research is the right career for you? How do you know you can handle the hours, the more Darwinian industry and company culture, the stress of having a pivotal impact on huge investment decisions? If you are an MBA applicant pursuing a career change, then you…
5 Key Qualifying Factors the EMBA Adcoms Look For
This is the fifth post in our Ace the EMBA series on how to apply successfully to a top executive MBA program. After you decide which programs you’ll apply to, you’re ready to start the hands-on application work. As you update your resume, plan your essays and choose recommenders, keep in mind several “qualifying” factors that EMBA…
EMBA Employment and Career Services
This is the fourth post in our Ace the EMBA series on how to apply successfully to a top executive MBA program. Given today’s volatile business climate, almost everyone in the business world must continuously evaluate and recalibrate their career path, whether they are planning an imminent change or not. It’s an ongoing part of being…
4 Tips for Applying to Part-Time MBA Programs
The extensive available advice about applying to MBA programs was largely created with applicants to full-time MBA programs in mind. If you are applying to part-time MBA programs, most of this advice will be pertinent for you as well. But there are some nuances to applying to part-time programs that warrant attention. Here are a few things that set the…
EMBA Program Variety
This is the third post in our Ace the EMBA series on how to apply successfully to a top executive MBA program. Once upon a time, EMBA programs primarily targeted and attracted managers working in local corporations. The typical EMBA schedule was every weekend or every other weekend, sometimes weeknights. This scenario has changed radically. Today many,…
NYU Stern Langone MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
The Stern Langone part-time MBA essays, together, cover “the whole you” – your professional side and your non-work side. And they require you to address both highly structured, specific questions (essays 1-2) in conventional written format and a relatively open, “free form” question (essay 3), employing visual elements. The applicants who can best handle this…
EMBA Admissions: Sponsorship and the GMAT
This is the second post in our Ace the EMBA series on how to apply successfully to a top executive MBA program. The changes in the EMBA applicant/student profile that we explored in the previous post are accompanied by new trends in the EMBA world. Now we will examine two of these trends: changes in sponsorship and…
MBA Interview Formats: Video Essays
This post is part of a series exploring the different forms MBA interviews take and how you can ace them all! Kellogg and Rotman among many others have included required video essays in their applications. Why adcoms use this method: • It allows the adcom to see the applicants respond in almost-real-time to questions. •…
The Expanded Executive MBA Profile
This is the first post in our Ace the EMBA series on how to apply successfully to a top executive MBA program. The Executive MBA profile has changed over the past decade. Allen, a hypothetical candidate described below, represents the traditional EMBA candidate, which is still highly desirable to EMBA programs. Lucia, another hypothetical candidate,…
USC Marshall MBA Application Essay Tips & Deadlines
Along with academic excellence, the USC Marshall MBA program is characterized by a powerful global network with special emphasis on the Pacific Rim, a close-knit and passionate community, and a strong regional presence. Your essays should show how you will both fit in and contribute in this dynamic environment, and the questions provide interesting opportunities…
MBA Interview Formats: Phone and Skype MBA Interviews
This post is part of a series exploring the different forms MBA interviews take and how you can ace them all! Skype is often used for MBA interviews when an in-person interview isn’t feasible. A Skype interview is a conversation via Skype with video on. Occasionally, when Internet connection isn’t great, the Skype interview…
Adapting Your List of B-Schools to Apply to as the Season Progresses
In our Choosing the Best MBA Program for You series, you’ll learn how to create a list of business schools that are the best fit for your educational, social, and professional preferences and how creating this list will boost your chances of getting accepted. As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts in this series, your initial school list…
MBA Interview Formats: Team-Based Discussion Interviews
This post is part of a series exploring the different forms MBA interviews take and how you can ace them all! Wharton and Ross have initiated and adopted the team-based discussion (TBD) MBA interview format. This type of interview brings a group of applicants together in person to work through a problem together as…
Selecting Which B-Schools to Apply to: Two Examples
In our Choosing the Best MBA Program for You series, you’ll learn how to create a list of business schools that are the best fit for your educational, social, and professional preferences and how creating this list will boost your chances of getting accepted. In the last eight posts in the series, we discussed various tips and techniques…
INSEAD MBA Criterion #4: Leadership Potential
This is the last post in a 4-part series that examines INSEAD MBA’s admission criteria. INSEAD is not unique among MBA programs in desiring leadership potential in applicants. All do. It is unique in how it characterizes leadership and leadership potential. The adcom has a two-pronged view of leadership: • factual (what you did, your experience that reflects…
Ace Your In-Person Business School Interview with a Student or Alumnus
This post is part of a series exploring the different forms MBA interviews take and how you can ace them all! Many MBA adcoms delegate the interviewing to alumni and students. In this scenario, typically second-year students interview the applicants who come to campus, and alumni interview off-campus – though in some cases, they also…
INSEAD MBA Criterion #3: Academic Capacity
This is the third post in a 4-part series that examines INSEAD MBA’s 4 admission criteria. The operative word in this criterion is capacity. This word conveys the adcom’s perspective on the academic component of the application: it’s dynamic, focusing on how you can grow and perform and achieve academically going forward. The only way for the adcom…
Putting Together Your Initial List of B-Schools to Apply To
In our Choosing the Best MBA Program for You series, you’ll learn how to create a list of business schools that are the best fit for your educational, social, and professional preferences and how creating this list will boost your chances of getting accepted. In the last seven posts in this series, we’ve gotten our school selection…
INSEAD MBA Criterion #2: International Motivation
This is the second post in a 4-part series that examines INSEAD MBA’s 4 admission criteria. Sure, international experience is a big plus for an INSEAD applicant. But the website says that they seek candidates with international motivation which, in their eyes, means having “perceptive insights into the complexities of business in an international setting.”…
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