This set of essays will elicit a well-rounded view of applicants but requires you to be succinct. Pay attention to the tone as well as the content of the questions – there is an immediacy and directness that can be a model for the tone of your essays. Moreover, the essays challenge you in two…
London Business School Executive MBA 2013 Admissions Tips
This set of essay questions is one of the most comprehensive among EMBA applications. LBS is keenly interested in the right fit for its EMBA class, in terms of experience, goals, perspective, personality, character. Hence, the essays push you to articulate what you will bring to the table – to your classmates, to the program…
MBA Admissions: How to Show Growth in Your MBA Application
If you work in a flat organization, how do you demonstrate advancement and growth? After all, your progress will be compared to that of other candidates who have regular promotions with clearly delineated expanded responsibilities. In a flat organization, you may hold the same title for five years. It is a point that your MBA…
Goals Essay-Writing Tip
Goals Essay-Writing Nitty-Gritty Short- and Long-Term Goals Before you start drafting your goals essays, work out three levels of goals: short-term, intermediate, and long-term. It helps to have this whole picture in your mind regardless of where you’ll “zoom in” for a particular essay. Short-term is immediately post MBA to about two years later; intermediate…
Love the Olympics? Wed Your Business Career with Sports!
Is watching the Olympics giving you the itch for a career in sports management? It’s a thriving, and increasingly global, industry – and as a result numerous MBA programs offer a specialization in sport management. (There are also sports management MA and MS programs – and some people return for a sports management MBA after…
Where’s the Poetry? The Secret Ingredient in Your Graduate Application Essays
Strategy will necessarily guide your selection of essay topics, anecdotes/examples, and structure. Yet an essay built on calculation alone, even if the strategy is spot on, will often disappoint. Logically it all makes sense. But it doesn’t take flight. Poetry can be the secret ingredient to make your application essay sing – right into the…
Choosing an MBA Admissions Consultant: What Should You Ask?
The new MBA admissions cycle is gearing up; 2021-2022 essay questions and applications are already appearing. If you, like many MBA applicants, plan to hire an MBA admissions consultant to assist you in delivering your best possible applications, you need to know what to ask to determine if the consultant you are talking to is…
UCLA Anderson’s New FEMBA Flex Program: Introduction and Essay Tips
UCLA ANDERSON’S FEMBA FLEX PROGRAM UCLA Anderson’s MBA program has expanded its part-time Fully Employed MBA (FEMBA) to include a new option – the FEMBA Flex – and it’s not too late to apply for fall 2012! This option also expands FEMBA’s accessibility to people beyond the LA area, as it requires on-campus participation only…
MBA Choices: Dream School vs. Scholarship School?
Sweet agony. You have been accepted to both your cherished top-5 reach MBA programs and a strong but less competitive school that has offered you a great scholarship. How do you choose between them? Of course there’s no one right answer, because each person’s MBA priorities and life situation are unique. And these factors are…
NYU Stern Executive MBA 2012 Essay Tips
NYU Stern Executive MBA Essay Questions and Tips Reflecting the character of the university at large, NYU Stern has always sought applicants who bring not just requisite accomplishment, but also intellectual energy and engagement with the world – people who have something to say. Stern’s EMBA essay questions are consistent with these values. While they…
Adcoms’ New Tool to Detect Plagiarism in Essays
Rather than go through the hassle of writing your application essays yourself, especially since you’re not the most effective or practiced writer (or since you don’t have enough time), why not have someone who really knows how to do it well write them for you? That someone could be a friend or colleague who’s offered…
Duke Global Executive MBA Program 2012 Application Questions, Deadlines, and Tips
Duke Global Executive MBA Application Essays and Tips The current Duke MBA–Global Executive Program essay questions cover broad ground potentially, although there are just two required. They give you leeway to identify and describe the experiences, skills, and other factors that will most advantageously represent your candidacy. Moreover, the fact that both questions invite you to discuss…
Making Your MBA Essays Do “Double Duty”
With the new MBA essay questions coming out, you may be starting to sketch out your answers. Of course first and foremost answer the given questions thoroughly and thoughtfully. But how can your essays work for you to the max, especially when the questions don’t seem to provide opportunities to portray experiences, skills, qualities, or…
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