My comments are in blue throughout. The black font represents quotes from Haas, which provides excellent resources and advice on its web site. In a nutshell, Haas kept the basic structure of its app similar to last year’s, but really changed the essay questions, #1 in a dramatic way. Essay 1 is entirely new and…
Michigan Ross MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Ross is shaking things up this year. It has different essay questions (requiring very short answers) and a more traditional goals question, but all is different from previous years. Why? Here’s what Ross says about the change: “We want to get to know more about you than we would in a traditional essay where you’d…
Accepted’s Selectivity Index: Are You Asleep When You Apply?
I once heard a story about a gentleman who was about to purchase a certain piece of land with the intention of building a school on that property. It was wartime, and the theater of war was rapidly approaching the region in which he and the property were located. A friend heard about his intended…
UCLA Anderson MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
The essay advice that UCLA Anderson provides is excellent, not just for Anderson’s essays, but for most MBA essays. We’ve provided it here. Read it carefully. • Your essays are the primary way for you to share your perspectives and plans with the admissions committee. The best essays are introspective, genuine and succinct in directly…
Yale SOM MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
As you did for the last two years applying to Yale SOM, you need to make the most of its single required essay, but you also need to take the time to make every box in the application a home run. They are not after-thoughts. Your job descriptions and activity history are very important. Write and edit…
Harvard Business School MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
HBS must have liked the responses to last year’s excellent essay question. This year’s question is the same. Indeed there is very little change in the broad strokes of HBS’ application this year. The essay is again required and there is NO word limit. The deadlines are only slightly different from last year. The Round 1…
Columbia Business School MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Columbia slightly changed its first short answer question and materially changed all its essay questions. CBS also re-instituted word limits as opposed to the somewhat flexible ranges it gave last year. Overall, the word limits are less than the maximums were last year. Apparently the CBS staff didn’t find that they learned more from the longer essays…
Stanford GSB MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Stanford is once again re-using its essay questions. And there’s good reason for the recycling: These are excellent questions that succinctly get to the heart of what Stanford wants to know about you. They are not easy questions, but they are thoughtful, probing ones. Stanford gives a lot of advice and guidance on its website…
U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Medical School Rankings
U.S. News & World Report ranked all 140 medical schools fully accredited in 2016 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the 30 schools of osteopathic medicine fully accredited in 2016 by the American Osteopathic Association in 2016. The schools were surveyed in fall 2016 and early 2017, and 118 responded and supplied the data…
U.S. News & World Report’s Best 2018 Law School Rankings
U.S. News & World Report has ranked 197 Law Schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) in fall 2016 and early 2017. The rankings are based on a weighted average of the following 12 measures of quality (click here for more on methodology): • Peer assessment score (0.25) • Assessment score by lawyers and judges…
U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Business Schools (MBA & EMBA) Rankings
U.S. News & World Report surveyed all 471 MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International in fall 2016 and early 2017. Of these, 377 responded and 131 were ranked (those that submitted enough of the necessary data on their full-time MBA programs that were needed to calculate the rankings). The…
What Should I Write About? Making a Difference
In my non-admissions life, I once went to a lecture given by a biographer whose work I admire. In the course of his talk he mentioned that while writing about genius has merit, writing about typical folks and their extraordinary achievements is more valuable. The compelling story — the inspiration, and attention grabber — resides…
Mock Wharton Team-Based Discussion Anyone?
“Chance favors the prepared mind” said Louis Pasteur, and I agree. Don’t leave your Wharton Team-Based Discussion to fickle chance. Prepare for it with Accepted’s Mock Wharton Team-Based Discussion. This is a prime-time rehearsal. Details and prices are here. A participant in one of our past mock TBDs wrote us after the real Wharton TBD, “The practice session was a…
An Open Letter to 2018 MBA Applicants
To: All 2018 MBA Applicants From: Linda Abraham It’s time for my annual memo/harangue/plea/rant. If you are planning to apply Round 1 in the fall, but have not yet thought about why you want an MBA, taken the GMAT/GRE, researched schools, or evaluated your qualifications, please please please keep reading. And then get started! I…
My Reflections of 2016
I just want to take this time to wish you a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year. I think that as the year draws to a close, it’s important to reflect on the good that has come one’s way in the preceding year and to be appreciative of the many blessings we have…
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Business Schools of 2016
There are more graduate degrees awarded in business annually than in any other field in the US. Dozens of new business schools are accredited every year. Finding the right program for you can be an overwhelming task. Bloomberg’s annual ranking, or more specifically the data collected to create those rankings, may help you wade through…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, a national holiday during which we give pause – at least for a brief moment – to count our blessings. Wherever you are, that is a good exercise. An attitude of gratitude is worth cultivating throughout the year. I firmly believe it provides benefits from an interpersonal, professional,…
Mock Wharton Team-Based Discussion Anyone?
“Chance favors the prepared mind” said Louis Pasteur, and I agree. Don’t leave your Wharton Team-Based Discussion to fickle chance. Prepare for it with Accepted’s Mock Wharton Team-Based Discussion. This is a prime-time rehearsal. Details and prices are here. A participant in one of our past mock TBD wrote us after the real Wharton TBD, “The practice session was a huge…
The Economist 2016 Full-Time MBA Rankings
The Economist has released its annual international ranking of full-time MBA programs. Data was collected during spring 2016. Two surveys were used: 1) The first was completed by schools with eligible programs which covered quantitative subjects and accounted for 80% of the ranking. 2) Current MBA students and a school’s most recent graduating MBA class…
Why Some High-Scorers Still Retake the GMAT
This may seem hard for some test-takers to believe, but sometimes even the high-scorers contemplate retaking the exam. It’s not unheard of for someone with a score of 700 – or even higher – to retake the GMAT to see if they can hit a higher number. But should they? As is usually the case…
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