When you write an application essay or statement of purpose, you’re trying to accomplish two equally vital goals at once. First, you need to establish your worthiness for acceptance at your target school. However, as part of that task, you need to show the adcom that you have the character traits that their program values….
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How an Admissions Committee Views Your MBA Work Experience
As you apply to MBA programs, you need to think about your work experience and how it fits into your overall story. Work experience is important because of what it reveals about you with respect to your character, maturity level, and abilities. Even if your GPA and GMAT/GRE scores are spectacular, your work experience still…
Strategy for Writing an Accomplishment Essay (with examples)
Maybe you’re familiar with macros – the nutrients your body needs to function. Achieving the proper balance of macros leads to optimal health. When it comes to writing your MBA personal statements and application essays, it might be helpful to think of your accomplishments as the carbohydrates, protein, and fat – in other words, the…
MBA Application Timeline: How to Get Accepted in 2024
Warning: You are about to be nagged. If you are planning to apply to business school in Round 1 in the fall but are not yet able to define in specific terms why you want an MBA and have not taken the GMAT/GRE (if you need to do so), researched schools, or evaluated your qualifications,…
M7 MBA Programs: Everything You Need to Know in 2024
Talk about diversity! The M7 business schools represent seven distinct, vivid cultures – each with its own history, values, characteristics, opportunities, and challenges. Of course, there are many commonalities among the M7 schools, as well: all are highly competitive, offer robust academic resources, are supported by committed and involved alumni, and attract top-tier recruiters (even…
Deferred MBA Programs and Other Options for MBA Hopefuls With No Work Experience
For many business degree hopefuls, the MBA remains the gold standard of graduate management education, and not without reason – an MBA can be the start of a new chapter in your life. Professionally, it can help you accelerate your career or make a career pivot. Academically, it can help fill gaps in hard and…
Seven Important Tips for Your HBS Post-Interview Reflection
Congratulations! You’ve just completed another step on the road to acceptance to Harvard Business School (HBS) – your interview. Now, you have 24 hours to send HBS your Post-Interview Reflection…so let’s get started! When it comes to this part of the process, there’s really one major thing you need to do – reflect! How to…
Get Off That Waitlist!
Landing on a school’s waitlist can be disappointing and even nerve-racking. As a result, waitlisted applicants sometimes let their anxiety or disappointment cloud their thinking, but if you’re waitlisted, try to stay calm and focused. Remember, if you’ve been waitlisted, you have not been rejected. If you play your cards right, you still have a…
MBA Round 3: Should I Apply Now or Wait until Next Year?
If you’ve found yourself in Round 3 of the MBA admissions season and haven’t yet submitted your application(s), you might be wondering whether or not you should postpone your MBA dreams until next year. As is often the case in MBA admissions, the answer is – it depends. (You didn’t think there was a clear-cut…
Retaking the GMAT with a 700 – Should You Consider It?
You’ve taken the GMAT test, and you scored a 700. Is that good enough? Should you take it again and try for a higher score? I’ve actually had candidates who wanted to retake the GMAT to see whether they could get their 750 score up to a 780 or higher! Whenever my adcom colleagues and…
Advice for Applicants: Moving from 2023 to 2024 [Episode 557]
Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham looks back at her predictions for the 2023/2024 application cycle and offers advice for current and future applicants. She reflects on her previous predictions, such as the increase in test options and waivers and the continued use of rankings in admissions. She also…
Michigan Ross MBA Essay Tips and Deadlines [2023 – 2024]
The Michigan Ross MBA program is thriving. Its graduates get jobs throughout the United States and around the world. Here are a few key stats, drawn from the school’s 2023 Employment Report: As for the school’s incoming students in 2023, the latest Michigan Ross class profile offers the following data: There’s opportunity in these numbers….
What MBA Admission Officers Think of Applicants Using ChatGPT and AI [Episode 556]
Show Summary In this podcast episode, Linda Abraham discusses the use of ChatGPT in MBA application essays with admissions directors at top MBA programs. The admissions directors generally view ChatGPT as a tool that can be used to enhance the application process, but they emphasize the importance of authenticity and personal reflection in the essays….
4 Tips for Demonstrating Professional Growth in a Flat Organization
How do you demonstrate advancement and growth if you work in a flat organization? After all, your career progress will be compared to that of other candidates who have received traditional promotions with clearly delineated, expanded responsibilities. In a flat organization, you might hold the same title – possibly vague or unimpressive – for years,…
Admissions Advice for MBA Management Consulting Applicants
Are you a practicing management consultant applying to business school? If so, you have several advantages over the general applicant. Mainly, your success as a consultant for a major firm reveals that your work ethic, analytical abilities, and team-playing skills are probably better than most people’s. As a result, MBA programs will likely give you…
How to Get Into CMU Tepper’s NEW MS in Management Program [Episode 553]
Show Summary Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business is welcoming a newly launched Masters of Science in Management (MSM) program. The one-year program is designed for early-career professionals with zero to two years of work experience who are looking for a career pivot or to gain business skills. If that sounds interesting to you,…
Three Ways Writing About Obstacles Strengthens Your Application Essays
Applicants love to write about their accomplishments, whether in a personal statement for graduate school or in a b-school essay that asks about one’s greatest achievement, challenge, or the like. And they are not shy about sharing their accomplishments, such as driving innovations that led to revenue boosts for their firm, conducting original and meaningful research…
ROI and NYU’s Part-time MBA [Episode 552]
Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, Linda Abraham discusses MBA return on investment (ROI) and NYU Stern’s part-time MBA options with Isser Gallogly, Associate Dean of MBA Admissions at NYU Stern School of Business. They discuss how to calculate ROI, the ROI of NYU Stern’s part-time MBA program, and the benefits and…
Seven Tips for MBA Applicants from a Family Business Background
You work for the family business and are applying for an MBA. Will this background be a net plus for you, or a minus? How can you make the most of this experience? Whether you work for your family’s tiny startup with headquarters in your home’s basement, at one of the local grocery stores your…
Preparing for Your MBA Interview Questions
Application submitted – check. Wait, wait, and wait some more, and then… Yay, they’ve invited me to interview! They like me! But wait, how do I prepare for an MBA interview? Is it the same as a job interview? Will they have read my entire application? Who will interview me? If they know my GMAT…
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