Your MBA profile is nearly perfect. You’ve got great stats and an impressive resume. You’re friendly, personable, and a fantastic leader. There’s just one little glitch: your criminal record. Although a criminal record is a strike against you, it’s not necessarily an insurmountable problem. Whether you have a DUI or committed insider trading, having a …
by Sundas Ali
What is a diversity essay in a school application? And why does it matter when applying to leading universities? Most importantly, how should you go about writing such an essay? Diversity is of supreme value in higher education, and schools want to know how every student will contribute to the diversity on their campus. Diversity …
by Steven Tagle
Creative writing Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs are designed to offer an emerging writer the time, support, structure, and community to develop their craft, experiment, and produce a long work with the goal of publication. Traditionally, creative writing programs have been two- to three-year full-residency programs with specialties in fiction, poetry, and occasionally nonfiction. …
Fellowships such as the Fulbright and Boren can change the entire direction of one’s career – but the application process is competitive, idiosyncratic, and full of small decisions that separate the finalists from the also-rans. In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, host Dr. Valerie Wherley speaks with Steven Tagle, an Accepted admissions consultant who …
by Kelly Wilson
If you are looking for a small MBA class in an idyllic location with warm and genuine classmates, then Cornell Johnson might be the business school for you. While the largest portion of Johnson’s graduates typically enter the financial services industry after graduation (41% of its Class of 2025), 28% accepted roles in the consulting …
by Kelly Wilson
The Michigan Ross MBA program is thriving. Its graduates enter jobs throughout the United States and around the world. Here are a few key career-related stats for Ross MBAs, drawn from the school’s 2025 employment report: There’s opportunity in these numbers. Michigan Ross is a fantastic MBA program that is slightly easier to get accepted …
by Marie Todd
When you feel you have taken the draft of your college essay as far as you can on your own, share it with a few carefully chosen friends, mentors, and/or family members that you trust. Ask these individuals to keep the following questions in mind as they read your essay and to offer you their …
by Kelly Wilson
In addition to its traditional two-year, full-time MBA program, NYU Stern offers a menu of options in graduate management education, including a one-year Technology & Entrepreneurship MBA and a one-year Luxury & Retail MBA. Stern MBA students can select up to three specializations or choose not to specialize at all. Stern wants to know who …
by Kelly Wilson
While the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, has made it very clear that applicants need outstanding academics to get accepted to its MBA program, it will not compromise its values to maintain its high stats. Haas’s four Defining Leadership Principles are taken very seriously by the school’s administration and admissions …
by Kelly Wilson
The Stanford GSB’s two main essay prompts ask for a kind of honesty that most MBA applications don’t. The first requires that you explore and reveal your values, while the second asks that you identify the specific ways the GSB will help you solve the problems you want to address in your career. The school’s …
by Steven Tagle
Applying for grants and fellowships is an important and sustaining part of many artists’ practice. Besides the recognition these competitive, highly sought-after awards bestow, they provide significant time and money so that creators such as writers, musicians, composers, visual artists, filmmakers, and photographers can pursue long-term projects and develop their craft without worrying about making …
by Kelly Wilson
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Harvard Business School (HBS) continues to be one of the few schools, if not the only one, with just two admissions rounds (September and January). HBS uses an April deadline exclusively for HBS 2+2, its deferred enrollment program. HBS is looking for some specific information from its candidates, and the program’s decision to request that …
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