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July 11, 2015

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NYU Stern 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

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Your essays will need to highlight your qualities as a successful, leadership-driven, creative thinker and businessperson. For NYU Stern, you’ll want to reveal that you are a perfect fit with the program, the Stern community, and the global business world at large. Keep in mind that Stern is a place the values EQ as much as… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, NYU Stern

June 28, 2015

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Dartmouth Tuck 2015 MBA Essay Tips and Deadlines

The Dartmouth Tuck adcom is interested in learning about what you as an individual, a businessperson, and a leader can contribute to Tuck’s small, close-knit program. Use your essays as a platform for expressing your earnest desire to enter the world of management and to make a difference.  Following the shrinking app trend, this year Tuck reduced… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Dartmouth Tuck

June 21, 2015

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Georgetown McDonough 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

Georgetown McDonough, the top MBA program at the intersection of business and government, takes advantage of its Washington D.C. location, its connections to the greater Georgetown University community, and its Jesuit roots while at the same time focusing on the global nature of twenty-first century business.  Your application should show that you need the education provided by… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Georgetown McDonough

May 20, 2015

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MIT Sloan 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

For years MIT Sloan asked applicants to create a cover letter as part of its application. MIT dropped that requirement last year, but this year the big news is that MIT is asking you to write your own recommendation. And while many of you write your own reviews at work and some of you may have been asked… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, MIT Sloan

May 14, 2015

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Stanford GSB 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

Stanford cut its essays from 3 to 2, actually returning to the same two essays it asked for several years (or slight variations of them) before it increased the number of  essays for the 2007 entering class.  The other change in these questions is that Stanford has done away here with the behavioral questions that it… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Stanford GSB

May 3, 2015

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Columbia Business School 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

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Columbia tweaked last year’s questions for this year. Relatively minor changes only. Specifically: • Its short-answer question about your immediate post-MBA goal has gone from 100 to 75 characters. Yes, that was  characters, not words. • For question 2, there is a new video to watch and the question itself is more succinct with a different focus. … 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Columbia Business School

January 4, 2015

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Notre Dame Mendoza 2014 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

You need to clearly convey to the Mendoza adcom that you have what it takes to be an effective leader—an integrated mind, a broad perspective, tenacity, and heart. Use your career experiences, your career goals, and your personal values to help you demonstrate these key elements. Essays: Your response to the essay questions is extremely… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2014 MBA Application, 2015 MBA Application

December 26, 2014

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Top MBA Essay Advice — Free Admissions Guide Available!

Looking for MBA essay advice on THIS YEAR’S applications? Grab your copy of Top MBA Program Essay Questions: How to Answer Them Right, an Accepted.com admissions guide updated for 2015, providing school-by-school, question-by-question advice on how to answer this year’s MBA application questions. Free! For the most detailed advice out there for creating the best MBA application… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application

December 26, 2014

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2015 Duke MBA—Cross-Continent Essays Tips

The Duke Cross Continent MBA program is unique in its format and mission, and it targets a special segment of the MBA applicant pool: those who intend to continue working during the MBA and whose work and goals have a global focus.  The average age of Cross-Continent students is a couple of years older than… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Duke Fuqua

December 23, 2014

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Kellogg 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

In September 2014, Kellogg “rebranded” itself and moved away from the more obscure “Think Bravely,” which was difficult to wrap your mind around. It’s returning to its traditional core values or at least to a more concrete mission: “Inspiring growth.” The video below explores and clarifies this mission as well as the values Kellogg holds dear…. 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Northwestern Kellogg

December 15, 2014

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UVA Darden Executive MBA Essay Tip 2015

Given that the Darden EMBA application presents only one essay question to answer, the balance of your application – the online form, the resume, the recommendations, the interview – all carry more weight than they do in most EMBA applications that contain several questions (usually including one pertaining to your goals).  The Darden EMBA application… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Darden EMBA

November 25, 2014

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Notre Dame Mendoza 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

You need to clearly convey to the Mendoza adcom that you have what it takes to be an effective leader—an integrated mind, a broad perspective, tenacity, and heart. Use your career experiences, your career goals, and your personal values to help you demonstrate these key elements. Essays: Your response to the essay questions is extremely… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Notre Dame Mendoza

November 21, 2014

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UCLA Anderson 2015 Essay Tips & Deadlines

The advice that UCLA Anderson provides below is excellent, not just for Anderson’s essays, but for most MBA essays. Read it carefully.  My tips are in blue below. 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… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, UCLA Anderson

November 18, 2014

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UC Berkeley Haas 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

Haas’ application this year has relatively minor changes.  It replaced last year’s #1, which was a somewhat artsy question about a song that expresses who you are, with a straightforward question about a transformational experience.  The other significant change is that Haas provides word length guidelines that provide range, for instance 400-500 word maximum, instead of… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, UC Berkeley Haas

October 20, 2014

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CMU Tepper 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

The key to admissions success here is to exhibit your keen analytical capabilities through your essays—that and your strong passion for learning and your desire to expand your role as an innovative leader. Get those points across to the adcom members and you could be well on your way to the tech-savvy business education that… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, CMU Tepper

October 10, 2014

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UVA Darden 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

Darden led the way with a one-essay application.  Some may feel that fewer essays indicate that essays are losing importance. My suspicion is that the remaining essays and short-answers are as or more important than they ever were. Especially at a program emphasizing the case method and experiential learning, evidence that you can communicate, analyze… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, UVA Darden

October 1, 2014

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Wharton 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

Wharton is still marching in the MBA application shrink parade. It now has one required question and has dumped the question about contribution to Wharton’s learning community.  However, it has made the optional a broader question than it was last year and has increased the optional essay word limit. Overall the Wharton essay word limit count has… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / 2015 MBA Application, Wharton

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