HBS students selling essays… interesting idea!
Anyone who doesn’t want to pay for it can find here some free MBA essay examples from admitted top-10 MBA students: http://www.aringo.com/MBA_Essay_Examples.htm

Now here’s an interesting development. A team of Harvard Business School students just started a new microbusiness as part of the school’s new curriculum changes. The business sells complete essay sets from successful applicants for $100 a pop. This is the first time anyone has ever made available a complete set of successful essays. It’s a big…[Read more]

If you want general help with essay questions, there are a number of series on the site that would be of interest. Check out our six-part series on the most challenging essay questions top schools ask:

Our Series On Business Schools’ Most Challenging Essay Questions

Part I: Smartly Handling Harvard’s Setbacks Essay…[Read more]

We just published an exclusive excerpt from Paul Bodine’s forthcoming second edition of the best book ever written on crafting business school essays: ”Great Applications for Business Schools.”

Check it out: http://poetsandquants.com/2010/12/09/mba-essays-10-crucial-things-you-should-never-do/

Our exclusive story on the new behavioral questions that Wharton is asking its applicants this season:

http://poetsandquants.com/2010/11/21/leak-of-whartons-interview-questions-raises-ethical-issues/

Have you read the essay by a former columnist at Fast Company and BusinessWeek, Kerry Sulkowitz, on what MBA essay questions might tell you about the business schools that ask them? Fascinating insight from a smart psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. http://bit.ly/c9e0fY

Now here’s some news that is really interesting: Penn State has hired an outside firm to checking MBA application essays for plagiarism. You’ve got to wonder if other schools might follow their lead. I frankly doubt very much that plagiarism is a problem in application essays. It’s far more likely that applicants hire admission consultants to…[Read more]

The Wharton School of Business is asking applicants to its Class of 2013 to answer the following essay questions:

REQUIRED QUESTION:
What are your professional objectives? (300 words)

RESPOND TO 3 OF THE FOLLOWING 4 QUESTIONS:

Student and alumni engagement has at times led to the creation of innovative classes. For example, through…[Read more]