Search Results for: essay (718 results found) A Successful Stanford GSB Essay Example (NEWS) By: Jeremy Shinewald, Founder of mbaMission | Last Updated: December 14, 2023 “What matters most to you, and why?” This is a huge question and one that requires a great deal of thought before answering. How do you approach this essay prompt that the (GSB) poses in its application? To help you, we have recorded a video offering guidance on this topic! Be sure to subscribe to mbaMission’s YouTube channel for… MBA Essays That Worked At Harvard & Stanford (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 11, 2023 What does a successful MBA essay look like at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business? The answers will vary greatly from applicant to applicant, just as the essay prompts for these two schools differ dramatically. Harvard asks applicants the following: As we review your application, what more would you like us to… Decoding The New Kellogg MBA Essays (NEWS) By: Jason Yeh, Fortuna Admissions | Last Updated: August 13, 2019 The most obvious part of the Kellogg culture from the moment you set foot on campus is the collegiality amongst the students. The school’s lakeside location in the urban suburb of Evanston, about 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, reinforces the close-knit, community-centric feel, where students walk to and from campus and a multitude of micro-interactions build strong… MBA Application Essays Part 2 – Why Our School? and What Will You Contribute? Essays (NEWS) By: Tyler Cormney,, co-founder, MBA Prep School | Last Updated: October 16, 2019 In the first article in this series, MBA Prep School discussed essay questions that had to do with your career progress and career goals. The next two questions we’ll discuss also dovetail with one another. A “Why Our School?” essay question is a chance to tell the admissions committee what their program has to offer… How To Ace The Kellogg MBA Essays (NEWS) By: Jason Yeh, Expert Coach, Fortuna Admissions | Last Updated: May 22, 2020 Kellogg prides itself on building a truly diverse class across many dimensions. Among its signature traditions during MBA orientation is the moment when the Dean of Admissions offers a rousing speech called “One of You,” which runs down a list of remarkable highlights about new students. What this means for MBA applicants is that there’s… Sandy On This Year’s HBS & GSB Essays (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 25, 2020 HBSguru Sandy Kreisberg explains how NOT to ruin a Stanford or Harvard Business School essay. 1. When you actually have something to say AND 2. How to get by when you DO NOT. GREAT TIPS ABOUT HOW THESE ESSAYS ARE SIMILAR AND HOW TO DO THEM. Perfecting Your Harvard MBA Essay (NEWS) By: Jeremy Shinewald | Last Updated: October 4, 2019 They say the early bird gets the worm. Almost one month earlier than last year, Harvard Business School (HBS) has released its application essay prompt. Maybe it was able to do so expeditiously because… it made no changes to the question from last year. HBS Director of Admissions Chad Losee, now entering his third application season,… 29 Essays That Got Applicants Into HBS (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 26, 2023 On March 22, Max Wibaux made a quiet exit from his office in Kansas City just before noon EST. He drove the five minutes to his apartment, rushed to his computer and then sat briefly paralzyed in front of the screen, desperately wanting to know if Harvard Business School would admit him and not so… Incoming HBS Students Share Their Essays (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 21, 2016 Over a six-month period, she went through three distinct exercises to decide what to write about in her Harvard Business School application essay. First, she wrote down every important moment in her life going back to kindergarten. Then, the candidate re-read all her journals. And finally, she jotted down everything she loved to do. All… Writing Those MBA Application Essays (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 7, 2019 Writing an MBA application essay? Then, you'll want to see this video featuring Sandy Kreisberg, founder of the HBSGuru.com, and Alula Eshete, a first-year Harvard Business School student and product manager for The Harbus. We put them together on the HBS campus to discuss what makes for a great essay and, in particular, to debate… Winning Essays Of Harvard MBA Applicants (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 16, 2015 When Steve Hind and Alula Eshete were putting together the annual admission and essay guides to Harvard Business School, what struck them most about the essays that helped to get current and future classmates admitted was how different they were from each other. No cookie-cutter formula was evident. There was no paint-by-the-numbers approach. If a pattern of… Kellogg Switches Up MBA Essays (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 3, 2019 The 2015-2016 batch of applicants to the MBA program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management will have to pass a couple of new admission hurdles. The school announced today (July 8) that it is switching out one essay question, tweaking another, and changing up its video essays for candidates to the Class of 2018.… Before You Write That HBS Essay…. (NEWS) By: Jeremy Shinewald | Last Updated: October 4, 2019 Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that it has a new essay question for those aspiring to be part of its Class of 2018 and that writing an essay is now mandatory. Apparently, though, no one considered last year’s essay optional, because HBS Director of Admissions Dee Leopold reported in a recent blog post… For Sale: Successful HBS Applicant Essays (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 8, 2020 When I was 12, I watched my dad tattoo himself for four hours. I assumed this meant he was the toughest guy in the world. I quickly learned, however, that he was human, and nothing demonstrated this like our family’s finances. Bounced checks, late rent, and payday loans were de rigueur within families like ours,… Georgetown Down To One MBA Essay (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 24, 2020 Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business has moved to one incredibly simple MBA admissions essay question: "Why you?" McDonough is asking applicants to answer the question in 750 words, cutting about 600 words from last year's application which required two essays and a tweet. The school announced the decision today (July 14), joining numerous other… Overused MBA Essay Topics To Avoid (NEWS) By: jesussalazar | Last Updated: October 21, 2021 “MY BIGGEST WEAKNESS IS BEING A PERFECTIONIST.” False modesty will get you nowhere and can make for a really boring read. Remember, the admissions committee has thousands of application essays to read. At minimum, your goal should be to keep them awake. No boss has ever fired an employee for “being too perfect” and anyone who… The Secrets to Short Admissions Essays (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 21, 2021 5 Tips for Writing a Concise B-School Admissions Essay Remember padding your high school essays to reach an assigned word count? Back then, we thought it’d be so much better if we could write less. Well, times have certainly changed! These days, it seems like business schools want you to respond in haiku form. Harvard,… Who Should Skip The Harvard Essay? (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 22, 2021 You’re applying to Harvard Business School. We can see your resume, school transcripts, extra-curricular activities, awards, post-MBA career goals, test scores and what your recommenders have to say about you. What else would you like us to know as we consider your candidacy? Maybe there will be admits this year who say we don’t need… Should You Buy An MBA Essay? (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 12, 2021 “The river raged. The rapids could not be stopped. We were drifting in our rafting boat toward a huge and immovable rock, whose main part was under the water surface. Our boat collided with the massive rock, turning our boat over on its face. All I could see in the water was the boat over… For Sale: MBA Essays From Admits (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 12, 2021 Before bootstrapping a start-up that would sell the essays of admitted MBA students from the world’s best business schools, Gili Elkin met with Derrick Bolton, the admissions director for Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. After all, it was Bolton who extended Elkin the invitation to come to Stanford’s prestige MBA program in 2006. She was… Kellogg’s Complete New Essay Set (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 18, 2021 Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management today (July 11) posted an entire new slate of essay questions for 2012-2013 applicants to its MBA program. In dropping all of its previous essays, the school also cut the total word limit to 1,525 from 2,200 a year earlier. Among the new set of four required questions is… INSEAD’s Trickiest MBA Essay Question (NEWS) By: jesussalazar | Last Updated: February 22, 2022 What are the most challenging essay questions business schools ask applicants? That’s a question we've been answering on a regular basis now in five parts of a six-part series. We've tackled the most difficult questions from Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Kellogg, MIT and now INSEAD. Stacy Blackman, founder of the MBA admissions consulting firm that bears… MIT’s Most Challenging MBA Essay (NEWS) By: jesussalazar | Last Updated: February 22, 2022 What are the most challenging essay questions business schools ask applicants? That’s a question we hope to answer in this new six-part series. Stacy Blackman, founder of the MBA admissions consulting firm that bears her name, is picking out what she considers to be the most challenging and then providing advice for how to approach… Smartly Handling HBS’ Setbacks Essay (NEWS) By: jesussalazar | Last Updated: March 30, 2022 What are the most challenging essay questions business schools ask applicants? That's a question we hope to answer in this new six-part series. Stacy Blackman, founder of the MBA admissions consulting firm that bears her name, is picking out what she considers to be the most challenging and then providing advice for how to approach… Writing The Off-Beat MBA Essay (NEWS) By: Linda Abraham | Last Updated: March 30, 2022 You'll have no trouble finding advice on how to write an MBA goals essay or a leadership essay – these are the typical MBA essays that most people expect in an application package. But what if you get a wild card? Creative or off-beat questions tend to trip up applicants and there's not much info… How to Approach The Short MBA Essays (NEWS) By: Linda Abraham | Last Updated: March 30, 2022 It's like the beginning of a bad joke – how do you cram 10,000 elephants into an economy-class sedan? Answer: You don't. When writing answers to short essay questions, you find yourself in a similar predicament: How do you cram all of your hundreds or thousands of pearls of wisdom into a mere 200-300 words?… Three Essential Keys To The Goals Essay (NEWS) By: Linda Abraham | Last Updated: October 10, 2019 There are 3 essential ingredients to a successful MBA goals essay, arguably the most common and important essay in MBA applications. Your MBA goals essay must be: Focused Anecdotal Realistic Let’s take a peek under the hood of each element: Focused: Your short-term goal should include one function you would like to perform and one…