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Topics include: Essays, resumes, recommendations, rankings, and more!
Sep, 11, 2024
This is a short post on the MIT Sloan Essays for the Class of 2027. I am too busy to do a full post right now, but wanted to provide basic essay analysis. This is an update and revision to my prior posts on MIT. CORE LEARNING POINTS: (1) Making a pure fit argument (2) […]
Aug, 08, 2024
This will be a five part series of blog posts on the essays and rest of the application for admission to the Harvard Business School Class of 2027: –The first post focuses on overall strategy, the 3 essays and the goals statement. –The second post focuses on the application form questions. It will focus on […]
Aug, 07, 2024
This will be a five part series of blog posts on the essays and rest of the application for admission to the Harvard Business School Class of 2027: –The first post focuses on overall strategy, the 3 essays and the goals statement. –The second post focuses on the application form questions. It will focus on […]
Aug, 07, 2024
This will be a five part series of blog posts on the essays and rest of the application for admission to the Harvard Business School Class of 2027: –The first post focuses on overall strategy, the 3 essays and the goals statement. –This second post focuses on the application form questions. It will focus on […]
Jul, 07, 2024
This will be a five part series of blog posts on the essays and rest of the application for admission to the Harvard Business School Class of 2027: –This post focuses on overall strategy. It will provide the basis for thinking about what HBS wants to know about you and why. It will discuss the […]
Jun, 15, 2024
In this post, I analyze the Stanford GSB MBA (also MBA and MSX) essays and additional information/resume/employment history/activities for Class of 2027 . My analysis of Stanford GSB interviews can be found here. For an overall quick analysis on M7 schools essays see here for an earlier post. You can find results and/or testimonials […]
Jun, 13, 2024
In this post, I analyze the essay questions for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for Fall 2025 admission. For my most recent posts on Wharton interviews, please see here. My clients have been admitted to Wharton every year since 2002. Since I started my own counseling service in 2007, I have had […]
Jun, 13, 2024
The most important thing I can tell you about gaining admission to Columbia Business School‘s Class of 2027, aside from my essay analysis below, is to apply in Round 1 (Deadline September 10, 2024). Based on what occurred with CBS applications for August 2024 entry- Hard but normal for admission in R1 and terrible in […]
May, 22, 2024
Columbia Business School has just announced the deadlines and essay questions for the J-term Class of 2026 admission. As they have not stated the deadlines for August 2025 (Class of 2027) admission, I am going to make a second post for this purpose instead of one unified post. BIG CHANGE for J-term: The final deadline […]
Apr, 25, 2024
You care considering doing an MBA and trying to figure out where to apply. Naturally you look at rankings. You should look, but don’t just make a list based on rankings. Why? I have been writing about MBA rankings on this blog since 2007 though not with major focus until “Real” Global MBA Rankings […]
