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As Big as Texas: Tips for McCombs’ MBA Essays
August 13, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Updated for 2019-2020) The McComb’s School of Business is looking for dynamic, driven people. The program gets better and stronger every year, and they want to admit students who will keep that forward momentum going. As you go about your essays, demonstrate that that’s exactly what you would do. Be genuine The McCombs admission readers…
MBAnalysis Blog: Small Enough to be Big
August 6, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the last blog post, we discussed those schools that are “big enough to be small,” meaning that due to their overwhelming size there is always a group of like-minded people to come together around a shared interest or professional goal. So if there is “big enough to be small” school is there “small enough…
MBAnalysis Blog: Big Enough to be Small?
August 3, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When you watch basketball, you will sometimes hear a commentator talk about a player, “playing big.” What this means is that though the player may be physically small they take on roles that usually players of their size just don’t do. As aficionados of the NBA know, the classic example is Charles Barkley. Though only…
5 Keys to Writing the Cornell Johnson Essays
August 1, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] So you want to go to Johnson? Prove it! That’s the mentality espoused by the MBA Admissions Committee at this small, tight-knit school. And here are five ways to make your application essays stand out. 1. It’s about the prep At Cornell, we value students who create impact. Please indicate the opportunities for impact…
MBAnalysis Blog: The Cat’s Out of the Bag…in Pittsburgh?
July 30, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Uber is testing self-driving cars there; Google has more than 500 employees there; Apple and Facebook have already come, while Amazon just landed. And, by the way, the food may just be the best in the country. And, there is art everywhere. San Francisco? Boston? NYC? No, no and no. It is …Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh,…
Tips for Responding to the Tuck MBA Essays
July 29, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Guidance for 2018-19 can be found HERE. With one of the smallest class sizes of top MBA programs and a culture of camaraderie, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth is known a “tight-knit community” and students really are as close to each other as they say. Because of this, the Tuck admissions committee…
MBAnalysis Blog: Meaningful Becoming Exceptional
July 27, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the previous blog post, I tried to give some guidance on what “exceptional” looks like in business school. And it probably isn’t you. Sorry. Next, the question becomes, how does the average person – who didn’t play professional sports, found their own company, or circumnavigate the globe –get in to a top MBA program?…
Five Tips to Nail Your INSEAD Essays
July 26, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Updated for 2018-2019) With three motivational essays and four short answer questions, INSEAD has one of the longer business school applications. So give yourself plenty of time think about the story you want to tell and the message you want to convey. Here are 5 tips to prepare to help you nail your INSEAD Essays:…
MBAnalysis Blog: Exceptional or Meaningful?
July 20, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My colleague Susan, will frequently point to Maya DiRado as the “perfect” MBA candidate. For those of you who don’t know Maya, she is a 3.6 Stanford grad, having studied both management science and engineering. Her father is from Argentina and she is now working as a McKinsey consultant… And by the way, she won…
MBAnalysis Blog: Cornell Tech, The Best of All Worlds
July 17, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What do you get when you combine a blue chip business school with a Nobel Prize winning foreign university? A piece of start-up nation in the middle of Silicon Alley? Technical know-how with Ivy League business sensibilities? Plus a $2 billion glimmering new campus? You get the Cornell Tech MBA. An MBA program…
MIT Sloan on Top: Five Tips for Your MIT Sloan Cover Letter
July 14, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Updated for 2019-2020) It may just be the glory days of MIT Sloan. By sitting in the middle of the booming Boston economy, centered in the emerging world of biotech, leading a movement in sustainability, and sitting one block (yes, really one block) away from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and more venture capital firms than…
Booth: Where a Picture is Worth 1000 Words
July 7, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Once you choose an image, decide the medium that you are most comfortable with. If you are the creative type, a presentation might be the way to go. Strong writers might choose an essay. Demonstrate through pictures and words how great a match Booth is for you and you for Booth. While some…