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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…
MBAnalysis Blog: Your Mother was Wrong, You Really are Just Average
July 6, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Welcome to the MBA admissions process where all applicants can do math, all students speak fluent English, and all candidates are above average.” Garrison Keillor (sort of). In my last blog post, I wrote about weighing your chance of acceptance at a top program if you were an average candidate. I really put the…
MBAnalysis Blog: NYU Stern – An Embarrassment of Choices
July 3, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Many of us were applauding when earlier this year, NYU Stern unveiled two new one-year MBAs in Tech and Fashion & Luxury. With a tight focus on a single industry, and a duration of only one-year, Stern is bringing to the business school world a product that will serve many students well by being lower…
Creating That Killer Wharton Essay
June 29, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The legendary cylindrical tower edging Locust walk houses Wharton, a business school with a history of shaping the minds and clarifying the values of top business leaders. Wharton prides itself on team work, leadership, and instilling lessons of self-reflection and growth into the Learning Team—a group of six students placed together during pre-term…