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Tips for Your NYU Stern Application Essays
June 24, 2024
NYU Stern Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Stern’s collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture is truly shaped by the school’s location in the heart of New York City and can be defined simply as IQ + EQ. The cocurricular program “Change: Studio” highlights Stern’s commitment to embracing and facilitating change, and the school’s essay questions for this…
Tips for Your Dartmouth Tuck Application Essays
June 24, 2024
Dartmouth Tuck MBA Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Known for its extremely close-knit, down-to-earth community, Dartmouth Tuck wants to learn about you and how you will embody and add to its culture. Through its application essays, Tuck asks you three questions intended to highlight a side of you that is not conveyed in the other parts…
Tips for Your UVA Darden Application Essay
June 17, 2024
UVA Darden MBA Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 UVA Darden is looking to understand how you will collaborate with others to create impact as a Purpose Driven Leader through its application essays. And your past actions are the best indicators of your potential to make an impact in the future. Before you sit down and look…
Tips for Your Northwestern Kellogg MBA Essay
June 13, 2024
Deadlines: Round 1: September 11, 2024 Round 2: January 8th , 2025 Round 3: April 2, 2025 Northwestern Kellogg Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 This is the year of the MBA application essay revamp, with many top programs changing their essay prompts. Kellogg has jumped in with both feet, as this year marks the most significant…
Tips for Your Texas McCombs Application Essays
June 11, 2024
Texas McCombs Application Essay Tips, 2024–2025 This year, Texas McCombs has ditched its cover letter essay for a more traditional set of three essay prompts, which the adcom hopes will provide a more straightforward (and fun!) process for applicants like you. According to McCombs, “This change allows you to showcase different facets of your personality,…
Tips for Your Yale SOM Application Essays
June 4, 2024
Yale SOM Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Yale SOM is keeping the same three essay prompt choices it provided last year: Describe the biggest commitment you have ever made. Why is this commitment meaningful to you and what actions have you taken to support it? Describe the community that has been most meaningful to you. What…
Tips for Your Berkeley Haas Application Essays
May 22, 2024
Berkeley Haas Application Essay Tips, 2024–2025 Berkeley Haas has decided to meet the activity of the past year with a steady hand, keeping its essay questions similar to 2023-2024. This means the adcom must have liked what they saw in candidates’ responses last season. Here are some thoughts to help you stand out in your…
Tips for Your Emory Goizueta Application Essays
August 21, 2023
Emory’s Goizueta Business School is named after Roberto Goizueta, the former CEO of the little local company Coca-Cola. Goizueta’s values of curiosity, intellectual courage, and integrity are part of the Emory Goizueta ethos. The school also places a strong emphasis on leadership, entrepreneurial and innovative spirit, global awareness, and social responsibility, so these should all…
Tips for Your Cambridge Judge Application Essays
July 21, 2023
Cambridge Judge MBA Application Essay Tips, 2023–2024 Cambridge has released its new essay prompts. The school’s application includes a career objectives essay and three shorter essays: Essay 1: Please provide details of your post-MBA career plans. The statement should not exceed 500 words and must address the following: – What are your short and long-term…
Tips for Your Carnegie Mellon Tepper 2021–2022 Application Essays
July 29, 2021
Carnegie Mellon Tepper offers a STEM-designated MBA program that prepares individuals to become the next generation of leaders “at the intersection of business, technology, and analytics.” The school fosters a culture of teamwork and encourages its students to work together, be innovative, and create impact through effective leadership. Because Tepper’s student body is small and closely…
Seven Tips for the Wharton Team Based Discussion Interview
February 12, 2021
While the Wharton Team Based Discussion (TBD) follows a unique format compared to other business schools’ interviews, many Stratus clients have reported that it’s also the interview experience they enjoyed the most. As with any interview, preparation is important—so let’s talk about how you might prep differently for the TBD than a typical interview! 1….
Does Size Matter with MBA Programs?
January 5, 2021
When asked why one business school is not like the other, most applicants will talk about things like scores, job placement, industries that grads go into, location, weather, and a few other things. What prospective applicants are less likely to mention is class size. This is always surprising to us, because out of all the…