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Tips for Tackling Dartmouth Tuck’s 2020-2021 Essays 

After doing away with the short-answer question section of its application in 2019–2020, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College has kept its essay questions the same for the second year in a row. Applicants have three 300-word essays with which to communicate directly with the admissions committee, with the option of an additional…

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How to Tackle Kellogg’s 2020-2021 Essay Prompts

When Francesca Cornelli stepped into her role as Kellogg’s dean in August 2019, she never could have imagined all the changes that have taken place at Kellogg and all over the world in the past year! While she has jumped in to lead Kellogg during these challenging times, the school’s core values have not changed. If anything, Kellogg wants to see even more deeply that applicants are adaptable and demonstrate the high-impact, low ego approach that informs its culture. 

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How to Write Great UVA Darden Essays for 2020–2021

Here, we offer you some tips on how to approach each essay question for the UVA Darden School of Business for the 2020–2021 application season. Because you aren’t given that many words for each essay—just 200, if not less—you’ll need to focus on being clear and thorough, yet concise. Also, do your best to make…

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How to Tackle the MIT Sloan 2020−2021 Application Essays  

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 you can count, MIT Sloan has never been better positioned as a business school.

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Tips for Texas McCombs 2020-2021 MBA Essays

The McCombs 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.

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4 Keys to Writing Cornell Johnson Essays

Cornell is known as a culture that works, learns, and plays hard. Does this represent your life? If it does, share the details with Johnson. Investment banker and whiskey connoisseur, that’s what we are talking about. Being the social catalyst for your group counts at Cornell. After all, Ithaca winters are cold and dark.

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How to Nail the CBS 2020-21 Essay Prompts

Like many of us, CBS just wants to be loved. For a successful candidate, that means making it clear to CBS that it is your first (and possibly only) choice for business school and that you possess the leadership qualities to succeed. If this is you—and you want the best chance of being accepted—then applying…

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Michigan Ross Essay Tips

Updated for 2020/2021 Application Season The University of Michigan-Ross MBA experience is filled with a tight group of classmates who love to work together and who spend plenty of time learning outside of the classroom. Not only is it an opportunity to take classes from world-renown professors, participate in a Multidisciplinary Action based Project (MAP), or start an…

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Goizueta MBA: It’s the Real Thing

(Updated for 2019-2020) 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.  There is also a strong emphasis on leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, teamwork, global awareness and social responsibility at Goizueta,…

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How to Stand Out in Your Kenan-Flagler Essays

While UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Full Time MBA application has gone live for the 2019/20 season with slightly different essay questions, the key things that UNC Kenan-Flagler is looking for does not appear to have changed. If anything, the change to the second question about providing an example of how you upheld a core value gives UNC…

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Haas Essay Hacks

New Haas essays for 2019-2020! And the continued opportunity to share how your path has shaped you. While Haas has changed its essays, you still have the same amount of words to tell your story. Haas has continued to identify questions that help to know the authentic you – and it is important to make…

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Tips for Tackling Tuck’s 2019-2020 Essay Prompts

For the 2019-2020 application for the Tuck School of Business MBA program, some things have changed and some haven’t. What’s the same? Tuck has maintained their purposeful admissions criteria: smart, accomplished, aware, and nice. What’s changed? Essays. Tuck has done away with the short-answer question section of the application. They also replaced last year’s two…

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