Columbia first school to release this year's essay q's

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For the second year in a row, Columbia Business School (CBS) has kicked off the MBA application season. During an online event with mbaMission, Manhattan Prep and Poets & Quants, CBS's director of admissions, Christina Shelby, told the audience that the school has added urgency in releasing its questions, because it has to meet the needs of its January-entry (known as J-Term) applicants, whose application deadlines come much sooner (October 8, 2014, versus April 15, 2015). Whatever its rationale for the "early" application release, CBS is basically staying the course with its essay questions, though it has again reduced the allowable character count in its "Twitter-like" goal statement; from 200 characters two years ago, it was cut to 100 last year and now stands at a mere 75.

Check out our blog post for more analysis of the CBS essay q's for this year:
https://www.mbamission.com/blog/2014/05/ ... 2014-2015/
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