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Michigan Ross has streamlined its essay questions for this season, dropping its previous Essay 4 completely, reducing the word count for Essay 3 from 500 to 400 (though the wording remains the same) and reframing its … Read More

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) is apparently content with its essay questions, because it has made no changes to them or to the allowed word count this season. Having made slight tweaks to its prompts in … Read More

Given that you still have significant time before this year’s first-round application deadlines, you have the opportunity to take some extra steps now to ensure you submit your strongest applications possible. One such … Read More

This year, Columbia Business School (CBS) continues a trend that has developed over the past three seasons, once again reducing the number of words applicants can use to tell their story. Last year, CBS allowed … Read More

We are pleased to announce our MBA Application Writing Boot Camp dates for the 2013–2014 business school application season! Through nine hours of instruction and 30 minutes of one-on-one feedback from your expert … Read More

We have been tallying and charting the mentions of MBA students and alumni in the New York Times wedding announcements since the beginning of the year, demonstrating that MBAs—especially those from top-ranked, … Read More

The average NFL player might earn $1.1M a year, but according to an article in GQ this month, nine out of ten professional football athletes face insolvency within ten years of retirement. Given a short career span and … Read More

For many applicants, the worst of the admissions process is over. But at this stage, a new anxiety looms: the background check. Should the majority of candidates be concerned about background checks? The simple answer is … Read More

These days, as candidates consider their strategies for the coming MBA admissions cycle, many have a logical question in mind: How many business schools should I apply? The answer, of course, varies dramatically from … Read More

As admissions consultants, we know firsthand the intense pressure candidates feel, and we sometimes wish we could convince you that small points are really just … small points. We get asked, “Should this be a comma … Read More

“Do I need to take the TOEFL if I attended an English-language undergraduate institution outside the United States?” “Do I need to provide a separate transcript from the institution where I studied abroad for my … Read More

Most business schools will ask an applicant’s recommenders to describe a weakness of yours, or a time when they offered you constructive feedback. You may face great temptation to ask your recommenders to avoid writing … Read More

Every once in a while, a concerned business school candidate calls us and says something like “BSchoolHope1 wrote that Wharton won’t read past the 500-word limit, but PennLove08 wrote that 10% over the limit is … Read More

We all know that the GMAT is a difficult test and a significant factor in establishing your academic competencies in the eyes of MBA admissions committees. However, the GMAT is not the only factor used to evaluate … Read More