Working on your Columbia Business School application? Here is what you need to know: Application Run Down Columbia is one of the only top schools where the [...]

Duke Fuqua has confirmed its essay questions for 2021-2022 MBA hopefuls. Both required essays have remained the same this year, though the word count has increased for the second [...]

The Wharton School has confirmed the 2021-2022 MBA application essays. This year, Wharton has decided to slightly change the first essay while leaving essay 2 the same. Wharton has [...]

Once again, Harvard Business School was the first to announce its essay questions for the upcoming business school application season, sharing MBA application deadlines and the required essay for [...]

Harvard Business School  continues to provide one open-ended essay question to applicants. This year the essay is required (unlike two years ago) but the essay question has changed from last [...]

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania released the essay questions for the class of 2019 with the inclusion of a second required essay. This additional essay focuses on teamwork [...]

The  University of Chicago Booth School of Business  has updated the required  full-time MBA essay question  for the 2016-2017 application cycle. Check them out below: Essay Question View this collection of [...]

While not all Class of 2019 MBA applications have gone live yet, several programs have posted their essay questions so that applicants can get going on their drafts. But how [...]

The Kelley MBA program at Indiana University has posted the MBA essay questions for the 2016-2017 admissions cycle. They remain unchanged from last season, and are as follows: Essay 1: [...]

Coming from the armed forces rather than a civilian career path prior to business school can give rise to certain difficulties when drafting an application. Luckily, the Tuck 360 MBA Blog [...]

As you pull together your MBA application materials for Round 2, try to think of each component as an opportunity to tell the Adcom something new about yourself. What we mean [...]

Essay-writing is a funny thing. Before you dive into your MBA applications, 400 or 500 words can seem like the equivalent of a doorstop-size Russian novel. But once you really [...]

In the spring and summer, make the decision to carry around a notebook to write down your thoughts about your applications. Some of these thoughts may be random ideas that [...]

For a moment, consider who the audience is for your MBA application.  You will be spending countless hours writing a magnum opus that may be read by only one individual—or [...]

In addition to having to respond to questions about your weaknesses, there is a strong possibility you will also be asked about an incident when you failed. While you may [...]

After you’ve narrowed down the list of business schools you are looking to attend, you should begin to study each MBA program and look for consistency in what qualities the [...]

When you are completing your business school application, you will be asked about the honors, awards, and special recognition that you have received in the past. Many applicants worry that [...]

When we work with individuals and their business school applications, we start by asking them to fill out a Brag Sheet. This not only helps the person remember their prior [...]

I was recently flipping through my ragged copy of The Elements of Style , when one of Strunk & White's tips caught my eye: "Put statements in positive form." What [...]

Finding the right balance between being confident and being humble about your abilities is one of the hardest challenges you will face in writing your business school essays. No one [...]

Here's a question I often hear around this stage in the MBA application process: Is it better to apply Round 3 or to wait until Round 1 of next year? Answer: [...]

For most individuals, writing business school essays will be the last time in our lives when someone lets us brag about our accomplishments and will actually read what we write. As [...]

Once you have identified your business school deadlines and have determined the best timeline, you will finally have to face the fact that you need to begin writing your essays. [...]

I was looking for something on the old blog and came across a post that I thought was timely and worth repeating. I wrote this in early January 2005, when [...]

Last week we offered some advice to help applicants avoid common pitfalls in writing their essays for the Round Two deadlines .  This week we’d like to offer some more [...]