Round 1 interview season is here! As the pandemic stretches on, business schools have said they will conduct only virtual MBA interviews this round—and potentially for the entire admissions [...]

Invited to interview at your dream school? Congrats! But remember, this is only the beginning! All of your hard work on the applications, essays and GMAT/GRE [...]

Our clients often ask us if they should write thank-you notes to their interviewers. While handwritten messages of appreciation will always be a classy move—and we certainly encourage applicants to [...]

Round 2 applicants, get ready for your interviews! Whether you’ve already received an interview invitation or are hoping to get an invite over the next few weeks, you want to make [...]

During the Interview If you've done all your preparation, then the interview itself should run smoothly and flawlessly, right? Well, hopefully, but not necessarily. Interviewers are talented when it comes [...]

Perhaps your b-school interview has already come and gone, but for many of you, interviews are just around the corner, so this post should be relevant and right on schedule. [...]

What are you hoping to learn at business school? Although this may appear to be a simple question, many candidates often have a very hard time responding to it.  When we [...]

Clients of mine often ask what the most important part of their business school application is. Is it their GMAT score, undergraduate transcript, essays, interview, letters of recommendations, or something [...]

Unfortunately, the business school interview can be the most unpredictable part of the MBA application process. Although it is important to prepare for this interview, it is essentially impossible to [...]

We’ve been offering a good deal of advice lately on how to conduct oneself and prepare responses to MBA interview questions.  Today we’d like to highlight the importance of thinking [...]

With interview invitations already on their way out to Round One applicants, we wanted to offer some more advice on this element of the admissions process. Today, we turn our [...]

After you have decided to apply to an MBA program, you will be asked a lot of questions regarding why you made your decision. You should have several strong answers [...]

With interview invites going out for Round One applicants, we wanted to turn our attention to this important step in the admissions process and share a few very basic pointers [...]

More and more programs do thorough background checks on accepted applicants. It's during the post-acceptance background check that actual people will be poring over your application, making sure that it [...]

In my last article on June 5 th , I shared some of my experiences from my road to business school.  From taking the GMAT, to evaluating my goals, to [...]

Nearly every interview, whether it’s a job interview or a school admissions interview, has the following (loose) tripartite structure: Step 1. Someone says, “Hi, you must be [NAME]. Thanks for [...]

Dinged at your top choice MBA program? Considering reapplying next year? If your target schools offer feedback sessions, then you should definitely take the opportunity to hear from an admissions [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDw9_Jh-tfk[/youtube] Last week I shared Part 1 of my exit interview with Samir ( click here to see it ), a Beat The GMAT member who recently got admitted to MIT [...]

It’s MBA interview season, which doesn’t mean you get a free pass to stress out. In fact, if you keep the four “must-knows” in mind during your interview prep and [...]

With interview invitations from a number of programs already on their way out to Round One applicants, we wanted to offer Beat The GMAT readers some advice on this critical [...]