Carnegie Mellon University’s  Tepper School of Business  has posted the essay questions for the 2016-2017 application, which includes only one required essay. Tepper offers several options for completing your MBA, from [...]

MIT Sloan School of Management  has streamlined the application considerably this year, removing all but one optional open-ended essay from the application, and reviving the cover letter essay that was [...]

INSEAD , “the business school of the world,” is a dynamic, diverse and highly international MBA option. Along with the basic MBA questions most other schools ask, INSEAD is looking [...]

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth has a small student body and a rural location, combined with world-class faculty and academic focus. As you approach your Dartmouth Tuck MBA application [...]

Inference questions can appear in Critical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, and Integrated Reasoning on the GMAT, so it’s crucial to master what the test is—and is not—asking you to do. The [...]

Duke Fuqua  is a community focused MBA program that seeks “leaders of consequence.” Fuqua sees a new business environment, where impeccable ethics, a disruptive attitude and other personal attributes are [...]

More than 50% of business school applicants say they would attend a less desirable program if awarded a scholarship, according to SBC's annual survey of MBA applicants. Our survey also reported that a post-MBA [...]

The University of Pennsylvania's  Wharton School  has announced the launch of the  Penn Wharton Budget Model . The nonpartisan, interactive budget model is a tool available at no cost to users [...]

Are you ready for the third and final installment of our Time Management series? In the first part of this series , we established some overall principles for time management on [...]

Many business school applicants worry that they don’t have a strong enough quantitative background to be accepted into a top program. If your entire career has been spent in marketing, [...]

One of the most important decisions you’ll make during the MBA application process is which schools you’re going to apply to in the first place. We know—duh, right? But seriously, [...]

Welcome back! In the first part of this series, we established some overall principles for time management on the GMAT: (1) Why is time management so important on the GMAT? [...]

The ability to work well with people from other cultures has never been more critical. More companies than ever are conducting international business, and business schools everywhere have spent the [...]

Well, everything you need to know on the GMAT, anyway. :D First, a note: this three-part series is long; there’s a lot going on. You aren’t going to be able to [...]

Carnegie Mellon University's  Tepper School of Business  has posted the updated  MBA essay questions  for the 2016-2017 admissions season. This year, there is only one required essay—down from two in the [...]

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 [...]

IESE Business School  has posted the following  application deadlines  for the 2016-2017 admissions season. Round 1 Application due: October 4, 2016 Decision released by: November 25, 2016 Round 2 Application due: [...]

The  MIT Sloan School of Management  has announced the  MBA application deadlines  for the 2016-2017 admissions season. The application to the full-time MBA program will not include a traditional essay question this year; instead, the [...]

Companies working directly with business schools plan to hire more MBAs this year than they hired in 2015, according to a  global survey report  released by the  Graduate Management Admission [...]

It's the dreaded failure topic: "Describe a situation taken from your personal or professional life where you failed." MBA applicants often freak out when faced with this common  admissions essay [...]

The  INSEAD  MBA application for the September 2017 intake is now open, which means we can preview this season's essay questions for you here. This year, the number of motivation essays has [...]

GMAC has just launched a beta version of their Enhanced Score Report (ESR), with fantastic new data to help us figure out how to get better at taking the GMAT. [...]

The University of Pennsylvania's  Wharton School  has announced the launch of the  Penn Wharton Budget Model . The nonpartisan, interactive budget model is a tool available at no cost to users [...]