GMAC’s announcement of the updated version of the GMAT called the GMAT Focus Edition has generated quite a bit of excitement within the business school community. But since the test [...]

Earlier this week, Stanford announced its application deadlines for the ’23-’24 admissions cycle and confirmed that its main essay questions will remain unchanged next year. Round 1 applications will be [...]

GMAC announced last week that GMAT Focus registration will open on August 29, 2023, and the testing will begin in Q4 2023. Check out and bookmark Personal MBA Coach's blog [...]

Are you looking to get started on your MBA application essays, but aren’t sure where to begin? Although business schools have not yet released their 2023-2024 MBA essay questions, based [...]

The results are in! The latest MBA rankings have been released by U.S News & World Report, with the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business being at the top [...]

Think of Booth as just a ‘finance school’? Think again. Booth’s marketing and entrepreneurship departments are also fantastic. Marketing is distinguished by its focus on analytics and its recent exclusive [...]

The 2023-2024 US News Top Business School ranking came out yesterday, with some interesting changes in the top 20. For the second year in a row, Chicago Booth topped the [...]

Each year, international applicants ask Personal MBA Coach how being international affects their chances of success. The short answer is, ‘It depends’. There are some countries from which many applicants [...]

For B-school hopefuls putting the finishing touches on their round two applications, the next step in the process is preparing for the MBA interview. Some schools are notorious for putting [...]

This week we’re kicking off a new series! Follow along as we share ‘Insider’s Guides’ for many of the top MBA programs, beginning with – you guessed it – Harvard [...]

If you were lucky enough to emerge from the Round 2 MBA application process with one or more acceptances in hand, congrats! A subset of you may have even received [...]

Dear All GMAT students, Earlier this month, GMAC announced that the Official GMAT Exam will be going through some substantial changes by the end of this year (2023). The inital [...]

Are you one of the more than 91,000 workers recently laid off from a tech industry job? If so, you may consider pivoting to pursue an MBA degree to enhance [...]

As an MBA admissions consultant, I find that clients and prospective clients, especially those early in their MBA journeys, are often fraught with anxiety and indecision about standardized testing – [...]

“What do you want to do after you graduate from business school?” Regardless of when you plan to apply to business school, now is a great time to solidify your [...]

Even brilliant, über-accomplished people can have a common Achilles heel: avoiding conflict whenever possible. This fall, UC Berkeley Haas MBA students enrolled in the new course, Difficult Conversations: Conflict Lab, [...]

Invited to interview at Wharton? Congratulations! Now comes the hard part - acing the interview. An interview is a vital part of the application process and being prepared can help [...]

You may have seen this recent article on Poets & Quants, which shared some eye-opening data from our peer firm, Fortuna Admissions, about who gets into Harvard and Stanford’s MBA [...]

Networking is a key part of every long-term career strategy - to get you on the right path this year, Personal MBA Coach has some tips on when and how [...]

Preparing for your MBA interviews can seem fairly straightforward at first. All you need to do is bullet out and practice your answers to the standard MBA interview questions and [...]