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Essay Announcements 2023-2024
Multiple business schools have already released their 2023-2024 application essay questions. Applying this fall? Check out Personal MBA Coach's blog for advice for tackling these essays below: Harvard Business School [...]
The GMAT Focus Edition and What it Means for Your MBA Applications
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 [...]
Stanford MBA Essay Tips
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 [...]
The GMAT Focus - New Update
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 [...]
What to Expect from the 2023-2024 MBA Essay Questions
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 [...]
MBA Rankings and Their Role in School Choice
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 [...]
Chicago Booth - An Insider's Guide
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 [...]
Personal MBA Coach’s Take On The US News Best Business Schools 2023-2024
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 [...]
What If I Am An International Applicant? Answers To Top 8 Frequently Asked Questions
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 [...]
Debunking the Top 5 MBA Interview Myths
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 [...]
Harvard Business School – An Insider’s Guide
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 [...]
MBA Scholarships – Can You Negotiate Them and, if So, How?
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 [...]
***The GMAT is CHANGING in late 2023 to the GMAT Focus Edition***
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 [...]
From Tech Layoff to Business School
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 [...]
What GMAT Score Do I Need for Harvard? Answers to Your Most Pressing GMAT and GRE Questions
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 – [...]
How To Articulate Your MBA Goals
“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 [...]
Haas MBA Students Tackle Difficult Workplace Conversations
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, [...]
The Virtual Wharton TBD Interview
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 [...]
Who Gets into Harvard Business School and What Does that Mean for You?
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 [...]
Expanding Your Network For Long-Term Success
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 [...]