Blog: Archive for the “Business School” Category

Candidates for Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business must provide just one written essay (of a somewhat succinct 500 words) in response to their choice of three questions. Applicants can discuss how their personal attributes and experiences could be additive to the school’s community, a time when they supported another individual and how that experience … Read More  

Applicants to Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business must provide three 2,000-character essays and have the option to submit a fourth, if anything more about their candidacy needs to be offered or explained. The school’s first prompt broadly covers applicants’ need for an MBA, and specifically a Tuck MBA, as well as why they are … Read More  

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has long highlighted the strength of its community, the way students collaborate both inside and outside the classroom to learn and grow, and the value of bringing people from diverse backgrounds and with differing mindsets together, and the school’s application essay prompts focus on all these ideas. … Read More  

  For the 2025–2026 application season, Harvard Business School (HBS) requires three application essays that each focus on a different element of the MBA program’s admissions criteria. For the school’s first required essay, you will need to reflect on your past and explain how certain choices have influenced your professional aspirations. Leadership is the central … Read More  

With its straightforward approach to the traditional goals statement and just one other required essay (with two prompt options that applicants can choose from), the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University seems interested in getting right to the heart of the issues it considers most valuable when evaluating its applicants. The admissions committee … Read More