Blog: Archive for the “Business School” Category

Wharton has released its application questions for the 2010-11 application season (http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admissions/apply-to-wharton.cfm).  Please note that these questions are different than the ones that Wharton briefly released and then retracted a few weeks  ago, and you should be answering these questions instead of those ones. Fall 2010 Essay Questions The Admissions Committee is interested in getting … Read More  

Taken together, the first four short-answer questions on Yale’s MBA application encompass what is usually covered in a standard Personal Statement question. Breaking these elements down into separate questions and disengaging them from each other minimizes the opportunity for applicants to get bogged down in generalizations and indicates that the school wants direct, clear responses … Read More  

Columbia Business School has released its application questions for the 2010-11 season, with some significant changes.  The questions follow; our essay analysis will be posted shortly. Essay 1 What are your short-term and long-term post-MBA goals? How will Columbia Business School help you achieve these goals? (Recommended 750 word limit) Essay 2 Please tell us … Read More  

Yale School of Management has released its essay questions for the 2010-11 application season.  Our essay analyses will come shortly.  The questions are: Short Answers Please answer each of the four questions below with a short paragraph of no more than 150 words. This is an opportunity to distill your core ideas, values, goals and … Read More  

As is usually the case each year, Harvard Business School (HBS) has not completely overhauled its essays, but has just tweaked them slightly. We would guess that this is likely an issue of variety and change, rather than some shift in attributes sought by the admissions committee. The first two essay questions remain the same, … Read More