Blog: Archive for the “University of California Los Angeles (Anderson)” Category

Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose an MBA program to attend, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we profile Eric Sussman at the UCLA … Read More  

Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose an MBA program to attend, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we profile William Cockrum … Read More  

UCLA Anderson keeps things short and sweet this application season, with one personal essay question and one forward-looking professional essay prompt. As always, think carefully about what you want to say before you begin writing, and be especially careful to craft a concise and eye-catching resume. We emphasize the word concise! Do not overstuff your resume with … Read More  

Two years ago, UCLA Anderson introduced an application essay question that required candidates to creatively express themselves. Last year, the school made the question optional. This year, it dropped this much-discussed essay question altogether. Were the segments overproduced? Did the question give a technological advantage to some, but not others? Who can say? What we … Read More  

Perhaps because of UCLA Anderson’s close ties to Hollywood and to the media and entertainment industries, the school has taken the lead in offering alternative essay questions to applicants—alternative in the sense of involving a nonwritten response. Anderson began by offering applicants the option to submit a short audio recording of their answer to one … Read More