Last year, Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business required just one essay from its applicants, who could use up to 500 words to explain what they would bring to the Tepper community. Now for the program’s required essay, applicants must discuss overcoming adversity of some kind in their life and what the experience taught … Read More  

Are you interested in earning your MBA at a top program? Here we present a list of MBA programs and the various admissions events they offer, which feature application workshops, information sessions, virtual chats, and other helpful resources. For many schools, more targeted offerings are available, such as sessions on diversity, career-focused seminars, workshops for … Read More  

Students aspiring to sharpen their analytic and quantitative skills are well served at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. Boasting a faculty that includes multiple Nobel Prize winners, Tepper has pioneered “management science,” a supplement to traditional case studies that draws on more scientific—rather than historical—strategies for complex business decision making. Management science depends on … Read More  

*Please note: You are viewing an essay analysis from the 2019-2020 admissions cycle. Click here to view our collection of essay analyses for the current admissions season.   After switching up its application essay approach last year and offering candidates three prompts from which to choose, Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business has reverted back this season … Read More  

The 2019–2020 admissions season has officially kicked off with the release of several top business schools’ application deadlines and required essays. Among the schools to release application details recently are Cambridge (Judge), Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), Cornell (Johnson), Dartmouth (Tuck), INSEAD, NYU (Stern), Stanford, and Texas (McCombs). For a complete list of 2019–2020 business school deadlines, … Read More