Blog: Archive for the “MBA Essay Tips” Category

REQUIRED ESSAYS Please be introspective and authentic in your responses. Content is more important than style of delivery. We value the opportunity to learn about your life experiences, aspirations, and goals. 1. What event or life experience has had the greatest influence in shaping your character and why? (750 words) In offering you the opportunity to … Read More  

Before we even begin our analysis, the following quote from Stanford Assistant Dean and Director of MBA Admissions Derrick Bolton bears repeating and is important for you to keep in mind with respect to your essays for Stanford or any other school: “Because we want to discover who you are, resist the urge to ‘package’ … Read More  

Update: Click here for the 2015-2016 Columbia Business School Essay Analysis  1. What are your short-term and long-term post-MBA goals? How will Columbia Business School (CBS) help you achieve these goals? (Recommended 750-word limit) Because Personal Statements are similar from one application to the next, we have produced the mbaMission Personal Statement Guide, which helps applicants … 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  

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