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Once again, the New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business has made no changes to its application essay prompts. The program’s first required essay covers applicants’ professional aspirations and Stern’s role in their attainment. For the second required essay, candidates must tackle the school’s challenging but very revelatory “Pick Six” submission, which might be … Read More  

Like many top MBA programs this year, London Business School (LBS) has elected to make no changes to its application essay prompts. Except for some slight variations in phrasing and allowed word count, the school has been posing these same questions since 2015, so we presume they have proved effective in providing the additional information … Read More  

Although Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business initially announced the modifications it had made to its application essays in a June 17 blog post, the school has continued to tweak its prompts, so we are updating our analysis to reflect the latest iterations. At the time of this posting, some slight discrepancies still exist in … Read More  

Like many of the top MBA programs appear to be doing this season, the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) has opted to make no changes to the wording of its application essay prompts—or to its short-answer questions—though it has minimized the space in which its candidates can respond to them. Applicants are now given … Read More  

Two years ago, the admissions committee at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business completely reworked its MBA application essay questions, but for this season and the last, the school has done only a little fine-tuning. Ostensibly, this indicates that the variety and presentation of the prompts are generating the kind of input the … Read More