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Authenticity, the Real You, and the MBA Application
self-exploration or self-excavation? Here’s how to get into your top-choice business school: be yourself. If you are struggling with MBA essays, the last thing you want to hear are those two words, but...
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Consider Your Audience in Your B-School Application
I recently attended a workshop at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on pitching business plans to entrepreneurs. The experts there kept hammering it home: consider your audience. An MBA...
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Writing about Career Goals in the MBA Application
So, what do you want to when you grow up? That’s the spirit behind the goals questions on business school applications. The sky’s the limit This prompt is partly about your ability to plan logically...
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Benefits of Starting Your Business School Campaign Now
As I write this, it’s less than six months to the first round deadlines for business school application. And there’s plenty you can do to get organized now. This means mapping out a strategy, juggling...
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Two Weeks Away! Admissions Workshop in San Francisco July 16
If you’re going to San Francisco… Come to the Harvard Club of San Francisco’s MBA Application Workshop. I’ll be running this fun and interactive session that will help you clarify and organize your...
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Storytelling to Demonstrate Your Real Self
Now that it’s application season, students who want to attend the best business schools in the world have been asking me HOW to stand out from the rest of the pack and show just how interesting they...
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Advice from a Recently-Admitted Wharton MBA
This story has been updated since it was first published 3 years and 2 weeks ago. Jennifer graduated from Haas, her first-choice school (nope, not Wharton after all) and has had notable success with...
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Tired of my advice? How about from an HBS first-year student?
You could wear this on your blue blazer Some of the best admissions advisers are those who have gone through the process recently, and I think that one of the posters over at Wall Street Oasis, has...
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A Reminder: Answer the Question
People always ask: How do I make myself stand out in an MBA application? I have three words of advice: Answer the questions. Advice so simple it barely seems worth mentioning. At a recent school...
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Wrestling with MBA Application Essays
You are thinner, of course Writing MBA essays can be hard work. If you know anyone who is applying to business school you may have heard them muttering to themselves, “What does matter most to me and...
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