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Northwestern / Kellogg 2015-2016 Essay Topic Analysis
Now that Northwestern has announced the Kellogg MBA essay topics for the 2015-2016 admissions season, we wanted to offer our advice to applicants who are targeting that program’s Class of 2018. The format for Kellogg’s essays remains the same as last year’s: applicants will respond to two required essays in... Read more »
Financing Your MBA, Part I
Getting into a top-ranked MBA program is no small feat. With application deadlines recently posted at several leading schools, many prospective applicants are laser focused now on preparing for the GMAT, submitting undergraduate transcripts and crafting perfect essays. But every bit as critical as gaining acceptance to these top programs... Read more »
A PEEK Is All It Takes: HBS’s Innovative Initiative to Woo Women
HBS Professor Youngme Moon teaching PEEK students Photo credit: Evgenia Eliseeva For Priyanka Krishnamoorthy, a 2015 Mt. Holyoke graduate working in investment banking at Bank of America, a recent weekend at Harvard Business School (HBS) helped set her sights on pursuing an MBA. The Sri Lankan native majored in economics... Read more »
Duke / Fuqua 2015-2016 Essay Topic Analysis
Following up on the release of the 2015-2016 Fuqua MBA essays, we wanted to offer some guidance to business school applicants targeting the Duke Class of 2018. Duke’s essay section of the MBA application is largely unchanged from last admissions season. The Fuqua adcom has doubled the length limit for... Read more »
How to Use MBA Program Rankings to Your Advantage
There are a number of authoritative sources that knowledgeably rank the “top” MBA programs each year. Because the methodologies of these rankings can differ considerably, however, a given school may well be ranked quite differently across these various lists, making it difficult to decipher which are the “best” schools. For... Read more »
