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Top MBA Interview Questions – What Can You Expect?
Top MBA Admissions Interview Questions, 2014
MBA INTERVIEWS – WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT?
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Top Five Things That Will Get You Dinged on Your MBA Applications
HBS, Wharton, Columbia, NYU Stern, Kellogg, Booth, they're all the same when it comes to one thing: "dings." If you're applying for your MBA degree this year, you're probably all too familiar with what that little word means. "Dings" are the marks made against you on your MBA application, the things you've done wrong, your failings, the things that will keep you from the MBA degree and business school and career of your dreams. "Dings" = MBA slang for really, really bad. What if you knew ahead of time though, the top five things that you could avoid that would make sure an MBA admission officer's "ding" on your application never happened? What if you could in fact, avoid the "dings" altogether and create a stellar application, by avoiding the most common dings, below? Again, these are the top five things NOT to do: 1. DING #1: Speaking in a general versus personal matter = don't do it. This happens way too frequently among MBA applicants. In the essays, the applicant makes very general and sweepingly broad statements about "society" or "the global climate," or "the issue" and goes on and on from their soapbox making a broad, generalized point,
Successful MBA Sample Essays That Got Applicants Into HBS & Wharton
Last year HBS had a 12% accept rate with over 9,000 applicants. The other top MBA programs in the U.S. - Wharton, Stanford, Kellogg, Booth, Columbia and MIT Sloan, just to name a few had similar tight competition. We've already discussed the necessary GMAT score ranges and interview skills needed in other blog posts that give you a chance at the top. The question here then is, what makes an applicant's MBA essay successful, and what can you do to raise yourself among the best?" The answer to that question is to start by looking at some very successful essays. What does a good essay look like? The best resource I've found to pass on to the curious, is this resource here: 65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays http://www.amazon.com/Successful-Harvard-Business-Application-Edition/dp/0312550073/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353339299&sr=8-2&keywords=successful+harvard+business+school+essays BUT, read with caution because even though I believe this book will help you better understand how to differentiate between a good essay and a bad one (and thereby help you honestly assess where you fall) it doesn't do much for helping you tell your story, your background, or your professional vision. And, believe me, the ad com has read this book too, so if your essays sound too similar
Your MBA Application Strategy – How Many Schools?
Applying for an MBA is time consuming, as well as stressful. How many schools should you apply to? Is it even worth it to go to a "lesser school's" program? Will a mid-tier or even lower-tier school help you get to where you want to go? How many applications are average? What is the best possible strategy before you enter a land of diminished returns?
YOUR MBA CHANCES AT A TOP IVY SCHOOL?
You've had the big name internships, you've worked for a few years at a Fortune 500 company, most likely in a large city and now have that under your belt, and you have very strong and solid ambition for your future with specific, actual short and long-term goals. Add a GMAT score that breaks 710, and even better 720, and you are certainly in the running. So, what are you chances of really getting in to a top MBA program, if you have all of the above? Good! Allow me to say that the above makes you an ideal competitive Ivy League and Top Ten MBA candidate...on paper. Your job is to now enhance that paper any way you can, so you stand out even more among the hundreds of other highly competitive MBA & EMBA candidates who have the exact same credentials. In other words, you've made it through the gate by acquiring the above, but now you have to be offered a chance to sit down. The best way to do this? I'll break it down into four sections below: 1. Your Resume: Make sure your resume looks tight and clean. You want a resume that looks simple, solid,
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