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($) Pitching the adcom with your “Why MBA?” material

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There’s a few tips to offer today to make your career goals / why MBA essays more compact, streamlined — and effective. A lot of this advice applies to many schools, but we see several issues coming up on the Booth essays especially so if you’re tackling those, then this post is for you! The…

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($) Every word counts

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Sometimes we give feedback to BSers and we can just see the eye-rolling that it triggers on the receiving end. We get really down into the weeds with you when we’re going through something like a career goals plan or reading an MBA essay. A common example is when someone says something like, “I want…

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($) Why do people end up in consulting?

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The data we analyzed yesterday from the five years of Kellogg MBA employment reports hopefully got you thinking, and researching further into career paths and data from your target schools. One clear takeaway was that you don’t have to do an internship in consulting to land a post-MBA job in consulting in your second year….

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($) Post-MBA career trends at Kellogg

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Or likely at most top American MBA programs over the past five years. This post focuses on Kellogg mainly because their employment reports are detailed enough on this particular dimension to do the analysis. They’re also a solid general management program which attracts employers of all stripes. They continue to send graduates into the traditional…

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($) How does venture capital actually work? (Or, how much do you know?)

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If you’re trying to break into VC, mostly we would discourage you. There’s just not that many post-MBA jobs available, and most people who claim that that’s what they want to do after bschool have stars in their eyes and unrealistic expectations. Many of them don’t even know what’s involved. We’ve tried to shed some…

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($) Don’t model your career goals in your MBA essays on edge cases.

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Very often when we see people who are determined to get an MBA!!! – even when maybe they don’t know why yet – we see an interesting assortment of career goals tossed about. One of the biggest favors you can do for yourself in this whole process is understanding the industry that you’re targeting. For…

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($) You need to get out of your pajamas.

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This is a GREAT time to make massive progress on your MBA applications!!! Whether you’re in go-go-go! mode or you’re chillin on this whole application thing there is a low stress and FUN!! task you can (and should!) be tackling right now: School Research. The goal of school research is to figure out if you’re…

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($) Why do you even want an MBA?

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Yes yes yes, we know, you want to make more money. Get a better job. Maybe work in some other part of the world. All that is perfectly fine. But as part of your pre-application MBA preparedness process, we strongly encourage you to step back and consider the question of WHY. An MBA is a…

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($) What does “I want to start a company” mean?

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This simple sentence can be empowering – or it can really trip you up and even embarrass you depending on the context and to whom you are saying it. If you’re in Silicon Valley and you utter these words, you could get a range of reactions from an eyeroll to a shrug to a look…

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($) “Oh no! What now?” part 2

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This week we’re discussing the real-world situation of the Brave Supplicant who tried for an MBA but did not have success getting in. This is not so much about planning a reapplicant strategy, though that isn’t at odds with this either. This is about, hmmm, things didn’t go as planned, and sitting here in middle…

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