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Why do you need an MBA? No really: Why?

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This comes up surprisingly often. Do you even know why you need an MBA? Almost all of the schools, in one form or another, ask questions in their applications about why you’re interested in going there. The best way to answer that, of course, is to talk about how you need such-and-such new skills or…

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($) A warning in your “Why This School” essay content (and a tip on Kellogg and “growth”)

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We know that this is an innocent error — a well-intentioned one, even. But it can be a real problem in your essays. When you’re trying to write about why you want to go to the school, you need to reference specific things about that school. You know, like classes and clubs — but more…

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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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($) 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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($) Tone Part 2

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We could have Tone posts to infinity but we’ll probably leave it at just these two for now. Here’s another aspect to tone: Don’t be presumptuous! (That may be easier for some of you than others….) This is another very innocent mistake that you might make — and, OK, as with these other points of…

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($) When an essay prompt does not ask for something but you include it anyway

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This is in the category of ‘unforced error.’ There are plenty of ways to muff up an essay but it’s always a shame to see a BSer muff things up in content that they aren’t even being asked to write about. Take Wharton essay 1: What do you hope to gain professionally from the Wharton…

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($) How not to confuse your adcom reader

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Writing essays is hard. There are many common mistakes that pretty much everyone makes — which we cover all the time here on the blahg, but we know that some of our posts are fairly far back in the snarchive at this point and unless you’re a total obsessive, you probably won’t read the half…

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($) Telling the MBA adcom “I want to start a club when I’m a student there.”

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A bunch of schools including Wharton and MIT have essay questions this year asking “How will you contribute?” They’re formalizing what we’ve long suggested that BSers do in their apps. Some enterprising BSers come up with the idea of telling the adcom that they’ll start a club. This sounds great! But is this something that…

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($) The ultimate test for your Stanford GSB application

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How do you know if what you’re written for the Stanford GSB MBA application is any good? How do you know if you’ve communicated something valuable, and authentic, to your admissions readers? This technique was inspired in part by the “pizza essay” that we blahgged about in May where we stated this about some remarks…

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($) Working during your MBA

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If you’re going for a part-time MBA, today’s post is not for you. Many part-time MBA programs REQUIRE students to be working while completing the MBA. Today we’re talking about the “why MBA” essay where you toss out the idea that you’ll do an internship during the school year. This brilliant idea gained a foothold…

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