The answer to almost every question about MBA admissions is: It depends. But there’s one specific case where the answer to this question is: No! Anyone with a long-range mindset who’s looking at options to pursue in their future is likely doing plenty of “What if?” calculations on the different opportunities they’re considering. If you’re […]
Continue reading...($) Explaining Early Action, Early Decision, Early Admissions, and all these confusing options
Let’s take care of the easy one first: “Early Admissions.” As usual, MIT has to be unique: The MIT Sloan “Early Admissions” application option is for college students who are looking to apply to an MBA program while they’re still in school. It is the same as what other MBA programs might called “Deferred Admission” […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! Yale Silver Scholars – graduating college senior MBA application
Essays reviews? In April?!? This is not usually the time when Snarkville is hopping with essay-writing and application-finalizing stress-monsters (aka, applicants to bschool). Most of the stress we see at this time of year is from the waitlisted woes and the can’t-decide-which-school-to-attend people at the latter stage of the admissions process. However, every now and […]
Continue reading...Where can you apply for an MBA straight out of college?
Used to be, the answer to that was “Not really anywhere.” If you wanted to go get an MBA, many schools wouldn’t even consider an app from you until you’d accrued some work experience. Regardless of how motivated you may have been, you couldn’t apply to business school straight out of college. Well guess what? […]
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