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($) essay critique! Kellogg “How have you grown?”

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Another Brave Supplicant ponyed up the big bucks threw a draft over the transom and asked for some freebie help, this time for Kellogg Essay 2. As a reminder, here’s the question: Pursuing an MBA is a catalyst for personal and professional growth. How have you grown in the past? How do you intend to…

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($) Word choice matters.

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We had a BSer send in an essay last season where they were trying to convey how they’re ready to pursue their stated future career goals based on current work experience. They had a statement that said: “My participation nearly from the start of the deployment was very helpful to become acquainted with the business…”…

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($) essay critique! LBS goals – and more “show, don’t tell”

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Back in February we posted a sad post about an essay for LBS that we had little hope for. 🙁 Today we’re circling back to that same essay in an interest of helping all of you to better understand this crucial essay-writing advice that we’ve been discussing. You can go back to that original post…

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($) Inside out, vs outside in stories for your MBA essays (Berkeley, Kellogg, Stanford)

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Kellogg has an essay question this year asking you to discuss “growth”. They’re not alone. Berkeley has three such questions asking for personal experiences: The instructions for Haas Essay 2 offer separate choices for you to hang yourself by select from. The specific keywords to note in those Haas questions that tip you off that…

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($) All those “humble” BSers.

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There seemed to be a trend hitting Snarkville last season, particularly in Round 2, where we had all these BSers writing in their essays to the top business schools about how “humble” they are. While we certainly appreciate that quality in a person – no really, despite the snark often coming from our direction, we…

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($) Yet another tip on writing Stanford Essay B: “Why Stanford?”

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We recently shared with you some tips on Stanford Essay B based on a Q&A exchange from another Brave Supplicant wrestling with their GSB essays. We also offered a don’t-do-this essay critique on Stanford Essay B. Here’s another quick tip that’s not necessarily quick to internalize, again based on real-life feedback we gave to someone…

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($) Tips on Stanford Essay B: “Why Stanford?”

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The Stanford MBA essays are truly some of the hardest essay questions in the world. It’s not hard to answer them; it’s hard to answer them WELL. Since we did “Why MBA?” yesterday, we may as well go even deeper today, with “Why Stanford?” Here’s an excerpt of an exchange we had with a Round…

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