Thinking about applying to Duke Fuqua? The school’s essays are designed to reveal the person behind the resume, your personality, values, and vision. For 2025-26, Fuqua requires responses to three prompts: a 100-word career goals short answer, the well-known “25 Random Things” list (750 words), and a 500-word community essay. The strongest responses are clear,
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Carnegie Mellon Tepper’s MBA essays include one written essay (choose from two prompts) plus a goals video essay. Essay option 1 is a behavioral question about decision-making under uncertainty; option 2 focuses on your personal and professional transformation and why Tepper. The video essay asks you to share your post-MBA goals in a clear, concise,
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Duke Fuqua offers two options for completing your MBA interview: An on-campus interview in Durham An off-campus or virtual interview Regardless of the format you choose, all Duke Fuqua MBA interviews are valued equally. On-campus interviews are held on designated dates. If you choose this option, you will receive a link to sign up for
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You’ve won an MBA scholarship, but not from your dream school. Should you take it? It’s a fortunate dilemma to have, but one that ties many of our clients in knots around this time of year. The scenario typically goes like this: You’ve been offered a good scholarship at one school — but not your
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Duke University’s Fuqua School has ascended to one of the top international business schools in its somewhat brief history. Fuqua is routinely ranked among the best domestic MBA programs —#6 in the 2023-24 Poets & Quants rankings and tied for #12 in the U.S. News & World Report in 2024 .Outside of official rankings, Fuqua
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You’ve logged long hours at work to keep clients happy, agonized over essays, juggled GMAT study sessions amid competing priorities, and exhausted loved ones with your near-obsessive commitment to perfecting your business school application. Finally, you’ve hit submit. Now what? First, congratulations – what an enormous accomplishment! DO stop to celebrate this huge milestone, you
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My Fortuna Admissions colleagues and I have seen an uptick in interest in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon. One of the smallest among the top 20 business schools, it boasts a close-knit culture and pioneering approach to management curriculum (a “management science” model over the case method, that’s now integrated within all
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