Catherine Tuttle, Author at Fortuna Admissions

Carnegie Mellon Tepper MBA Essays and Video: Strategy & Tips for 2026-27

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 MBA Essays: Strategy & Examples for 2026-27

Essay Writing / By Catherine Tuttle

Planning to apply to Duke Fuqua? The school’s essays are designed to reveal the person behind the resume, your personality, values, and vision. For 2026-27, 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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Duke Fuqua Interview: Tips for Success

Interviews / By Catherine Tuttle

Duke Fuqua offers two options for completing your MBA interview: Regardless of the format you choose, all Duke Fuqua MBA interviews are valued equally, so there is no advantage in the on-campus versus off-campus or virtual interview option. On-campus interviews are held on designated dates. If you choose this option, you will receive a link

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How To Negotiate An MBA Scholarship + Example Letter

Application Strategy, Financing & Scholarships / By Catherine Tuttle

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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6 Insider Tips on Applying for the Duke Fuqua MBA

Application Strategy / By Catherine Tuttle

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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What To Do Now That You’ve Submitted Your MBA Application

Application Strategy / By Catherine Tuttle

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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Applying to Carnegie Mellon Tepper: 3 Essential MBA Tips

Application Strategy / By Catherine Tuttle

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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