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May 31, 2024

How to Secure the Best MBA Letters of Recommendation

Select your recommenders with care and prepare them to champion your candidacy. MBA application essay questions understandably get a lot of early attention and focused effort. (For insider tips and...
May 20, 2024

How To Negotiate An MBA Scholarship + Example Letter

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...
April 27, 2024

What is the Average Age to Get an MBA?

Your boss has an MBA from a top business school. So does your boss’s boss. As does, needless to say, the CEO of your company. You want to move up...
April 25, 2024

7 Essential Tips for GMAT Prep

For the last 15 years or so, the average GMAT score for candidates admitted to top MBA programs has been rising steadily. In the US, the mean GMAT score of...
April 16, 2024

MBA Rankings: How to Use Them Effectively

Spring is here, the next cycle of MBA Admissions is gearing up, and that means it’s also MBA and business school rankings season again.  US News & World Report just...
Top 10 Deferred MBA Programs
April 2, 2024

Top 10 Deferred MBA Programs + Tips on How to Get In

For college seniors with clear business aspirations, applying to a deferred MBA program straight out of college is a strategic move. In the traditional path to an MBA, you spend...
April 1, 2024

MBA Types: Which Program is Right For You?

For those seeking to supercharge their careers, business schools now offer a dazzling array of MBA formats and graduate degrees. Options range from full-time two year programs, to accelerated one-year...
March 15, 2024

6 Insider Tips on Applying for the Duke Fuqua MBA

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...
How to Get into INSEAD
March 12, 2024

How to Get into INSEAD: Advice for 6 Common MBA Profiles

During my seven years at INSEAD, where I served as director of MBA admissions, marketing & financial aid, I oversaw all aspects of candidate evaluation and policy decisions for INSEAD...
March 1, 2024

HBS Deferred MBA: Top Tips for the 2+2 Essays

Application season for deferred entry programs is heating up, with deadlines coming up in April. Business-bound college and master’s degree students applying for Harvard Business School’’s 2+2 program are no...
How to Get a Perfect GMAT Score
February 8, 2024

How to Get a Perfect GMAT Score

Achieving a perfect 805 score on the GMAT Focus Edition is a lofty goal. While it might seem like an impossible feat, test experts I’ve talked to assure me that...
February 6, 2024

GMAT Focus Edition and GRE: Your Best Test Strategy

Since September 2023, two major standardized tests for admission to business school have been significantly revised. Both the new GMAT exam and the GRE are brand new to us all...

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