Stanford GSB Admissions Director Kirsten Moss put a fine point on having a strategic approach to securing MBA letters of recommendation during a panel discuss of Admissions Directors at the CentreCourt MBA Festival: “Recommendations are particularly important – it’s one time we can get someone’s outside opinion looking in, other than your own, of what you’ve
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Just as MIT Sloan eschews the M7 convention throughout its MBA application process(requiring a cover letter and org chart in lieu of traditional written essays), its MIT Sloan video component is unlike the others. Instead of seeing how you’ll field a series of randomly selected questions, MIT Sloan wants a one-take video statement in which
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In 2018, MIT Sloan became the first top-tier MBA program to ask applicants for an organizational chart that outlines the “internal structure of your department and company.” Sloan’s application requirements already buck the M7 standard by sidestepping traditional written essays and soliciting a cover letter and video statement (see our related blog on How to Tackle
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Until now, my advice to business school hopefuls looking to research MBA programs was to find a way to visit campus to get a gut feel for whether you can see yourself there or not. Meeting the people and hanging out with the students – by attending a class, chatting with staff, and soaking up the
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Business school waitlists have been significantly expanded for a number of reasons. In this podcast we zero in on how to get admitted off the wait list. We offer tips in this edition of the Business Casual weekly podcast, co-hosted by Fortuna Director Caroline Diarte Edwards with Poets&Quants’ John Byrne and ApplicantLab’s Maria Wich-Villa. You
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This second article in a two-part series on Crafting a Standout Resume for the MBA Application highlights essential dos and don’ts every applicant should know. Most applicants are too modest in their resume because they don’t want to “brag.” But taking the time to reflect, then succinctly articulate your professional value add is crucial for
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Earlier this month, Fortuna Co-Founder Matt Symonds sat down with Poets&Quants Editor-in-Chief John Byrne for a deep-dive interview into the Fortuna team’s extensive research profiling and comparing the successful MBA candidates in the Class of 2020 at Harvard Business School and Stanford GSB. Fortuna’s Deep Dive Analysis covers 95% of HBS & 85% of
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Among M7 schools, your prospects of admission are generally between 1 in 10 and 1 in 18. But secure an interview and your shot at acceptance has just improved to about 1 in 2. You now have a great chance of getting in, and now is the time to prepare with gusto. Even if you’re
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Which is the #1 ranked MBA program in Europe in 2019? For the fifth consecutive years, INSEAD has claimed the top spot in the Fortuna Ranking of MBA Rankings for European Business Schools, which combines the results of the league tables published by the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, The Economist and Forbes. By aggregating the results of
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What does a Swedish world rope-skipping champion, Obama Foundation Chief of Staff and reality TV star from CBS’s Survivor: Ghost Island have in common? They’re all MBA candidates in the Harvard Business School Class of 2020, where 9,886 applicants vied for one of 930 spots. The rope-skipping champion is also an entrepreneur who worked at
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