How to Get Into Wharton Business School
A Flight Plan for the Wharton MBA Application:
The oldest business school in the US, The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania, is known globally as a premier destination for graduate business study for many reasons, though the first word applicants often associate with the Wharton MBA is predictably “finance.” The Wharton MBA program routinely receives 6,000+ MBA applications each year–an eye-popping number made a bit less intimidating by the program’s large class size of ~850 students who call West Philadelphia home each year. An enrolled class of this size translates to a Wharton acceptance rate of 14%, the highest within the HSW triad, with Stanford GSB at 6% and HBS at 12%. Stats from the Wharton MBA Class Profile like the average GMAT score (730), GRE score (324), undergraduate GPA (3.6), and the number of countries represented in the student body (70) illustrate why the Wharton MBA remains a top choice for all business school applicants, regardless of their functional or industry backgrounds.
The Wharton application recognizes those who can clearly articulate the unique gifts and contributions they will make to Wharton Business School, and is famously school-focused in ways that challenge applicants who haven’t done their Wharton homework. Don’t worry, however, if you are only just beginning your Wharton MBA application journey and aren’t yet deeply familiar with the nuances of the Wharton MBA application process, or Wharton’s unusual group interview format. Below we have assembled the intel you need to move from a 30,000-foot cruising altitude view of the school, all the way to an on-the-ground insider’s perspective of Huntsman Hall, so that you can optimize your chances of calling this iconic Wharton hub at the southwest corner of the UPenn campus home.
The insights shared in this article demonstrate only a taste of the expertise, care, and attention Fortuna Admissions brings to each current and prospective client we meet. Keep this in mind as you scroll the page, and don’t hesitate to schedule a free brainstorming session with us if Wharton truly is your dream school. Even if you’ve done some preliminary research, you likely haven’t had a one-on-one conversation yet with a coach who will keenly listen to your story, hear your fears about potential flags in your profile, and above all else evaluate your why for a Wharton MBA. Our award-winning coaches, who have served as Associate Directors and Directors of the Wharton Business School Admissions Committee, or earned a Wharton MBA themselves, look forward to serving as co-pilots on your admissions journey.
What Is Wharton Business School Really Looking For?
Behind-the-Scenes Secrets:
Our aim here is not to spend time rehashing Wharton MBA common knowledge like the curriculum of study, award-winning Wharton MBA career management team, or Wharton professors like Adam Grant and Jeremy Siegel, who are routine contributors on CNN and MSNBC business segments. Instead, we’ve assembled a toolkit of tactical admissions strategies and advice from our 10+ years working with clients. Everything shared below aims to comprehensively answer the question, “How do I actually get into the Wharton MBA Program?”
We begin with a high-altitude view of the school, then share advice sourced from our team of Wharton Business School experts that includes alumni like Jenifer Raver, senior AdComs Michel Belden and Scott Brownlee, and former Director of MBA Admissions Judith Hodara, who each bring deep knowledge from their time as part of the Wharton community. The admissions secrets they share below are intentionally tactical. They’re on-the-ground. They’re brought to you by members of our team who navigated campus themselves as staff, students, and alumni and can teach you what it truly means to deposit more than you withdraw as a Whartonite. You will find, as you progress through this flight plan, that your singular contributions–what you can uniquely give back to Wharton Business School as a student–matter more to your chances of acceptance, perhaps, than any past professional accomplishment on your resume.
30,000 Ft View: The Big Picture
The past several years have seen a general shift toward women attending M7 business schools in increasingly higher numbers, but Wharton Business School stands out as a special trailblazer in this category, boasting the first MBA class in history to crack the 50% mark for women–a number it continues to aim for and achieve to this day. This means that on average, when scaled across the entire student body, the Wharton MBA Program has ~15-20% more women in its classes and on its small-group Learning Teams than Harvard, Stanford, and other M7s. You’ll also notice that the Wharton Class Profile shares how many LGBTQ+-identifying students joined the class (11%). DEI-related information like this is not shared on some other M7 schools’ websites, due to recent changes in national policy. Wharton’s intentional publication of DEI statistics signposts the school’s commitment to prioritizing DEI now and in the future. Why? To reach final class demographics with enough difference to ensure that no Learning Teammates find carbon copies of themselves sitting across the table on the first day of class.
On the professional front, from its reputation as a “finance school,” you’d expect most incoming Wharton MBA students to have backgrounds primarily in banking, PE, or VC, but interestingly consulting dominates (27%), followed by PE/VC (14%), and is trailed significantly by financial services (only 7%). The trend to note here is that Wharton decided 10-15 years ago that they wanted to break ranks with their finance branding of decades past, and have since prioritized building a class with a wide range of industries and functions represented. Fun fact: in the mid-2010s, the most popular major concentration for Wharton MBA grads was . . . entrepreneurship . . . not finance or business analytics, as you might expect. This doesn’t mean most Wharton MBA students become first-time founders, but it does mean they are interested in exploring taking this leap in larger numbers than you might initially think.
The quickest way to zero in on the overarching culture of a top business school is often to familiarize yourself with the Dean’s research interests and ethos. In Wharton’s case, Dean Erika James’s training as an organizational psychologist who studied crisis leadership, workplace diversity, and management strategy prior to assuming her leadership role at the school no doubt informs the “Wharton 2.0” that has taken root under her leadership as the first woman in Wharton’s history to become Dean, as well as the school’s first Black Dean. The Wharton AdCom’s commitment to recruiting women and emphasizing diversity as a meaningful determinant of business outcomes may tie back to Dean James’s previous work at UVA Darden, where she created the Women in Leadership Program. If you’re looking for a deeper dive into Wharton Business School’s strategic plan and brand differentiators, you should read Dean James’s letter and the supporting materials the school’s leadership team has assembled. It’s rare to see a roadmap this clearly articulated shared publicly by a top business school. You may find yourself brainstorming ways to work 1-2 elements of The Wharton Way (Elevate, Innovate, Collaborate) into the application materials you submit.
Wharton MBA Class Profile Key Stats:
- Average GMAT Score: 730
- Average GRE Score: 328
- Average Years of Work Experience: 5
- Average Undergraduate GPA: 3.6
- Average Age of Students: Not Disclosed
- Number of Applications Received: 6,194
- Wharton Acceptance Rate: 14%
- Total Cost of Tuition Per Year: $83,370
- Wharton MBA Graduate Average Starting Base Salary: $175,000
- Wharton MBA Full-time Employment 3 Months After Graduation: 97%
- Top Recruiting Companies at Wharton Business School: McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, BCG, Apple, Amazon, Google, Goldman Sachs, and Capital One
20,000 Ft View: Strategies to Get Accepted
This video from a recent Fortuna Admissions Masterclass provides a high-level overview of what the recipe for Wharton acceptance looks like, and below it we have put together an even more detailed list of our top five strategies to execute on.
1. Demonstrate Your Team Orientation
One of the common stereotypes is that the Wharton MBA is an “eat or be eaten” environment. Contrary to popular belief, the uber-competitive Wharton MBA program is actually home to an extremely collaborative and team-oriented learning environment. The utilization of learning clusters, cohorts, and teams (you may work with 15+ such groups over your time in the program) provide a platform for collaboration and learning to lead through teamwork. Accordingly, your application needs to reflect your ability to actively contribute and thrive in these settings. Individuals who present themselves as lacking a team orientation or having a leadership style that is closed off, rather than facilitative, will be at a disadvantage in terms of being invited to interview and ultimately being granted admission.
2. Balance Your Personal & Professional Profile
Wharton Business School does look at each applicant file holistically, understanding that what you do for a living is not who you are or what you will bring to the community. You certainly would not want someone to consider you only by your profession, so it’s a good idea to use some balance within the framework of your Wharton MBA application. Your essay examples should reflect things that the committee may not know about you from outside the workplace, in addition to showcasing your professional skills. If you can keep in mind that you are a sum of about 10,000 parts, and show that in the Wharton MBA application, the admissions officers will see that passion and connection too.
3. Convey Your Interest In Wharton Over and Above Its Brand
Choosing to focus on a particular field of interest in your Wharton MBA application is key. Of course, applicants have a variety of interests that they intend to pursue during their MBA. However, in the application it is not a good idea to present as a generalist. Therefore, you will want to speak specifically about professors, classes, and clubs that interest you, connecting the dots for the AdCom so they can see how each facet of your Wharton MBA experience will reinforce the others. With 200+ electives and an incredibly rich student life, there are any number of ways to immerse yourself in the Wharton MBA experience, so think about how you can contribute and make a difference. Wharton Business School is looking for difference-makers over and above rule-following automatons. They are also seeking to admit approachable applicants who are as comfortable following or leading from the middle as they are spearheading a project.
4. Remember That Non-Traditional Backgrounds Are Part of Wharton 2.0’s Ethos
Wharton Business School actively encourages applicants from nontraditional backgrounds to apply to the school. In addition to bringing a wealth of diversity to the classroom discussion from an industry perspective, applicants from less traditional business school functions like sales or operations have often also had non-business undergraduate academic interests that inform how they show up in the classroom. This combination helps to add to the energy of class discussions and club interactions. With the breadth of The University of Pennsylvania’s graduate programs, where students can take up to 4 classes outside of the Wharton MBA program and receive credit, many Wharton MBA students take classes in other related fields that would further their career paths in non-profit work, such as at the School of Education or School of Social Policy and Practice. You might even try your hand at an introductory coding class to better familiarize yourself with the effects tech and AI will have on business leaders of the future.
5. Present Your Career Plan Clearly in Your Wharton MBA Application Materials
It’s important within the context of the Wharton MBA application process to show that you have a sensible and feasible career path in mind. Students who indicate they have “so many ideas that they don’t know where to start” appear unfocused. The Wharton Business School Vice Dean once famously said, “If we only granted diplomas to those of you who had followed your suggested career paths from your applications, no one would actually graduate!” The beauty of a transformational business school education is that it gives you tremendous exposure to possibilities on a professional and personal level. However, Wharton admissions officers want to ensure that you can create a viable path to follow and that you enter the program with a sense of purpose grounded in the market realities of the functions and industries you want to enter.
10,000 Ft View: 3 Things Reddit Won’t Tell You About the School
Fortuna Admissions is known as the firm with the deepest on-the-ground knowledge of elite schools like Wharton Business School. In this video, Fortuna coach Jenifer Raver demonstrates this by providing her tailored admissions advice based on her experiences as a Wharton Lauder MBA student and alumna. We’ve followed that up below with former Wharton AdCom Scott Brownlee’s top 3 on-the-ground Wharton MBA Program realities you probably aren’t familiar with yet based on your preliminary Reddit scrolling and Internet research.
1. Replace “Finance” with “Humility and Collective Impact” in Your Wharton Buzzwords Rolodex
Fortuna Admissions coaches who have sat on Wharton AdComs over the years have heard the same sentence, varying a bit, from thousands of applicants we’ve interviewed and applications we’ve read: “Wharton is the best finance school.” This makes sense given Wharton’s original purpose 125+ years ago was finance education specifically. You’ll be pleasantly surprised to learn that the reality at the school today is actually quite different. Within my wife’s cluster, cohort, and learning team, I met and befriended AI experts, non-profit leaders, data privacy mavens, and multiple entrepreneurs, including a peer who polished his Portuguese, packed up and moved to Brazil, and founded a wellness company there post-Wharton–as well as a co-founding team of two women who launched a global skincare brand for men based on their fascination and understanding of the South Korean beauty market.
It was actually hard to come across a former investment banker, though the handful I did meet were quirky, eclectic, and perhaps more down-to-earth than many of their industry peers. One of them invited us to his apartment for a delicious and thoughtful dinner. Another hosted 30+ students and their partners to make homemade steamed pork buns in her kitchen in Center City. There are certainly different cliques within the 800-strong class, but the Wharton AdComs asks you to share “specific, meaningful contributions” you will make to the Wharton MBA Program community in their application essays because they actually expect you to live out the contributive claims you make the two years after you’re admitted. They are also fairly adept at sensing inauthentic claims. See if you can’t work examples into your Wharton MBA application that demonstrate why you’d be a welcome invite to a dinner party, or the instigator of community-cultivating events yourself. Wharton expects high extroversion, but also high EQ (i.e., emotional intelligence).
2. Wharton Business School Is Bicoastal in Ways No Other US Business School Is
Wharton has invested heavily in its San Francisco presence. Its main campus headquarters on the Embarcadero shares floor space with a large Google office that gives 70 second-year MBA students the sense they are thought partners with Sergey Brin and Larry Page. If your career may take you into Series A or Series B companies long-term, or if you want to prioritize a regional foothold on the West Coast to ensure strong job opportunities there in the future for other personal or professional reasons, be sure to familiarize yourself with the Wharton Semester in San Francisco admission requirements. There is a separate application process during your first year as a Wharton student that is grade-dependent (this means you can’t shirk core classes!), but the payoff alongside the fall-that-feels-like-summer in San Francisco is that your classmates for this formative experience will be some of the best and brightest within the already talented 800+ students in your year.
Class discussions will be deeper in the smaller Semester in the San Francisco cohort. Social engagement will be more close-knit. Relationships formed with professors will result in life-long touchpoints. The long-term relationships students form, in my experience, are truly deep and enduring. My wife (a 2017 WG) remains in close contact with multiple friends she made during the formative six months she spent away from Philadelphia, interning over the summer at a Series B fintech company in the Bay Area and then taking classes the fall of her second year at Wharton Business School. 5-6 years later, many of those friends from her San Francisco experience are now C-suite leaders at early stage companies she can tap for professional advice and e-intros whenever necessary. Harvard Business School may have the deepest network on the East Coast, and Stanford GSB may dominate the West Coast, but Wharton has a firm foothold in both, and this means you’re truly gaining a bicoastal brand.
3. The “Wharton Way” Is Uniquely Rooted in Self-Reliance and Light on Nepotism
Having met 1 x 1 with hundreds of Wharton MBA students and alumni over the years, I’ve noticed a trend of self-reliance in Whartonites that I can’t prove to you with statistics but that has played out time and again. A common saying amongst the students who attend the program is, “My Wharton,” and there is a definite emphasis by the faculty and staff to empower their MBA grads to blaze new trails and rely less on the past than on what is possible in the present and the future. You may find that compared to HBS and GSB grads, Whartonites have fewer family or network ties to past alumni and are more often first-generation students and self-made individuals whose innate curiosity and hutzpah have helped them gain entrance to the Wharton MBA community.
This may partly be due to Wharton’s unorthodox interview format, which asks applicants to pitch a collectively agreed upon idea alongside 5-6 complete strangers within a tight time window. In a high-stakes setting like this, having three or four family members who have attended the school won’t curry any additional favor from AdComs, and you are only the sum of a) the quality of your ideas, b) the grace and poise with which you communicate and c) how prepared you are to exercise humility to work toward an inclusive solution. In many ways, it is the perfect test to assemble the most self-made class possible from a pool in which nepotism from recommenders, employers, and donors is also an inevitable byproduct.
If you go out into the job market and talk to hiring managers directly, Wharton alumni tend to score a bit better overall than GSB and HBS grads, particularly in terms of self-awareness and relatability. My hunch is this correlates to the Wharton admissions interview format and general “self-made” ethos many of its students embody through their accomplishments and lived experiences.
Wharton On the Ground: Tackling Each Application Element
Below we have provided our key insights and advice for tackling each major component of the Wharton MBA application process in the order that our successful clients typically complete them:
1. Wharton Resume: Wharton’s Admissions Committee will look for many of the same traits as any other top business school: demonstrated leadership, leadership potential, concrete results you have achieved, demonstrated impact within your workplace that leaves a legacy even after you depart, and formative professional and life experiences that add something truly singular to the incoming class.
These might take the form of work in an isolated or unique setting, a cross-cultural professional experience that deeply shaped you and those around you, a study abroad experience in undergrad that got you out of your comfort zone and tested you linguistically, or even a distinct hobby that serves as a conduit for you to give back to the communities you belong to in some way. There are no hard-and-fast rules for “Wharton-specific” resume elements to include, but all accepted applicants will have track records of promotion at work–often on accelerated timelines–and oftentimes have a unique “superpower” that recurs throughout their highlighted professional experiences.
This superpower could be lifting up others and having a knack for coaching interns to high rates of full-time return offers, or individual contributions to a team that drove not only the success of your business vertical’s quotas and priorities, but the broader economic engine of the company. Wharton Business School is looking in particular to build a class of high-potential future leaders, so be sure to include bullets that tell stories around any truly singular impacts you’ve had leading a key initiative at your employer. Maybe you created a new process that is still in use today, or unearthed significant cost-savings by going above and beyond while reviewing financial data no one else wanted to roll up their sleeves and analyze.
2. Wharton MBA Recommendations: Wharton takes a different approach to recommendation submissions than nearly all other business schools–opting to ask their own unique questions rather than the more standard, “How does the applicant’s performance compare to peers?” and “Describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you’ve given the applicant” asked by many other M7 schools. Your Wharton recommenders will be asked to reflect on two key questions:
• Provide example(s) that illustrate why you believe this candidate will find success in the Wharton MBA classroom.
• Provide example(s) that illustrate why you believe this candidate will find success throughout their career.
The Wharton focus on how you will show up in the classroom is an indicator of how critical the AdCom feels classroom participation is to the Wharton MBA experience. This focus ties back to the Learning Team of 4-5 other peers you will be assigned to at the beginning of your first year and work on nearly all of your first-year coursework with. Wharton Business School is looking for students comfortable leading, learning, and supporting one another within small and large team settings–students who speak up when necessary but also make space for other’s ideas, even when those ideas clash with their own.
While the second prompt will be easier for your recommender to answer on their own, given they have seen you at work and can project what you may accomplish in the future, prompt one may require you to do some “managing up” and explaining to your recommender about the components of the Wharton classroom learning experience and key traits of a successful student. It is advisable to info chat with 1-2 current Wharton students to get a sense of what the classroom experience is like and how they navigated it, then apply lessons learned from these conversations to the background information about yourself you provide your recommender.
Wharton also offers up a third “Optional” blank box that recommenders can choose to add additional context in if they’d like. In our experience, this space is a wonderful opportunity, particularly if your recommender is a Wharton alumni, to share a bit about how they see you behaving and contributing as an alum of the school yourself someday.
For a deeper dive into who to select for your recommendations, read our long-form article, “How to Secure the Best MBA Letters of Recommendation.”
3. Essays: Wharton’s two essay questions, uniquely, turn the typical business school essay approach on its head, and ask you to be decidedly Wharton-focused in the content you share and tie-ins you make. We like to remind our clients that “the Wharton essays are partly about you, but they are mostly about Wharton.”
In answering Essay 1, “How do you plan to use the Wharton MBA program to help you achieve your future professional goals?”, the most typical mistake applicants make is jumping ahead to the second half of the question, spending 80% of their time on their future professional goals, and saving only 100-150 words to address the bolded portion of the question, which is Wharton-focused. This is not only a critical misread of the prompt, but also a missed opportunity. Wharton wants to see you demonstrate in this essay the many hours of Wharton-specific research you’ve done and conversations you’ve had with current students and alumni that allow you to pinpoint the specific academic, professional, and cultural elements of the school that tie directly back to what you want to accomplish professionally in the short-term and long-term.
The key word here is specific. It’s not enough to say that you plan to take entrepreneurship classes to help you fundraise for and launch your own company post-graduation. You need to share in your essay the specific class(es) and key professors you’ll engage with and ideally you can drill down and share tie-ins to a professor’s research that resonates with you, or a specific business center or initiative at the school you will make a second home the next two years. Wharton is known for research hubs in sports analytics, family business and real estate, and other specialties that may or may not be relevant to your post-MBA career goals. Would you admit yourself if you wanted to be the GM of a major sports team and didn’t mention the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative in your essay, for example? Probably not.
For Essay 2, “How do you plan to make specific, meaningful contributions to the Wharton community?”, you’ll want to be equally Wharton-focused as you were in Essay 1. As a general rule, we recommend to our clients the following formula: each time you share a facet of your identity that would help you contribute at Wharton, mention 2 or more Wharton examples that tie back to it. The AdCom has been kind enough to recommend you do this across personal, professional, and academic dimensions, and a successful Essay 2 tends to cover all three. When you articulate unique contributions you plan to make, it is helpful to demonstrate the research you have done. An applicant who proposes launching a co-sponsored event between two student clubs, for example, might discuss briefly in their essay how these clubs worked together in the past and should re-team up to achieve more success together than they could on their own.
Wharton expects you to do the legwork of linking your past hobbies, passions, and contributive superpowers and linking them back to Wharton’s academic, professional, and cultural offerings. It will not be enough to merely describe your past non-profit work at soup kitchens in NYC, for example. How does that work directly connect to a tangible contribution you could make on campus or off campus while a Wharton student? Applicants often forget that Wharton is not an island where only business school students live, and is in fact based in Philadelphia, a bustling cultural hub that is so much more than the Wharton MBA bubble. Consequently, the AdCom appreciates applicants who can share an authentic potential impact they will make in Philadelphia itself during or after the two-year b-school journey.
Looking for more guidance to help make Essay 2 really sing and resonate with Wharton MBA application readers, or additional tactics for Essay 1? Read Fortuna Admissions Cofounder Judith Hodara’s key tips on the Wharton essays.
4. Wharton Online Application: We often see two types of approaches to this portion of the app–overthinking and underthinking. The overthinker scrutinizes whether they should list a significant high school achievement (the answer is typically “no”–keep things focused on college or later), while the underthinker neglects to remember and report that they won an award for their work with an Employee Resource Group they’re particularly dedicated to at their company. It is best to split the difference between over- and underreporting yourself and your accomplishments and strike a balance.
As you fill out the online application and make strategic decisions on what profile elements to share versus not share, you may want to consider the key attributes the Wharton AdCom uses to judge applications:
• Indicators of academic success
• Potential contributions to Wharton life
• Examples of collaboration
• Wharton culture fit
• Examples of leadership / good judgment
• Clearly articulated personal and professional goals
5. Wharton Interview: In 2012, Wharton introduced its novel Team-Based Discussion (TBD) format. This dynamic, relational experience is about much more than delivering a strong pitch–the Wharton AdCom wants to observe how you approach a challenge, present yourself, cohesively work towards solutions in a small group context, and think on your feet.
All candidates at the interview stage are invited to one of these sessions, followed by a brief 10-minute face-to-face interview that most often happens with a second-year MBA student. In past years, this meant traveling to campus or participating in a hub city. Now virtual, the TBD is 35 minutes long and takes place with 4-6 other candidates on Zoom, where you debate and present a proposal as a group from your various locations. Your discussion will have a prompt and a purpose, and, as a team, you will work together to achieve a tangible outcome. An admission representative observes interactions.
The prompt you are asked to prepare for has historically been focused on course development, as Wharton is always trying to develop new classroom experiences for the students they serve across a variety of age ranges and experience levels. You and your TBD peers might be asked, for example, to each come prepared to pitch an idea for a new course for high school students through the Wharton Global Youth Program. Regardless of the pitch topic, be sure to do thorough research for the idea you pick that covers each facet of the pitch assignment. We have seen interviewees sometimes forget, for example, to include the name of the professor(s) who will teach their proposed course! Small details like this are critical to demonstrating your preparedness for the TBD experience, and once you feel the pressure of a time crunch and an unfamiliar small group setting in real-time, you may freeze up.
The best way to prepare for this unique interview format is to practice, practice, practice–and ideally in a simulated environment with a former Wharton AdCom facilitating. Fortuna offers a comprehensive Wharton simulation experience which includes a full review of your performance by one of our coaches, and a 1 x 1 mock to practice the 10-minute “mini”-interview you’ll get at the end of the TBD on Wharton interview day. That 10-minute interview is typically fast-moving, and of late has focused on reflective questions like, “How did you feel the TBD went? What would you improve in your performance? Where do you feel like the group executed well?” You will want to have prepared answers to other basic questions like, “Why an MBA?” and “Why Wharton?” in case they come up.
For more Wharton interview prep guidance, watch the video below, and review this comprehensive walkthrough of the Wharton TBD interview process by former Wharton Director of Admissions Judith Hodara, or watch the video below featuring former Wharton Associate Director of Admissions Michel Belden.
Hear Directly From Our Wharton Experts
These “best of” Wharton-focused videos come from our team’s collective experience as admissions staff and alumni of Wharton, as well as our past decade of work helping many Fortuna Admissions clients secure their spot at this dream school. Listen in as our coaches dispel common Wharton Business School myths and provide tactical takeaways you can implement in your application:
- How to Get Into Wharton: An MBA Admissions Masterclass (2024)
- The Ultimate Strategy for Your Wharton MBA Application
- Wharton MBA Admissions Masterclass (2022)
- M7 MBA Admissions Masterclass: Wharton (2021)
- MBA Admissions Essay Masterclass: The Inside Track from Former Gatekeepers from Wharton, HBS, and GSB
- Insider Admissions Advice for The Wharton MBA Application
- Insider Advice on the Wharton School of Business from Alum Curtis Johnson
- 3 Things You Need to Know About Getting Into Wharton
- 7 Things You Need to Know About Getting Into Wharton
- Decoding the Essays for Wharton and Other Top 10 MBA Programs
- Ace Your Wharton Application Essays (in Poets & Quants)
- M7 MBA Interview Advice: A Focus on The Wharton School
- MBA Admissions Advice: How to Ace Wharton’s Team-Based Discussion
These “best of” articles include our strongest thought leadership on Wharton Business School application tips and strategies:
- Wharton MBA Essays: Tips and Strategy
- Advice for the Wharton Team-Based Discussion Prompt
- How to Ace Wharton’s Team-Based Discussion (in Poets & Quants)
- What New Dean Ericka James Means for the Wharton MBA
- Wharton’s New Entrepreneurship Space Emblematic of Its Changing Culture
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