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Founder Paul Bodine was quoted in a Poets & Quant’s piece by Marc Ethier on trends in MBA applications. In contrast to a Wall Street Journal article that suggested that application volume declined in 2021,..

When a school invites you to interview, the window between the time you receive the invite and the actual interview date may be as short as a week to 10 days, depending on the available..

The letter of recommendation occupies a unique place in the business school application. It is the only element in the admissions folder in which a third party, other than you and the school, is given..

September is a busy time for MBA programs, their applicants and recommenders. With Round 1 deadlines at top schools imminent or already passed, you may decide that pushing your application to Round 2 is the..

Essay questions of this type come as close to any in directly asking you to, “Tell us about yourself”: “What matters most to you, and why?” (Stanford) “What makes you feel alive when you are..

“Marketing yourself” to business schools simply means understanding that your application is an act of personal advocacy, not a workplace self-evaluation, class paper, or confessional. But don’t get carried away with the marketing metaphors. Brands..