Top Ten Tips from MBA Prep School

This area shows our ten most popular articles on getting into the MBA school of your dreams. Check back regularly as we add new posts each week!

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MBA Admissions Interview Best Practices – Pt. 1 of 5

In this first article in our five part series on the MBA Admissions Interview Best Practices, we share some important questions you should answer at the outset of your interview preparation.

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Choosing a Business School that Fits Your Career Goals

This article will help you choose business schools that will best prepare you to achieve your career goals. We concentrate on the three most important questions you need to answer to ensure the MBA programs you apply to will truly enhance your career potential.

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The #1 Thing You Must Have to Get Into a Top Ranked Business School

What distinguishes the one MBA applicant who is accepted by the top-ranked business schools from the nine who are not? In this article, an experienced admissions consultant reveals the #1 thing that successful applicants to the best business schools have in common.

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Q&A: Should I hire an MBA admissions consultant or not?

Sources claim that as many as 1/3rd of MBA applicants to top 10 schools are using MBA admissions consultants. Is hiring an admissions consultant for the application process prudent? Will it really make a difference? Read this article and find out.

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Stanford’s “What Matters Most” Essay

If you are starting work on Stanford’s “What matters most” essay, chances are you are struggling. One thing you need to know right from the start is that struggling is essential to succeeding in this assignment. Read this post for help with the struggle.

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3 Important Qualities to Feature in Your Business School Essays

Your primary objective in writing your application essays is to provide evidence that you possess the qualities that admissions committees care about. A critical step in developing a sound application strategy is to decide which qualities to spotlight. We discuss three important qualities that we believe admission officers at the best business schools are specifically looking for in candidates.

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How Much Work Experience Is Enough?

Many younger MBA applicants are concerned about whether they have “enough” work experience to be competitive in top MBA programs. We outline a number of ways to improve your competitiveness in this important area.

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MBA Recommendation Letters: the Infamous “Weakness” Question

There is one MBA reference letter question that terrifies almost all business school applicants and some references too: Tell us about the applicant’s weaknesses. What is a “good” weakness to pick that will satisfy the graduate school admissions officer without hurting your MBA candidacy as a whole? While there is no magic “get out of jail free” answer to the infamous “weakness” question, MBA Prep School does have some advice to pass on to your references if they desire some direction on how to approach this question.

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How to Earn an A+ on Your Career Goals Essay

An A+ MBA career goals essay will convince the admissions committee that you will achieve great things in the future! This article will teach you how to write an outstanding career goals essay.

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Tips on Effective Recommendation Letters from Tuck

Applicants sometimes think that they have little influence over the recommendation letter process. But this doesn’t have to be the case. By carefully selecting the best recommenders and giving them suitable guidance, you can positively influence the quality and impact of your recommendation letter. Here are some great tips inspired by Pat H., an Associate Director of Admissions at Tuck.

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