How to Apply for an MBA

A step-by-step guide to earning acceptance letters from the world’s top business schools!

How to Apply for an MBA teaches readers how to tackle the most challenging aspects of applying, including self-assessment, school selection, resume and essay writing, reference letters, and interviewing.

The book’s 200+ pages are filled with secrets for optimizing every element of your MBA application.

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Prepare for the Real Entrance Exam

The ‘aha’ moment that led to this book was that the majority of MBA candidates are investing countless hours preparing for the GMAT, but they are not prepared for the real entrance exam — the MBA application, which includes the essays, resume, recommendation letters, application form, and, of course, interviews.

Optimize Your Application

How to Apply for an MBA teaches readers how to tackle the most challenging aspects of applying to graduate business schools, including self-assessment, school selection, resume and essay writing, reference letters, and interviewing. The book’s pages are filled with secrets for optimizing every element of your MBA application.

10 Steps to an Acceptance Letter

Other books have helpful tips and well-meaning pointers about how to get into a good business school. But, until now, no one has provided a start-to-finish guide for generating a breakthrough application.

The MBA Prep Steps™ program contained in this book was developed by a team of experienced MBA admissions consultants from Harvard Business School. Our powerful, easy-to-follow approach for building an outstanding application in ten steps combines all of the activities of applying for an MBA with the insights admissions experts use to help their clients create applications that lead to acceptance letters.

Follow the MBA Prep Steps™ project work plan contained in the book to keep pace with all of your application activities. If you follow this plan and complete the exercises provided in the book, you won’t just have learned how to create an outstanding application, you will have created one!

Why you need to read How to Apply for an MBA

  • Generate a winning application in 10 powerful steps!
  • Avoid the pitfalls and missteps that can sink your application.
  • Learn the principles, practices, and exercises admissions consulting pros use to help their clients earn acceptance letters from the top-ranked business schools.
  • See case studies and examples of successful candidates and take advantage of their application secrets.
  • Co-authored by a Harvard MBA with more than ten years of MBA admissions consulting experience and a former partner from multiple major consulting firms, both with multiple clients at all the top-10 business schools.

How to Apply for an MBA was co-authored by Tyler Cormney and Christopher Aitken. Tyler is a Harvard MBA with more than ten years of MBA admissions consulting experience and multiple clients with acceptances letters to the top-10 business schools. Chris has helped hundreds of client acceptances into Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, and the other top 10 US and international business schools — many with full or partial scholarships. He also brings over 20 years of top-tier management consulting experience as a former partner at Andersen, KPMG, and BearingPoint.

10 Steps to a Winning Application!

The MBA Prep Steps™ project work plan contained in our book is designed to keep you on pace with your application activities. By the time you have finished the book and the exercises it contains, you will have an outstanding application ready to submit!

The sections of the book are organized into an easy-to-follow step-by-step program called the MBA Prep Steps™. This is the same methodology used by our elite admissions consultants to help our clients earn acceptance letters.

Each chapter of the book describes the MBA Prep Step™ in detail and provides detailed, actionable guidance on how to improve your MBA application and strengthen your application profile

  1. Prepare to Apply
  2. Discover Your Strengths
  3. Define Your Career Goals
  4. Select Your Schools
  5. Identify Each School’s Fit Qualities
  6. Create Your Application Resume
  7. Write Your Essays
  8. Select and Support Your References
  9. Complete the Application Forms
  10. Prepare for Admissions Interviews

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