Once again this year, the Kellogg School of Management has revised its MBA essay questions. While the new prompts are certainly on-brand for this M7 program, they are more dense and multidimensional than in past years. What this means for applicants is they will need to pay extra close attention to every piece of the question...
After some major changes to its admissions process last year, Columbia Business School seems to have settled into a new groove for the 2024-2025 application cycle. The Columbia MBA essay prompts reflect very little change from the prior year. Columbia still requires one of the longest essay sets (in terms of word count). This offers a...
If getting an MBA has been in your career plans, it’s not a matter of whether you will apply– but when. It’s a decision that often unexpectedly creeps up, after an external event – a layoff, a failed promotion, a gentle nudge from management, unfavorable market conditions. But what would it mean to be in the...
2023 was a tough year for graduating MBAs looking to enter the technology industry. As a result of hiring too many people during the pandemic and the threat of a recession, major tech companies that reliably recruited MBAs instead implemented hiring freezes while laying off over 250,000 workers. The good news is that the technology industry is...
