The 2024-2025 MBA Admissions Cycle: Insights from the 2024 AIGAC Conferen

Gain valuable insights from the 2024 AIGAC Conference on the latest trends and strategies for MBA admissions. Discover how to navigate AI tools, understand changes in MBA essays, choose the right GMAT format, and craft compelling career goals to boost your candidacy in the competitive 2024-2025 admissions cycle. Learn from top MBA program directors and stay ahead in your application journey with expert advice.

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Round 3 of MBA Admissions: Myths and Facts

Can Round 3 be a viable option for you when applying to a top MBA program? 

Explore the realities of Round 3 MBA admissions with insights from a former Dean of MBA Admissions. Learn about the lower acceptance rates and the types of candidates who typically succeed. Discover strategies to overcome perceptions of hasty decisions and the challenges of weak academic or professional profiles.

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How to build a strong MBA career goals essay

As you spring into action and start creating your MBA application materials, there is one piece that will play an outsized role in whether you pass the evaluation of MBA admission – or not. And no, that piece is NOT your test score.

The piece I am talking about is your career vision. Defining your “why” – or your career goals if you prefer to think of it that way - means taking stock of where you are now in your career, where you want to be, and what is the gap between the two.

The MBA – the right type of MBA program - should be what bridges the gap.

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Who got into HBS, Stanford, and Wharton in Round 1?

Last week, Harvard and Stanford released their Round 1 MBA admissions decisions. Who got in?

When MBA applications are down, do the doors to the most selective MBA program open a bit more widely, especially for US candidates?

The MBA candidates who got admitted In Round 1 were the ones who didn’t waste time daydreaming of how they will be the lucky ones selected by the AdCom.

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The four types of MBA Admissions Essays

If you are one of the candidates applying to multiple top MBA programs, you are looking at writing a dozen, maybe even more, MBA essays.

If you put a dozen essays together, it will be like a small book! You could call it your forward-looking memoir because it will have chapters about your past, your present, and also your future.

Does the idea of writing a book intimidate you? Yeah, me too.

But there’s lots of good news when it comes to writing the collection of your MBA essays!

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Take Your MBA Essays to Unexpected Places (Part I)

Too many candidates who fret and complain that the MBA essay word count doesn’t give them enough space to tell their story. Gregg Berhalter, the head coach of the United States men's national soccer team, begs to differ .

Read the right kinds of samples to find inspiration for telling your own story. Not the ones in the online forums. Not someone else’s essays (not even the ones of candidates who get admitted because you will never know if they got admitted because of or despite something in their essay).

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