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The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

In the competitive world of MBA admissions, is there anything worse than toiling over the elements of your application for months only to get a rejection from your dream school? It turns out, there may be — the dreaded waitlist

How to Write a Boring B-School Essay

Admissions departments read hundreds of applications from hundreds of bright, competent applicants. But admissions officers are human, and they want to feel engaged and committed to the students they choose to admit. Don’t put them to sleep, get them excited about you!

How to “cheat” on the GMAT

Like most exams, the GMAT has had it’s share of cheating scandals, including one person who sat for the GMAT no less than 212 times in two years. While we definitely don’t condone trying to outsmart your future school and the GMAC, there are a few legal strategies that can help you get an edge on test day

5 Unexpected Lessons of B-School

The path to an MBA, whether you pursue it full time for a year or two, or part-time in evenings and weekends, will guide you through many common curriculum items—finance, marketing, and operations management. But along the way, there are many unexpected lessons in business school, some pleasant, some not, but all of them illuminating

How Long Does It Take to Recoup the Costs of an MBA?

What’s the return on investment of an MBA? GMAC, the makers of the GMAT, sought to find the answer by surveying 14,279 alumni of 275 business programs around the world

Post-Interview Protocol: ‘Thank You’ Letters and Other Follow Up

This tip focuses on post-interview protocol—e.g. the development and submission of a ‘thank you letter’ (or in the case of Harvard Business School, a post-interview reflection)

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