The essays and recommendations play a big role in MBA admissions, mostly because admissions committees are trying to gauge the candidate’s leadership potential. When preparing your essays or your briefing sheet for your recommenders, you want to address very specific leadership traits. Many prospective students ask...
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Introducing the B-School Bossypants! Two smart women give you straight talk on your profile and how to get admitted. Betsy from HBS (that's me!) and Pamela from CBS tell it like it is on all things MBA admissions. In today’s episode, the Bossypants talk to a...
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Here's a special treat: advice from the B-School Bossypants, Poets & Quants’ video duo. Betsy Massar, HBS grad, is joining with Pamela Jaffe, CBS grad and founder of Jaffe Advantage, to help you on your MBA strategy. In this session, we will talk directly to volunteers...
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One of my favorite blogs is the Harvard Kennedy School Admissions Blog. The head of admissions consistently offers great advice for candidates of not just his program, but for all professional programs. I'm speaking directly to business schools. The great part is that he says...
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Stories work. In MBA admissions, investor pitches, in business school classrooms, and on TED. If you want to stand out in front of a bored admissions reader, you need to engage her. You probably already know this, because storytelling as a meme has been in...
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It's a tough time in the admissions cycle. At least for prospective students. Most have submitted applications and are waiting for interviews, or have had interviews and are waiting for decisions. There’s an absence of information that ‘s unnerving. It’s just plain stressful. So is...
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When it comes to business school admissions, liberal arts get a bad rap. Too often applicants think that they have to have an undergraduate degree in business, engineering or hard science to be successful in the application process. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consider...
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I've been reading lots of admissions essays lately. My heart goes out to admissions officers who have to read about 10 times the number of essays I've been reviewing and have about one-third of the time. So imagine the annoyance of an admissions officer when they...
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Everybody does it. The minute they see the name of someone they want to know more about, they rush to LinkedIn. It's the world's database, and so very useful. So useful, in fact, that to position yourself for business school or your next career step,...
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Α while ago, I entered a competition for the best MBA blog. In my day job, I am a graduate admissions consultant, so I thought I would try to get some attention to my blog through this contest. I didn’t win. I didn’t place. I...
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