Atul Jose (Admissions Consultant, F1GMAT): Each March break, students embark on a global insight expedition with an advisor or two and explore a new country by interacting with corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, non-profit representatives, policymakers, and people operating at various levels of the organization.
In the first part of the Tuck MBA analysis, we cover the Full-time MBA Class profile and the total fees.
Tuck MBA Class Profile
Consulting ranks over Finance and Technology as the preferred post-MBA function, primarily from the high median base salary the role attracts. In addition to guaranteed compensation, the responsibility, travel & networking opportunities, and the interesting clients the consultants serve, balances the compensation vs. meaning conundrum that most professionals face in their career.
In the third part of the UNC MBA series, we cover scholarships, fellowships, loans, UNC NC Residency (Funding option), and funding for US nationals and international students. We hope you have read the first part – UNC MBA Class Profile Trends and Total Fee, and the second part – UNC MBA Curriculum Analysis.
In the second part of UNC MBA Analysis, we cover how the school has designed its curriculum, the electives, the concentrations, the dual degree programs, experiential learning, and global learning opportunities. If you have not read the first part of the series, read UNC MBA – Class Profile and Total Fees.
UNC MBA is unique for its experienced class, leadership, and sustainability courses in core, generous funding options, and unique incentives designed to encourage American and North Carolinian applicants to join the program.
In the first part of the UNC MBA analysis, we cover the Full-time MBA Class profile and the total fees.
Established in 2021, Samvid Venture Scholars was started by Entrepreneurs who leveraged the power of higher education to immigrate to the US and start a venture in the US, bootstrap, and grow into a sustainable business in four decades. The scholarship aims to support potential leaders in completing their graduate education.
In the third part of the Ross MBA series, we cover scholarships, fellowships, loans, and financial aid. Read the first part – Ross MBA Class Profile Trends and Total Fee, and the second part – Ross MBA Curriculum Analysis.
Ross MBA curriculum has a strong emphasis on experiential learning with Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAP), specializations (focused program), experiential learning around Product Development, Consulting, Investing, Leadership, and Social IMPACT, exchange programs, and Global Opportunities through U-M Centers & Institutes.
Ross School of Business has continued with its focus on attracting an international cohort. While doing so, the school has eased the entry criteria for GMAT, GRE and GPA.
In this in-depth analysis of Ross Full-time MBA program, we cover:
London Business School has 509 students in its MBA class of 2025 which comprises 37% female participants – 8 to 10% lower than the average female percentage at top MBA schools.
In the third quarter of 2023, the global venture capital landscape exhibited notable trends that shed light on the state of the industry. Venture funding during this period reached $73 billion, a 11% increase compared to the previous quarter. However, it was down 15% from the remarkable $86 billion invested in Q3 2022 – a residual optimism in Technology from the pandemic era. Several key developments were defined this quarter, which we will delve into below.
In July 2017, during the Research and Innovation Meetings in Paris, Campus France presented Mrs. Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation, with a joint letter outlining recommendations that will make French educational institutions accessible and competitive compared to US schools and other contemporaries in Europe.
GMAT/GRE score is a reflection of the school’s selectivity. Among the top 15, Harvard had the highest entry barrier – a median GMAT of 740, followed by Stanford (738) and Haas (733).
SDA Bocconi MBA tuition fee for the academic year 2023-24 is €75,000. After adding the personal expenses and living costs, it sums up to € 1,00,020 for one year. To help the admitted students cover the tuition fees, SDA Bocconi offers 30 partial tuition waivers and 3 full tuition waivers. Apart from the waivers, students can also fund their expenses with the help of 63 funding options for students from 27 different countries.
The total number of enrolled students in the HAAS MBA Class of 2025 is 244, which is lower compared to peer schools Ross and NYU Stern. The high median GMAT score of 733, which, despite being 7 points lower than top MBAs, beats the peer school’s scores. Average GRE scores for Verbal and Quant are 161 and 163, respectively, whereas the average GPA is 3.64, six points lower than the median of the top 3 MBAs.
Atul Jose (Admissions Consultant, F1GMAT): NYU Stern, MIT Sloan, and Columbia Business School are among the top-tier business schools that offer AI courses in multiple management functions.
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With 42% of the class from an Engineering background and a large percentage (23%) from diverse industries, Tepper MBA is a favorite for engineers and career switchers interested in transitioning from core technology to Consulting, General Management, and Product Management (Industrial).
In this in-depth analysis of the Tepper Full-time MBA program, we cover:
Haas, with a 733, and NYU Stern, with a 732 GMAT score, have set the bar high for the 2025 entering class. Ross has a more manageable 719 entry criteria and a 3.43 GPA, while Stern and Haas have a strong 3.61 and 3.64 GPA, respectively.
The total Class size of Ross MBA class of 2025 is 379 which despite being less than that of the top 3 MBAs, is the highest among peer schools – NYU Stern and Haas. This can be the result of a lower average GMAT score of 719, 21 points less than that of top MBA programs. Average GRE also remains on the lower side with 162 Quant and 160 verbal.
With a 31% admission rate, NYU Stern admitted 966 students, out of which 327 students were enrolled. Although the enrollment rate remained low, the school’s acceptance rate for the Class of 2025 was high. Even with such a high acceptance rate, the academic requirements, like the average GMAT score, remained at 732, the Average GRE Verbal and Quant was 163 each, and the average GPA was 3.61, higher than Ross MBA’s and slightly lower than Haas’.
USC Marshall ranks #15 according to the 2023 US News MBA Ranking of Best Business Schools. The full-time MBA program contributes considerably to the ranking.
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Harvard MBA Essay Guide (20 Sample Essays)
Example #1: Persistence Narrative
Background Information: The applicant – a design and music talent, shares her journey through several setbacks. She attributes curiosity to her growth.
Curiosity: Philosophy
Curiosity (Explained): Curiosity as a philosophy is tough to translate into a narrative unless you are from the creative industry or your contributions had an influence on a solution or an initiative.
MBA Essay Strategy: I wanted to capture the humanity of the applicant and her influence in music instead of just highlighting how she overcame multiple roadblocks to gain attention as a designer.
Theme: Persistence
Read: Harvard MBA Curiosity Essay – Life Starts at NO (Growth-Oriented HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #2: International Community Building
Background Information: The applicant, a Machine Learning (ML) entrepreneur specializing in healthcare diagnostics, shares how his curiosity to learn other ML algorithms’ evolution in diagnosing Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease transformed his platform into a global community.
MBA Essay Strategy: I wanted to show the applicant’s contributions in diagnostic from 2020 to 2024 by citing two events. Such examples build credibility instead of engagements that were recent. The evolution of the platform from an AI development community to a community for discussing the application of AI in diagnostics is captured through a ‘curiosity’ angle.
Read: Harvard MBA Curiosity Essay – Growth through Collaboration (AI in Healthcare) (Growth-Oriented HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #3: Culture
Background Information: The applicant, an Entrepreneur from India narrates his first entrepreneurial experience – facilitating exchange of stamps in the late 1990s.
Theme: Culture
MBA Essay Strategy: Instead of addressing the biases in the investor community that could turn preachy, I wanted to focus on the applicant and his entrepreneurial journey by citing two entrepreneurial experiences – a platform(club) for stamp collection and his Grocery delivery App.
Read: Harvard MBA Curiosity Essay – The American Dream (Growth-Oriented HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #4: Addiction
Background Information: The applicant – a beneficiary of the foster home system, captures the sacrifice his adopted grandparents made to save him from a path of addiction. Paying it back through early intervention among teenagers and community engagement is the curiosity narrative.
Theme: Addiction
MBA Essay Strategy: My strategy is to capture a gratitude narrative in the first one-third of the essay to demonstrate motivation for starting the venture and dedicate the latter part of the essay to the unique solution
Read: Harvard MBA Curiosity Essay – Drug Addiction and Gaming (Growth-Oriented HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #5: Scarcity
Background Information: The applicant, an education major, recognizes that 70% of all students in Kenya don’t have a computer. The curiosity that drives him to pivot from one solution to another is the growth narrative.
Theme: Innovation
MBA Essay Strategy: Often, innovation is captured with a ‘hero’ narrative where the applicant is the sole originator of an idea. I wanted to break that cliché and include a person from whom the applicant learned to use a concept called ‘scaffolding.’
Read: Harvard MBA Curiosity Essay – Scarcity (Growth-Oriented HBS Essay Example)
Example #6: FinTech
Background Information: The applicant captures a vulnerable moment of a beneficiary to compare his journey of side hustle before a technology giant noticed his talent. Although cryptocurrency is not a flavor for the year, capture niches where innovation is still happening.
Theme: Education, Child Welfare
MBA Essay Strategy: Empathizing with a techno solution is tough without a strong backstory around the beneficiary. For the essay, I wanted to clearly establish the beneficiary – Rami, before the applicant narrates the similarities to his journey and finally shares the solution that emerged from his curiosity.
Read: Harvard MBA Curiosity Essay – FinTech as a Tool for Good (Growth-Oriented HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #7: Learning from the best
Background Information: The applicant – a Remote Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry, reflects on a value that has helped her learn from the best regardless of her geographical limitations.
Theme: Learning
MBA Essay Strategy: The effectiveness of the case-study method depends on the assumption that peers in a Harvard MBA class will help elevate your learning experience. For the essay, I have highlighted the applicant’s recognition of this value proposition with three examples.
Read: Harvard MBA Curiosity Essay – Learning from the Best (Growth-Oriented HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #8: Military & Search for IMPACT
Background Information: The most common narrative for US military applicants is to quote 9/11 and the reaction your immediate family had while watching the events unfold. The horrifying moment is captured as a motivation to join the Military. On digging deeper, most applicants would share that their motivations were diverse.
Theme: Career Choice
MBA Essay Strategy: I wanted to quickly highlight that the applicant had the choice of entering any industry. One achievement to demonstrate his curiosity that I shared in the first half is the invention of a game. Since the game is mentioned in the resume and verifiable through search, I didn’t quote the name. By clearly highlighting the person’s curiosity and career options, the family legacy is used as a factor in joining the military.
Read: Harvard MBA Curiosity Essay – Career Choice after a Military Career (Growth-Oriented HBS MBA Essay Example)
Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped who you are, how you invest in others, and what kind of leader you want to become? (up to 250 words)
Example #9: Small Business Values
Background Information: The applicant - a second-generation Asian American, is familiar with the values of fiscal conservatism, building relationships, and understanding the daily struggles of the community through his family’s department store.
Theme: Customer-Centric
MBA Essay Strategy: The applicant’s role in developing an App for the store is highlighted in the essay at a crucial part of the narrative so that the essay is not all about his father. I have also humanized the journey – by sharing how upset the father was when the revenues fell by 40%. The essay is about the transformation in the applicant’s value from a person chasing productivity and optimization technique to someone who is truly thinking about the customers.
Read: Harvard MBA Leadership Essay – Small Business Values (Leadership-Focused HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #10: Breaking Away from Family Business
Background Information: A unique challenge that applicants whose parents are public figures or CXOs of businesses or entrepreneurs are the pressure to live up to the parent’s standards or milestones. For the leadership narrative, the burden of legacy is established before the narrative addresses his leadership principles.
Theme: Authenticity
MBA Essay Strategy: For the essay, I want to capture an entrepreneur’s journey to rise above his entrepreneur father’s image. But I didn’t want to make the entire essay about this complex dynamics. The narrative is around the applicant’s focus on customers and surrounding with teams who keeps him grounded.
Read: Harvard MBA Leadership Essay – Breaking Away from Family Business(Leadership-Focused HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #11: Creativity and Communication
Background Information: When the overall percentage of users with internet access is 62% in South Africa and the inequality accentuated by the rural and urban divide, the applicant endured the lack of digital infrastructure, and spending close to 22% of the family income on gaining relevant information on schools, global exams, and financial assistance.
Theme: Creativity, Communication
MBA Essay Strategy: The strategy is to share why the applicant values no distraction in a child’s home for optimum education experience. Then I highlight the many roadblocks the applicant’s non-profit faced in receiving fee waiver for their cooperative run ISP.
Read: Harvard MBA Leadership Essay – Non-Profit (Telecom) (Leadership-Focused HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #12: Mental Health
Background Information: The applicant like most didn’t pay much attention to the mental health epidemic until tragedy hit home.
Theme: Communication, Innovation
MBA Essay Strategy: A question we frequently get from applicants is whether they should cite tragedy in the family as a motivation for a venture or a non-profit initiative. As long as you don’t linger too much on the tragedy and offer a balanced narrative, there are no restrictions on leveraging unique stories from your life.
Read: Harvard MBA Leadership Essay – Mental Health (Leadership-Focused HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #13: Trauma, Healing & Finding Authentic Self
Background Information: The applicant narrates the absurdity of war in the narrative about the duties in Kabul, and the trauma. Instead of wallowing in on the horror, the applicant takes what makes military applicants strong and guides unprivileged children build life and leadership skills.
Theme: Resilience
MBA Essay Strategy: Capturing PTSD in an essay, the healing process, and the cues that helped the applicant are too sacred to be shared in a Harvard MBA application essay. However, with the right motivation and narrative arcs, you can capture the essence of your journey without sharing the darkest secrets. That is what I did by merging two stories – the horrors of the war with a non-profit engagement.
Read: Harvard MBA Leadership Essay – Military & PTSD (Leadership-Focused HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #14: Addiction, Setback and Leadership Mantra
Background Information: In this narrative, the applicant captures Peru’s Silver mining boom of 2006. The growth experienced in her father’s business shifted the family’s economic status to a new stratosphere. Through the changing economic and family dynamics, the applicant finds her voice in a unique way, initially to record her unheard voice but later as one of the youngest subject matter experts in mining and commodities.
Theme: Failure
MBA Essay Strategy: For the essay, the strategy is to show how life’s unpredictability is a blessing. By narrating two setback events, the essay demonstrates the applicant’s resilience and her acknowledgment of people who made a comeback possible.
Read: Harvard MBA Leadership Essay – Addiction, Setback and Leadership Mantra (Leadership-Focused HBS MBA Essay Example)
Example #15: War, Immigration and Starting Over Again
Background Information: Despite a raging war in Syria, the family of the applicant was unblemished by the chaos. The strategic government assets near the applicant’s house would have made the region an easy target, but it was not. The calmness of her journey is shattered in one event. From the privileges of a cocooned life, the applicant is forced to think about survival, her sister’s future, and her future in the US. The second half of the narrative captures the change that was forced on her.
Theme: Gratitude, Resilience
MBA Essay Strategy: I consciously chose not to start the essay with a dialogue or trauma. Two lines are allocated to set up the narrative before the trauma event.
Read: Harvard MBA Leadership Essay – War, Immigration and Starting Over Again (Leadership-Focused HBS MBA Essay Example)
Harvard MBA Business-Minded Essay: Please reflect on how your experiences have influenced your career choices and aspirations and the impact you will have on the businesses, organizations, and communities you plan to serve. (up to 300 words)
Example #16: Creative or Finance
Background Information: The applicant starts the narrative with the origin of her talents. The unbridled enthusiasm receives a reality check when in high school, the applicant’s father has a conversation with her about academics. While the applicant picked up her quant skills, she was reaching over 50,000 loyal fans, and her videos captured 1 million views.
Theme: Passion, Talent
MBA Essay Strategy: Capturing vulnerability is the toughest part for Harvard MBA applicants. For this essay example, I have captured the applicant’s uncertainty about career choice throughout the essay. Here the goal is to show vulnerability in the career choice essay while for leadership and growth essay, I could capture one example each from creative and PE industry respectively to balance the narrative. So don’t follow this example without a strategy.
Read: Harvard MBA Business-Minded Essay – Creative or Finance (Business-Minded HBS MBA Essay Example)
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