Welcome to the 5th step in F1GMAT’s 10 Steps to Mastering M7 MBA Admissions series. I am Atul Jose.

In this series, I will break down ten easy-to-follow steps that I have used to help clients get into M7 schools and the mistakes many clients confessed they made while tackling the multiple work, life, and admissions priorities.

In this series, I will break down 10 easy-to-follow steps that I have used to help clients get into M7 schools and the mistakes many clients confessed they made while tackling the multiple work, life, and admissions priorities.

The 4th step is managing the Work-MBA Application Balance. 

What about your social life? 

The answer is short and sad. 

You would have very limited time to engage in travel for leisure or social events without the awareness that there is a deliverable for your MBA application waiting. 

Before embracing the MBA admission season, you must mentally prepare to juggle priorities and endure GMAT Preparation, School selection, coordinating recommendation letters with supervisors, and maintaining performance at work while also being in a healthy relationship with your partner.

We have prepared 5 Ideas for tweaking your behavior in conventional and some unconventional ways.

Do remember, there is no one-fit rule for all. Test the ideas.

There is always a risk of turning your MBA Application resume, essays, and interview answers into a technical narrative. When the interviewer is from your industry, take the risk. For anyone else, your depth and tendency to go technical should be curbed. But even with such warning, there are scenarios where specific narratives and examples work over generic boilerplate answers or entries.

The one thing I really spend a lot of time evaluating and understanding during my editing and consulting sessions is the applicant’s fit with the schools they are targeting.

If you show desperation, your potential partner won’t find it attractive and even might wonder what you are lacking. The same goes for MBA admissions. The school wants to know your motivation. All of them have some variation of the Why MBA essay where you are required to capture unique aspects of the curriculum that are relevant for your post-MBA goals. You also get extra credit for mentioning at least one current student or alumnus interaction in the essay to validate the claim that you did the research.

In the current market there are three kinds of consultants. One the former admission officers, the second MBA alumni who is doing editing as a side gig and some in a full-time role. The third are consultants who themselves are writers and editors like us. I update F1GMAT’s Essay Guides every year. So, I understand the struggles of applicants. The writing process is never easy, even for an established writer.

If you want to know the one secret that is a guarantee that you will get admission to an M7 school, it is a consistent track record of success. Typically, what happens is that an average applicant has a peak – mostly in school. Then, they get into the real world. And now they start facing some failures.

In today's M7 MBA Admissions Tip, I will share three scenarios when a GMAT 700 to 720 is enough for applying to M7 schools.

In today’s MBA admissions advice blog, I will share 2 types of supervisors that can improve your admission chances to top MBA programs by 60 to 70%.

1) Alumni with Excellent Writing Skills

M7 admissions are tough regardless of your academic. GMAT/GRE score and the brand of your employer. Quite often, it is about your journey and your impact across different aspects of professional, personal, and community lives.

To improve your M7 MBA admission chances, look at four factors: