All MBA Application Related Tips

When I reach out to clients to check on the progress of their MBA essays, they often complain about the biggest obstacle – how should I reflect and capture the pivotal events in my life?

Before you trivialize or dramatize any event from your life, follow these 5 reflection tips:

1) Memory Trap

2) Detached Attention

3) The Conflict Conversation

Capturing sad moments in MBA essays can seem manipulative. But when you write the first draft, don’t worry about censoring such thoughts.

Remember these 4 points while capturing sad moments:

1) Emotion vs. Mood

2) Personal Loss

3) Sad Moments and Identity

Thinking about the structure while drafting MBA essays is not recommended but choosing themes that have universal appeal is essential to get the most out of the writing process.

Write freely, but use these three themes when you feel that you are getting lost in the writing process:

Storytelling is an outline of your relationship with time, world, future, and yourself. 

The inner conflict between your ego and the challenge put forward by the outside world is similar to the turmoil that the reviewers go through on a daily basis while reviewing your essays or pondering over their future. 

When the story is about your life journey, the essay should demonstrate why you are interesting. Focus on 5 Strategies:

1. Differentiate Just Enough

In a slow job market where competition for top MBA programs increase, applicants from the technology, finance, and consulting industries must bring their A game to demonstrate uniqueness. 

Before you draft an essay or prepare for your interview, understand what is considered unique in MBA Admissions:

If “We”, a word used sparsely during questions about success, is frequently used when the topic is about Failures, the blame game has already started.  

Before you draft an essay or a script for the failure narrative in interviews, understand: