All MBA Application Related Tips

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:

1) Question the Status Quo

We have collected the Essays of the Top 50 MBA programs for the 2026 Entering class.  In this in-depth essay analysis of the top 50 MBA applications, we cover: