How would an admissions expert answer this year’s top business school essays? Beat The GMAT is back with their annual Write Like an Expert series! In this 14-part webinar series, the world’s leading admissions experts break down this year’s top business school essays.  From HBS to Haas, experts analyze each essay 2012-2013 essay requirement so that you can … Read more
It’s hard to describe how I feel right now. Part of me is hurt by the fact that I felt this school would have been a great fit for me. Part of me feels my chances of getting in to at least one school are still good. Don’t get me wrong, this feeling definitely sucks … Read more
It’s only been two weeks since I submitted my final application and I’ve definitely enjoyed my time off. I stayed off the boards where people listed their interview invites and admissions decisions because I knew it could only make me worry. But before I could even start stressing out, I got invited to interview at … Read more
I went to bed at 6 pm last night, the first night I didn’t have an essay or GMAT test looming over my head in 6 months. I woke up around 6:30 am. I don’t think I’ve ever slept that long before. Since I usually don’t get up that early, I decided to go work … Read more
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said that and as you can probably tell, essay writing is draining the life out of me. There’s an obvious negative correlation between the amount of admissions work I’m doing and the number of blog posts I write. I wonder if this will be the last post … Read more
I’ve spent the past few weeks reaching out to my network and searching for people to review my essays.  One of my contacts actually turned out to be a former admissions committee member at a top school. I had no idea of this fact, but he agreed to give my essays a review. Since I hadn’t … Read more
While I was working on the final touches of my Haas application and starting to paste in my final answers, I noticed a strange bug with the transfer of information from the word processor to the browser. For some reason, when you paste from a Microsoft Word document into the Haas MBA admissions application, while … Read more
With three and a half hours to spare, I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, opened my eyes back up, and hit the submit button. My first business school application was now complete. It’s definitely true what people say about clicking the submit button: it’s really tough to do. I had already thoroughly reviewed … Read more
I’ve already blown off a couple of social obligations. And I felt bad about turning down close friends so I could spend time working on my business school apps. But given the time crunch I’m in, and the number of schools I intend to apply to, I don’t think I have a choice. I need … Read more
Remember what I said about not sacrificing my social obligations for b-school anymore? Well… To be honest, things have been better. I do get out more and don’t always feel like a hermit. But I still find myself in the middle of the library in front of a laptop most nights of the week. I … Read more