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 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
During my first foray into the B-School blogosphere, I encountered a number of blogs about people who had either applied and gotten into business school, or were dinged. One consistent thing about the blogs with the highest search rankings was that the majority of them had outdated posts. Their blogging updates ended either one or … 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 hit the submit button for Harvard this morning, with just a handful of minutes before the deadline.  The Harvard essays were definitely tricky, but given that it was my final application, it really wasn’t that bad. I had already come up with most of the ideas that I needed from doing all of my … Read more
Five days from now, I will submit my HBS application and be done with the application process. No more sacrificing of weekends. No more skipped holidays. No more heading straight to the library after work every single night. I’m trying not to lose focus, but it’s difficult when the finish line is so close. There … Read more
I feel like a zombie. I submitted two apps over the course of twenty four hours and have two more apps to go. It’s become more of an anxiety stress than it is workload pressure at this point. The actual work I’m doing is pretty mundane: finding the website of that club I joined in … Read more
There’s nothing like touching up an essay you think is perfect, sending it to one of your reviewers, and seeing it covered in red comment updates when they return it. I guess one thing I’ve learned from this process is that everyone seems to know how to use the “track changes†feature in Microsoft Word … 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