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The personal statement for business school is the most important part of your application. By the time you are applying, you probably cannot significantly alter your GPA or GMAT/GRE score. Thus, if your numbers make you a “borderline candidate” – someone who could be admitted but could just as easily be rejected – your personal statement for business school is your greatest opportunity to swing the decision in your favor. In this case, you should also make sure to pay close attention to the MBA application timeline – apply in the first two rounds. As one Director of Admissions put it: “If someone with your numbers has a possibility of being admitted to a particular school, but not everyone with your numbers is admitted to that school, the major deciding factor is the personal statement.”

People crave rankings. But what do these rankings mean? How are they actually formulated? The 2017 US News and World Report college rankings came out recently, and while people love consuming them, they many times fail to ask what exactly is behind this US News rankings methodology.

Before she even started her freshman year at Stanford, Maggie Steffens was an Olympic gold medalist and the MVP of the USA women’s water polo team. Now, four years later, she and her teammates have made history as the first water polo team to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals. And, besides water polo, what’s one thing they all have in common?

There are no shortcuts in the college admissions process. Applications take time. And it’s not that there aren’t strategies to better manage your time; it’s simply that effective time management requires diligence, hard work, and most of all – discipline.

In 2012, the president of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) wrote an open letter to all pre-medical students to announce the new Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). More than a year has now passed since the first administration of the new MCAT exam. But what exactly has changed about the exam and what do pre-medical students need to know about these changes?

A lot of people ask me about the MBA application timeline and when they should submit their individual applications. Almost always, the answer is: “as soon as you can submit a high quality application.”

Honor societies began as secret associations with closely guarded traditions such as special handshakes and initiation rites. Members were typically high-performing students with a strong interest in intellectual discussion and important world issues. These days, many organizations still have a badge, motto and diploma and frequently focus on achievements in academic and/or humanitarian arenas.

As the leading business schools in the world, Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business compete for the most talented MBA applicants in the world. While often mentioned in the same conversation and thrown together on applicants’ school lists, the programs are actually quite different.

Preparing for the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) portion of the GMAT seems to many of my students a waste of precious practice time, when what really “matters” is your 800-scaled score. Fair enough.

At first glance, students attempt to test each scenario presented in the answer choices, wasting precious time, and often spinning their wheels. And, even if they “get lucky” discovering the correct answer, they remain unsure of themselves and worry they have missed some detail that actually prevents the substitute constraint from fully replacing the original.