The dominoes keep falling. Another top-25 business school in the United States, seeking to keep the edge it gained when it made an emergency suspension of its admission test requirement as coronavirus chaos descended on graduate business education
NYU Stern School of Business became the fourth top-25 B-school to announce that it will continue to accept applications to its full-time MBA program without the inclusion of Graduate Record Exam or Graduate Management Admission Test scores
In today’s global business environment, the only constant is change. Using NYU Stern’s brand call to action, we want to know how you view change. Change: _____ it. Fill in the blank with a word of your choice. Why does this word resonate with you? How will you embrace your own personal tagline while at Stern? Examples:
Change: Dare it.
Change: Dream it.
Change: Drive it.
Change: Empower it.
Change: Manifest it.
Change: [Any word of your choice.]
Stern’s popular “Pick Six” personal expression essay will remain and the professional aspirations essay will be reduced from a 500-word limit to a 150-word limit.
Admissions officers can tell when you’ve borrowed inspiration or words from sample MBA essays.
The pesky thing about admissions committees is that they’re actually filled with really smart people who know how this game is played and what resources are available to the players. Over the course of their careers, they’ve read books with sample MBA essays and they can spot themes and clichéd stories that are clearly inspired by sample essay collections. More importantly, they can sense when you’re telling someone else’s story and/or when the story doesn’t ring true to the other elements of your MBA application. The last thing you would ever want to do is give an admissions officer reason to doubt your authenticity, so don’t risk even the appearance that you “sampled” from some of the published works that are out there.
We wrote this article because we want you to be wary of sample MBA essays and to understand the risks involved in reading them, let alone “borrowing” from them. At LeapQuest, we work with students who we believe in and help them tell their story, not someone else’s. Remember that the MBA application process is not a storytelling contest and, even if it were, the winners would be chosen based on authenticity, originality, and integrity of the stories they tell.
If you want to improve your chances of getting into NYU Stern, get in touch. We’ve had a pretty good track record of shortening the queue even if you aren’t falling in one of the favourable buckets.
