Admissions Insights

Strategy, perspective and what’s changing in MBA admissions

Karen Hamou Karen Hamou

The New GMAT Superscore

GMAC will now print your best section scores across test dates and provide a theoretical composite score. I asked a few M7 admissions committees how they will use it.

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Karen Hamou Karen Hamou

Shaking Things Up

Most business schools left their essays alone this year. Stanford GSB is sticking with their two iconic core essays, what matters most and why Stanford, which have not changed in a couple of decades, plus the same four short essays. Harvard Business School is also playing it cool, keeping last year's trifecta of your mission, your leadership style, and how you grow. Kellogg and Chicago Booth decided to shake things up a bit.

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