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In the second round of 2011-2012 LBS added two more questions to its ‘four-questions Personal Statement’ for MiF and made the existing questions more comprehensive .Also, they increased the page-limit from two to three pages . Question 1 – your motivation What has prompted your application to the Masters in Finance? Why do you believe [...]

Optional essay provides you with an excellent opportunity to tell the Ad Com what you could not tell  because you were bound by the  specifications of essay  questions. This question is also meant to shine a spotlight on an experience or side of your personality that has  not been revealed in the other parts of [...]

Application essay writing has been one of the most challenging experiences for even the most brilliant candidates. A great 3+ GPA, a stellar GMAT score, and an impressive work experience combined together are not enough to get you into your dream B-school if your essays are poorly written and fail to position your candidacy in [...]

A lot of people equate leadership to having managerial or supervisory responsibilities. In reality, a leader and a manager are very different. A manager copes with complexity and brings order and predictability to a situation, whereas a leader shows how to cope with rapid changes. This is not to say that a good manager cannot [...]

One concern that Indian IT applicants have is that with 40,000+ Indians applying to B-schools, they (applicants) will have hard time distinguishing their profile and projecting their worthiness to top MBA programs. They could not be more wrong. It’s true that most Indian B-school applicants have an engineering degree,  an excellent GPA, a decent GMAT [...]

(Courtesy wsj) Oh, that the business world were more like that. Now, some graduate schools are aiming for just such a goal— at least in the applications process for their M.B.A. programs. Columbia Business School this year is asking applicants to respond in no more than 200 characters to the following question: “What is your [...]