The Wall Street Journal published a provocative piece on Friday about the recent decline in Wharton application volume at the school’s full-time MBA program (down ~12% over the past four years). Titled ‘What’s Wrong At Wharton‘ the piece pondered how the prestigious program had lost ground in recent years while competitors like Stanford GSB, Harvard […]
View PostThe Flight From Essays in MBA Admissions

I am certainly not the first person to note the evolving admissions trend away from essays at top-tier American business schools, but it is indeed worth writing about. In this post and others that follow, I will explore the facts underlining the trend itself and consider the factors that have triggered such a flight from […]
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