by Transcend Admissions | Jun 6, 2024 | Application Strategy, Undergraduate Admissions, Undergraduate Application Strategy
Students targeting American universities are likely to submit one or more applications through the Common App platform. In this series, we will discuss strategies to write strong, memorable essays based on each of the six prompts offered by the Common App. Let’s first...
by Transcend Admissions | May 30, 2024 | MBA Essays
The emergence of AI tools* is creating new paradigms for writing and editing tasks, including graduate school application essays. While utilizing these new solutions to write essay drafts will undeniably be tempting for applicants – especially those writing in a...
by Transcend Admissions | May 23, 2024 | Application Strategy, MBA Essays
Areas of weakness or professional failures are topics that most graduate school applicants want to avoid. But there are many good reasons to work on getting comfortable talking about these parts of one’s profile and background. First and foremost, filling skill and...
by Transcend Admissions | May 16, 2024 | MBA Essays
In an effort to get to know their prospective students, business school application essays span an array of topics, from career goals to personal values to strengths and weaknesses. But there is one business school that asks a question that its applicants will never...
by Transcend Admissions | May 9, 2024 | Networking
MBA programs stress the importance of “coffee chats” in successfully navigating the internship and full-time job recruitment process. A coffee chat is another name for an informational interview where one person requests to talk to another person about some specific...
by Transcend Admissions | May 2, 2024 | Application Strategy, Entrepreneurship
Founding and running a company early in one’s career is a bold move that provides invaluable opportunities to learn a vast range of business skills, lessons, etiquette, and roles. However, when it comes to discussing such experiences in an MBA application, many...
by Transcend Admissions | Apr 25, 2024 | Application Strategy
After months of intensive test prep, resume polishing, recommendation favor-seeking, grueling essay writing, and high-pressure interviews, you’ve been met with the terse response: “Please wait longer for us to make a decision.” Let’s not kid ourselves, this is not an...
