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...
by Transcend Admissions | Apr 15, 2024 | Application Strategy
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by Transcend Admissions | Nov 1, 2023 | Application Strategy
MBA essay word limits have been shrinking for at least a decade. Essays that used to have 750 word limits are now often limited to 250-500 words. In some cases, long essays have been replaced with creative options that invite applicants to utilize different formats to...
by Transcend Admissions | Sep 28, 2023 | Application Strategy, Undergraduate Application Strategy
With the Common App becoming such an important aspect of applying to hundreds of different universities, it is imperative that applicants have a good approach to writing the essay that will be submitted to each of the schools they apply to through the portal. This...
by Transcend Admissions | Sep 14, 2023 | Application Strategy, MBA Essays
One of the great things about an MBA is its flexibility, which allows students to enter many different career paths upon graduation. Using an MBA to transition into a new career is very common – as many as 50% of MBA graduates accept jobs that are in different...
by Transcend Admissions | Sep 7, 2023 | Application Strategy
Every application season is different from the one preceding it and the one that follows. This ebb and flow affects the applicants to each cohort in different ways. For example, some years a program might experience an influx of female applicants, in other years there...
