EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2011-'12 MBA Admissions Essays for NYU Stern School of Business

By Essay Snark

Here are a few great things about the NYU Stern School of Business:

• Stern has a part-time MBA program – the only one at a major bschool in the Northeast
• Stern has exceptional resources and support for career changers
• Stern is centrally located downtown NYC, in Greenwich Village
• Stern has a new building that opened in 2010
• Stern is close to multiple subway lines that run all over the city – if you're not from New York, you may not appreciate how much this matters!

Stern also has put its money where its mouth is when it comes to diversity. Stern recently had a female dean (undergraduate dean Sally Blount, who's now dean at Kellogg) and currently has a black dean (Dean Peter Henry – the only black dean at any major bschool).

A focus on teamwork and collaboration permeates every aspect of the Stern culture, from the classroom to the clubs. Community is even a factor in their application evaluation process.

All this – plus of course a top-notch graduate business education – adds up to a distinctive school in one of the greatest cities on Earth. And, one with very competitive admissions! Stern has a similar acceptance rate to Columbia, and they both have great finance programs, but that's about where the similarities end.

If you're serious about NYU, you need to take a fresh approach to their essays. EssaySnark can show you how.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Essay Snark
• Release date: Oct 26, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465787576

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EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2011-'12 MBA Admissions Essays for

NYU Stern School of Business

A SnarkStrategies Guide

by EssaySnark

Snarkolicious Press

SMASHWORDS EDITION

version 1.01

originally published October 27, 2011

updated January 27, 2012 (formatting changes only)

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The essay questions related herein are copyright the Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

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Table of Contents

How Is Stern Different from Columbia

What Is Stern Known for?

What's Important at Stern

The NYU Langone Part-Time MBA

Admissions at NYU Stern

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who has the latest Round 1 deadline of all?

Stern and the waitlist

Stern's essays are stable

Stern Summer Start

Your Stern Strategy

Do you have to visit Stern?

What else do you need to know about a Stern application?

The GMAT Matters

Stern and GPA

Work Experience

Efficient Multi-School Strategies

Your Stern Essays

Essay 1: Professional Aspirations

How to construct your Stern career goals essay

Essay 2: Your Stern Experience

Essay 3: Personal Expression

Some Dos and Don'ts for Stern Essay 3

Interviewing at Stern

What to Do Next

How NYU Is Different from Columbia

Let's just get this out of the way. NYU Stern is a great business school. Columbia is a great business school. They largely compete for the same students. If you're applying to Stern, chances are exceedingly high that you're applying to Columbia.

Yet Stern and Columbia could not be more different.

Beyond the fact that they both offer a top-notch MBA education in the city of New York, and both are strong in finance, there's not much more that's the same.

They do admissions differently

They look for (somewhat) different students

They have (vastly!) different cultures

Here's a few things that Stern has that Columbia does not:

Stern has an undergraduate program

Stern has a part-time MBA program –