About this episode

The episode discusses Stanford's new MBA application tool and explores why candidates tend to overthink their essay responses.

We take a look at Stanford’s new MBA application tool and the reasons why candidates overthink certain essay questions.

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Host: Poets&Quants

Topics covered

• MBA application
• essay questions
• application tools
• overthinking
• Stanford

Keywords

• Stanford
• MBA
• application tool
• essay
• overthinking

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Organizations: Stanford

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