Essays: What Doesn’t Work

Yale recently expanded its financial aid program to cover tuition costs for families with annual incomes below $200,000. Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Kari DiFonzo joins Hannah and Mark to discuss the news, to share how families can get personalized estimates of their c ...  Show more

The admissions process can seem like a mysterious black box. Your application goes in one side and, a few weeks later, a decision comes out the other. At Yale, real people make decisions at every stage of review, and every student is admitted by a committee. Hannah and Mark walk ...  Show more

How do you capture an Admissions Officer’s attention through your college essays? On today’s episode, Nivanthi Karunaratne, a Graduate Coach at InGenius Prep, shares her personal journey of self-discovery through music and how it has influenced her approach in helping students ...

We all know how to write, so what could possibly go wrong in an MBA application essay? Lots of things, as it turns out. In this podcast we dive into 6 tips for MBA essay writing that even the most confident writers sometimes miss. This will include: Directly answering the questio ...  Show more

In this episode, college admissions experts discuss how to write a meaningful personal statement and impactful supplemental essays.