Overthinking The Essay? Stanford’s New Tool
Jul 7, 2026 · 27 min · 9 segments
We take a look at Stanford’s new MBA application tool and the reasons why candidates overthink certain essay questions.
Jul 7, 2026 · 27 min · 9 segments
We take a look at Stanford’s new MBA application tool and the reasons why candidates overthink certain essay questions.
Caroline Diarte EdwardsHost
Pola LemHost
Maria Wich-VilaHost
Not all good as news goes, but I think both items relevant to sort of the broader world of what's going on in business schools and admissions also.
So item one, we've got Johns Hopkins is laying off 110 employees across multiple schools and offices.
So that comes with the broader context of one of the steepest declines in its federal research funding history.
You know, is this in terms of prospective students, you see this being, you know, a big game
changer? I mean, as a as a native of Baltimore, Hopkins is certainly a large contributor to our city.
I would assume, though, that since most of those federal cuts were in scientific research and since Hopkins at its core is.
primarily associated with the sciences, especially the medical sciences, the biological sciences, I would assume that proportionally speaking, those departments might be seeing more of a cut.
So I'd be a little bit more concerned if I were, say, like a neuroscience PhD student as opposed to a business school student.
But I mean, anytime any school loses any resources, it's certainly not great.
But maybe, I don't know, maybe it'll eventually come with a lowering of the cost Probably not.
But I yeah, I don't know that I would if I were a business school applicant, I would let this dissuade me from applying to a program that is otherwise a great fit.
The counterpoint or the silver lining there was that Carrie actually just received a very large charitable donation.
Not all good as news goes, but I think both items relevant to sort of the broader world of what's going on in business schools and admissions also.
So item one, we've got Johns Hopkins is laying off 110 employees across multiple schools and offices.
So that comes with the broader context of one of the steepest declines in its federal research funding history.
You know, is this in terms of prospective students, you see this being, you know, a big game
changer? I mean, as a as a native of Baltimore, Hopkins is certainly a large contributor to our city.
I would assume, though, that since most of those federal cuts were in scientific research and since Hopkins at its core is.
primarily associated with the sciences, especially the medical sciences, the biological sciences, I would assume that proportionally speaking, those departments might be seeing more of a cut.
So I'd be a little bit more concerned if I were, say, like a neuroscience PhD student as opposed to a business school student.
But I mean, anytime any school loses any resources, it's certainly not great.
But maybe, I don't know, maybe it'll eventually come with a lowering of the cost Probably not.
But I yeah, I don't know that I would if I were a business school applicant, I would let this dissuade me from applying to a program that is otherwise a great fit.
The counterpoint or the silver lining there was that Carrie actually just received a very large charitable donation.
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