Stanford GSB

Welcome to your Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) MBA application course.

We’ll walk through the entire application process for the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s MBA application. We’ll use detailed instructions to share insider tips, and example essays from previously admitted clients to show you what we mean.

Course Objectives

• Introspect to find “What matters most to you?” using your “Why” and other stories from your BRAINSTORM GRID
• Combine your GSB research into an impactful “Why Stanford?” essay
• Write compelling optional essays that broaden your profile using your Experience stories
• Position yourself as a minority or ally of minorities in GSB’s unique “background” essay
• Share your goals in one of the shortest goals essay of any MBA application
• Submit an application to get admitted to Stanford GSB MBA

Pre-Requisites

Before starting this school course, you should complete the following courses:

• Target Schools
• Resume
• Brainstorm

School Strategy

Stanford’s application process can be summarized in 1 word: Essays. The school’s main essays have a 1050 word limit combined. That’s more than HBS and most other schools.

In addition, they have four extra “optional” essays. In our experience, competitive applicants usually write most of these, so they’re not really optional. 

Stanford doesn’t ask for videos, org charts, or Kira Talent. 

From an application standpoint, this means you’ll have to develop lots of material for Stanford’s application. For example, you will likely use many of the stories we created earlier in your Brainstorm course.