What M7 Admissions Committees Actually Remember About Your Application

Amy Hazen spent 12 years on staff at Wharton before she ever coached an applicant, and Andy Pelletier has worked in MBA admissions for 25 years and helped place more than 750 candidates into M7 programs. Cathy Manlow interviews candidates for INSEAD and built her own career on Wall Street before switching to admissions coaching. None of them can tell you exactly what a committee will remember about your file in six months, but they can tell you what tends to stick and what tends to blur together after reading hundreds of applications in a season. Expect specifics about which parts of an application actually get re-read before a decision, and which ones are mostly there to check a box.