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The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management is an alliance of some of the world’s leading graduate business schools and business organizations, and its aim is to enhance diversity and inclusion in global business education and leadership by increasing the representation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans in member schools’ enrollments and the ranks of global management across sectors. 

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You have poured your heart and soul into your business school applications and taken the time to craft the perfect essays. Now you are eagerly looking forward to finishing up a few more applications to your target schools. You have heard that you can expect to spend as much time on your second, third, and fourth applications combined (!) as you did on your very first one. Encouraged, you might scan your third application and think, “Oh, look—here’s a ‘failure’ question. I can just adapt the ‘mistake’ essay I wrote for my first application to answer that one!” or “There’s a question about leadership. I’ve already written an essay on that, so I can just reuse it here!”

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The application essay requirements for the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame are fairly straightforward—or at least the written one is. To start, you must provide a statement that presents your career goals and discusses how the school can help you achieve them. You also need to craft a slide presentation that offers more information about yourself as an individual, separate from your professional and academic background. In addition, you are required to respond to a series of recorded video questions after submitting your application. Finally, an option to submit an additional essay exists, but the school wants candidates to be prudent in doing so. Read on for our full analysis of all Mendoza’s prompts for this season.

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Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business features a global emphasis in its full-time MBA curriculum. During the fall semester, first-year students are required to take “Structure of Global Industries,” an immersive core course that provides a foundation in international business. The global emphasis continues in the second year, when students take part in the school’s signature Global Business Experience. In this program, students take on consulting roles working for actual international organizations or Fortune 500 companies. In the spring, student teams travel to their respective client’s country—in 2025, these included Kenya, Spain, and Singapore—to gain firsthand experience working in a global consulting and management setting. After the participating students return to campus, they present the stories and takeaways from their experiences to their classmates at the school’s Global Business Conference. Since the Global Business Experience’s inception, more than 9,300 students have taken part in more than 1,700 projects.

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“I was the first in my class to be promoted at McKinsey. I have a 665 GMAT Focus score and completed Level 1 of the CFA exam, but I had a B- in calculus during my freshman year. Will that grade ruin my chances for admission?”

“My company has been under a hiring and promotion freeze for the past three years, but during that time, I have earned pay increases and survived successive rounds of layoffs. Will the admissions committee accept someone who has not been promoted?”