What HBS, Stanford GSB, and Wharton Admits Do While Everyone Else Waits

You’ve got your GMAT score. Your school list is set — HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton, maybe a few other M7s and T10. Applications are due in September, and you’ve done the math. It’s May. You have time. You’re planning to start once the essay prompts drop, and that feels like the right call.

Here’s what most people don’t find out until they’re deep into the summer: the essay prompt isn’t where this starts. And by the time that becomes clear, the space to do the real work has already gotten a lot smaller.

In this live session, Susan Berishaj, Founder of Sia Admissions, walks through what actually separates applications that land at HBS, Stanford GSB, and Wharton from the ones that don’t — and why the essay has almost nothing to do with it.

You’ll walk away knowing:

• What HBS, Stanford GSB, and Wharton admits had already worked through before they ever saw a prompt
• Why the essay stage is the last place a competitive application is built — not the first
• What’s already in motion in your R1 application, whether you’re engaged in it or not

This is for candidates targeting HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, and Columbia who are planning to apply Round 1.

If you want an honest assessment of your candidacy, request a profile evaluation from Sia Admissions.

If you want to talk through how to use the time between now and September to move in the right direction — making sure every decision you’re making is building toward the strongest version of your application — a strategy consultation is where that conversation starts.