Bocconi Early Session 2027-28: applications open 2 September, what to know
Bocconi’s Early Session for 2027-28 runs 2 to 29 September 2026. Dates, the 55/45 formula, test structure, fees and the traps to avoid.
How to Get Into the Ivy League: 2026 Guide
How to Get Into an Ivy League School: What Admissions Officers Really Look For Ivy League schools-Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell-represent the pinnacle of US university admissions. Getting in is brutally competitive. But it’s not impossible, and it’s not a complete mystery. This guide pulls back the curtain on what…
INSEAD Business School: Requirements & Application (2026)
INSEAD Business School: Requirements & Application (2026) INSEAD is one of the top graduate business schools in the world, with campuses in Fontainebleau (France), Singapore, Abu Dhabi, and San Francisco. Students and families researching top European business education often land on INSEAD’s name without fully understanding what INSEAD is and isn’t : and this leads…
Top European Universities Beyond Oxbridge (2026)
Top European Universities Beyond Oxbridge: LSE, INSEAD, Bocconi & More (2026) Oxbridge isn’t the only option for ambitious international students. In fact, for many career paths, especially in business, finance, consulting, and engineering, continental European and other UK universities offer equivalent or better routes. This article walks through the universities that sit in the same…
Retaking the Bocconi Test: How to Score Higher
Retaking the Bocconi Test: Score Improvement Strategies (2026) If you sat the Bocconi Online Test in the Early Session and did not get the score you wanted, you are not out of the running. Bocconi allows a retake in the Winter Session with no penalty : your new score simply counts for the round in…
Best Bocconi Test Study Materials & Resources (2026)
Best Bocconi Test Study Materials & Resources (2026) The Bocconi Online Test doesn’t have a single official preparation book the way the SAT has Khan Academy or the GMAT has the Official Guide. This means students end up cobbling together resources from forums, tutoring services, and generic test-prep websites : and most of what they…
Bocconi Success Stories: 5 Students Who Got In
Bocconi Student Success Stories: How 5 International Students Got In It’s one thing to read about Bocconi’s admissions criteria and acceptance rates in the abstract. It’s another to see what actually worked for real students who went through the process. In this article we walk through five anonymised cases from our coaching practice : five…
Common Mistakes in Bocconi Applications to Avoid (2026)
Common Mistakes in Bocconi Applications to Avoid (2026) Every year we work with students whose Bocconi applications should have been admissions wins and weren’t. The patterns repeat. It’s rarely the obvious things : it’s the quiet, unforced errors that sink otherwise strong profiles. This article collects the mistakes we see most often so you can…
Bocconi Law (CLEL): Test, Requirements & Careers
Bocconi Law Program (CLEL): Online Test, Requirements & What to Expect Bocconi is best known for economics, finance, and management : but it also runs a Bachelor in Law (CLEL) that attracts students who want legal training with a strong business and economics backbone. CLEL is smaller and less internationally famous than BIEM or BEMACS,…
What Bocconi Admissions Officers Look For Beyond Test Scores
What Bocconi Admissions Officers Look For Beyond Test Scores Once your Bocconi Test score clears the competitive threshold, the interesting part of the admissions process begins. Test score alone doesn’t get you into BIEM, BIEF, BEMACS, or BAI : it gets you into the pile of candidates the admissions office actually reads properly. From there,…