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We have tried to make it easy for you to bookmark Accepted posts by using the AddThis bookmark manager
, but frankly I found it to be a little slow. Going forward, we are going to try the "ShareThis" bookmark manager. 
Linda Abraham
in Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, College Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Residency, Fellowship, LLM, EMBA, BBA Admissions, Wait List
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Accepted Admissions Almanac Adds Authors
As of today, the Accepted Admissions Almanac will start to present the posts of different Accepted editors. Paul Bodine's first post on the Accepted Admissions Almanac will appear later this morning to be followed by the posts of other Accepted editors in the future. They will all post regularly going forward. And for my fans don't worry, I will also continue to post. :-)
Linda Abraham
in Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, College Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Fellowship, LLM, EMBA, BBA Admissions
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New EMBA Admissions Email Course
Accepted's Cindy Tokumitsu has developed a 6-part, EMBA admissions email course. You can subscribe for free at "Ace the EMBA." The curriculum:
- The Expanded EMBA Profile.
- Sponsorship & the GMAT.
- Program Variety.
- Employment & Career Services.
- Qualifying Factors.
- Differentiating Yourself.
Linda Abraham
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Let's be friends...
Accepted has a Facebook page. I invite you to become an Accepted.com fan and/or join our first Accepted.com group, "Ask Accepted: MBA Admissions Experts." We plan to add other groups in the near future. In the meantime, please drop-by.
And all you Acceptees, clients and visitors to Accepted.com, please feel free to add me as a Facebook friend. Yes, this grandma has a Facebook page. That news was met with a certain amount of eye-rolling, shrugged shoulders, and we-can't-take-her-anywhere looks from my kids, who are mortified that their mother has a Facebook page. They'll get over it, and you and I can be Facebook friends.
Linda Abraham
in Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, College Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Fellowship, EMBA
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Admissions Consultants and Conflicts of Interest
Since last week the activities of three admissions directors have raised a storm of controversy in the admissions world. These directors serve or have served on an advisory board at a private admissions consultancy in Japan. The directors have positions at Wharton, UNC Kenan-Flagler, and Columbia Teacher's College. Wharton has since requested that the director resign both from the Japanese advisory board and from her own private undergraduate consulting business; she has done so.
Accepted fully endorses the position of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants, which it co-founded last year and where I am currently president. The AIGAC blog post, "Admissions Director & Consultant– Simultaneously?" details how this arrangement violates AIGAC's Principles of Good Practice ("PGP") in two respects:
- AIGAC's PGP requires members to “Maintain independence of thought and action.” Accepting payment both from the school and from applicants and/or an admissions consultancy representing applicants compromises that independence. An AIGAC member, like Accepted, would not be allowed to participate in such an arrangement.
- One article quotes the Wharton director as saying that to avoid any conflict she arranged to receive from the consultancy a list of applicants to her school and intended to recuse herself from consideration of these applications. While her motives are commendable, the consultancy's release of client names would also violate AIGAC’s PGP. AIGAC members agree to “Maintain client confidentiality”; providing a list of client names (presumably without clients’ permission) to an associate director of admissions at the school to which the clients are applying once again is in violation of the PGP.
Several of the articles indicated that both IECA (an undergraduate admissions consultants' organization) and GMAC (the association of leading business schools) are scrambling to establish standards for their members and employees. Adoption of and adherence to AIGAC's PGP would have prevented the controversy and the appearance of impropriety in this case. I suggest that IECA, GMAC and the graduate schools consider adopting them.
Now to Accepted's practice: As a member of AIGAC, Accepted, unlike the consultancy that hired the admissions directors and the directors themselves, is bound by the terms of AIGAC's PGP. We, however, view AIGAC's PGP as our starting point in avoiding conflicts of interest.
Business requires a constant weighing of clashing interests and values. Accepted strives to serve applicants exclusively and to put its customers and clients' interests first, even when doing so means forgoing income or turning away an admissions director interested in moonlighting for us. We have taken both steps to preserve our independence. We will continue to do so in the future.
Linda Abraham
Inside Higher Ed posted the following update this morning:
"AGOS Japan, a company that helps Japanese students get into top M.B.A. programs, may be losing American members of its advisory board. Some admissions experts have questioned the ethics of serving on such a board while also holding jobs in admissions at universities that would be admitting or rejecting AGOS clients. First an official of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — subsequently found to have her own college consulting business — quit. Now, the advisory board appears to be gone from the English language portion of the AGOS site. A spokesman for Teachers College of Columbia University said Wednesday that an Donald C. Martin, an associate dean there, had quit the board after learning that AGOS helped student in non-M.B.A. programs. A spokeswoman for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said that Sherry Wallace, director of M.B.A. admissions there, remained on the advisory board, but believed that AGOS planned to disband it."
Linda Abraham
in Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, College Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Columbia, Wharton, Admissions Consulting, EMBA, BBA Admissions, UNC Kenan Flagler
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