One of most important pieces of advice I can give you regarding your personal statements and application essays is this: Show, don’t tell. Here are three tips to help you achieve this must-have writing goal: Show the steps you’ve taken. If you are writing about a goal you achieved or a project you completed, providing…
How to Receive a Top Education…From Home!
Many top-ranked universities are now offering online courses for free to the general public, reports a recent New York Times article, “Universities Reshaping Education on the Web” and a U.S. News article, “More Universities Join Free Online Education Provider.” Coursera, a company that provides online courses from top universities, is bulking up its list of…
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Looking for ways to improve your application? How about turning to the pros for 98 winning tips on how to create a dynamite application? That’s what you’ll get when you purchase both of this month’s featured ebooks, Submit a Stellar Application: 42 Terrific Tips to Help You Get Accepted and Submit a Stellar Application II:…
Race to 1,000 Finish Line – “Like” Us Now and Save!
We reached our goal of 1,000 Facebook fans in record time! In appreciation of your efforts, we already sent an update to all our fans with a discount of 50% off their first hour of admissions consulting/editing . Didn’t “Like” us before the buzzer? We’ll be sending out 1 more update with the coupon code,…
Plagiarism in Residency Essays: Just Don’t
The WSJ’s Health Blog recently posted “Study: Medical Residency Applicants and Plagiarism” which cites a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine by a team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The researchers found “evidence of plagiarism” in 5.2% of residency application personal statements by comparing the essays to publicly available material…
How to Choose the Right LSAT Prep Course for You
Law School applicants: Trying to decide on an LSAT prep company and need some guidance? Accepted.com has interviewed representatives from the leading LSAT prep courses in the country and are now presenting you with “LSAT Prep Companies: In Their Own Words,” so you can discern the differences among them and select the best course for…
QS World MBA Tour: Exclusive Tips from Top MBA
The QS World MBA Tour is coming to a city near you starting today September 9 in Santiago and Taipei. It continues with events throughout North American, Europe, the Middle East, India, Asia, and Latin America. In addition to the traditional MBA fair and booths, The World MBA Tour offers Connect 1-2-1, a program where…
Accepted Welcomes Natalie Grinblatt
It is with great pleasure that I welcome Natalie Grinblatt to Accepted’s staff. Natalie previously served as: Assistant Dean at Arizona State University’s W P Carey School of Management. Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Cornell’s Johnson School Director of MBA Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at the University of Michigan (where she also…
Law School Admissions: Yale Law Admissions Blog
I am a fan of Yale Law’s admissions blog, 203. An Admissions Blog, but I have to take issue with a recent post, New Questions, specifically the author’s response to the question, “Is it still okay to have an admissions consultant give me guidance on my application?” The author, Asha, states clearly that applicants who…
Kelley School of Business
I recently attended the MBA Experience Event at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Management. The school-sponsored visit introduced several of us admissions counselors to faculty and students, and gave us the opportunity to attend a class and talk with those in career services and admissions. Kelley is located in Bloomington, Indiana, about an hour south…
Admissions Tip: Banish Common Boring Openings
What are the most boring, non-starters for your application essay, personal statement, or statement of purpose? The openings that use wording from the question, or in the case of general questions, are so common that they will have a narcotic effect on any admissions reader wading through mounds of files. This morning Accepted’s editors discussed…
BW Interview with Stanford’s Derrick Bolton
BW has published an informative and lengthy interview with Stanford’s Director of Admissions Derrick Bolton. If you are a Stanford applicant either preparing for a R1 interview or drafting and editing your R2 essays, this really is a must-read. At the same time, while I strongly recommend this interview to Stanford applicants and find much…
MBA Admissions Chat News: Columbia, Kellogg
I just want to update you about an exciting chat this week and a couple of MBA admissions chat transcripts that are now available. Linda Meehan, Columbia Business School’s Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, and Lauren Sickle, CBS MBA ’08, will be our special guests at a chat this Wednesday Sept. 26 at…
Chat Transcript with HBS MBA Admissions Director
Businessweek Online has posted the transcript of its highly informative chat with Deidre Leopold, HBS’ executive director of MBA admissions and financial aid. A few highlights: HBS is changing its essay approach this year. Applicants will respond to two required core essay questions and a choice of three among six other essay topics. This should…
Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants
Two years ago I attended Tuck’s first Conference of International Educational Advisors. I went with the purpose of learning more about Tuck. And I did learn a lot about Tuck, as expected, but I discovered that I enjoyed meeting my competition and professional colleagues much more than I anticipated. The networking was great! I have…
Themes in Admissions: Good or Bad?
Are themes good or bad? That depends on whether you are talking about a theme for your application or for your essay. For the former, bad. For the latter, good. If you are applying to a top program, you don’t want your application to have a nice, neat theme that simply labels or tags you:…
Common Sense Isn’t So Common in Admissions
MBAAnonymous questions in "Admissions consultants?" why applicants use or think they need admissions consultants. After briefly providing her background, she adds, I’m just an applicant. I have however worked as a writing consultant where I edited, among other things, MBA applicants’ essays to places like HBS, Stanford GSB, and LBS. Looking back on that experience…
Who Needs Harvard?
Time Magazine argues, "No one," or at least not most of those high school students (and their parents) dying to get it. Time‘s "Who Needs Harvard" should provoke thought and investigation among the thousands clamoring for Ivy League or "brand" in admissions. Unlike most media articles, it focuses not on the small percentage of hyper-competitive…
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