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December 3, 2018

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Personal Branding in Admissions

The term “personal brand” is bandied about a lot in admissions. I don’t claim to be an expert on branding, but after fifteen years editing essays and advising applicants, I know a bit about admissions. I see the concept of “personal brand” as a threat and opportunity for applicants. Want to know more?  See this… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / College Video Tips, Grad Video Tips, Law Video Tips, MBA Video Tips, Med Video Tips

November 12, 2018

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Admissions Tip: Thanksgiving Appreciation

I could write now about the aspects of my life I am thankful for: my husband, five healthy children, two delightful, adorable grandchildren, my daughter’s recent engagement, a thriving business, work that I enjoy, and good health. I have done so in the past as I wished you a Happy Thanksgiving, a US holiday that… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / BBA Admissions, College Admissions, EMBA, Fellowship, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / application essay, leadership, personal statement

May 10, 2018

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Personal Statement Tip: Story Time (Part 1)

The moment I found the lump, I suspected my life was about to change—in a big way. Good enough for an opening line? Want to read more? I hope it’s yes on both counts. Because I’m going to tell you a story. A short one. A true one. Not so much for the sake of… 

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Article by Accepted / BBA Admissions, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency

April 19, 2018

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Weakness, What Weakness?

I saw it.  The question was looming in an essay and hiding behind a corner in the brain and/or instruction sheet of my interviewer. “So Natalie, tell me about your weaknesses and what you did to overcome them”? Gosh, there are so many, I don’t even know where to begin.  Ding! What do you do… 

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Article by Natalie Grinblatt / College Admissions, Cornell Johnson, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, MBA Interview, Medical School Admissions, Michigan Ross, Residency

August 26, 2014

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Personal Statement Tip: Pick Yourself Up and Applaud

Essay questions dealing with failure,  risk, mistakes, and difficult interactions or conflict cause applicants to cringe, squirm, and bite their nails. After all, you want to show yourself succeeding and conquering the world in your application essays and personal statements.  Not falling down. Schools ask these questions because they want to see how you get… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, MBA Interview, Medical School Admissions, Residency

August 20, 2014

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Application Boxes Should Do the Heavy Lifting

For one of Accepted’s first forays into video, I decided to focus on application boxes, the mundane, pedestrian elements of an application that frequently are not given appropriate attention.  Please watch the video to see how you make the ordinary into extraordinary, value-added elements of your application. Since this is our first attempt at providing… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / BBA Admissions, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / College Video Tips, Grad Video Tips, Law Video Tips, MBA Video Tips, Med Video Tips

September 10, 2013

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The Importance of Obstacles

When my clients write about their accomplishments, whether in personal statements for graduate school or b-school essays that ask for greatest accomplishments, challenges, and the like, they almost always come up with real accomplishments: driving innovations that led to revenue boosts for their firms, conducting original and meaningful research in their fields of study, or… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / EMBA, Fellowship, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency

December 2, 2012

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Personal Statement Tip: Cliches of the Year

I haven’t decided whether to have an annual Clichés of the Year post, but I have decided to have one this year. Either I am getting old and crotchety since becoming a grandmother for the second time, (Actually I’m thrilled. She’s gorgeous, 3 weeks old tomorrow, and this was simply the first time I figured… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Fellowship, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / personal statement

August 7, 2012

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“I’m Smart, Really I Am!” How to Prove Character Traits in Essays

When you write an application essay or statement of purpose, you’re trying to accomplish several goals at once: You are trying to prove your worthiness to be accepted to your target school, while also trying to impress upon the adcom that you have desirable character traits that your program values. But how do you prove… 

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Article by Judy Gruen / College Admissions, EMBA, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / application essay, GMAT

December 26, 2011

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Essay Tip: The Editing Funnel

Most of you now are — or soon will be — editing your critical application essays and personal statements. When Accepted.com editors review and edit your essays they go through a process I call the editing funnel. If you choose to be your own editor, you should follow a similar process. At the top of… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Admissions, BBA Admissions, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / application essay, personal statement, writing techniques

July 22, 2010

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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… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Admissions Consulting, Medical School Admissions, Residency / AIGAC, Chicago Booth, Dartmouth Tuck, Fellowship, INSEAD, Michigan Ross, personal statement, residency, UCLA Anderson, UVA Darden, Wharton

November 2, 2009

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Healthcare-Related Career Options

The November 2009 issue of Money magazine ranks physician assistant and nurse practitioner among the 50 best jobs in America.  In fact, physician assistant ranks second and nurse practitioner fourth.  The study rated jobs on flexibility, benefit to society, satisfaction and stress, and PA and NP received identical scores in three of the four categories: … 

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July 20, 2009

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Happening @ Accepted.com

On Friday I promised a whole new Accepted.com,and it’s up! Please check it out. We know there a few items to clean up, but please let us know what you like and dislike. You can let us know in comments below or just by contacting us. We have also implemented a change that many of… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, EMBA, Fellowship, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / Fellowship, residency, twitter, webinar

May 19, 2009

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Personal Statement Tip: Less is More

Most of us have heard the saying “less is more,” but how many of us put it into practice when it counts? Your graduate-school essays are the perfect forum for reaping the benefits of this deceptively simple principle.   First, what does “less is more” really mean? It’s the idea that we must resist our… 

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Article by / BBA Admissions, College Admissions, EMBA, Fellowship, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / GMAT, leadership, personal statement

April 7, 2009

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A Writing Lesson from President Obama

Take a writing lesson from President Obama. Newly sworn in, he ended his inauguration speech with these paragraphs: So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying… 

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Article by / BBA Admissions, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency

March 10, 2009

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Surviving the Scramble

March 19th—Match Day—is just around the corner, and many residency hopefuls are biting their nails as the NRMP’s algorhythms work their magic. There’s not much else to do, after all the applications are submitted and interviews concluded and thank you notes written. Now it’s just a waiting game. The majority of applicants will hear “Congratulations,… 

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Article by Accepted / Residency / Admissions Consulting, Fellowship, personal statement, residency

May 19, 2008

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Write Killer Openings

On June 18th, 2006, I was pronounced dead for just over one minute. Want to read more? Good. That was the idea: to grab you from the start. Luckily, on June 18th, 2006, I wasn’t dead—to my knowledge. But if I had been, presumably as the result of some kind of horrible and quite possibly… 

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Article by / BBA Admissions, College Admissions, EMBA, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Residency / career goals, goals essay

February 20, 2008

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Personal Statement Tip: Once Upon a Time…

Once upon a time there was a wedding (actually yesterday). The father of the bride wanted to give a speech. His wife (me) worried that he would bore the guests. Mildly insulted and not wanting to forgo an opportunity to praise the bride, his new son-in-law, his son-in-law’s parents, and to share a few words… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / BBA Admissions, College Admissions, Fellowship, Grad School Admissions, Harvard HBS, Law School Admissions, LLM, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Michigan Ross, Residency / leadership, personal statement

February 15, 2008

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What is an Accomplishment?

Accomplishments constitute the bread and butter of personal statements and application essays. Nothing too exciting in that statement. However, a fascinating brainstorming session on Accepted’s Editor Mailing List reveals that applicants don’t always know what an accomplishment is. What goes into this application staple? The bread: Impact.  Your accomplishment must show you as a contributor… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, MBA Interview, Medical School Admissions, Residency / leadership

May 10, 2007

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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… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Admissions Consulting, Babson, Chicago, CMU Tepper, Columbia, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Dental School, Duke Fuqua, EMBA, Fellowship, Grad School Admissions, Harvard HBS, Harvard Law HLS, IMD, INSEAD, Law School Admissions, LLM, London Business School, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Residency, Stanford GSB, Stanford Law, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UCLA Law, UNC Kenan Flagler, USC Marshall, UVA Darden, UVA Law, Wharton, Yale Law YLS, Yale SOM / Admissions Consulting, AIGAC, GMAC

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