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What You Need to Know to Get Accepted to Wharton

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Applying to Wharton? You are invited to attend our upcoming webinar! On August 10th, Accepted CEO and b-school admissions expert, Linda Abraham, will share the secret to creating a standout application including: The 4 ingredients of a successful Wharton application Insights into what the adcom is looking for How to ace Wharton’s TBD/interview Spaces are limited! Reserve your spot for Get Accepted …

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5 Practical Lessons I Learned at HBS that Helped Me Launch My Startup

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Harvard Business School is often seen as a “finance” school, or a “consulting” school, or a “general management” school—and usually isn’t the first MBA program you’d think of when it comes to entrepreneurship. My experience, though, was that HBS had a great entrepreneurial curriculum—and despite the fact that I’d founded two businesses prior to the …

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Don’t Stress. Be Gracious. Be Honest: An Accepted Med Applicant Speaks

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This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with medical school applicants and students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top medical schools and the med school application process. And now, introducing Whitley P. McIntosh… Accepted: Tell us a bit about yourself! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an …

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Applying to Med School: How to Juggle Secondaries

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First and foremost, congratulations on having pummeled through the past few years as a premed, beasting the MCAT, shadowing in hospitals, doing research, volunteering about a bagillion hours, and successfully submitting your primary application through AMCAS. You’ve come a long way, and I imagine you are anxiously awaiting that ominous “secondary application.” “Wait, I already applied to medical school and told …

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FT Top Masters in Finance Programs in 2016

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Financial Times just came out with their rankings of Masters in Finance programs around the world. Below are some highlights, followed by the top 10 rankings. Masters in Finance 2016 Highlights: • This year there were 55 programs included in the FT rankings for Finance programs for pre-experience professionals, up from 50 programs last year. …

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Focus on Fit [Episode 162]

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In today’s episode, Accepted’s founder and director, Linda Abraham, shares the 4 not-so-easy steps of showing fit in your application. While they are not simple to do, these steps are necessary if you want to get accepted to a program where the acceptance rate is less than 100%.  STEP 1: Understand the school’s mission and criteria for …

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The Importance of Teamwork

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According to the GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey 2016, teamwork is one of the three most important factors that companies look for in new MBA hires. Not surprisingly, this is also a key factor that admissions committees of business schools across the board seek in their applicants. Knowing how to work in a group setting is …

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Persian Premed Pursuing her Med School Dreams

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This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with medical school applicants and students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top medical schools and the med school application process. And now, introducing Heather Hossaini… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what are you studying as an undergraduate? …

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