Linda Darragh has been appointed executive director of the Levy Institute for Entrepreneurial Practice and the Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Darragh had worked at Kellogg, as part of its entrepreneurship team, from 1999 to 2005. She then worked at the University of …
The solution to many Text Completions lies in the following approach: identify the keywords, come up with your own word for the blank(s), and match with the answer choice. Yet this strategy won’t always be successful. Sometimes we need to work backwards from the answer choices to see if we can create a sentence with …
Here’s a talk with Jordan Williams, a student at the Wisconsin School of Business and a member of The Consortium with a passion for graffiti art, travel, and, of course, business education. Thank you Jordan for sharing your thoughts with us! This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with current …
Should you reapply to business school? Which programs should you apply to? And when? The following tips will help you answer these questions to determine if MBA reapplication is the right decision for you. Analyze your profile. Were you really qualified for the programs that you applied to? Were your test scores really high enough? …
The business world is evolving, and in response, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon has announced various changes to its MBA curriculum. These reforms reflect the increasing importance of integrated reasoning as evidenced by the new “integrated reasoning” section on the GMAT, as well as the earlier and earlier recruiting schedule for first-year …
In this short video, Linda Abraham explores the two kinds of optional essays, who should write them, and what should go into them. Don’t miss the crucial warning at the end. [xyz-ihs snippet=”SR–Example-to-Exemplary”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Accepted-Sig-Code-GENERIC”] Related Resources: • 5 Fatal Flaws to Avoid in Your Application Essays, a free guide • How to Edit Your …
The Top 15 Things Every Law School Applicant Should Know is a series that will teach you the ins and outs of successful law school applications. Stay tuned for the remaining elements. This week we’ll discuss choosing a topic for your personal statement. In my 15 years working in graduate and undergraduate admissions, I have …
U.S. News provides two overall rankings of medical school: research and primary care. Here are the ten best in each category. 2013 Rank Best Medical Schools: Research 2012 Rank 1 Harvard 1 2 Johns Hopkins 3 3 University of Pennsylvania 2 4 Stanford 5 5 UC San Francisco 5 6 Washington University (St. Louis) 4 …
This blog post is courtesy of our friends at Magoosh. Be sure to check out Magoosh for help when preparing for the GRE. All too often the advice on GRE time management is heaped with bromides: slow down, take a deep breath, and don’t lose focus. While not without their merits, such pearls of wisdom …
As a parent, you might have thought your college application work was done, once you had overseen the last “submit” of the Common Application. And so it seemed — until you, or one of your friends, receive a letter inviting you to add a parent’s recommendation to your child’s college admission file. The parent recommendation, …
Thank you to Peter von Loesecke, CEO and Managing Director of The MBA Tour for answering some of our most pressing questions about The MBA Tour’s popular MBA fairs. Upcoming MBA Tour events include fairs in Washington, D.C. on February 2nd, in New York City on February 4th, and in San Francisco on February 6th. …
This blog post is courtesy of our friends at Magoosh. Be sure to check out Magoosh for help when preparing for the GMAT. This June the GMAT will introduce an entirely new section to the GMAT. The new section, called Integrated Reasoning, will replace the Issue Essay. Below are several common questions regarding the Integrated …
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