The Wall St. Journal has a great article today on (some) parents’ changing view of their role as children start to leave the nest: Follow the baby birds. See “Tucking the Kids In — In the Dorm: Colleges Ward Off Overinvolved Parents.”
Judith Koffler Joins Accepted.com
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Judith Koffler is joining the Accepted.com staff. She is a gifted writer and delightful individual with outstanding credentials. Here are a few highlights from her lengthy CV: LLM from Harvard. Fulbright Scholar who recently returned from teaching at Wuhan University in China Extensive experience teaching law at…
Michigan Medical Admissions Chat Transcript
The transcript from Accepted.com’s recent chat with Michigan Medical’s Dr. Daniel Remick, Dean of Admissions at Michigan Medical School and Robert Ruiz, Director of Admissions at Michigan Medical School, is now online. The chat was exciting and informative. If you missed the event, then take advantage of the transcript.
Help for 1L’s To Be
I just spoke to Dr. Michael Santana, who recently launched an online legal writing course to prepare newbie 1L’s for the demands of law school. His 5-day course, Legal Writing Prep, claims to “prepare students entering law school to excel at legal writing.” Dr. Santana believes that his course gives attendees roughly a one-month advantage…
MBA Relevance and Value
Fascinating exchanges on the value and relevance of the MBA on HBS’ Working Knowledgee, all stemming from the Bennis and O’Toole HBR article discussed earlier. The original article by Professor James Heskett: “How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?” Readers Respond Summing Up The continuing discussion of MBA value and relevance prompted me to…
Secondary Applications for Medical School
They are out! And the Student Doctor Network — a fantastic resource BTW — has collected the secondary essay questions for many medical schools in this thread. Rely on the wording you receive from the schools to be on the safe side, but for an advance peak, check out this thread.
D-School in B-School
If your post-MBA goal is product management, Jennifer Merritt’s article in Businessweek, “Tomorrow’s B-school? It Might be a D-School,” is a must-read. It could help you choose the schools you will apply to, or it could give you content that you will use when writing “Why this school.” Schools mentioned: Stanford MIT Wharton Berkeley Georgetown…
MCAT goes Computer Based in 2007
AAMC announced last week that by 2007 the MCAT will be an entirely computer-based exam. The announcement promised, “The upgrade to computer-based format will provide examinees and medical schools with more test dates each year, faster score results, a more controlled testing environment, and a shorter test day. As the exam is converted to the…
LBS Visit
Mave has posted an informative report on his recent visit to LBS. I strongly encourage you to visit the schools you are targeting. If that’s not feasible, take advantage of reports like this one, contact current students and recent alumni, and attend school information sessions and receptions. It goes without saying that you should thoroughly…
MBA Admission: The Great Round 1/Round 2 Fight
“On my right, now entering the ring is Round 1. A perennial favorite with those who have stratospheric GMATs, patents, Noble Prizes, and the like. And on my left, waving to the crowd is Round 2. He is favored by those with more average, but still respectable scores, grades, and experience.” So goes the fight…
Real Estate Calls to MBAs
“At B-School, Real Estate is the New Dot-Com” CollegeJournal’s Ron Alsop discusses the surge in interest in real estate at the nation’s top business schools…
“These are really good essays!”
As a result of my being quoted in that front-page Wall St. Journal article yesterday, (OK. OK. I’m milking it.) I received a call from a client I worked with in 1996-97. We haven’t spoken in several years, and it was great hearing from him. We worked closely on his application, and he was accepted…
Sample article 234
This is a sample article for the mba category.
