by Mary Mahoney
Your personal statement is an essential element of your application and allows the adcom great insight into who you really are aside from your stats. However, no matter how extensive your experience or how accomplished you might be, all that can be lost in prose that does not do a good job of profiling who …
Rejection hurts, especially if it’s from a school that you really had hoped to attend. Competition is always tough at good schools, and space is limited. Not everyone who is qualified can get in. You can still achieve your dreams by taking this threefold approach: (1) Reassess your qualifications, and based on that, revise your …
If you have ever engaged in disorderly conduct or petty theft, gotten a DUI, been arrested during a political protest, or garnered any other kind of infraction (minor or major) on your record, we hope that you have learned important lessons from the experience and won’t repeat it. But if you are applying to a …
Most law school applicants would do just about anything to score above a 170 on the LSAT. Given how important the LSAT is to getting into law school, it would seem that getting a high score would guarantee your acceptance to at least a few of the top-ranked schools. This is generally true, except for …
Let’s be honest: the LSAT can be nerve-racking. Whether you are studying for the exam, taking it, or wondering how you did, it’s not unusual to be stressed—and this level of stress leads many test takers to cancel their scores. The LSAT has offered the option to cancel scores for a while. And now that …
You’ve spent months in an MCAT review course, taken practice test after practice test, and finally sat for the exam. Your results are in. Are they good enough to get you into your target medical school? Let’s take a look at what your scores mean. MCAT scores and your grades are weighted differently. The primary …
The top MBA programs don’t want workaholic nerds. The schools already know that you work 40 or 50 hours a week crunching numbers at a desk or designing marketing plans for product launches. But if that’s really all they know about you, your MBA application can appear flat. When they also learn that you ran a …
[powerpress] Everyone has challenges when applying to top law schools. But combine non-traditional work experience, a low stat or two, and a growing family, and this applicant faced significantly more than the usual hurdles. He overcame them all and got into his top choice program. Let’s find out how he did it, and how he’s …
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[powerpress] Reflecting on trends that impacted graduate admissions in 2022, Linda Abraham shares her predictions for 2023 and offers an action plan for those planning to apply in the new year. [Show Summary] Thanks for joining me for today’s solo show. I’m going to review a few trends from 2022 and also attempt to inspire you …
Duke Fuqua’s Assistant Dean of Admissions, Allison Jamison, announced on Tuesday that the school is adding an additional admissions round to the 2022-2023 Full-Time MBA and Accelerated MBA application cycle. The program’s Round 3 deadline is now February 13, 2023, and the final round, which is now Round 4, has a deadline of March 28, …
Over the last month, you might have seen that Harvard Law and Yale Law announced they would stop contributing data to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Schools rankings list. Soon after, several other top law schools announced they would do the same. These actions have created a lot of drama, but it is important …
[powerpress] We are swamped now with clients facing early January deadlines so I decided to begin 2023 with one of our most popular shows of 2022, my interview with Accepted’s own Dr. Herman Gordon AKA “Flash” in this in-depth look at MD/PhD admissions, with lots of good advice for MD applicants or Ph.D. applicants too. …
In this 30-minute session, one of our admissions consultants will review your profile, assess your chances of acceptance at your target programs, and tell you exactly where you stand.
