The college planning process can be stressful for both parents and their children. As a parent, you’re balancing your child’s goals and your family’s needs – while still handling all your other commitments. If it’s your first time navigating the college application system, it’s also easy to feel overwhelmed. Maybe you’re also feeling discouraged by…
The College Admission Scandal
Like most people, I am outraged by the college admissions scandal. As the parent of five adult children and as an admissions consultant for approximately 25 years, I view the alleged behavior of the parties accused in Operation Varsity Blues as shameful and repulsive. Although I have not played a role in writing this statement,…
The Interviewer Becomes the Interviewee [Episode 300]
Accepted Founder Linda Abraham Provides an Inside Look at the World of Admissions [Show Summary] For 299 episodes, Linda Abraham, founder of Accepted, has interviewed school deans, admissions directors, students, and more. Today we learn about her! The Interviewer Becomes the Interviewee [Show Notes] Linda Abraham: This is our 300th episode and since those round numbers…
How to Get the Most Out of Working With a Med School Admissions Consultant
You’re applying to med school and need to juggle numerous things at once to stay afloat – school and/or a job, volunteer activities, MCAT prep, and family obligations…and that’s before we even talk about the complicated and time-consuming medical school application process. How can a consultant help you, and how can you get the most…
How an Accepted Med School Admissions Consultant Can Help You
Is an admissions consultant for you? How will they help? And most importantly, is it WORTH it? Watch this short video to help you answer these questions for yourself. Medical school applicants face grueling competition and an unfamiliar, arduous journey to acceptance. Let me show you how we can ease the way. As a…
2007 Harvard B School Essay Questions and Deadlines
My comments are in red below. HBS Deadlines * Round 1 October 11, 2006 * Round 2 January 3, 2007 * Round 3 March 7, 2007 Essay Questions for the Class entering 2007 Essays should be single spaced. 1. What would you like the MBA Admissions Board to know about your undergraduate academic experience?…
5 Things the Adcoms Hate
When I was admissions Director there were some things applicants would do that were minor, but that I found to be very annoying. Here are my top 5 “hates” that I’m sure are shared by many adcoms: 1. Asking for information that can easily be found on the school’s website Some applicants would do that…
Choosing an MBA Admissions Consultant: What Should You Ask?
The new MBA admissions cycle is gearing up; 2012-2013 essay questions and applications are already appearing. If you, like many MBA applicants, plan to hire an MBA admissions consultant to assist you in delivering your best possible applications, you need to know what to ask to determine if the consultant you are talking to is…
Wharton Admissions Director Interview Available Online
We had an excellent Q&A last week with Ankur Kumar and Anthony Penna, admissions directors at Wharton. The excerpt below provides an insider look at how the adcom readers approach your goal essays – how you should bridge your past and present experiences to what you’d like to be doing in the future. Linda Abraham:…
Tips for Completing Your Yale University Application
This is part of a series of posts providing advice you can use when completing The Common Application for 2011. You can find the entire series, including tips for the Common App’s required essays and advice on completing the activities section at https://blog.accepted.com/acceptedcom_blog/tag/2011-common-application-tips. Yale offers both regular decision and single choice early action. Under single…
Tips for Completing Your Application to Princeton University
This is part of a series of posts providing advice you can use when completing The Common Application for 2011. You can find the entire series, including tips for the Common App’s required essays and advice on completing the activities section at https://blog.accepted.com/acceptedcom_blog/tag/2011-common-application-tips. To me, Princeton has one of the more interesting applications. Like Harvard, they eliminated early action/early decision,…
Tips for Completing Your Application to Columbia University
This post about the Columbia supplement to the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2012 Common Application supplement for Ivy League schools. When I visited Columbia University, it was clear to me that the undergraduate college takes distinct pride in two things: the 100-year-old Core Curriculum…
Tips for Completing your Cornell Supplement to the Common Application
This post about the Cornell supplement to the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2012 Common Application supplement for Ivy League schools. A friend of mine has a son who studying at Cornell. When I look at the Cornell supplement, it isn’t hard to picture…
Harvard HBS 2011 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
Update: The tips for the HBS 2012 MBA application are now available online. Please review the tips and post questions or comments to the new post. Check out the entire 2012 MBA Application Tips series for more valuable MBA application advice. This HBS 2011 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts…
HBS 2+2 Essay Questions and Tips
UPDATE: The Tips For Harvard Business School’s 2+2 2009 Application Are Now Online- Please post questions or comments on the new post. The Harvard 2+2 application is online and the submission deadline is July 1, 2008. Harvard’s instructions and question are in black below; my comments and tips are in red: First, compose…
NYU Stern 2012 MBA Application Questions, Tips, Deadlines.
The 2013 NYU Stern tips are now available. Click here to check them out! This NYU Stern 2012 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. Check out the entire 2012 MBA Application Tips series for more…
HBS 2+2 Essay Questions and Tips
Summer Round: July 6, 2011
Round 1: October 2011
Round 2: January 2012
Round 3: March 2012
Admissions Consulting: What about Accepted?
Some of you are already working with an Accepted admissions consultant and benefiting from the experience and insight your adviser brings to the admissions process. Many more of you are considering hiring an admissions consultant or may consider it as you ponder options and dive deep into completing applications and drafting essays, personal statements, and…
Fun Facts about this Year’s B-School Applicants
Poets & Quants provided a lengthy summary and analysis of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC)’s recent survey on b-school applicants’ opinions and experiences of the MBA admissions process. Here we’ll provide some highlights from the survey, and then I’ll provide a few additional thoughts. • Applicants ranked Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua,…
Why Use an MBA Admissions Consultant?
There are endless and frequent discussions on forums and message boards questioning the value of admissions consulting. One of the more common arguments against using a consultant runs something like this: “I know so many MBA students at top schools who got in without an admissions consultant. It just is not necessary to use one.”…
