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November 12, 2018

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Admissions Tip: Thanksgiving Appreciation

I could write now about the aspects of my life I am thankful for: my husband, five healthy children, two delightful, adorable grandchildren, my daughter’s recent engagement, a thriving business, work that I enjoy, and good health. I have done so in the past as I wished you a Happy Thanksgiving, a US holiday that… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, leadership, personal statement

April 19, 2018

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Athletic Appeal in Admissions

Athletic Appeal

Long before Gabby Douglas flew through her floor exercise and Michael Phelps dominated the pool, admissions directors have been impressed by athletes. From stories about the perfect basket, goal, spike or serve, athletes have wonderful stories that display their endurance, strength, leadership and team skills. Fascinated by the applicant who used his marathon run as… 

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Article by Natalie Grinblatt / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay

October 20, 2015

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Where’s the Poetry? The Secret Ingredient in Your Graduate Application Essays

Poetry in Application Essays

Strategy will necessarily guide your selection of essay topics, anecdotes/examples, and structure.  Yet an essay built on calculation alone, even if the strategy is spot on, will often disappoint.  Logically it all makes sense.  But it doesn’t take flight. Poetry can be the secret ingredient to make your application essay sing – right into the… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / Admissions Consulting, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, MBA essay, writing techniques

May 11, 2015

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MBA Admissions A-Z: E is for Essay

Next up in our MBA Admissions A-Z series is E for Essay, a topic on which we could very easily write an entire book. (Hey – we DID write an entire book. Scroll down for details.) Here we are going to focus on 4 critical MBA admission essay mistakes. Make sure that your essays DON’T… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / application essay, MBA Admissions A-Z, MBA essay

August 26, 2014

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / College Admissions / 2011 Common Application, Admissions Consulting, application essay, personal statement

August 25, 2014

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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,… 

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Article by Accepted / College Admissions / 2011 Common Application, Admissions Consulting, application essay

August 20, 2014

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Epidemic Among Applicants!

Your personal statements, application essays, and statements of purpose are suffering. It’s serious. And could be fatal to your application. This latest epidemic of vacuous, declarative sentences that either state the obvious or make non-credible claims has reached epic proportions in applicant essays, personal statements, and statements of purpose. The cure? Substance and specifics. Stories… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, College Video Tips, Grad Video Tips, Law Video Tips, MBA Video Tips, Med Video Tips, personal statement, statement of purpose, writing techniques

August 19, 2014

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Personal Statement Tip: Setting Scenes

To write a compelling personal statement or application essay, you need to draw readers into your experience without much set-up. You have to get to the heart of the matter quickly and at the same time make the reader care to read on. Visualizing a particular moment from a situation that disappointed or thrilled you… 

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Article by Accepted / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, personal statement

January 6, 2014

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How to Edit Your Application Essays

In an exclusive interview with… well, herself, Linda Abraham shares some advice that she’s learned over the course of almost two decades of application essay editing. Listen to the full recording of this excellent episode to learn concrete steps you can take right now to ensure that your essays are working for –and not against… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, personal statement, podcast, writing techniques

January 3, 2013

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MBA Admissions A-Z: E is for Essay

E is for Essay

Next up in our MBA Admissions A-Z series is E for Essay, a topic on which we could very easily write an entire book. (Hey – we DID write an entire book. Scroll down for details.) Here we are going to focus on 4 critical MBA admission essay mistakes. Make sure that your essays DON’T… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / application essay, MBA Admissions A-Z, MBA essay

January 3, 2013

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MBA Admissions A-Z: J is for Jigsaw Puzzle

J is for Jigsaw

Let’s take a look at all the elements that go into creating an MBA application: There’s your GPA, your transcripts, your GMAT, a resume, your letters of recommendation, all those boxes and forms on the actual application page, and finally, your MBA application essays. Creating Your Unique Puzzle One way we like to view all… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / application essay, MBA Admissions A-Z, MBA essay

January 3, 2013

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MBA Admissions A-Z: D is for Distinctive Writing

D is for Distinctive Writing

We’ve touched upon ways in which to highlight your uniqueness in “Be Yourself” (B in our MBA Admissions A-Z series). There we talked about the importance of expressing what you’re truly passionate about rather than simply enumerating those things that you think the adcom want to hear. Writing about your passions, as well as your… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / application essay, MBA Admissions A-Z, MBA essay, writing techniques

August 21, 2012

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Save $100 On B-School Editing & Consulting Services – LIMITED TIME OFFER!

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B-School Applicants: Get your $100 off coupon here! Through August 31, 2012, you can save $100 on all non-rush MBA editing and consulting services (minimum order $1000) with coupon code MBA100! How’s that for some motivation to jumpstart those applications? Some services that may be of interest to you include: MBA Essay Editing Application Packages… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / application essay

August 7, 2012

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“I’m Smart, Really I Am!” How to Prove Character Traits in Essays

When you write an application essay or statement of purpose, you’re trying to accomplish several goals at once: You are trying to prove your worthiness to be accepted to your target school, while also trying to impress upon the adcom that you have desirable character traits that your program values. But how do you prove… 

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Article by Judy Gruen / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, GMAT

December 26, 2011

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Essay Tip: The Editing Funnel

Most of you now are — or soon will be — editing your critical application essays and personal statements. When Accepted.com editors review and edit your essays they go through a process I call the editing funnel. If you choose to be your own editor, you should follow a similar process. At the top of… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, personal statement, writing techniques

October 31, 2011

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3 Treats that Will do the Trick in Your Personal Statement or Application Essay

In my meanderings on the web, I stumbled across a short video on screen writing. The presenters are two Emmy-winning screen writers, and they know a thing or two about telling a good story. They boil the story-telling stew down to three words — actually 2 do’s and 1 don’t: The do’s: Therefore But The… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, law school personal statement, MBA essay, statement of purpose

April 30, 2010

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News Flash!! Essays That Stick This Wednesday

Since last week’s presentation of “Essays that Stick” for the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants did not have enough room for all who wanted to attend, I decided to offer this thought-provoking webinar again for those who missed the previous event for whatever reason and those who would like to participate again—and this time… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / application essay, personal statement, webinar

February 3, 2010

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Ivy League Schools Experience Application Increases

While top Ivy universities Columbia and Harvard saw a 4% and a 5% rise in applications (respectively) this past year, other universities in this category saw a higher than 15% jump in the number of applicants applying to their undergraduate programs. University of Pennsylvania experienced a 17% increase, Brown came in at 20%, and Princeton… 

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Article by Accepted / College Admissions / application essay, Financial Aid, Ivy League

July 14, 2009

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Darden 2010 MBA Essay Questions, Deadlines

UPDATE: The tips for the 2011 UVA Darden MBA Application are now available online. Please post questions or comments to the new post. 2009-2010 MBA Application Essay Questions 1.How have the changes in the global economy over the last 18 months affected you and your plan for the future? (400 words) 2.What will you contribute… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / application essay, UVA Darden

July 6, 2009

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How to Write Bold & Brilliant MBA Essays

More and more schools are releasing their 2010 essay questions. The round one deadlines are moving earlier. And you need to start writing those essays. But how? Find out during our next free webinar “The Roadmap to Bold and Brilliant Essays” on Tuesday July 14 at 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST / 5:00… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / application essay, webinar, writing techniques

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