Generic-itis Prevention [Warning: If Untreated, Can Cause Rejection]
Each year, Accepted consultants are witnessing a recurring epidemic. And it’s worse than you can imagine: Generic-itis. What generic-itis looks…
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Two Grad School Applicants Walk Into a Bar…
This might be a great opening line for a comedy night at a university student center, but can you use…
Review Your Essays Like an Admissions Consultant and Use the Editing Funnel
Most of you are now — or will be soon — editing your critical application essays and personal statements. When…
How to Stay Within Essay Word Limits by Reducing Verbal Verbosity
Most applicants – whether applying to med school, law school, business school, or any other grad school or college program…
5 Tips for Your Law School Personal Statement
Writing a law school personal statement can be daunting task. Below are five tips to help you craft a unique…
Your Law School Personal Statement Needs to Be Personal!
When writing your personal statement for law school, it’s a good idea to include a few school-specific sentences about why…
How to Add Detail to Your Social Enterprise/Community Service Goals
Whether you’re applying for an MBA, a PhD in Public Policy (or many other doctoral fields), or a Masters in…
6 Tips for Talking About Your Weaknesses
How do you react when you read/hear the weakness question? With this question, schools are assessing how well you self…
Your 5-Item Checklist for Submitting Your Applications
Whether you’re applying to b-school, law school, med school, grad school, or college, this checklist will be the same. Don’t…
Application Essay Tip: The Devil is in the Details
You can argue about the devil, but certainly the substance, distinctiveness, and success of your essays depends on the details.…
Personal Statement Tip: Less is More
Most of us have heard the saying “less is more,” but how many of us put it into practice when…
5 Tips to Write a Law School Personal Statement that Gets You In
While there’s no getting around the fact that LSAT scores and GPA matter a great deal in law school admissions,…
5 Law School Personal Statement Mistakes to Avoid
You have your rough draft and you’re ready to start editing. What should you watch out for? What are some…
How I Wrote a Personal Statement That Got Me into Harvard Law School
When I was applying to law school, the advisor at my college told me to intern for a lawyer. Sound…
Ten Do’s and Don’ts for Your Application Essay
The Application Essay Do's: Unite your essay and give it direction with a theme or thesis. The thesis is the…
What Should I Write About? Making a Difference
In my non-admissions life, I once went to a lecture given by a biographer whose work I admire. In the…
How to Demonstrate Leadership When You Don’t Have Leadership Experience [Short Video]
Most admissions committees are looking for applicants who can demonstrate leadership. If you don't have any formal leadership positions to…
Where’s the Poetry? The Secret Ingredient in Your Graduate Application Essays
Strategy will necessarily guide your selection of essay topics, anecdotes/examples, and structure. Yet an essay built on calculation alone, even…
Stand Out! A Critical Goal for Your Application [Episode 181]
I covered the importance of showing fit in Episode 162 "Focus on Fit," the second most popular show of 2016…
Encore: Your Past Doesn’t Define You [Episode 228]
This week we are airing an encore of one of the most populars shows of 2017. Many applicants focus on…