It’s that time of year. MBA interview invitations are going out. I just want to highlight my favorite free MBA interview resources for you: MBA Interview Feedback Database Review feedback from your interviewing school. Know what to expect. Then pay it forward by sharing your interview experience. MBA Interview Prep: How to Ace Your Interviews…
MBA Essay Questions: The Jokers
What should you do if you have to answer a question with no question? No guidelines? No direction?It’s wide open. You have wildcard. A joker. Watch this video to learn how best to play that colorful card. Have more questions about writing great MBA essays? Review MBA Essay 101!
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…
MBA Admissions: Thoughts on Chicago 2
I find Chicago 2, a new question this year, to be a thought provoking one. It asks: “At Chicago Booth, we believe each individual has his or her own leadership style. How has your family, culture, and/or environment influenced you as a leader?” In a recent Eye on Admissions video, which I have also…
MBA Admissions: Research the B-Schools
Get your goals. Study the schools. Evaluate your qualifications. Check off the items on this list, and you will be ready to choose your target programs and begin work on those applications. Skip any of these steps, and your MBA applications will be weaker. This video, Explore MBA Programs from Accepted’s Eye on Admissions…
Hone Your MBA Admissions Goals!
“Begin with the end in mind” intones Stephen Covey, management guru. Indeed a solid MBA goal should drive many of the decisions surrounding your MBA application and education. Watch this video, Hone Your MBA Admissions Goals from Accepted’s Eye on Admissions series, to explore the essential components of a compelling MBA goal and acquire…
Reminder for Your Resume
Some of you are gung ho, chomping at the bit. You’re raring to start your MBA applications for 2012.You have your GMAT, know what schools you are targeting. You’re good to go. BUT, most 2012 MBA applications are not out yet. What can you do now? Work on your MBA resume, frequently the first…
4 To-Do’s for Accepted Grad School Applicants
Should you kick back on a beach? Or go for a latte with a colleague? Find out why both may be in order in this video from Eye on Admissions where Linda Abraham outlines four action items that should be on the to-do lists of all accepted graduate school applicants matriculating this fall?.
MBA Admissions Interviews: Behavioral AND Qualitative Questions
Even though behavioral questions have been used for the last several years, since “WhartonLeaks” broke in November and Wharton promptly moved away from exclusive use of the leaked questions, applicants have wondered if they should prepare for behavioral questions or the more general, qualitative questions that had been the backbone of MBA admissions interviews for…
Two Steps to Showing Commitment in Your Executive MBA Application
An essential element of your executive MBA application (and most other school-specific applications) is demonstrating commitment to the program. For EMBA programs, commitment requires the ability to meet the demands of the EMBA along with your other responsibilities. Completing these two steps in your application enables you to demonstrate that commitment: Show knowledge of the…
Strengths and Weakness Essays: Turning Lemons into Lemonade
At least three MBA programs, including INSEAD — the focus of this video — and several medical secondary applications ask about strengths and weaknesses. The weakness part of the question bedevils applicants. Everyone squirms when they have to write about their flaws, especially when striving to present their qualifications and strengths. In this video, I…
Writing a Winning Harvard 1
Some of you may think I am obsessed with videos about Harvard Business School. Although we are just getting started in video, Accepted already posted one video with tips on HBS’ MBA application, and is now posting its second. But let’s face it, it’s Hahvaaad. In any case, in my reviews of HBS 1 essays,…
MBA Essays: You’ve Got Options!
HBS. Kellogg. INSEAD. Emory. More and more MBA programs ask you to answer one or more required questions and then ask you to respond to X out of Y prompts. The choice immediately poses a problem or at least an issue to think about: Which questions should you respond to? I’ll tell you in this…
Personal Branding in Admissions
The term “personal brand” is bandied about a lot in admissions. I don’t claim to be an expert on branding, but after fifteen years editing essays and advising applicants, I know a bit about admissions. I see the concept of “personal brand” as a threat and opportunity for applicants. Want to know more? See this…
Application Boxes Should Do the Heavy Lifting
For one of Accepted’s first forays into video, I decided to focus on application boxes, the mundane, pedestrian elements of an application that frequently are not given appropriate attention. Please watch the video to see how you make the ordinary into extraordinary, value-added elements of your application. Since this is our first attempt at providing…
