Next up in our series of featured MBA applicant bloggers is Pardeep, author of the blog, “Rolipolli… a walk through life and path to B-school.” Please enjoy Pardeep’s thoughtful answers and use them to help you make your way through the MBA admissions process. Accepted: First, can you tell us a little about yourself…
Accepted Tweeps…Thanks!
We want to thank all of our @Accepted followers for helping us reach our 3K goal! To show our appreciation, we’d like to offer all our Twitter followers a special discount, which we just announced on Twitter. The discount can be used one time per user through August 9, 2011. Visit http://www.twitter.com/Accepted to follow…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Technology
This post about Haas and technology is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Marketing
This post about Haas and marketing is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
Graduate School Admission Expert Shares What College Students and Graduates Need to Know About Graduate School Admissions on #CollegeChat
Linda Abraham to discuss what college students and graduates need to know about applying for graduate school September 7, 2010 at 6 pm Pacific/ 9 pm Eastern on #CollegeChat Los Angeles, CA, September 1, 2010—Linda Abraham, a graduate school admissions expert and president of Accepted.com, will provide college students and graduates with an overview of…
What Should I Write About? Making a Difference
In my non-admissions life, I recently went to a lecture given by a biographer whose work I admire. In the course of his talk he mentioned that while writing about genius has merit, writing about typical folks and their extraordinary achievements is more valuable. The compelling story — the inspiration, and attention grabber — resides…
Introducing the 2010 Beautiful B-School Photo Contest Judges!
This year’s Beautiful B-School Photo Contest promises to be an exciting competition, especially with the expanded list of photo-worthy b-schools. The judges for this year’s contest are: Xlick, author of A New Yorker’s MBA Journey blog. Ameya, author of Unraveling Mystery blog. Rocky, author of Rocky’s Journey to an MBA blog. Mad Bubbles, author of…
Thank You! Review of “Financing Your Future”
Thank you to MBA blogger Madalogue for her recent review of popular Accepted.com ebook, Financing Your Future. She offers her readers a few pointers or “takeaways” from the ebook, including: Start planning early. Never ignore the financing part. Parallel the financing research with your school research. Many schools offer merit based, need based and special…
Two Great Law School Applicant Resources
I want to recommend two new resources to law school applicants: Law School Podcaster burst on the scene this past summer with excellent programs answering the central questions of law school admissions. Plus, you can subscribe to their show in Itunes and listen when convenient for you. I am also please to announce that Law…
MBA Admissions: Visit IMD Virtually
I just received an announcement from IMD, the top Swiss MBA program, and I want to share it with you: Do you want to be one of the 90 exceptional people to make it into IMD’s one year leadership development program? This year, the IMD MBA has been ranked #2 worldwide by the Wall Street…
Happening @ Accepted.com
On Friday I promised a whole new Accepted.com,and it’s up! Please check it out. We know there a few items to clean up, but please let us know what you like and dislike. You can let us know in comments below or just by contacting us. We have also implemented a change that many of…
Report From AIGAC Conference: Buzz vs.Substance
The AIGAC conference this year was fantastic. The first day consisted of presentations from Pete Johnson of Haas, Christie St. John of Tuck, Cassandra Pittman of INSEAD, Wendy Huber of Darden, Soojin Kwon Koh of Ross, and Bruce Delmonico of Yale’s SOM. During the second day AIGAC was hosted by NYU Stern and Columbia Business…
Personal Statements are Difficult!
On Twitter I frequently see tweets lamenting the difficulty inherent in writing personal statements. It’s true, they are a pain, especially if you are the kind of person who does not like self-reflection or self-expression. In listening to a podcast on an entirely unrelated topic, I started thinking about the essential components of a strong personal…
How Business Schools Have Failed Business
Business school deans and educational thought leaders are doing a lot of soul-searching concerning the role and culpability of graduate business schools in the economic downturn. Dean Robert Bruner of Darden on April 5 wrote on Twitter “Controversy over the role of B-schools in the crisis. Did they warn strongly enough about the risks of toxic…
Should I apply for an MBA, MS, MA, JD, or?
All around the Net, people are musing about graduate options and educational plans. Katedp tweets, “I’m idly pondering getting an MBA. Not sure I want to go back to school though.” On LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter I’ve seen and occasionally responded to posts about obtaining an MBA or an MS in Technology, an MBA or…
Thank You Thursday!
Tweet! It is with great pleasure that we announce our first Thank You Thursday winner! Congratulations on winning your choice of Accepted.com Admissions Ebooks! As mentioned earlier this week, we’d like to thank our Twitter followers. So twice a month, we will randomly pick one of our followers as a winner. The Thank You Thursday…
MBA Admissions Event: Access MBA Tour 2009
For those of you seriously considering an MBA, the Access MBA Tour can be a great resource in helping you navigate the plethora of options. Taking place in over twenty five countries around the globe, the Access MBA Tour offers prospective MBA applicants the opportunity to meet with representatives from the world’s top business schools….
Your law school personal statement…it needs to be, well, personal!
When writing your personal statement for law school, it’s a good idea to include a few school specific sentences about why each of the schools to which you are applying is interesting to you. This is not “why do I want to go to law school?” but rather “this is why your law school is…
2009 HBS 2+2 Essay Questions Are Online
Harvard has posted its essay questions for the 2+2 program, class entering in fall 2012. I will post tips in the next few days; in the meantime, here are the questions and key dates: Harvard Business School 2+2 Program Key Dates: Application Submission: July 7, 2009 (5 p.m. EST) Admissions Notification: September 15, 2009 Harvard…
MBA Waitlist: What do you do?
An MBA applicant recently told me that he was advised to retake his GMAT by a school representative. The school had waitlisted him and is among the few to offer feedback. He really didn’t want to retake the GMAT and asked my opinion — hoping I would give him “permission” not to do so. Big…
