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MBA FAQ

Questions
1 - What’s the process if I order a Initial MBA Essay Package?
2 - How detailed are your outlines? Are they euphemisms for essay drafts?
3 - Will you write the essays for me?
4 - How can we use the Initial MBA Essay Package if we do not live near one of your editors?
5 - How long does one Initial MBA Essay Package take?
6 - If I want to use packages for more than one school, will I have to purchase the Initial MBA Essay Package for each school?
7 - Do you have any services for specific MBA programs?
8 - My school isn’t listed as one of the school packages. Could you create one for me?
9 - What’s the process if I order MBA Essay Review & Editing?
10 - What’s your turnaround time?
11 - When do you recommend the Initial MBA Essay Package and when do you recommend MBA Essay Review & Editing?
12 - Can I use the Initial MBA Essay Package for some essays and Hourly Review and Editing for others?
13 - Aren’t you expensive?
14 - What do the schools think of using an editor?
15 - Do you use a template? Don’t all Accepted.com client essays sound the same?
16 - I have a limited budget and already have written a draft, could you review my draft and advise me whether I need the Initial MBA Essay Package or can do with MBA Essay Review & Editing?
17 - Typically, how many drafts does an editor review under the Initial MBA Essay Package?
18 - What are your qualifications for interview coaching?
19 - How do you know what the schools are going to ask?
20 - Can my editor be my interview coach? If I want my interview coach to be someone other than my editor, can I do so?
21 - What’s the process for a MBA Wait List Letter Package?
22 - How do I get started? How is payment handled?
23 - What is your Rush Service? I need faster turnaround! Can you help me?
24 - Can you charge me rush prices without my approval?
25 - What if I am not happy with the service?
26 - What if I want to try you out now and purchase more of your services later?
27 - Why should I hire Accepted.com?



Answers
1 - What’s the process if I order a Initial MBA Essay Package?
With Accepted.com’s
Initial MBA Essay Package you will first fill out a questionnaire. Then your editor will interview you and ask you about your personal background, academic interests and strengths, extra-curricular activities, hobbies and interests, community service, goals, and reasons for applying to B-School X …basically anything that could be used in a MBA Application Essay. Together you and your editor will decide which experiences best present a multi-dimensional, compelling portrait of YOU.

After becoming acquainted with you during the interview, which typically takes 1-2 hours, you and your editor will discuss a theme for your essay and then your editor will send you an outline of the essay. The outline helps you focus on your most powerful experiences by providing you with structure and direction. Consisting of bullet points, it gives you the guidance you need to focus on the most relevant and compelling elements of your story. It helps you put that story down on paper with minimal blank-screen-itis and maximal impact.

After you write your personal statement, you send it to your editor who edits it for grammar, spelling, style, and word usage – the nitty-gritty details of writing. She returns the edited copy to you within two business-days of receiving it. Typically clients request 2-4 reviews of an essay before they are satisfied with it.

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2 - How detailed are your outlines? Are they euphemisms for essay drafts?
Let’s start with the last question first. The outline is not a euphemism for an essay or an essay draft.

The outline consists of bullet points and sentence fragments. Its job: provide you with the structure and direction necessary for you to start writing. It provides guidance, but is not a straightjacket. The essay is at all times your essay.

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3 - Will you write the essays for me?
No.

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4 - How can we use the Initial MBA Essay Package if we do not live near one of your editors?
No problem. We have clients throughout the world, and thanks to e-mail and the telephone, we can communicate with you efficiently and effectively.

First we set up a telephone appointment. This appointment is usually lengthy - typically lasting one to two hours. Its purpose is three-fold:

  • We get to know you, your goals, and your past experiences.
  • You choose a theme for your essay.
  • We consult with you regarding an outline for your essay.

If you live outside the U.S.A, we try to minimize your telephone expense by asking for background information via e-mail and reserving the telephone for topics where a dialogue is really necessary. We have found that the time differences pose minor problems, and we have worked with people literally from around the world - from Kazakhstan to Cameroon, Argentina to India.

After you receive your outline, you write the personal statement on your own, but if you have any questions you can call or e-mail us. When finished writing, you e-mail the draft to your editor; then she edits it and returns the edited version to you. Subsequent essay drafts are transmitted via e-mail.

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5 - How long does one Initial MBA Essay Package take?
It typically takes one to two weeks. Please keep in mind that quick completion heavily depends on your promptly returning drafts to your editor.

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6 - If I want to use packages for more than one school, will I have to purchase the Initial MBA Essay Package for each school?
No. Once you purchase an
Initial MBA Essay Package all essay packages that you purchase at a later date are Subsequent Essay Packages.

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7 - Do you have any services for specific MBA programs?
Yes. Accepted’s
MBA Program Specific Packages offer comprehensive advising, editing, and consulting for the entire application to specific schools. An experienced consultant/editor will guide you through all of the essays, from conceptualization through final editing, to create a compelling portrait of you as an innovative leader with concrete, identifiable impact. There are two types of Program Specific Packages. The Comprehensive Package provides wide-ranging consultation on overall application strategy plus advising on and editing of all required essays. The Premier Comprehensive Package provides wide-ranging consultation on overall application strategy plus advising on and editing of all required essays, editing of your resume, and one mock interview tailored to the school’s interview approach.
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8 - My school isn’t listed as one of the school packages. Could you create one for me?
Yes, we would be happy to create program-specific packages for the schools you are applying to. Please submit an
inquiry and tell us the school(s) for which you would like a package. Please also provide a link to the web page that provides the essay questions for this school. We will respond as quickly as possible with price information and details.
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9 - What’s the process if I order MBA Essay Review & Editing?
With Accepted.com’s
MBA Essay Review & Editing, you will submit your personal statement draft to your editor, who will critique it on a content level. Although we don’t interview you, we do request a recent résumé. As he reviews your personal statement, your editor will ask the following questions: Do you have a clear theme, a logical structure, an engaging opening, and a conclusion that concludes? Did you answer the essay question, if you have one? Have you revealed something distinctive and interesting about yourself? Have you made effective use of specifics to distinguish yourself from your competition, support your main points, and add interest to your essay? If you submit multiple essays for one school, your editor will also check that the essays complement each other. After reviewing your essay, your editor will then provide you with feedback and suggestions for improvement, and you will revise the essay.

After you revise your essay, you again send it to your editor who focuses now on grammar, spelling, style, and word usage – the nit-picky details of writing. He returns the edited copy to you within two business days of receiving it. Typically clients request 2-4 reviews of an essay before they are satisfied with it.

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10 - What’s your turnaround time?
Two business-days for each round of editing. Interviews are by appointment.

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11 - When do you recommend the Initial MBA Essay Package and when do you recommend MBA Essay Review & Editing?
If you really aren’t sure how to approach the essays, lack confidence in your ability to write well, or want to save time more than money, I recommend the Initial MBA Essay Package.

If you know what you want to write, have confidence in your writing ability, and want to save money more than time, I recommend MBA Essay Review & Editing.

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12 - Can I use the Initial MBA Essay Package for some essays and Hourly Review and Editing for others?
Yes. You can mix and match, or you can use the
Initial MBA Essay Package for one school and MBA Essay Review & Editing for all subsequent schools.

In fact, that’s what we recommend for those of you applying to more than one school. Start with the package for one school. Learn how to approach an application. Develop a small inventory of essays that you can revise for subsequent schools and then have edited at a much lower cost. Of course, if a particular essay on a later application is causing you difficulty, you can always purchase a Subsequent Essay Package when you need it.

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13 - Aren’t you expensive?
Not at all. The fees you pay to Accepted.com could be one of the best investments you’ll ever make! Consider the possibility of increased earnings if you attend a more highly ranked school as opposed to the cost of Accepted.com’s one-on-one assistance. "Ah," you say, "but you don’t know if I would be accepted without your help." True. And we cannot guarantee your acceptance. But a brief look at our testimonial page will tell you that many of our clients are convinced they would not be in their top choice schools without Accepted.com’s editorial help. They repeatedly and emphatically state that we are worth the money.

Furthermore, even if on your own you can write essays that would get you into the schools of your choice, do you have the time to?

The
Businessweek Web site provides insight into the time required to write compelling essays in the form of a journal entry written by Bob Morse, an MBA student at Stanford Business School. Mr. Morse and Businessweek have no connection or affiliation with Accepted.com, and Mr. Morse never used its services. The clearly talented Mr. Morse states that he spent over 150 hours preparing his essays for MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. That’s over a week of full-time effort on each school!

Accepted.com clients write their own essays and definitely spend time on them, but we estimate the typical client applying to those same three schools spends at most half the time Mr. Morse invested in his essays. Let’s do a little exercise: Calculate the amount of time it would take you to brainstorm, agonize, draft, write, edit, revise, rewrite, proof, and perfect your essays. Then cut that estimate in half and multiply the result by your hourly rate. That result represents your estimated savings from using Accepted.com — even if you could write winning essays without our help. Mr. Morse could possibly have saved 75 hours. Since Mr. Morse was a highly paid investment banker, he could have saved multiples of Accepted.com’s fees had he used its services.

Accepted.com is a profitable investment!

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14 - What do the schools think of using an editor?
I can’t answer for all the schools, but here are a couple of quotes from two different chats:

Accepted.com Sloan Chat November 6, 2000

cho11 (ID=55) (Nov 6, 2000 10:24:52 PM)
?is there gonna be a negative impact for int’ student to use the polish up service like accepted.com. For ex. their essays look terrific but the awa(gmat) look terrible.

Jon McLaughlin (Sloan Admissions) (ID=32) (Nov 6, 2000 10:26:22 PM)
cho11 — the negative impact would be from the terrible gmat.

Businessweek Online Chat “Making the Cut at Wharton” with Alex Brown May 1, 2001

Q: A lot of people ask about admissions consultants in our forums: What are Wharton’s thoughts on people spending $5,000 to hire an application consultant?
A: What is important [for an applicant] is to present who you are, what’s important to you, and how that makes sense in terms of going to business school and what you can contribute. If you’re better able to communicate that by paying for a professional service, then the service may be useful to you. But you cannot expect a service to write your essays. They can critique your essays and help you with them, but you can’t just have someone write your essays. We always encourage our candidates to have other people read their essays, whether they’re a professional service, friends and colleagues, candidates, or peers, and have them evaluate the content.

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15 - Do you use a template? Don’t all Accepted.com client essays sound the same?
We don’t use a template at all, nor do we recommend one. We are dedicated to bringing out the individuality and distinctiveness of our clients and strive to make our clients stand out from the crowd by emphasizing distinguishing experiences and details. We are convinced that portraying your uniqueness is the primary task of the essays.

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16 - I have a limited budget and already have written a draft, could you review my draft and advise me whether I need the Initial MBA Essay Package or can do with MBA Essay Review & Editing?
Yes, we will be happy to review your drafts. Your editor will then tell you whether she thinks your draft is a good foundation for continuing with MBA Essay Review & Editing or whether you would benefit from the Initial MBA Essay Package.

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17 - Typically, how many drafts does an editor review under the Initial MBA Essay Package?
Two to four.

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18 - What are your qualifications for interview coaching?
Accepted.com’s staff has years of experience in MBA admissions. In addition we have had phenomenal success with our interview prep program, with clients overwhelming ecstatic with the service.

Here is typical feedback:
“How are you? Just wanted to let you know that the interview went very well. You were dead-on (again - do you ever get sick of being right?!) … But thanks to your help, I think I did a good job demonstrating my genuine interest in the program.

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“Thanks again. To be honest this last bit of help was really exceptional and much appreciated. My praise of Accepted.com to others will be that much more enthusiastic.”

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19 - How do you know what the schools are going to ask?
First of all we scour the publicly available sources – Accepted.com’s MBA Interview Feedback Database, published articles and books, and the schools’ Web sites. But the Accepted.com staff also has access to its own proprietary database, which comprises insights gleaned from client feedback and from its own experience -- seeing who is gets in and who doesn’t. Access to this database, our exceptional credentials as wordsmiths, and our intimate knowledge of admissions are unique to Accepted.com.

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20 - Can my editor be my interview coach? If I want my interview coach to be someone other than my editor, can I do so?
For
Interview Coaching, you can go either route. Some clients prefer someone new so that the mock interview will better simulate the real thing. Others prefer to work with the editor who knows them best. It’s up to you.

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21 - What’s the process for a MBA Wait List Letter Package?
If you are a new client, and you have purchased a
MBA Wait List Letter Package, your editor reads your application essays and interviews you briefly about your activities since you submitted your application. The editor also reviews with you your reasons for wanting to attend the school that wait-listed you. He then sends you an outline for a wait-list letter.

If you are an existing client, your editor interviews you about your activities since you submitted your application and any changes in your reasons for wanting to attend the school that wait-listed you. He then sends you an outline for a wait-list letter.

After you write the letter, you send it to your editor for editing. He corrects it for grammar, spelling, style, word-usage, etc. and returns it to you.

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22 - How do I get started? How is payment handled?
It’s easy. Go to our catalogue and choose the
services you need. Click on the 'buy now' button next to the services you need and fill out the order form. You will receive an email asking for academic information. Your order will be processed within one business day. Your credit card will be billed immediately.

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23 - What is your Rush Service? I need faster turnaround! Can you help me?
Our Rush Service is for clients who need faster then two-business-day turnaround. Before commencing work, we will determine if we have availability to meet your deadline and set up a schedule with you. If you purchase rush services and we don't have editors available who can work within your timeframe, we will notify you before we start work. If at that time you no longer want Accepted.com's assistance, we will refund your payment.

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24 - Can you charge me rush prices without my approval?
No. Rush prices require the approval of the client, the editor, and Accepted.com management.

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25 - What if I am not happy with the service?
We want you to be happy! If you aren’t satisfied with your editor, you can ask to switch editors. If you want a refund, please see our
refund policy.

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26 - What if I want to try you out now and purchase more of your services later?
No problem. When you are ready to authorize additional work, you can either purchase additional
services online, or send an e-mail to your editor authorizing us to charge your credit card for the additional work that you specify.

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27 - Why should I hire Accepted.com?
Here is how you will benefit from using Accepted.com for your MBA applications:

  1. Your editor will serve as a sounding board and mentor as you go through the process of applying. You need someone experienced saying that the optional essay does not really add value to your application. You will benefit from someone saying that you need to clarify the connection between your internship and your goals. You will have an advantage if someone knowledgeable tells you that you are focusing too much on a negative and not enough on your achievements, or perhaps suggests that Experience A is more impressive than Experience B, or reveals how you can weave both into the application. To read what our clients say about our services, please visit our Testimonial Page.
  2. You will have a professional, seasoned editor making sure that you present yourself articulately and correctly. One of Accepted.com’s strengths is the professionalism and experience of its staff. You certainly do not want writing errors. To judge our editors’ qualifications, please visit About Us. All staff bios are listed there.
  3. Using Accepted.com can save you time. MBA applicants frequently go through multiple drafts, a lot of nail-biting, tearing up of the multiple drafts, rewriting, hearing contradictory advice, rewriting again. You will greatly reduce the amount of time you spend on your essays by choosing Accepted.com.


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