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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
In This Issue:
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Upcoming Chats: The Right Way to Use the Rankings;
Michigan Medical School Admissions
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Accepted.com Specials
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MBA Applicants: New Program to be Announced This
Month
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Blog Posts of Interest
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Essay Tip: Application Essays: A Balancing Act
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Resume Tip: Graduate School Application Tool
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Upcoming Chats
The Right Way to Use
Rankings
We are excited to host "The Right Way to Use the Rankings" with
Dean Paul Danos of the Tuck School of Business; Kim Keating, Tuck's
Director of Public Relations; and Della Bradshaw, Business Education
Editor at the Financial Times. Although directed primarily at
business school applicants, it will contain information of interest
to all applicants. Attend the chat on Thursday May 4 at 9:00 AM
PT/12:00 ET/5:00 PM GMT in the
Accepted.com chat room.
Save the Date: Michigan Medical School Admissions
Mark your calendar: Dr. Daniel Remick, Dean of Admissions;
Robert Ruiz, Director of Admissions; and Michigan Medical School
students will answer your inquiries on Tuesday May 30 at 5:00 PM
PT/8:00 PM ET in the
Accepted.com chat room.
Accepted.com Specials
Start Your AMCAS Essay NOW and Save!
Submitting your medical school application early in the admissions
season means you apply when there are more spaces and more interview
slots. Applying early is a great idea. And now it can save you money
too.
Accepted.com unfortunately has to raise its rates on June 1. If you
purchase our Med School
Initial Essay Package or
Review and Editing,
on or before May 31, you can avoid the price increase scheduled for
June 1.
Let us help you make sure your critical AMCAS personal statement
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MBA Resume Special
At this time of year I am frequently asked by MBA applicants aiming
to submit for the first round deadlines, "What can I do now?"
Best
Practices for MBA Admissions contains many of the steps you should
be taking now to actually improve your profile, but for those of you
who have completed those steps and are chomping at the bit to start
writing, start with .drumroll.
Your resume. You don't need to know the application questions to
prepare your resume. And Accepted.com is willing to help you launch
your application effort and save money. We are offering 25%
off all
MBA resume services during the month of May. You can start
your applications before the questions and essays are available.
(Discount will be taken at register.)
Advance Notice to O&E Subscribers Only: Birthday Sale!
50% off All Ebooks & CD's May 8 - May 10.
My birthday is May 10. Now you can celebrate with me while you save
money and improve your chances of acceptance.
MBA Applicants: New Program to be Announced This Month.
We haven't finished the final touches, but I will announce over the next
several weeks a ground-breaking admissions program. Keep checking the
Accepted Admissions Almanac, AKA the blog, for the announcement.
Blog Posts of Interest
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Application Essays: A Balancing ActIn almost all
application essays and personal statements you need to balance
description with analysis, what you did with your motivation for doing
it or the lessons learned. If you leave out the experiential aspect
entirely, you risk writing a highly theoretical and
superficial piece.
Also realize that your actions and experiences speak volumes about who
you are as a person. Some would even argue, myself among them, that
what
you do says more about you than what you believe or intend.
So why the need for both anecdote and analysis? Because telling only
what you did or what happened, leaves the reader wondering why you
initiated or responded as you did. In admissions, the reader wants to
know what makes you tick. They want to understand motivation as well as
results and impact. And impact isn't just impact on others or on an
organization or even something that you can always quantify (although to
the extent you can quantify external impact, you better convey it).
Impact also includes the effect on you: What did you learn? How have you
changed? How do you now act differently as a result of the influential
experience?
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Your Resume as a Graduate School Application Tool
If you are starting the application process for MBA, law,
medical, or other graduate programs, your resume is the perfect
place. There are three main ways your resume can help you at
this point.
- Although many applications are not yet available, you
can still begin the hands-on application process by writing
or revising your resume. Depending on the program to which
you are applying, your main "selling point" will either be
your academic record or your work experience. If you are a
relatively new college grad applying to med or law school,
most likely your academic record will be your main selling
point on your resume, along with relevant volunteer
experience. MBA applicants will most likely feature their
work experience. Either way, start identifying the most
important features of that key selling point - try to view
them from the perspective of the adcom, your target
audience. Use that key selling point as the headline, the
top item in the reverse chronological portion of your
resume.
Start with the facts of your employment and relevant
volunteering or internships, and note (i) the tasks and
outcomes you are responsible for and (ii) your
accomplishments in the various roles. Also decide which
information about your education you should include.
Determine what format is most appropriate for your
situation, the shorter resume or the lengthier CV.
- As you analyze material for your resume, look for gaps
or areas to address to further strengthen your candidacy in
the months before you start the actual applications. Say you
are applying to medical school. Your research experience is
unusually strong, and you also have two weeks of ER
volunteering during a winter break. Well, that two weeks
does indicate exposure to the clinical environment, but you
certainly could deepen that exposure and also underscore
your commitment to your goals by volunteering again,
starting now, in another clinical environment, whether
hospital, EMT, or clinic. Applying to MBA programs? Your
resume may fully reflect your great quant skills, but what
does it show about communication skills or leadership? Find
an opportunity, formal or informal, to exercise these skills
so that you can enhance your resume and, perhaps more
importantly, broaden your available material for the essays
to come.
- As the resume shapes up and you get an idea of what
you'll be adding or changing as you take certain actions
over the next few months, start to consider how you might
work this "raw material" into a compelling and individual
portrait that differentiates you - this will become your
application strategy.
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
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