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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
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What's New At Accepted.com
There's a lot going on at Accepted.com these days.
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Accepted.com's editors are great. The best. But some of you want
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I know that the demands on my time don't make it possible for me to
advise, edit your essays, and provide the attention you deserve, as
our editors do. I can, however, make myself available to a limited
number of applicants and serve as a mentor. Hence, Accepted.com is
now offering the
Linda Abraham Mentoring Program.
Upcoming Events
SUNY
Upstate Medical School Admissions Chat with Jennifer Welch on
June 12 at 6:00 PM PT/9:00 PM ET. The chat will take place in the
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IMD MBA
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MBA Admissions BlastOff is a two-day, hands-on seminar balancing
information-packed presentations with workshops where you will
actually work on your applications. Plus, you can sample the content
- and obtain great MBA admissions tips -- during informative free
teleseminars.
Recent Transcripts, MP3
files
How to Use the Rankings Chat with Dean Paul Danos of Tuck
Business School and Dell Bradshaw, Business Education Editor of the
Financial Times.
MBA Essay BlastOff, an MP3 file. (Please register and confirm
the registration in order to gain access to the free MP3.)
The chat
transcripts for the Michigan Medical and Johns Hopkins med
school admission chats should be online by the end of the week and
accessible from
Pre-Med
Chat Transcripts.
Blog Posts of Interest
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What's MemorableI went to my daughter's awards
ceremony last night. She's graduating high school, and the school has a
separate ceremony a couple of weeks before the graduation so that the
graduation isn't too terribly long.
In any case, I watched a lot of girls get awards for leadership,
excellence in a particular academic subject, theater, drama, community
service. The usuals. Do you know which award I remember? The one that
was introduced with an anecdote.
The winner led the school's Model UN team. The team arrived to New York
City on a Friday in February, and the girls scattered for the weekend to
friends and family. A major blizzard hit. On Sunday the captain and
faculty advisor were franticly trying to contact the girls and arrange
for them to travel to the city for the competition. The advisor
described how the captain went above and beyond in keeping the team
together and making sure everyone was able to compete.
Anecdotes and examples stand out. Titles and even awards blur. Use
anecdotes to make your essays memorable.
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Using Your Resume to Enhance Your Credibility You can use
the resume you submit with your application to create a sense of
factual solidity or concreteness that will enhance admission
officials' confidence that you are "for real." At a minimum,
this means ensuring that your resume and application are
consistent. Make sure your resume refers to companies, job
titles, departments, technologies, and other items just as they
are named in your essays, letters of recommendation, and
application data pages. If your essays referred to a major
client by the name of its corporate parent (e.g., "Kawazu Heavy
Industries"), don't suddenly refer to it in your resume by the
name of the business unit you were assigned to (e.g., "Kawazu
Mining Equipment"). Likewise, if your essays referred to the new
product you developed by its brand name (e.g., "Accelerated
Payout"), don't just describe it in general descriptive terms in
your resume (e.g., "our new securitized mortgage payables
discount product")-use the product name again. Ensuring that
your resume and application are in sync will not only spare the
adcoms confusion, it will enhance the believability of your
application as a whole.
You can also use your application resume to "free up" space for
accomplishments you really want to expand on in your application
essays. Many applicants try to cram too many career highlights
into their goals essay, turning into it a vague-sounding
mishmash. By using your resume (together with the work
experience section of the application) to communicate some of
these stories you can devote your main goals essay to focusing
on the one or two really pivotal achievements that really
explain why you need an MBA.
By
Paul Bodine, Senior Editor at Accepted.com and author of
Great Application Essays for Business School
(McGraw-Hill 2005).
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