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What's New At Accepted.com
B-School
Zones
I am pleased to announce that Accepted.com has launched its
B-School Zones.
With just one click, you can find info about schools, interview
feedback, blog posts, chat transcripts, and editing and consulting
services for any of these top MBA programs:
MBA Comprehensive Packages
This month, Accepted.com introduced
Comprehensive Editing and Consulting Packages for specific MBA programs.
These services are designed to give you all the advising and editing you
need when applying to a given school, as well as a foundation in best
admissions practices that you can use as you apply to additional
programs.
We currently have comprehensive packages for
Stanford,
Wharton,
Columbia,
London Business School,
Haas,
Dartmouth Tuck,
Chicago GSB,
Kellogg,
Harvard,
Darden, and
MIT Sloan.
Price Increase Coming
Accepted.com will raise the price of all its packages (not hourly work)
on September 1. Purchase by August 31 to save money and get started on a
stellar application.
Upcoming Events
Accepted.com
Chats
August brings the lazy, hazy days of summer. No chats are
scheduled this month. But September is a whole different story.
We are gearing
up for an exciting and informative calendar of chats and
teleseminars this fall. If you would like to receive reminders about
these and other admissions events, please sign up for our
admissions
events list. And don't worry. Accepted.com will not share your
name or email address with anyone.
Accepted.com has already scheduled with Michigan Ross its Talent
Seekers Speak, our
recruiter chat, which we inaugurated last year. It will take
place on September 20, 2006, at 10:00 AM. Mark your calendar for
this year's Talent Seekers Speak, and stay tuned for other chat
times and dates.
Blog Posts of Interest
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How the Pros Write
I like to read biographies and personal profiles. (That's one of the
reasons I like my work so much.) I recently finished reading Tom
Brokaw's tribute to The Greatest Generation. He clearly has the
journalist's ability to engage, and you can learn from his techniques
when you sit down to write your personal statement. Here are a few that
he uses most effectively:
- Replace or support declarative statements with vivid details. For
example, instead of saying that those who served during WWII came from
diverse backgrounds, Brokaw writes, "They left their ranches in Sully
County, South Dakota, their jobs on the main street of Americus,
Georgia, they gave up their place on the assembly lines in Detroit and
in the ranks of Wall Street, they quit school or went from cap and
gown directly into uniform."
- Use numbers to emphasize magnitude. Brokaw wrote "the 442
Regimental Combat Unit would become the most heavily decorated single
combat unit of its size in US Army History." He also added "8
Presidential Distinguished Unit Citations and 18,143 individual
decorations including one Medal of Honor, 52 Distinguished Service
Crosses, 560 Silver Stars and 28 Oak Leaf Clusters in lieu of a second
Silver Star, 4,000 Bronze Stars and 1,200 Oak leaf Clusters
representing a second Bronze Star, and at least 9,486 Purple Hearts."
Note the power added by those stats -- far more compelling than
stirring declarations about incomparable heroism.
- Involve the senses to paint a portrait. In describing the
conditions for an American POW in Germany, Brokaw writes, ".it was the
beginning of the long, cruel fight to survive, days of watching other
inmates getting shot as they tried to escape, the same meals of watery
cabbage or turnip soup, the cold nights with only a thin blanket for
cover." You can practically taste the lousy soup and feel the chill
through the POW's blanket.
Use these techniques as you write your personal statements and
application essays to make your experiences come alive.
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Keep Your Resume Simple
An application resume is not the place to get fancy with
creative design elements, especially since many schools today
want applicants to submit their applications electronically.
Needless to say, you should avoid the use of art, graphics, or
photos. But even borders, boxes, tables, and sidebars are
distracting and unnecessary. The same goes for special
lettering, different colored type, raised or embossed type, even
italics and underlining.
In reality, the best design element of all is white space. If
the various sections of your resume and the data within those
sections are distributed effectively, the reader's eye will be
drawn naturally down the page to the information you wish to
highlight, without feeling overwhelmed or confused by data.
Again, this may well mean that you will have to delete bulleted
achievements or data points that you're quite proud of, in order
to create a resume that draws the reader in and sustains his or
her interest in the data that are really essential to your
application's message. They call it "scannability."
If possible, use margins as close to one inch as you can get
them. Place your strongest material in the two-inch visual space
that begins about 2 5/8 inches from the top of your resume. Try
to include your most impressive, significant achievements and
qualifications in this "primetime" space where the reader's eyes
will focus first. This shouldn't be difficult, since this is the
place where your current position will normally appear.
By
Paul Bodine
Senior Editor at Accepted.com
Author of
Great Application Essays for Business School
(McGraw-Hill 2005)
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