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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
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New at Accepted: MBA Telethon; Accepted's on
Facebook;
Accepted.com’s Contests; Featured Ebook
- Chats:
Upcoming Consortium, Cornell and USC Chats; Notre Dame, Emory and UCLA
Anderson Chat Transcripts
- Blog
Posts of Interest
- Admissions Tip:
What You Don’t Need to Know on a Waitlist
- Resume
Tip: Portraying Transferable Skills in Your
Résumé when Changing Careers
- Wrap Up:
Accepted.com Services; Newsletter Subscription Management
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Featured Ebook for
February
The Nine
Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make on a Med School Waitlist,
an excerpt:
Mistake
#6: Fail to assess or act on an assessment.
Let's face it: Being waitlisted means you're qualified. They want you,
just not as much as they want someone else. Since most schools evaluate
applications on a holistic basis, and admissions is a highly subjective
process, it is difficult to say definitively why someone is waitlisted,
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Consortium Chatter: Choosing
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Director of Recruiting, and representatives of different Consortium
schools on Tuesday
February 5 at 5:00 PM PT/8:00 PM ET for guidance on
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Cornell Chatter
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What You Don’t Need to Know on a Waitlist
At
this time of year, waitlist applicants obsess over previous
years’ acceptance rates at the schools waitlisting
them. Nervous, tense applicants ask, “How many
students at School X have been waitlisted and then accepted? Is there a
difference if I’m waitlisted earlier or later? Are the GPA
and test scores different for waitlisted applicants?” And
every year the obsession mystifies me.
For the life of me I can’t see why those numbers are so
important. Most schools accept some students from the
waitlist. The accepted students are 100% in; the rejected students are
100% out. If your school last year accepted 5% or 15% or 25% of
waitlisted applicants, is that number really going to change your
behavior?
I guess if you need that data to determine whether you want to remain
on the waitlist, it's useful, but realize that last year's numbers are
not predictive. If the school has a higher yield than last year, the WL
acceptance rate will plummet. If it has a lower yield than last year,
the WL acceptance rate will climb.
Because waitlist stats lack predictive value, focusing on past WL
acceptance stats is a distraction. You should strive to make your case
for acceptance, your fit with the program, your case for your
qualifications.
If you need help making that argument, consider Accepted.com's waitlist
advising and editing services or our waitlist ebooks:
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Portraying
Transferable Skills in Your Résumé when Changing
Careers
Last month's résumé tip
explained how to identify skills from your current work that are
transferable to your future career path. This month's tip shows how to
portray those skills once you have identified them.
Although it's a simple process, there are two key, must-have components
to highlighting transferable skills.
- Clearly state the skill you are aiming to portray.
- Use a specific anecdote or accomplishment to
demonstrate that you have that skill.
The first point might not be so important if you weren't changing
directions - if an investment bank financial analyst aiming to move to
private equity mentions financial modeling in her
résumé, the message about quantitative skills is
obvious. But if you're a consultant seeking a career in
finance and mention projecting clients' future HR costs in your
résumé, the reader may not think "quant" unless
you explicitly point it out: "Accurately determined client's HR
expenses over 5-year time frame by applying X and Y analytic
techniques."
The second point adds both interest and credibility to the
résumé.
Below are two more examples of how to use this approach.
- Assistant manager of pharmaceutical product
development seeking to
pursue a career as a physician - skill is communicating technical
information to non-specialists: "Held bi-weekly meetings to brief
marketing managers on status of XYZ drug development, explaining in
layperson's terms anticipated benefits and objective comparisons with
competitive products; marketing managers seamlessly integrated
information into strategies/plans, leading to 4% increase in market
share in first 6 months on market."
- High school teacher seeking to pursue a career in law
- skill in
synthesizing information from disparate sources to draw conclusion:
"Adapted calculus curriculum based on analysis of varied data sources
including student records, pedagogical studies, and other teachers'
experience, resulting in 80% of AP calculus students earning a 4 or 5
on the national Advanced Placement exam."
By approaching your transferable skills in this way, you will help your
résumé readers see the value of your past
experience in your desired new role, even though you have to learn the
nuts-and-bolts in your graduate program.
Cindy
Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
Member, Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants
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