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This Issue:
- What's New at Accepted: Holiday Wishes; Beat the Application Rush; Featured Ebook; Chats; Blog Post of Interest
- Essay Tip: The Balancing Act of Essays
- Resume Tip:
Crashing Economies Fuel Resume Fraud
- Wrap Up:
Our Services; Subscription Information
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Best Wishes for the Holiday Season
The entire staff at Accepted.com would like to thank you
for your patronage and wish you a joyous Holiday Season and great New
Year!
Beat the Year-End Rush and Submit Outstanding Essays
'Tis the season when time marches double-time. It’s
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educational balls in the air. Those application deadlines somehow
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Chats- Past and Future:
Here are the upcoming chats, hosted by Linda Abraham, for the month of December:
Dec. 15: NYU Stern Consulting & Strategy Focus 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT
Dec. 15: NYU Stern Social Enterprise Focus 10:30 AM PT/1:30 PM ET/ 6:30 GMT
Dec. 15: NYU Stern Marketing Focus 12:00 PM PT/3:00 PM ET/8:00 PM GMT
All chats will take place in the Accepted.com
chat room. For more details, please visit our chat
schedule page.
Last month’s chats have generated must-read transcripts:
Blog Posts of Interest:
Here are some highlights of recent blog posts on Accepted Admissions Almanac:
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The Balancing Act of Essays: Description and Analysis
In 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 who you are 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 earlier
experience?
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Crashing Economies Fuel Resume Fraud
According to a November issue of the Wall Street
Journal, we are now in the midst of exactly the kind of economy in
which employers need to evaluate resumes with greater skepticism.
The reason? When stocks tank, companies downsize, and employees hit the
pavement en masse in search of jobs, more exaggerations or, sometimes,
falsehoods tend to find their way into resumes. For example, one out of
five resumes’ educational credentials are probably inflated, according to Marsh & McLennan Cos.’ Investigative unit.
Since factual infelicities can cost you a job—sometimes many,
many years after you committed them--be sure you avoid the following
“red flags” when crafting your own resume (whether for a
job or a professional school application):
- Giving inaccurate reasons for leaving a previous position
- Stating “enhanced” impacts or fudging the factual nature of achievements or results
- Juicing the exact nature of a previous job’s responsibilities
- Magnifying your history with a particular academic institution (e.g., saying you graduated when you only attended)
- Extending the duration of a job title (wording your resume
so your last job title at a particular employer becomes your only job
title at that employer, thus magically transforming a one-year stint as
CFO into a four-year stint
Of course, the amount of scrutiny your resume receives will
depend on your industry and the responsibility level of the position
you seek. But honesty remains the best policy.
--Paul Bodine, Accepted.com Senior Editor and author of Great Application Essays for Business School, Perfect Phrases for Business School Acceptance, Great Personal Statements for Law School, Perfect Phrases for Law School Acceptance, and Perfect Phrases for Medical School Acceptance.
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