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Attention Procrastinators! The January MBA Application Train is Leaving the Station

Arrive at your January deadlines with your strongest possible essays and your peace of mind intact by starting the process now. Accepted.com offers four tips and November Specials to get Second Round MBA applicants moving.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 9, 2006 -- Think it's too soon to start on MBA applications with a January deadline? Think again. There are eight weeks before the next wave of MBA deadlines begins. Taking into consideration the winter holidays and the time it will take to complete MBA application essays from start to finish (including creation, revision, editing, and re-reading), the time begins to look pretty short.

But not for those who start now. Now MBA-wannabes have the time to methodically and thoroughly work on three to five applications and submit them for those January deadlines. Do the math. MBA applicants who want to prepare four applications, can plan to spend three weeks (after work hours) honing the first application, and one-and-a-half weeks on each of the other three. That's a total of seven-and-a-half weeks. Needless to say, December promises to be a busy month.

Accepted.com offers four tips for a successful two-month process to complete those MBA applications, plus MBA service specials to further motivate applicants to start the process ASAP. Think of Accepted.com as your MBA admissions travel agent ---- with its guidance and this month's specials, users get all the benefits of first-class travel while avoiding the stress of the last-minute rush.

Start now and follow these tips:

1. Create a schedule. Allow time for drafting, writing, and editing each MBA application essay. Recognize that each step takes time, lots of time. The key is to start and maintain your forward momentum.

2. Work on one application at a time. Approach each MBA application separately; do not write all your goals essays and then all your achievement essays and then all your teamwork essays. That "method" is a recipe for rejection. You need to write Harvard's application and convey your story as it relates to . Harvard Business School. Write Stanford's essays and tell your story as it relates to Stanford GSB, and the same with Wharton, Kellogg, Columbia, and MIT respectively. In fact, apply to any and all b-school programs one application at a time.

3. Write MBA essays that dovetail. Determine for each MBA program which experiences best answer each question and complement the other MBA essays and rest of the application. You may find that you can use the same experience to answer a failure question for one business school and the achievement-you're-most-proud-of question for another business school.

4. Do NOT submit #1 when you "finish" it; put it away. As you proceed, you may discover that certain points are clearer in Application #3 than in Application #1. That's OK. A week before it is due, review Application #1. Is it as sharp as you want it to be? Has the writing process and the toil on subsequent MBA applications clarified certain points that you can now hone in Application #1? Because of your timely start and steady effort, you now have the opportunity to refine those originally fuzzy points.

And, for additional motivation, consider Accepted.com's two November MBA Admissions Specials:

- $50 off all MBA Program Packages. (http://www.accepted.com/Services/ServicesCategory.aspx?categoryid=37)

- $100 off Buy-7-Get-1 Free. (http://www.accepted.com/services/servicesdetails.aspx?serviceid=104)

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