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In this
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May 2012
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What's
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3…2…1…Blastoff for 2013 Q&A Season
We’re back and ready for our next dynamic MBA Admissions Q&A.
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Have you checked out our YouTube channel lately? We’re constantly updating it with new videos and playlists, including our recent webinar playlist that provides all of your favorite webinars at your fingertips. Don’t forget to check out our Eye on Admissions series, featuring MBA Admissions Tips for Engineers to learn some rarely-used, amazingly simply application techniques that will highlight the pros and minimize the cons that techies face in the MBA application challenge.
AMCAS Webinar: What to Write?
Join us on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET for a webinar that covers all you need to know about the written sections of the AMCAS application. The webinar, Writing for Your Medical School Application, will be presented by Linda Abraham, and will cover topics such as the purpose of the AMCAS application, how to introduce yourself in the personal comments section, the three most meaningful experiences, how to stay within the character limits, and more.
This webinar is not to be missed by any med school applicants! Reserve your spot now for the Writing for Your Medical School Application webinar!
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Admissions
Tip
Getting Jiggy with Your Application Jigsaw Puzzle
One way we like to view all of the many elements in your grad school or college application (your GPA and your transcripts (either from high school or college), your GMAT, SAT, LSAT, MCAT, or other relevant test scores, a resume, your letters of recommendation) is to look at them as pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The final product may be your application, but the picture that you complete by piecing together each of the components is a picture of YOU, the life-force and essence of your application. The purpose of presenting all of this information to the adcom is to introduce yourself to them, so if the pieces don’t fit together to create this picture, then you haven’t made a proper introduction.
Your neat application package needs to MAKES SENSE, so that as the admissions committee members read or examine each piece, they’re able to quickly and naturally see how each piece fits into your unique puzzle.
Here are the functions of the major components:
- Resume: Summary and bird’s eye view of your professional credentials.
- Transcript and test scores: Raw data on academic qualifications.
- Essays: You telling your story. Opportunities for you to take a deep dive, adding depth to readers’ understanding of critical events as well as insight into what makes you tick. Think of your essays as the glue that holds your puzzle together.
- Letters of Recommendation: Another’s perspective on you as a professional and as an individual.
Your entire application should create a cohesive, coherent, unified picture of YOU, featuring your most impressive accomplishments, noteworthy experiences, and important scores and stats. It should be whole, not fragmented; a missing piece will make your application puzzle look sloppy, not to mention not yet finished. And it shouldn’t present you as a one-trick pony, someone who talks about the same accomplishment over and over again, because there isn’t much else to say. Let your application present the different pieces that contribute to who YOU are.
(This tip was adapted from "J is for Jigsaw Puzzle," part of MBA Admissions A-Z, an ongoing series of comprehensive MBA admissions tips.)Back to top
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