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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
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What's New at Accepted.com
MBA BlastOff: 45 Terrific Tips to Launch Your MBA Application
to Acceptance Available Now
In this instantly downloadable work, based on the MBA BlastOff series of
teleseminars, we'll show you how to create a winning MBA application
package including advice on:
- Writing your MBA essays.
- Crafting your MBA application resume.
- Working with recommenders.
- Preparing for MBA admissions interviews.
Plus we give you lots of tips for applying specifically to
Harvard,
Stanford, and
Wharton.
Upcoming Ebooks
Sheila Bender's new ebook,
Don't Let Writing the Application Essay
Drive You and Your Family Crazy, will be available on or before
October 1. Sheila's constructive advice and guidance helps applicants
write their college personal statements and aids them and their families
in surviving the process. She outlines a useful approach to essay
writing and to staying clear on applicant and family roles.
Cydney Foote and I have been working on an ebook for fellowship
applicants. It should also be available by October 1.
Upcoming Events
2006 MBA Admissions Chats
Blog Posts of Interest
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Back to the Future
A participant in
LAMP recently emailed me, "I understand the key to the
essay is to link my past to my future and show how School X fits into
the picture. However, talking about the future, in general, has no
basis, and talking about School X does not make me unique."These are
great observations about the challenges facing applicants writing
statements of purpose, MBA goals essays, and to a slightly lesser
extent, law and medical school personal statements. You need to talk
about the future and keep it real. You also need to distinguish yourself
from your competition and introduce yourself as a human being and
individual to the admissions committee while discussing your reasons for
wanting to attend School X. How can you handle these challenges?
Talking about the future should have a basis. Your future goal should
be based in your past experience. If you say you want to go into
international business, ADR, or primary care medicine, then you better
have international experience, dispute resolution know-how, or primary
care exposure. If your goal has no basis, it is pie in the sky and won't
fly. (pun intended.) Also, international business, just for example, is
very broad. For MBA's in particular, specific goals are much better, and
they also help you in the other fields provided they are anchored in
your past. Specificity differentiates and reveals foresight and
research. Use it to your advantage.
Talking superficially about School X or spitting back School X's
marketing material and mantras does you no good. But if you can write
about how specific classes or seminars with particular professors whose
research or specialization is of interest to you and will help you
achieve your career aspirations, then you have a winner. Show not that
you have read their brochure, but that you have researched their program
and given serious thought to how it will help you achieve your goals. By
doing so, you will also demonstrate that you belong at School X.
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Aligning Your Resume with Your Graduate Application Essays
MBA and other graduate school applicants frequently submit a
resume with their application. Many schools require it, and some
schools, such as Columbia Business School, even specify a given
format. Providing the resume not only will present a valuable
context for your other materials, but it also will give the adcom readers an easy point of reference as they read your
essay(s).
To use the resume to the best advantage strategically in the
application, you must align it with your essays. First, follow
the basic rules of good resume writing for your MBA application
resume. (See
Accepted.com's resume section.) Beyond that, there
are several points to consider in preparing your resume for your
graduate school applications:
- The resume can free up space in your essays. By
summarizing your experience and achievements in the resume,
you don't have to worry about cramming every noteworthy item
into your essays or sketching out your career path. Rather,
you can be very selective and detailed in the experiences you
do elaborate on in the essays. These two components together,
the essays and the resume, by complementing each other rather
than being redundant, can help your message resonate.
- Be consistent in your resume and essays: refer to
companies, job titles, departments, technologies, and other
items in the same way in both pieces. Not only does this
prevent confusion, it also heightens the unity and coherence
of the overall application.
- Review your essays and determine whether there are
particular skills, abilities, talents, or experience that you
should reinforce. Then use your resume to do so. For example,
if your verbal GMAT score was low, presumably you emphasized
your verbal skills in your essays. Use the resume to further
strengthen the impression of strong verbal skills.
- Especially for MBA applicants, your goals are the anchor
of your application essays; everything you write should
directly or indirectly relate to them. So should the resume.
In selecting the experiences and accomplishments to highlight,
try to give the resume a slant that reflects your goals.
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
Member, Professional Association of Resume Writers
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