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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
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What's New at Accepted.com
Featured Ebook for January:
The Nine Mistakes You Don't Want
to Make on an MBA Waitlist, an excerpt:
Mistake #3: Hide your genuine interest in the school.
You discussed it in your essays already. You aren't really sure why
you want to attend. Or you have been rejected everywhere else, so
this is your last hope. There's no point in elaborating on your
interest. Right? Wrong.
Right Move: Reinforce the idea that this is the best school
for you to achieve your goals.
While your qualifications relative to your peers is primary in
admissions, "fit" is a major factor. The adcom members want to know
that you will do well in their school, not just in terms of
academics, but also in terms of the school's culture and values. The
last thing they want is to admit someone who will leave, drop out,
or graduate and bad mouth the school.
If you want to know why this information is important and how to
present it, look on page 10-11 of our featured ebook of the month,
The Nine Mistakes You Don't Want to Make on an MBA Waitlist. And
remember, save 20% on
The Nine Mistakes You Don't Want to Make on
an MBA Waitlist during the month of January.
Deadlines Dead Ahead
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Acceptances Rolling In
We love to hear about acceptances both from clients and from Acceptees,
those who have benefited from Accepted.com's other resources: this
newsletter, the
admissions chats, our
articles,
ebooks,
and the
Accepted Admissions Almanac blog. Please take a minute to
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Upcoming Events
2006 MBA
Admission Chats
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Jan. 11
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MBA Waitlist |
Linda Abraham |
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INSEAD |
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And of course, December's chats have
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Blog Posts of Interest
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The Editing Funnel
Most of you now are -- or soon will be -- editing your critical
application essays and personal statements. When Accepted.com editors
review and edit your essays they go through a process I call the editing
funnel. If you choose to be your own editor, you should follow a similar
process.At the top of the funnel you evaluate your essay in the
context of the application. Does it add to the reader's knowledge of
you? Does it introduce the reader to a dimension not revealed in the
boxes, numbers, and transcripts? If you are submitting more than one
essay in your application, do the essays complement each other?
Going deeper into the funnel, your focus should narrow to the
individual essays. Check that each essay has a clear theme and logical
structure. Ensure that it addresses the question posed. Finally, look
for the specifics that will add life and distinctiveness to your writing
and your application.
At the narrowest part of the funnel, check writing mechanics:
clarity, grammar, style, word usage, spelling, punctuation, and all the
nitty-gritty details of writing. You may be a little bleary-eyed at this
point and almost unable to view the essay(s) objectively. To restore a
your critical eye, put the draft away for a couple of days; if you don't
have that much time, then at least a couple of hours. When proofing your
essay, print it out and read it aloud from the hard copy. Doing so will
slow you down and allow your ear to catch some of the little errors that
your eye may miss.
Additional resources:
If you want professional editing that saves you time and guides your
essay(s) through the editing funnel while maintaining your voice, please
consider Accepted.com's professional
personal statement and
application essay editing.
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Highlighting Skills and Qualities from Non-Work Activities
You do have the leadership, teamwork, or organizational experience for
that great job your friend told you about. But your resume doesn't show
it, because you didn't acquire the experience from work. You acquired it
from community service. Or participation with a theater ensemble. Or
teaching Sunday school. Or political activism. Or coaching tennis.
If you are changing careers or are short on work experience, you may
want to draw on your non-professional experience to demonstrate the
skills, talents, and qualities that a desired job requires. You can use
your resume to do so, by providing details of the relevant activities.
First, identify the skills, talents, experience, and/or qualities you
want to portray, and then the related activities. Add a section called
"Other Relevant Experience" after the "Professional Experience" section
of your resume and use bullet points just as you do for the work
section. The basic approach is the same: present specific
accomplishments to illustrate your skills/experience. Here is an example
for a person who wants to highlight leadership, communication skills,
and initiative:
Teacher of ESL and American Life Skills classes, ABC Community
Center, 9/04-present.
- Teach weekly class of 20 adult students who recently immigrated
from Central America.
- Identified need for guidance in adapting to new culture;
developed proposal, including curriculum, implementation plan, and
suggestions for funding, for new American Life Skills Class.
- Presented proposal to program director and board; received
approval in one week.
- Recruited and trained three other volunteers to team-teach the
course.
- By obtaining regular feedback from students, continuously
improve and refine course.
- Developing new proposal for weekend "crash course" on U.S.
employment practices.
If this person is a junior-level accountant seeking a broader
corporate finance role involving cross-functional processes and project
leadership, or a computer engineer seeking an IT consulting position
involving client interaction, teamwork, and initiative in
problem-solving, this non-work experience is clearly valuable to her
marketability.
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
Member, Professional Association of Resume Writers
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