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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
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What's New at Accepted
Early-Bird MBA Special
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Ebook of the Month:
Write Your Way to a Residency Match
Submit an application that's a hit with the residency admissions
staff after applying the techniques taught in
Write Your Way to a
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regular purchase price.
Accepted's Newest Ebook:
The Techie's Guide to MBA Admissions
Fresh off the PDF presses and at a 25% discount through June 15. If
you are an engineer, computer geek, or software savant who worries
about writing MBA application essays that will present you at your
best, this is the only book I know of to address your unique needs.
Linda Abraham becomes President of AIGAC
Linda Abraham, Accepted's president and founder, has been chosen
first president of the Association of International Graduate
Admissions Consultants.
B-School Photo Winners
Contestants submitted roughly 50 pictures to Accepted's Beautiful
B-School Photo Contest. The three top prize winners are displayed on
our Beautiful B-School Photo Contest Winners
page, along with the
names of our honorable mentions and judges.
Upcoming Events
- Michigan Medical Admissions Chat with Robert Ruiz on
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 5:00 PM PT/8:00 PM ET in the
Accepted
chat room.
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MBA Admissions Telethon: Mark your calendars. Our last MBA
Admission telethons for this year will be held on Wednesday July
11. We will have two telethons on that date to make it easier for
both domestic and overseas applicants to participate. Details to
follow.
Recent Chat Transcripts
Blog Posts of Interest
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Why Attend Grad School? Not Because It's There.
"What
do you want to do after you earn your degree?" I asked.
Jennifer was trying to decide which graduate program to attend. In our
telephone meeting, she had summarized her options, along with the
strengths and weaknesses, pros and cons of each, but she was having
difficulty narrowing down the options. My deceptively simple question
stopped her. Cold.
"Ah, I, I don't know." Jennifer stammered sheepishly.
"Then how can you choose a program? Are you planning to pursue this
degree just for personal edification? Or do you want it to prepare you
for a career?"
"Oh, I want it to prepare me for a career," she answered immediately.
"Then you need to do more homework. The answer will probably determine
which programs you should apply to."
There are lots of bad reasons for applying to grad school, and Jennifer
had supplied a few. Here's a bad reason sampler:
- My parents want me to go and will pay for it.
- I hate my job.
- What else is there to do after you finish college?
- I like school.
- Grad school is the next thing to do.
- It's there.
For George Mallory climbing Mt. Everest, the logic in #6 proved fatal.
For you, the above examples of flawed logic are unlikely to be so
devastating, but they certainly don't impress admissions committees
and/or justify a graduate degree.
Unless you are one of the fortunate few who can attend grad school
simply for personal growth, which is fine, you need to have a
professional goal in mind and know how the degree will help you achieve
it -- before you choose schools and apply.
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The
Resume Concision Check
If you're accomplished enough to be applying to the top business
schools, you probably have more than enough impressive material to fill
a one-page resume. To use that limited space as efficiently as possible,
perform the following concision check:
(a) Have you eliminated all articles (a, an, the)?
(b) Have you replaced helping verbs with strong action verbs?
Example: "$2 million proposal was accepted by client." Better: "Client
accepted my $2 million proposal."
(c) Have you used adjective constructions to eliminate unnecessary
prepositions? Example: ".analysis of waste in project waste resulted in
$2 million in savings." Better: "project waste analysis saved $2
million."
(d) Have you used Arabic numbers and abbreviations to reduce
wordiness? Example: "Proposed seventeen process changes that cut program
costs by $50,000,000." Better: "Proposed 17 process changes that cut
program costs by $50MM."
(e) Have you chosen the most economical wording (a thesaurus can be a
handy tool here)? Example: "Corporate CEO with management approach that
emphasizes team-building and results orientation transformed
under-performing farm supply company with 5,000 SKUs in product line
into the most streamlined and nimble business in the industry." Better:
"CEO with team-building, results-oriented management style transformed
under-performing farm supply firm with 5,000-item product line into
industry's nimblest, most streamlined player."
By
Paul Bodine, Senior Editor at Accepted and author of "Great
Application Essays for Business School" (McGraw-Hill 2005)
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