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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
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Accepted Expands its Admissions
Forums
After years of Accepted staff members participating in applicant forums
and hundreds of comments and posts on our blog and forum (launched only
in June), Accepted is expanding its forums and moving them to a more
robust bulletin board system.
Feel free to address questions to Accepted’s forum
moderators,
exchange admissions news with other applicants, and share the ups and
downs of the admissions process. (But please leave flame wars and
vitriol at the virtual door.)
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application package by providing tips on:
- Writing your MBA essays.
- Crafting your MBA application resume.
- Working with recommenders.
- Preparing for MBA admissions interviews.
- Applying specifically to Harvard, Stanford, and
Wharton.
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We
are launching this year’s MBA admissions chats with a
wonderful line-up of chat
guests. Join Accepted.com's President, Linda Abraham, as
she
hosts the following chats with these leading MBA
programs:
Consider Kellogg
Hear all about
Kellogg's famed general management program from Beth Flye, Director of
Admissions on Wednesday,
September 12, 2007 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT.
Wondering about Wharton
Join Thomas Caleel,
Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, and other Wharton adcom
members on Thursday,
Sept. 20, 2007 at
10:00 AM
PT/ 1:00 PM ET/ 6:00 GMT to discuss this top ranked
program.
Columbia Chatter
Learn about Colubmia
Business School with Linda Meehan, Diretor of Admissions, and other CBS
adcom members on Wednesday,
Sept. 26, 2007 at 10:00 AM
PT/ 1:00 PM ET/ 6:00 GMT.
Heads up for October: Yale SOM, CMU Tepper, and Cornell Johnson.
All chats take place in the Accepted.com
chatroom. To receive reminders about upcoming chats, please
subscribe to our MBA
admissions events list. |
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| Blog
Posts of Interest |
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| Here are some highlights of recent blog posts on Accepted Admissions Almanac:
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| Essay Tip |
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Tying the
Past to the Future
A participant in LAMP asked 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 because your past
experience should shape and inform your future goal. 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 specific classes or seminars with particular professors whose
research or specialization is of interest to you because they 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 attain your
professional dreams. In so doing, you will also demonstrate
that
you belong at School X. |
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| Resume
Tip |
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How to Select and Present Qualitative Achievements in Your Résumé
The first rule of resume writing is to quantify your achievements.
However, numbers don't tell the whole picture, no matter what your line
of work. Prospective employers, even numbers- and technology-focused
ones such as investment banks and engineering firms, need to know that
you can interact productively with others. Thus, it is important to
"mine" your experience for concrete, specific achievements that
demonstrate your strength in teamwork, interpersonal skills, and
communication.
How do you identify and present such achievements? Start by looking in
the following three areas for achievements that you can encapsulate in
bullet form.
- Feedback from peers and superiors. Try to use an actual quote - otherwise it will be too general. Capture the main phrase in a short bullet:
- Although youngest on team by five years, praised by lab director as "most mature team player."
- Described by manager to client's CIO as "most effective communicator with technical staff" among firm's strategy consultants.
- Handling conflicts. Have you helped warring parties come to terms?
- Resolved conflict between senior editor and production manager over
missed deadlines by leading focused discussions, resulting in new
deadline-setting process and all subsequent deadlines being met.
- Bringing good people onto the team or convincing them to stay.
Employers know that this type of achievement has a tremendous impact on
an organization.
- Convinced key accountant to remain with organization through peak
period when he was recruited aggressively by competing practice.
- Referred two interns, who have since joined firm and earned promotions within a year.
Let these suggestions spark your imagination as you re-examine your "people experience" for qualitative successes.
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
Member, Professional Association of Résumé Writers |
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