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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
- What's
New at Accepted: Time Marches On; Linda Abraham Featured
on BusinessWeek; Beautiful B-School Photo Contest; Featured
Ebook
- Chats:
Yale, London Business School, CMU Tepper, MIT Sloan, Cornell Johnson,
INSEAD; Kellog & Wharton chat transcripts
- Blog
Posts of Interest
- Essay
Tip: The Two Levels of Your Application
- Resume
Tip: Bullets or Paragraphs?
- Wrap Up:
Accepted.com Services; Newsletter Subscription Management
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Time Marches On
In fact, it seems to
march at double time. It's hard enough to juggle everything without the
burden of application essays. It gets even harder to keep all those
personal, professional, and educational balls in the air when you add
the demands of multiple applications, especially when those application
deadlines seem to creep up out of nowhere.
We want to help you, but please give us enough time to do so. Don't
wait until the last minute. Sign up today for Accepted.com services
or contact your editor ASAP.
Accepted’s
president, Linda Abraham, was the featured guest on a BusinessWeek chat
entitled “ Make
Your B-School Application Stand Out.” According to
BW “Abraham, the founder and president of the consultancy
Accepted, also offered lots of advice on how to navigate the
application process.”
Beautiful B-School Photo Contest
I have long
advocated school visits as a great way to learn about a school, its
culture, and its student life. They also provide you with invaluable
insights you can use to show your fit with the program in your essays
and interviews.
Now you can have even more fun while visiting, especially if you're an
amateur photographer yearning to be recognized for your artistic
brilliance -- or just your nice photo. We are hosting our second annual
Beautiful B-School Photo Contest. Enter
to win one of the many prizes and a chance to show your photo to the
world!
For additional information and contest rules, please visit the Beautiful
B-School Photo Contest Rules.
Are you a consultant
interested in top mba programs? In this instantly downloadable
one-of-a-kind ebook, Cindy Tokumitsu and Linda Abraham show
you how to:
- Assess your strengths and weaknesses.
- Create a winning strategy.
- Work with recommenders.
- Prepare for MBA interviews.
The Consultant's Guide provides
you with comments, insights, and suggestions on the entire application
process . In
addition, The Consultant's Guide
is 20% off this month, but only this month. Buy it ASAP. |
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We
are launching this year’s MBA admissions season with a
wonderful line-up of MBA chats. Join Accepted.com's
President, Linda Abraham, as
she
hosts the following chats with these leading MBA
programs:
Yakking with Yale
Join us for our
first ever Yale School of Management chat on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 at 10:00
AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT with Director of Admissions
Bruce DelMonico.
Learning
about London Business School
Learn all about
London Business School's top ranked international program on Monday, Oct. 15, 2007 at 10:00 AM
PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT with David Simpson, Acting
Associate Dean, Full Time MBA Program.
CMU Chit-Chat
Hear all about CMU
Tepper on Tuesday,
October 16, 2007 at 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT
when Laurie Stewart, Carnegie Mellon's Director of MBA Admissions, will
participate in Accepted.com’s annual CMU Tepper admissions
chat.
Show -and-tell about Sloan
Ask your pressing
MIT Sloan questions on Monday,
October 22, 2007 at 10:00
AM PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT when Jen Burke, Assistant
Director of MBA Admissions fields your questions.
Cornell
Chatter
Come join the
chatter about Johnson's close-knit student life, admissions policies
and more on Wednesday,
October 24, 2007 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT
with Randall Sawyer, Director of Admissions.
Inquiring about INSEAD
Discover the inside
scoop on INSEAD on Monday,
October 29, 2007 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT
with Cassandra Pittman, INSEAD's MBA Marketing Manager.
All chats
take place in the Accepted.com
chatroom. To receive reminders about upcoming chats, please
subscribe to our MBA
admissions events list.
And of course, last month's chats have generated must-read transcripts:
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Do you see an MBA in your future?
The MBA Tour invites you to a unique one day event where you will meet
one on one with admission representatives from top business schools,
participate in interactive panels and attend individual school
presentations.
November events in Vancouver, Toronto and Montréal.
Spaces are limited. Register today.
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Essay Tip
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The Two Levels of Your Application
When we interact socially, we talk on two different
planes. With people that we are meeting for the first time, we try to find
common ground. We exchange information and try to discover what links us -- an alma matter, a profession,
acquaintances, a hobby -- something we share.
On the other hand, when we are with people with whom
we have a degree of familiarity, we already know what connects us. Then the
nature of our conversation changes. We introduce other topics of conversation:
Vignettes from our day. News from our profession. Political developments (if we
think the people share our viewpoint). Anecdotes. Stories. We usually spice up
this type of conversation with a bit of opinion, insight, and interpretation.
Your application also contains these two levels of conversation. Typically
the application’s boxes, possibly aided by your transcript and job
history/activity list, are the first level. You introduce yourself to the adcom
member. If you are a traditional and competitive applicant, the facts in the
boxes will trigger a basic level of interest in your reader -- that sense of
connection that you seek when meeting someone for the first time.
Once you’ve established that connection, then you move
to the second level of dialogue: the “news.” Just as you unthinkingly do in
conversation, you now intentionally want to provide something interesting,
engaging. That’s the job of the essays. If you are a traditional applicant, you
aim to show how you will add an additional dimension to your class; if you are
a non-traditional applicant, you want to show that you fit in. And just as you
automatically do when chatting with colleagues or friends, tell your readers a
story. Show them a situation. Tell them something they don’t know from the
boxes and provide the insight required in an application essay or personal
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Bullets or Paragraphs?
The heart of every resume are the accomplishments (or sometimes
responsibilities) listed under each employer. What’s the best way
to present this crucial information?: as bullets—one- to two-line
incomplete sentences highlighted by a “bullet” or similar
display element—or as paragraphs—full-sentence
“mini-essays” of three lines or more?
The obvious advantage of the bullet is its visual appeal—it draws
the reader’s eye to the most important material: your
accomplishments. In his book Trashproof Resumes, Timothy Haft asked
over 200 corporate recruiters and career development professionals,
which they preferred to see in resumes, bullets or paragraphs. Almost
three-quarters of recruiters and two-thirds of counselors preferred
bullets.
Case closed? Perhaps, but even those recruiters and counselors
would probably agree that the bullet style can be misused and is not
suitable for every resume. A row of six or seven straight bulleted
items, for example, wastes the attention-grabbing impact of the bullet,
as do bulleted items more than two lines long. Likewise, because
bullets should be less than three lines in length and set off before
and after by a blank line, they rob you of valuable real estate you
could use to greater effect.
For some resumes, then, the paragraph approach will be the answer. As
John Lucht notes in Rites of Passage , paragraphs can be (1) more
credible because they mirror the prose style of newspapers and books
whereas bullets suggest the throwaway superficiality of ad copy and (2)
more persuasive because by using full sentences and transitional words
like “as a result” or “consequently” they let
you provide more detail and show the evolution and interconnectedness
of your impact.
Some resume experts even claim that the paragraph style is more than a
useful alternative to bullets—it’s the only choice. In Best
Resumes for Attorneys, Joan Fondell and Mary Jo Russo characterize
bullets as “distracting and unprofessional” and urge the
use of “detailed, but concise” “prose-style”
paragraphs.
Consider carefully which approach, bullets or paragraphs, will work best for your specific needs.
--Paul Bodine, Senior Editor, Accepted.com
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