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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
- What's
New at Accepted: Deadlines Dead Ahead; Ebook
Prices Rising; Acceptances Rolling In; Featured Ebook
- Chats:
Upcoming Chats: Notre Dame, Emory Goizueta, and UCLA Anderson; New Chat
Transcripts: INSEAD, Consortium and LBS
- Blog
Posts of Interest
- Essay
Tip: What Do They Mean by Passion?
- Resume
Tip: Resume Advice for Career Changers
- Wrap Up:
Accepted.com Services; Newsletter Subscription Management
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Deadlines Dead Ahead
Deadlines are here. We want to help you, but please give us enough time
to do so. Don't wait -- sign up
today or contact your editor for additional assistance.
Ebook Prices are Rising
Circumstances are conspiring and contributing to an ebook price
increase -- Accepted’s first-ever, across-the-board price
increase on information products. Purchase them in January to beat it.
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: ebooks,
this newsletter,
the Accepted Admissions Almanac
blog, the admissions
chats, and our articles
& email courses. Please take a minute to share your success.
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.
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she
hosts the following chats with these leading MBA
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Notice Notre Dame
Join us for our
first ever Notre Dame chat on Wednesday
January 9 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/ 6:00 PM GMT with
Brian Lohr, Notre Dame's Director of MBA Admissions.
Evaluate Emory Goizueta
Applying to Emory
Goizueta? Then come and chat with Julie Barefoot,
Associate Dean and Director of MBA Admissions on Monday Jan. 14 at 10:00 AM
PT/1:00 PM EST/6:00 PM GMT.
Anderson Awareness
Ask your pressing
UCLA Anderson questions on Thursday
January 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT
when Lydia Heyman, UCLA Anderson's Interim Director of Admissions
fields your questions.
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Editor’s Secrets
Years ago, when I first heard b-school representatives talking about
wanting to see passion in applications, I thought to myself,
"You’re looking for passion from a bunch of investment
bankers
and engineers???? That’s a pretty calculating bunch."
"Passion" has a sexy ring to it. An emotional, visceral appeal. It
evokes images of glamorous actors and actresses in hot and heavy
romances. The good guy in a Frank Capra film changing history. Generals
exhorting the troops before sending them into battle.
Forget the steamy romances. Forget the hero delivering a stirring
speech. Forget the generals addressing their troops.
That’s not what we’re talking about in admissions.
"Passion" in admissions -- be it college, MBA, law, medical, or grad
school -- means dedication and commitment. It requires action over time.
It can be calculated, and it can be goal-oriented. It may lead to a
feverish culmination, an earth-shattering moment, and it may not. It
can be any one of the following and an infinite number of other
activities:
- Spending
hours practicing the cello day-in and day out, year after year.
- Assuming
responsibility
for an annual silent auction that raises thousands of dollars for your
favorite cause during the five years that you have chaired it.
- Training
and training and training so that you beat your personal best in the
race of your choice.
- Volunteering
at a medical or legal clinic twice a week since your sophomore year in
college.
Next
time you see
the word "passion" in an admissions context, look between the lines.
Read "dedication." And those calculating, number-crunching, spreadsheet
addicts among you, remember this equation: Passion = Action + Dedication.
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Preparing
a Résumé for School When You Are Changing
Direction or Careers
Very often graduate school applicants are either
changing
careers or shifting direction within an industry or function. In either
case, the résumé that accompanies the application
should
not just detail past accomplishments and responsibilities, but also
reflect your preparedness for your new path. That preparedness involves
transferring skills from your current to your future role.
In writing such a résumé, the first and key step
is to
identify the skills you have developed that are relevant to your new
career. Here are three examples:
- You are assistant manager of product development in a
pharmaceutical
firm and are applying to medical school. Transferable skills relevant
to medicine include problem-solving (indicate how you approach the
process), communicating technical information to non-specialists,
leading and/or working on cross-functional teams, dealing with
government regulations and requirements, and evaluating the needs of
prospective patients/end-users.
- You are a process consultant applying to MBA programs
and intending to
pursue a career in finance. Skills that would be relevant to finance
include analytical thinking, quantitative analysis (you may not be
doing financial modeling, but you probably project budgets, perform
statistical analyses, and/or calculate staffing needs and expenses),
interfacing with clients, and synthesizing data from disparate sources.
- You are a high school teacher applying to law school
to work in
contract law. Relevant skills include analyzing data and making
judgments and decisions based on your analysis (for assessments of
students), synthesizing information from various sources, breaking down
and communicating complex ideas, drawing out people's ideas and
facilitating discussion to identify key points, and communicating
critical issues with diverse parties - students, parents,
administrators, peers, and various specialists.
In presenting the relevant skills, don't just describe or explain them,
but portray them through specific accomplishments and experiences. The
readers will see that you both understand and have what it takes to
excel in your new career.It's a challenge to effectively portray your
responsibilities while
keeping the focus on the accomplishments, but by following the simple
approaches above, you'll find it's quite manageable.
Cindy
Tokumitsu
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