Hey everyone,
for those of you with access to the vault, check out Kwam's post for Sloan and GSB. Hopefully more of us will post (I will do my part once I get back from Asia in late June) and help out the 2009 folks.
For those of you who are curious, you need 400 posts or lots of Kudos to get access directly from Praetorian to get into the Vault. There aren't many essays in there yet, but hopefully we'll change that in the next few months. If you don't have the posts or kudos but want to contribute your essays, you can also PM Praetorian for special access.
The Essay Vault:113Guidelines for those interested:Hi Everyone,
We hope to strengthen GMATClub's B-school application services (so it grows as strong as the GMAT section), and thought that having essays from people who applied to b-schools will help the prospective students greatly! All we have today are those included in books like Bodine, Montauk, MBA Game Plan, and HBS 65 Essays. Those often contain "superhuman" stories that just don't help us "common Joes" much.
If we can get a greater sample of what good essays are from common people who do not have Olympic medals or saved the President from jihadists in Iran, it'll hopefully get more GMATClubbers into the school of their dreams!
Note: You do NOT need to be admitted to contribute. Just make sure you clearly state whether you are admitted to the school you wrote the essay for or not. Update on the forum: Discussions are OK, but we will delete the non-essay (or offers of essay) posts after a week or two to reduce clutter in each school's thread, so it's easier for people in the future to find essays they're interested in. Security/Privacy/Format: - Remove all personal info from the essays and as many proper nouns as possible; so no names of who you talked to, who you are, etc... To protect your privacy
- Mention your status with the school's application: admitted, rejected, waitlisted, deferred, withdrawn, etc...
- Include the essay question at the top of each essay.
- Please try to submit in password protected PDF file if possible. You can then decide to give out the password on an individual basis (by PM) or post it in a thread.
- Praetorian controls who can see this forum at all, so that's another level of security.
- If you're worried about people associating the essays to you, please send Praetorian your essays and he can post them up for you anonymously.
- If you're going to do the "River Method" of offering your essays to those who PM you and fit the criteria, could you please put your Member Profile link in your signature or in the post where you offer your essays? This way people can see if they're interested in your essays in the first place (e.g. if you're a banker or consultant and they want to see how those people apply, etc.). Thanks!
File Name Format/Organization:- Let's standardize the title of the post. Something like:
[Name of School] - [Essay # and Question] - [School Starting Year] - [Admit Status]
Ex: Stanford - Essay A - What Matters Most - 2008 - Admitted (I wish)- I have created threads for each UE/E/TE school, and NE/NEF schools as needed. Please post your essays in those threads to keep this forum organized.
Access:For access, similar to GMATClub Challenges, you currently need 400 QUALITY posts to be invited by Praet to the forum. Here are Praet's words:
Praetorian wrote:
If you are an 09 applicant, you will need 400 quality posts to have access to the forum. If you do this right, this will take you about 3 or more months -- long enough for us to know that you are legit.