Magellan wrote:
stuckatfailure wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I would really appreciate it if Sandy the HBS guru or any HBS veteran applicants could give me some advice with regards to structure of the 3 accomplishment essay.
Should I number the accomplishments?
1) accomplishment 1
sub-essay
2) accomplishment 2
sub-essay
3) accomplishment 3
sub-essay
Or should they be embedded? So I will start the first sentence of each sub-essay with: "My proudest accomplishment is XXXX"
Would it be okay to do neither of above and just separate the sub essays into 3 paragraphs? The adcom could easily assume that they are 3 different accomplishments? Reason I ask is because the word limit is extremely restricting. Right now, I'm at 650 words after cutting it down from 1200. And every word counts..
Thanks for your help!
I did the same as suker but without the subtitles. Essays should be sufficently clear so that they figure out you list your 3 accomplishments
I know people who have done like me and people who have done like Suker. The "one embedded" essay will be very difficult to achieve. You loose some words with transitions which is not a good thing when struggling with word limit
Thank you Magellan! But without transitions, wouldn't the essay be a little choppy? Is that okay?
Also, I was wondering if generally it's okay to go over the word limit? 625 - 650 words on the 600 word essay?
Thanks for your help!