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Surprise! How It Can Help You Get Accepted

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"My visit to the cemetary on Friday gave new meaning to 'Black Friday' for me." Actually it didn't. But if it had, that line would have provided a strong opening…

Application Essay Tip: Generic-Itis Prevention

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Accepted's editors have noted a new epidemic. No not swine flu. Not H1N1. Generic-itis. The symptoms: Mind-blowing, meaningless, and grand generic declarative statements without any substance, specifically related to why…

MBA R1 Admissions Deadlines Approach

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Yes those MBA deadlines are approaching. Rapidly. Kind of like a train roaring through a dark tunnel. Do you see the headlight peering through the gloom, growing brighter and brighter?…

Personal Statement Tip: Too many topics, too many words

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I just got back from an almost two-week vacation crowned by our younger son’s joyous wedding to a wonderful young woman. We couldn’t be happier. My husband once again faced…

Admissions Uber-value: Leadership

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I just finished reading The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel. This book's 557 pages plus 100+pages of footnotes tells…

MBA Admissions: The Distinguishing Debate

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In my meanderings on the web I came across an interesting post, "GmatClub.com Meet-up Report, Columbia’s optional essay 4, Changes in Recruiting" by a 2010 MBA applicant, XClick, who writes…

Yikes! My Essay is Too Long!!!

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Whether you are a medical school applicant dealing with the rigid character limits of the AMCAS application or a law or business school applicant responding to the slightly more flexible…

Great Application Essay

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I just read a great application essay/personal statement, and it's not even written by an Accepted client. In fact, it's not even written by an applicant. My daughter sent me…