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Let\u2019s set the scene:<\/p>\nLet\u2019s set the scene:<\/p>\n
You\u2019re home for thanksgiving. You\u2019ve just finished draft one of your MBA application essay.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, everyone,\u201d you say, \u201cI just finished my essay. I sure could use some notes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSure,\u201d says your Mom, Dad, Uncle Farley, Aunt Monica, Great Uncle Craig and even Mr. Pearson, the creepy next door neighbor you don\u2019t know that well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you doing here, Mr. Pearson?\u201d you ask.<\/p>\n
\u201cBorrowing some sugar. I\u2019ll get those essay notes back to you ASAP,\u201d he says, closing the door behind him.<\/p>\n
Okay, it\u2019s great your friends and relatives want to help out (and that they can all be together for the Holidays!) But, in the MBA admissions consulting game, this is what we like to call too many cooks. In fact, exactly five too many cooks.<\/p>\n
Hold onto your hats, we\u2019re about to drop a knowledge bomb on you, Admissionado MBA Admissions Consulting-style:<\/p>\n
Instead of getting shallow feedback on your application from lots of people, it\u2019s best to get deep feedback from just one person whose judgement you trust. Someone who knows your accomplishments, goals, strengths and weaknesses. If it\u2019s a friend, great! Your Aunt Monica? Also great. (And send us her email! We may be hiring.)<\/p>\n
But your friend AND Aunt Monica AND that guy at work AND total strangers you\u2019ve met in an MBA Admissions forum\u2026 not so great.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n
1. Everyone\u2019s got an opinion, and, oftentimes, those opinions contradict one another.<\/strong> So if your goal is to be stopped dead in your tracks, unsure of which way to turn for the next draft of your essays, then asking 100 people for their opinion is the best idea you\u2019ve had all year. But if you want to make progress, and keep your message coherent (and your voice intact!), then you\u2019re going to want to stick with one person\u2019s feedback. And that one person better know you well (more on this in a second). A \u201ccrowdsourced\u201d effort will only muddle your arguments and hide your voice. MBA Admissions committees will definitely notice if your essay sounds like a word-collage or, worse, like someone that is very clearly NOT you.<\/p>\n 2. It\u2019s more important that you get feedback from someone who knows YOU, not the individual programs.<\/strong> Yeah, we know that goes against everything you may believe is true, but stay with us. Many, many applicants come to us, looking for MBA Admissions Consulting help, and tell us that they want to work with a different MBA consultant for each application. That can be up to 7 (or more!) different people!<\/p>\n The truth is, this is the exact wrong approach. MBA Admissions Consulting should be about getting to know you, so you can get your best stories <\/a>across in the most powerful, passionate and succinct way. Your job, as the applicant, is to present the best damn version of yourself that you can\u2026 no matter the school (or what the school is \u201cknown\u201d for). What the adcom doesn\u2019t want is a stack of apps from applicants that all look, sound, and feel the same. Kellogg may be known for marketing, but that doesn\u2019t mean you should pose a a \u201cmarketing\u201d guy to get in. And you shouldn\u2019t tell Wharton you\u2019re a finance guy if that\u2019s not really you. Every school wants diversity, so wouldn\u2019t it be smarter to figure out what makes YOU stand out, put that front and center for the adcom, and, you know, stand out? Yup, exactly. So find the guy (or gal) that knows YOU and helps you tell your story in the most compelling way, and just stick with him.<\/p>\n I mean, hell, it’s worked for us in our 8 years working with MBA applicants. Our MBA consultants<\/a> get to know applicants on a very deep level (and we mean\u00a0deep;\u00a0<\/em>sometimes there are things we wish we didn’t know about the applicants, like their membership status in the Taylor Swift Fan Club)\u00a0in order to help them identify their story, and then deliver it. And when those applicants trust in their consultant’s direction, resist the urge to crowdsource more feedback, and work hard, everyone wins.<\/p>\n ….but mostly the applicant, because\u00a0he or she\u00a0just got into\u00a0his or her\u00a0dream school.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [Photo courtesy of communitytable.com]<\/em><\/p>\n The post MBA Application Essays: Avoid Too Many Cooks<\/a> appeared first on Admissionado<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s set the scene: You\u2019re home for thanksgiving. You\u2019ve just finished draft one of your MBA application essay. \u201cHey, everyone,\u201d you say, \u201cI just finished my essay. I sure could…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[817],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissionado","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}