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Hi kryzak and nervousgmat

I have created a admitted student essays forum. Only a few members currently have access. Let me know if you have been admitted and are interested in sharing your essays. I will enable access for you.

Some tips:

a) Post the document as a password protected PDF file.
b) Remove all personal information and as many proper nouns as possible.

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.

thanks.
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Praet,

Where's the said forum?
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Praet,

Where's the said forum?


I don't see it either?
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Praet,

As an admit w/o 400 posts, do I (and those who are similar to me) get access? I would like to pitch in. Furthermore, should we follow Kry's quidelines, as stated above, or do you have any other suggestions?
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activated access for mNeo, Ozmba and djhouse81.

djhouse81, we have provided guidelines. I will leave it to the contributors to decide how they want to post their essays.

thank you for your participation.
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Praet, add me as a contributor (and if you need any help with editing or moderating stuff).

Thanks!
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Praet, add me as a contributor (and if you need any help with editing or moderating stuff).

Thanks!


You are one of the moderators of that forum.
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Hi Preat,

I would like access too. Having been dinged twice, I have some interesting insights into common mistakes that people can make :)


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activated access for mNeo, Ozmba and djhouse81.

djhouse81, we have provided guidelines. I will leave it to the contributors to decide how they want to post their essays.

thank you for your participation.
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Hi,

Can I have the access too please?
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Can the post be made accessible to "Managers". I would definitely contribute a lot more once i get an admit, but to get to that, i might need some help from already successful essays.

Personally, i feel 50 posts do validate the person's commitment and authenticity.
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I think it will be best if interested parties PM Praet or his designee directly, for access requests. Discussing access requests in the open forum is probably not the best option and can lead to resentments and arguments.
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currently, Praetorian is the only person who can give access. The rest of us are just mods who are helping him organize the forum and things like that. I would follow NC's advice and PM Praet to sell your case. :)
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Peace..

Have sent a PM to Praet.
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I hate to say it but its pretty important to have a set number and not make exceptions. If you make exception for one person you have to make it for a bunch. The number has to be pretty high for obvious reason. I think its like the challenges, you need to earn the right to access them (I dont even have access to challenges). There are only a few essays there now so honestly there isnt anything that is going to help anyone this year.
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Hi kryzak and nervousgmat

I have created a admitted student essays forum. Only a few members currently have access. Let me know if you have been admitted and are interested in sharing your essays. I will enable access for you.

Some tips:

a) Post the document as a password protected PDF file.
b) Remove all personal information and as many proper nouns as possible.

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.

thanks.

I'd like to contribute, especially with GSB I think I have a good material. However, I still have some posts to get to 400, and not all of them are "quality posts" :lol:. But hey I'm a 10 applicant. Jokes aside, I'm here to help...
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kwam

I added you. Keep in mind that the post requirements are intended for 09 applicants. If you are writing to me to request access as an 08 applicant, there is not much available right now.

Remember that if you do not want GMAT Club to access your essays, you should post them as PDF password protected.
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pm'd praet
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