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you are welcome..remember try to find examples of leadership ..you still have time to ..so go do something about it!

First tip, you dont have to apply r1 and compromise on the quality of your application, remember saying you are leader isnt going to cut it, you need to give examples. Dont hesitate to reach out to the CEO and get him to notice you and hopefully come R2 he will write your LOR.

Second tip, make sure your essays are not boring, dont appear monotone; make em exciting and lively. Key to any good essay is that the first line is catchy ..and as I read it I get more involved and i want to get to the end of it!

Third tip, contrary to popular belief you dont need to get a letter from the manager who has known you since child birth..the big names matter PERIOD! if some guy happens to advice the President of the USA, his letter/phone call will get the Deans of these schools scrambling to get you!

Fourth tip, HBS really doenst give much weight to GMAT, they care more about GPA, they are willing to overlook a subpar gmat score if your GPA is solid..i got this from own experience, I asked the adcom during my interview, why she hadn't asked about my sub-rockstar gmat score and she plainly said, we care more about your UG/Grad GPA. So if you went to a decent academic UG school, your GPA will carry you!

Fifth tip, please prepare for the B-school interview! I realize it was a bad idea for me to stop my kellogg interviewer halfway in the interview and tell her she is wasting her time asking me mundane questions that really are not very important to my profile.. I will say spend $$$ and call HBSguru, his coaching helped me stay to the point, not go into story telling and yet be very high-level, details are boring and only you like em cause you went thru em...unless of course you are talking about your experience being shot at by the taliban in the swat valley while you were trying to protect kids in the school you had helped build (true story by the way)!


FN,

can you add this to the HBS thread and the best app threads?

thanks :)
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It was great meeting all the ppl.
FN - ur an urban legend!

Cheers!
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Btw, what is this vault that you guys were talking about yesterday?
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Some of us are trying too meet up at the Crocodile Lounge next Wednesday, the home of free pizza! Every pint of beer ($5-6) comes with a 10" personal pizza pie.

Any interest? Jerz, fatb and I plan on attending. And stuffing ourselves silly. :food

14th St. between 2nd and 1st.
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i'm down. been there before. pizza is not that good. but it's free..so there's lot of college girls there for those of you who are into the younger ones : )
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for those of you who are into the younger ones : )

This sounds a little too much "To Catch a Predator" for me so I'm out.

j/k just found out my company is throwing me a farewell dinner next Wed. night so I can't make it.
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What about Tuesday?

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j/k just found out my company is throwing me a farewell dinner next Wed. night so I can't make it.
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So I saw your little gmatclub party come up in my Google RSS reader (via accepted.com) - Xclick is making you all famous! 8-)
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So I saw your little gmatclub party come up in my Google RSS reader (via accepted.com) - Xclick is making you all famous! 8-)

WAIT! WHAT????? :shock:

Follow Up: Never mind. I see what you mean. xclick has one of those MBA blogs registered for Accepted.com contest....

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haha, don't worry guys. i didn't out anyone.
and it's xlick like slick, NOT xclick
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Some of us are trying too meet up at the Crocodile Lounge next Wednesday, the home of free pizza! Every pint of beer ($5-6) comes with a 10" personal pizza pie.

Any interest? Jerz, fatb and I plan on attending. And stuffing ourselves silly. :food

14th St. between 2nd and 1st.

I'm potentially in for next week sometime.
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Tuesday would work for me.
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So, let's go with Tuesday since that seems to work for more people?
Hope you can make it too, Steel.
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So, let's go with Tuesday since that seems to work for more people?
Hope you can make it too, Steel.

Sounds good to me - what time?
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I have meeting scheduled at 5pm. Shouldn't be more than 1 hr. 6pm-ish as usual, Solaris?
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Yeah, let's go with 6:30-ish? 4/5/6/N/R/Q/W to Union Square and then east on 14th St. Looking forward to it, guys!
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Come on, guys. Don't make me stay at work until 6. Anyone else who's interested in getting there around 5:30?
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