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Concentration: CPG Marketing
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Best Books -
Montauk's Getting into the Top MBA Programs (or something like that)
Paul Bodine's Successful Essays book
MBA Game Plan
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basically you need to find the answers to the following questions:

- Why MBA
- Why [insert school name here]
- Why now

all schools want you to answer these questions in the first essay, no matter the actual wording of the essay question.


PS. all the perfect things are simple, the perfect answer to the first essay question is very simple :)
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Thank you... (+1) to all