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Essays or statements of purpose are required to distinguish yourself from thousands of applicants with comparable credentials.”Your essays must not only map your career ambitions to the mission of the school, they must also paint a vivid picture of your leadership ability and character – one that compels a busy admissions officer to accept you”

Turn Failure Into a Great Business School Admissions Essay

Turn Failure Into a Great Business School Admissions Essay

🕔01:00, 17.Jun 2016

It’s the dreaded failure topic: “Describe a situation taken from your personal or professional life where you failed.” MBA applicants often freak out when faced with this common admissions essay question because they fear that showing any weakness will torpedo

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Prepare for Short Answer MBA Application Essay Questions

Prepare for Short Answer MBA Application Essay Questions

🕔01:00, 26.Feb 2016

Ten years ago, lengthy MBA essays were a staple of business school applications. Flash forward to today, and admissions departments worldwide have reduced the word count and number of essays candidates must tackle. Whether the influence is social media, with

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Acing the MBA Admissions Essay

Acing the MBA Admissions Essay

🕔01:00, 9.Feb 2016

If you’re working on an essay for an MBA program this application season, here’s one big tip: do not mention Hitler when you’re writing about leadership. Julie Barefoot, admissions director at Emory’s Goizueta Business School, said that receiving a leadership

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Avoid These 10 Mistakes in MBA Application Essays

Avoid These 10 Mistakes in MBA Application Essays

🕔01:00, 29.Jan 2016

The essay component of the MBA application is a chance to really wow the admissions committee and stand out from potentially thousands of other candidates with similar GMAT scores or GPAs. There are many ways to craft a stellar essay

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Want to Get Into Business School? Write Less, Talk More

🕔01:00, 2.Jul 2014

Business schools want to know more about their applicants. So, they’re asking them to do less. Some elite M.B.A. programs have been cutting the number of required essays for admission, while others have trimmed or streamlined requirements for recommendation letters.

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Essay writing lesson 1: Tackling the Question

🕔01:00, 3.Jan 2003

Think of the essay as the face of your application. An application without an essay is a statistic – just another faceless person in a crowd. An application with a poorly written essay does not give admissions officers the chance

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Essay writing lesson 2: Brainstorming a topic

🕔01:00, 3.Jan 2003

Choosing an essay topic can be one of the most difficult aspects of the entire admissions process. Questions often ask you to think about your entire life, pick just one thing, and talk about it in great depth. Even the

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Essay writing lesson 3: Structure and outline

🕔01:00, 3.Jan 2003

The easiest way to sabotage all the work you have done so far is to skip this lesson. Writing is as much a discipline as it is an art, and to ensure that your essays flow well and make sense,

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Essay writing lesson 4: Style and Tone

🕔01:00, 3.Jan 2003

Over the years, our editors have seen some amazing stories become dreadfully boring and some ridiculously dry topics transform into an exciting read. The culprit (or hero): writing style. Witness the advice of some admissions officers: Use a conversational style

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Essay writing lesson 5: Introductions and conclusions

🕔01:00, 3.Jan 2003

Surprised to see introductions as the topic of our second-to-last lesson? Most writers find that it is nearly impossible to craft an essay by beginning with the introduction. The best leads often develop during and after writers have written the

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