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($) So-called “alternative transcripts”: MOOCs, continuing education, and additional ed experiences in your MBA apps

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In our impromptu series on gathering your docs for your MBA app, focusing on what transcripts do you need to submit, we’ll continue today with a question of strategy combined with tactics. The strategy is that, for some of you, your grades do not reflect your abilities (ugh please do not say that in your…

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($) Being clear in your writing: Personal interests on the resume (and everywhere else)

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This written communication thing is tricky business. Not only do you need to put yourself in your reader’s shoes and remember that they don’t have a clue about you and your world, but you also have to resist the natural tendency to fancy-up your sentences, and instead stick to normal everyday language. Developing good essays…

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($) “How much should recommenders material overlap with the stories I relate in my essay?”

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We got a question posed on the blahg that we coulda sworn we’d answered directly here at some point, but a search turned up nothing. We’re going to repost this because we know that not everyone reads the ‘snarchive and even when they do, they don’t always look at the comments. Here’s what we were…

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($) Resume content <-> app dataset

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(To continue on with Resume Week!!) When they open up a new app to review, many admissions directors start with the resume. It’s really really (really really!) important. The resume holds so many opportunities for optimization and ways you can share insights! Don’t overlook these important aspects to your app. The app dataset also offers…

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($) The resume and the Sloan cover letter

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We originally included this in yesterday’s post on the resume essay content as part of our Resume Week series — but Sloan is different! This deserves to be discussed separately — and despite the title of this post, this is NOT specific only to Sloan! Tips for your other apps also found here.   Q:…

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($) Resume content <-> essays

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It’s Resume Week! Every day this week, we’ll be discussing MBA application strategies around the resume as a key component within your overall presentation. Today is a Q&A from different BSers trying to figure out how to optimize the info that they should be sharing, and where. These all came in at various times from…

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It’s Resume Week!

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It’s so weird. When we decided to do this, we were all excited about the alliteration. RESUME WEEK! It just sounds like it’s meant to be, right? And then when we started writing the posts, we’re like, “Hmmm, but it’s not actually alliterative.” That may mirror your experience of creating your resume. You THINK you’re…

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($) Resume dead weight, aka, easy things you can cut

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Point 1: You should not simply take your existing resume (that you have not updated in two years) and slap it onto your application for business school. * Why? Because it probably sucks. [No offense, guys. Most people’s resumes suck. Too much/unnecessary information, poor layouts. Subject for another post.] And/or it’s too long. And/or it’s…

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What is an “MBA resume”?

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We talked recently about a holistic strategy, in response to the BSer complaint, “Why do I have to say that in the essay when I’m already telling them that in the app?” In that post, we told you about making the most of each application component. One often-overlooked yet CRITICAL part of your application project…

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($) Why we’re posting about political stuff (and also MBA content: What can you do now to help your Rd 2 chances)

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Last week we said that we weren’t going to keep on about the politics – but the world is clearly a different place than it was pre-January 20. If you think that politics doesn’t matter, then a) we beg to differ, b) the stock market feels differently, and b) we don’t know how you expect to effectively manage a company someday. Not to mention the whole, you know, human decency and American values aspects. This stuff affects us all, even if it feels remote/removed from your day to day life. We’re not going to become a political blahg but we can’t pretend this stuff is not happening. Many, many Brave Supplicants are international and besides that, THESE POLICIES ARE CHANGING THIS COUNTRY. To put up another “How to get in!!!” post just feels completely tone-deaf and ridiculous. We won’t ignore it.

If that’s not your thing then we’re not offended if you choose not to stick around. Our Twitter feed will have some education-related political content, and from time to time (gosh we hope it’s not every day – please please please can this country come to its senses soon) we may be using this space to point you towards resources, issues or positions that we feel are important.

Comments are always welcome if you have a perspective to share, either in agreement or opposition with ours (provided it’s civil – free speech is important but we won’t tolerate trolling).

We’ll also be covering strategy and tactics on MBA admissions of course, so today let’s proceed with the topic we had queued up:

Round 2 is underway: You wrote your essays. You got the recs. You submitted your app.

Now what?

There isn’t a whole lot you can do (besides pray) to affect outcomes with apps that are in the adcom’s hands.

But there is one thing:

 

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