Be sure to read my key posts on the admissions process.
Topics include: Essays, resumes, recommendations, rankings, and more!
Apr, 27, 2011
My analysis of the INSEAD application essays can be found here. My overall strategy for interviewing can be found here. INSEAD alumni interviews, of which most applicants will have two of, are not necessarily that hard in any obvious way. The INSEAD website states that the majority of applicants will have two such interviews. Actually, […]
Apr, 26, 2011
This post is focused on the HBS 2+2 program. For the regular MBA program essays, see here. For the regular program, recommendations see here. For HBS interviews, see here. In this very long post, I will discuss the HBS 2+2 Program Class of 2016 MBA application essays and recommendations. I have only worked with two […]
Apr, 25, 2011
This is revised and extended from a post that I wrote in 2008. In this post I will consider the most nebulous factor of school selection that can have real lifetime consequences: prestige. We can define prestige in this context as the brand value of a school in terms of the status that it confers […]
Apr, 25, 2011
In this post, revised from three that I last updated in 2008, I will consider the role of academic fit, location, and financing in graduate school selection. I suggest reading my posts on fit and prestige as well. ACADEMIC FIT Whether you are in the process of deciding where to go or are deciding where […]
Apr, 25, 2011
I love reapplicants because they approach the admissions process with a level of commitment, realism, and focus that only the best first-time applicants can match. Failure is a harsh teacher, but for intelligent people, a great one. For fall 2011, my reapplicant clients obtained admission at HBS, Stanford GSB, Haas, Chicago Booth, INSEAD and Columbia University […]
Apr, 25, 2011
This is another post from Taichi Kono, author of two textbooks on TOEFL and one on TOEIC and a highly experienced TOEFL, TOEIC, and GMAT instructor. Most of his posts will be in Japanese. This post is on GMAT sentence correction. His other posts can be found here. -Adam ——————————————————————————————— 河野塾代表の河野太一です。年来の友人であるAdam Markusさんのご厚意で、”The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 12th Edition”の解説ブログの内容の一部をこちらにアップさせていただくことになりました。オリジナルは河野太一のGMAT OG12解説でご覧いただけます。なお、オリジナルのほうは予告なく内容を変更することがあり、ここに上げたものと相違があることがありますのでご了承ください。私のこれまでの記事やGMAT以外の話題についてはこちらをご覧ください。 SC23 […]
Apr, 22, 2011
Like everyone else on the Oxford Said MBA programme (using UK English here) mailing list, I received this gem of bureaucratic lies in my email today: “In light of the recent changes to the UK Border Agency VISA entry regulations and following a high number of requests from candidates, the Saïd Business School has extended […]
Apr, 22, 2011
In this post, I will provide an overall perspective on fit and to its role in graduate school selection. This post applies to MBA, Masters of Law, public policy, and all other types of graduate programs. FINDING FIT IN A WORLD OF CHOICES In a world of choices, it is all about fit, that is […]
Apr, 18, 2011
“Ninety percent of life is just showing up.” -Woody Allen “The other ten percent is what differentiates the successful from the merely hardworking.” -Adam Markus Well, except for some third round and waitlist admissions that I am hoping for some of my clients, the 2010-2011 admissions season is done. As a group, my clients did […]
Apr, 13, 2011
Note: This post has not been updated because it is a transcript. So you want to get into Stanford GSB? A talk I delivered on March 26, 2011 in Tokyo If you are considering applying to Stanford for fall 2012, I suggest listening to my talk and/or reading the edited transcript below. I had three […]
