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Topics include: Essays, resumes, recommendations, rankings, and more!
Sep, 28, 2007
Click here for my Fall 2009 (Class of 2011) essay analysis. UPDATE AS OF 2/8/2008: I will not change my comments below regarding the ethics of Wharton because I think it is important that readers know what I had thought. I stand by my analysis of the essay questions, but given recent events, completely renounce […]
Sep, 28, 2007
You can find my analysis for Fall 2009 Admission here. In this post, I will specifically refer to Harvard Business School Essay 3a for Fall 2008: Discuss a defining experience in your leadership development. How did this experience highlight your strengths and weaknesses? HBS is about leadership. The HBS mission statement makes that clear: The […]
Sep, 28, 2007
You can find my analysis for Fall 2009 Admission (Class of 2011) to HBS here. This is the first in a series of posts on the Harvard Business School MBA Application Essays for the Class of 2010. Click for further analysis of Essay 2 and Essay 3a. It is rather obvious that the questions an […]
Sep, 27, 2007
This post has been updated for 2009. Click for my analysis for Fall 2009 Admission Analysis for HBS and Wharton. In this post, I will look at the “failure essay questions” asked by Wharton and Harvard Business School (click here for my initial analysis of the entire essay set). I think the reason both HBS […]
Sep, 24, 2007
One good argument for doing a graduate degree sooner rather than later is that it gets more expensive over time. This expense can be measured in terms of opportunity costs (lost income) and simple cost of tuition. The following is just one example of the latter. According to The Daily Californian, the Regents of the […]
Sep, 22, 2007
As I discussed in my previous post, I think everyone who applies to top LL.M. programs should think about the Harvard Law School essay questions even if they don’t intend to apply to Harvard. Harvard has the most difficult set of essay questions that any LL.M. program asks and most who apply to Harvard will […]
Sep, 22, 2007
After almost six years of counseling clients on US LL.M. admissions I have reached the conclusion that anyone applying to top LL.M. programs needs to understand the Harvard essays even if they are not applying there. When it comes to LL.M., I think Harvard Law School does. My reasoning is as follows: 1. Harvard Law […]
Sep, 21, 2007
While looking at the University of California Office of President’s website, I came across http://www.number2.com/, a site that offers free GRE preparation. I am not sure how good their preparation system is, but if the University of California is willing to link to it, I would certainly think it would be worth trying. “The company […]
Sep, 20, 2007
In the following post, I provide a detailed analysis of LL.M. acceptance rates. UPDATES TO THIS POST CAN BE FOUND HERE, BUT READ THIS FIRST. 10/6/07: I have now updated my table on LL.M. admissions rates. Please read this post for my overall analysis, but refer to my most recent for admissions rates. As I […]
Sep, 20, 2007
In the first post in this series, I considered the impact on LL.M applicants caused by the discrepancy between the way LL.M. and J.D. admissions data is reported. In the third post in this series, I will provide analysis of the relative difficulty of getting into top J.D. and LL.M. programs. Here, I consider the […]
