Be sure to read my key posts on the admissions process.
Topics include: Essays, resumes, recommendations, rankings, and more!
Sep, 01, 2007
I am pleased to announce the official launch of my graduate admissions consultancy. As of September 1, 2007, I have begun offering my services as an independent service provider. Since 2001, I have had the opportunity to advise many clients who were successfully admitted to top US and European graduate schools. I am now happy […]
Aug, 28, 2007
Blogs are a great source for inside information about MBA programs, the MBA application process, and the life of MBA students. Through the process reading about different applicants and students’ experiences you can get a much better idea about the reality of the application process and what it is like to be in an MBA […]
Aug, 26, 2007
I am not in the business of telling anyone that they need an MBA, only in helping committed applicants get in. Frankly I think one of my strengths as an MBA admissions consultant is that I am neutral about this question because I don’t believe that an MBA is always worthwhile or even necessarily the […]
Aug, 26, 2007
This is the fourth post in a four part series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Before discussing an overall plan for addressing the 2008 Chicago GSB’s MBA application questions, we need to look at the optional essay. The University of Chicago GSB’s MBA application for Fall 2008 also includes space for an optional essay […]
Aug, 26, 2007
This is the third post in a four part series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 4.After you read the post below, for my additional comments regarding this question, see here. It is not often that a school’s essay question gets the attention of the press, but the University of Chicago GSB’s Question Three has done […]
Aug, 25, 2007
This is the second post in a four part series. Part 1. Part 3. Part 4.I really like Chicago GSB MBA Application Question 2 for Fall 2008 admission because it uses a great idiom, “step into someone else’s shoes.” The question as a whole reads:2. If you could step into someone else’s shoes for a […]
Aug, 24, 2007
This is the first of a series four posts on the University of Chicago GSB’s MBA application essays for Fall 2008 admission. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. While I know everyone wants to know about Question 3, the PowerPoint (not Power Point or power point) question, I will begin with the basics. As I […]
Aug, 24, 2007
I am pleased to announce my membership in AIGAC, The Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants. I am now the first admissions consultant in Japan to be accepted as a member of the sole professional organization for graduate admissions consulting. All MBA and other graduate school applicants would benefit from taking a look at the […]
Aug, 24, 2007
I have launched THE MBA, LAW & GRADUATE ADMISSIONS BOOKSTORE. I have included both books that I can personally recommend, Adam’s Picks, and books in categories that are most likely to be useful to readers of this blog. All of Adam’s Picks have my mini-reviews.Frankly, I have no idea whether anyone will use this, but […]
Aug, 22, 2007
Now for a moment of shameless promotion for the MBA program at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (I can’t really help it because both my brother and I studied there. He did his BA and JD and I did my MA there. Plus when an alumni tour came to Tokyo this year, they […]
