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Should You “Think Bravely” on Your Kellogg Application?

Blog on November 1st, 2011 No Comments

We just finished the Round 1 gauntlet (for the most part – yes, we’re talking to you, NYU Stern applicants!)  We noticed in the October flurry that many of our clients were concerned about Kellogg’s new marketing slogan.  In case you haven’t noticed, Kellogg recently launched a new “motto” that reads: “Think Bravely: we believe [...]

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Blog on October 14th, 2011 No Comments

5 Tips for Applying to MIT Sloan 5 Tips for Applying to MIT Sloan By the Amerasia Consulting Group  MIT Sloan is one of “those” schools – the ones that seem to slip into the nooks and crannies of the admissions process. People don’t talk about Sloan as much as its elite counterparts. Nobody immediately thinks about [...]

5 Tips for Applying to MIT Sloan

Blog on October 13th, 2011 No Comments

5 Tips for Applying to MIT Sloan By the Amerasia Consulting Group MIT Sloan is one of “those” schools – the ones that seem to slip into the nooks and crannies of the admissions process. People don’t talk about Sloan as much as its elite counterparts. Nobody immediately thinks about it in terms of being [...]

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5 Tips for Applying to NYU Stern for Round 1

Blog on September 30th, 2011 No Comments

5 Tips for Applying to NYU Stern for Round 1 This time of year we see two things from the people contacting us about Round 1: panic about the deadlines October 18 and earlier, and some planning for the later Round 1 deadlines.  It’s a little late for the former (although we can take people [...]

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Blog on July 18th, 2011 77 Comments

Breaking Down the 2012 Wharton Essays We’re going to call it the Wharton Weave – the art of taking the usual tenants of a career goals question and weaving them throughout an entire (and admittedly tough) Wharton application.  Last year we found that our clients were really stressed and somewhat confounded by the tiny Required [...]

Breaking Down the 2012 Wharton Essays

Blog, News on July 18th, 2011 118 Comments

We\’re going to call it the Wharton Weave – the art of taking the usual tenants of a career goals question and weaving them throughout an entire (and admittedly tough) Wharton application.  Last year we found that our clients were really stressed and somewhat confounded by the tiny Required Essay of 300 words that asked [...]

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Blog on July 14th, 2011 48 Comments

Chicago Booth’s 2011-2012 Application Deadlines and Essay Questions Are Now Available – And They are Pretty Much the Same

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Blog on June 28th, 2011 54 Comments

Breaking Down the 2012 Short Answers for Haas Okay, so here we are, ready to analyze another set of essays … err, Short Answers.  We were prepared to sit this one out, but we’ve been getting a ton of questions about the always daunting Haas application, specifically the five Short Answer questions.  (For the Career [...]

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Blog on June 17th, 2011 No Comments

Breaking down the New 2012 Essays for Ross If a tree falls in a forrest and there’s no one there to hear it … does it make a sound?  That old riddle is in our mind tonight because apparently the Ross 2012 Essays have been released … and just about nobody seems to have noticed.  [...]

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Blog on June 16th, 2011 59 Comments

The AACG Rankings of the Top U.S. B Schools We’re going to have some fun with the blog today by posting our completely biased, totally subjective ranking of the top U.S. “national” b schools.  What we mean by “national” is a program with a broad, national and international recruiting presence.  Basically not a “regional” school, [...]