Amerasia Consulting Group, LLC

We offer an additional school with the purchase of a 3-School Engagement or greater. The offer is good through April 1, 2012 and cannot be combined with any other discounts. To be clear, if you purchase a 3 schools, you will receive a fourth. If you purchase 4 schools, you will receive a fifth. In lieu of [...]

I tell my clients up front that they have to waive their right and that it is not really an option to not do so.

Not waiving your right could tell the adcom that you don’t trust your recommenders.

This time of year, we start to hear people ask a lot about the JD/MBA degree path. It’s understandable, given the popularity of both programs and the temptation to get two degrees normally totaling five years of school in just three or four years.

That said this is a time we usually ask people to stop and think things through. Why? Because you can shoot yourself squarely in the foot if you rush off and apply as a JD/MBA applicant instead of one or the other.

Let’s work through this.

For starters, we are not speaking to the small group of you who has your heart set on this path. For someone who is dead set on a JD/MBA, it is worth any risks to go ahead and put your cards on the table because you need to know exactly where you have this specific opportunity. So please, don’t abandon your dreams because of this post.

From a recent client: What can I do to get off the waitlist and into Kellogg and Wharton? Waitlist season is soon approaching. It’s inevitable that you will be waitlisted at some of your school choices. My opinion is that an effective hedging strategy should include a stretch, safe-stretch and backup school selections. Getting waitlisted [...]

Late October/Early November often means one thing: a host of people contacting us about NYU Stern Rd 1 applications. (If you are one of them, hurry and connect with us as we are running out of spots.) We wanted to pass along 5 tips that should prove helpful as you attack this application: 1. Understand [...]

Andrew was a re-applicant, having applied to Columbia Business School the year before.  He knew that he would be under the gun to answer “what had he improved since late applying to Columbia.”  However, since last applying, his professional situation had taken a turn for the worse. Andrew had been laid off from his New [...]

For international experience to be significant it has to be something that you can write about at length and appropriately in a b-school essay. Can you articulate how you lead a team in a multi-national or cross border environment?  This is what the adcom would want to see if you were writing an essay.  A [...]

Maureen was a re-applicant, having applied to several top ten schools the year before. At 31, she was leaving the traditional age range for full time business school applicants. Her challenge would be to explain “Why MBA?, Why now?” without signaling to the admissions committee that she may be looking for an “escape hatch” from [...]