I've been asked -- by another admissions consultant to promote my HBS interviewing packages more widely. The great Candy LaBalle says I need to get out there more. I am less than 1/2 the price of the ones that are advertising on P&Q and I actually went...
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Today is May 19 and we are just about to start a new application season. I'm sending my successful applicants off to school, feeling like a mother hen with her chicks. This is also the time when people look for consultants, and I know they...
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The other evening, someone asked me if l had seen the definition of leadership change since I started Master Admissions, and the answer is “absolutely.” Why do I say that? Because I have personally evolved on what I think a leader is made of, and as...
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The essays and recommendations play a big role in MBA admissions, mostly because admissions committees are trying to gauge the candidate’s leadership potential. When preparing your essays or your briefing sheet for your recommenders, you want to address very specific leadership traits. Many prospective students ask...
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[caption id="attachment_3657" align="alignright" width="300"] Ex-Marine Angie Morgan[/caption] The MBA essay questions are coming out, and students are already pondering how they can make themselves stand out and show leadership in MBA essays. It's no secret that admissions readers want to read about an applicant's personal leadership experience. But what...
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What does an admissions committee look for? It's not all odds or chances, or thumbs up or thumbs down. They have real discussions about a candidate's strength, her potential, and importantly, the information they have chosen to share. Betsy joined a panel at the Poets &...
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Introducing the B-School Bossypants! Two smart women give you straight talk on your profile and how to get admitted. Betsy from HBS (that's me!) and Pamela from CBS tell it like it is on all things MBA admissions. In today’s episode, the Bossypants talk to a...
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Guess what. Six months from now we will be at the beginning of October. Shocking, isn't it, that those of you who are thinking of applying to business school in the first round have only six months to figure it all out. You've got a...
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Many aspiring business school applicants wonder how to present themselves as authentic leaders before an admissions committee. They worry they don’t have a fancy title, they don’t have direct reports, or they haven’t thrown themselves in front of a land mine to save their fellow...
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Quite a few of you are trying now to figure out what to do while hanging out on the waitlist for your top-choice MBA program. It’s a tough position, you just want to get out of purgatory. First, the good news: people are admitted off...
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