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Linda Abraham 2 days ago
The GMAT quantitative section is different from most math tests. You don’t usually see Data Sufficiency questions outside the GMAT, for one thing. They’re tricky, and mastering them requires a high level of familiarity. The good news is that the answer choices are the same for every question, and precise calculations are often unnecessary. Then there are the word problems. All that text takes a long time to read. With 37 questions to do within a scant 75-minute period, you have an average of about two minutes to answer each question. It can be nerve-racking to spend almost half of this precious time just parsing out questions that are essentially prose versions of a company’s balance sheet. Maybe it seems silly to you to have to read through a lengthy explanation of two trains traveling on parallel tracks at different rates, when it would be a lot simpler to just look at a well-labeled diagram. After all, there is a reason why balance sheets, graphs, and diagrams exist, right? ...
Linda Abraham 2 days ago
There is a lot going on for MBA's at Accepted.com: MBA November special ends on Monday November 30. You can save $100 on any order of $2000 or more. Start now to be ready for those January deadlines. (Coupon code MBA100.) But hurry. The coupon code expires on Monday at midnight Eastern Time (GMT -5:00). MBA Letters of Recommendation that Rock , November's featured ebook, is 20% off through November 30. That's this Monday. It's back to full price on Tuesday. New MBA Interview Reports . Check them out. We have recent interview reports from Harvard, Stanford, and many others. And don't forget to share your interview experience. Doing so will automatically enroll you in our It's a 10! contest, making you eligible to win an Amazon gift certificate. Consortium Chat. On Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM PT/8:00 PM ET/1:00 AM GMT , Accepted.com will host an online chat for those interested in applying through the Consortium for Graduate Study in ...
Rebecca Blustein 3 days ago
Diction, voice, tone, style: the elements of writing. For many of you, we know, sitting down to that blank page can be intimidating, and even talking about terms like “diction” can make you glaze over. But your style—the clarity and readability of your writing—is fundamental to how you communicate. Some of you may fret that your vocabulary won’t be advanced enough to dazzle the adcom. Some of you might be used to writing in a very technical style (or not writing at all). For others, English is not your first language, and you feel uncertain about expressing yourself in it. All of this anxiety leads some people to write in a formal, stilted style. You might recognize the markers: passive sentences; long, convoluted clauses; repetitive constructions. This artificially formal style tends to be impersonal, passive, and indirect. It hides your voice, and can be difficult, obscure, or even boring to read. What’s the solution? Focus on fundamentals. Your goal is to communicate ...
Linda Abraham 3 days ago
Since first starting the Accepted blog in March 2004. I have personally authored 2-3,000 posts on admissions, writing, school news, and occasionally something of a more personal nature, but still with relevance, however tangential, to applicants and admissions. My favorite post is my 2007 Thanksgiving post, a story of appreciation and gratitude. The importance of appreciation hit me over the head last week when I received a call from a father whose son is graduating Stanford with a stellar GPA in a high demand field. (I have changed details in this story for confidentiality.) The father called because his son has 6 job offers and wanted to know which one I thought would be better from an MBA admissions perspective. The job offers were from companies that many would give their eye teeth to work for-- fantastic opportunities for growth and professional advancement with "brand" companies or boutique firms. BUT, the job that the son really wanted wasn't among ...
Linda Abraham 9 days ago
The New York Times published an article this week "Letting Your Grad Student Go " on the phenomenon of helicopter parents in graduate schools admissions. Yes, I mean graduate, not undergraduate, admissions. I have a dual perspective on helicopter parenting. I have been working in graduate admissions as a private consultant for the last fifteen years, and I also am the mother of five children ranging in age from 21-28. As the article reports my baby-boomer peers, the mothers and fathers of millenials, are playing more and more of a role in the application process. As a consultant I have no problem with parents calling for information, footing the bill for Accepted's services, and providing advice and input to their adult children when the children request it. As a parent, however, I cringe when parents insert themselves into the admissions process and attempt to control it in a misguided attempt to protect their children from possible disappointment or perhaps even ...
