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This MBA admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. Anyone who’s familiar with the MBA application process knows that August moves forward at an accelerated pace, and come September, entire weeks seem to disappear.  To help this year’s Round One applicants avoid the classic time crunch, today’s blog post offers some basic advice on how to approach the Round One deadlines… Read more

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This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert law school admissions advice, check out their blog. Most law schools require applicants to be registered for the Credential Assembly Service (CAS), which is a function of the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), the organization that oversees the law school admissions process, including administrating the LSAT. CAS is an organizational tool that serves to streamline the application process for both applicants… Read more

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This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert admissions advice, check out their blog. There are numerous sources that can knowledgeably rank the “top” MBA programs.  However, because business schools receive different rankings depending on sources’ criteria, it can be difficult to understand which are the “best” schools.  Therefore, today we’d like to talk about how b-school applicants can use rankings to discover the “best” schools—for them.  Although the… Read more

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This admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert admissions advice, check out their blog. While we’ve previously offered advice on addressing weaknesses in one’s academic record, today we wanted to explore the other side of the issue: your undergraduate record’s strengths. 1. The undergraduate GPA is, alongside the LSAT score, one of the most important elements of the law school application. Therefore an impressive college GPA is crucial… Read more

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This weekly MBA admissions tip comes from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert b-school admissions advice, check out their blog. As the summer progresses and applicants begin researching their target schools in more depth, we would like to highlight a valuable research tool: school-hosted blogs. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the number of MBA student blogs hosted by schools’ admissions offices, as well as in admissions offices’ use… Read more

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This MBA admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. Given the emphasis that schools place on a candidate’s work experience, it is important to be proactive in addressing gaps in employment.  When applying to business school, many candidates worry about how the adcom might perceive gaps in employment.  We would like to take some time to discuss strategies for addressing this… Read more

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This weekly MBA admissions tip comes from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert admissions advice, check out their blog. As many applicants are finding out at this time of year, conducting thorough research on MBA programs is an essential step in formulating a list of target schools and crafting convincing essays. Surfing the web and speaking with friends and mentors are great starting points in identifying programs of interest. However, to really get… Read more

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This post comes from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. We wanted to offer some general tips for the Class of 2014 applicants on getting the most mileage out of resumes in the admissions process. As many of our readers know, the resume is not only an important component of your application package, it’s also a great place to start when crafting your overall positioning strategy…. Read more

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This weekly MBA admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit.  For more expert b-school admissions advice, check out their blog. With several of the leading schools having already released their essay questions for this admissions season, we’re sure that quite a number of early birds are eager to get a jump on the process in order to complete as many applications as possible by Round One. As applicants find themselves brainstorming… Read more

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This MBA admissions tip comes to us from Igor Khayet, founder of My Resume Shop. There are two broad categories of MBA applicants: those who naturally fit the MBA stereotype, and those who naturally stand out. No matter what group you fall into, the challenge is to present yourself as a hybrid of both. No school wants to admit a clone, nor do they want to take a person whose skills and career trajectory aren’t… Read more

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