Great Application Essays for Business School | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul Bodine
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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ISBN: 0071452990
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06665
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Expert guidance to help you write the essay that gets you accepted by the best business schools If you're applying to a business school these days, you need more than good grades, high GMAT scores, and an impressive resume. You need to write attention-grabbing essays that express your individuality, identify your goals, and play up your talents and strengths. Written by a renowned admissions consultant who has helped applicants get accepted into the nation's top schools, this all-in-one guide will show you what today's top-level admissions offices are looking for. Filled with clear guidelines, insider tips, and winning samples, it will lead you through every step of the application essay process. You'll learn how to organize and structure your writing, avoid common pitfalls, and market yourself like a pro. The book includes: - The 8 most common essay questions--and how to answer them
- 22 actual essays by successful applicants to top schools
- Interactive exercises and self-quizes to guide you in the right direction
- Self-marketing strategies to highlight your individual talents
- Candid insights from admissions officers at top-ranked business schools
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 Super long essays that obviously didn't meet word requirements are not good examples! November 30, 2008
The book provides a decent set of guidelines for writing essays. However, the example essays are all extremely long. For example the second (Chinese applicant to Wharton ) essay is at least 1,500 words when the word limit is only 1,000. I'm not sure if you can actually use any of these examples because of this. Also the outlines, introduction, conclusion etc the author suggests will take up valuable space. Overall the book is useful second or third resource but definitely not a definitive source for MBA essay writing. I found the "How to Get into.." book to be much more useful for my purpose.
What was most disappointing was that even for the longest essays the author comments never addressed the length of the essay!
 Excellent one November 25, 2008
I found this book is so good for me to write an application essay, particularly, supplement essay. Take it, it will be helpful.
 Essays for MBA October 19, 2008
If you look for examples of essays, this is the right book to buy. But it is short on the explanation about how to do the essays.
Good starting point October 6, 2008
It's a good book to develop the overall structure of your essay (and make sure you hit the "key points") but the essays included are not very moving or inspirational. If you write essays like these you probably won't get into business school; take these as suggestions and weave a more compelling narrative.
clear, concise and on the target August 26, 2008
very much on target. the ideas can be put to use straightaway. the comments from members of adcoms are really useful.
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