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MBA
STUDIO IN THE NEWS
Business Week: Boning up on
Admissions
Strategy
MSN:
Are You MBA Material?
EZine:
12 Steps to Admissions Success
EZine:
The Myth of the 800 Gmat
EZine:
25 Common Weaknesses in MBA Applicants
About.com
interview with Avi Gordon
The
Times (London) Online
Article Series
Avi Gordon's
page on
Amazon.com
Avi Gordon
- World MBA Tour:
Essay chat transcript
World MBA Tour: Admissions
Briefing
(PPT)
ESSAY
WRITING RESOURCES
UWM Writing Center
Perdue's Writing Lab
Sentence Sense
Essay
Advice
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Nuts and Bolts
KU Writing Center
Writing Tips for
Two Bucks Fifty
General Principles of Good Writing
Writing Resources Online
The Five-Paragraph Essay
The Economist's style book
is now
online. It is an excellent free guide to
practical writing do's and don'ts (like do you
cap vice president?) and is a great general
writing advisory.
SOME
UNCOMMON
RESOURCES
Watch this
video, if you can't figure out why it's
important for MBA Admissions, email us ...
Last Lecture
MBA Studio
highly recommends "Made
to Stick" by Chip & Dan Heath, as
the best single resource on effective messaging.
(This plus MBA Admissions Strategy ;)
The
HBS
promo video is well worth watching, for an
insight into Harvard, the case method, and the
candidate attributes the school seeks. What they
say here is true of many other schools too. An
alternative link is
here.
See the
first 10 minutes of the movie "21". MBA
Admissions not exactly akin to a Harvard pre-Med
scholarship, but the competitive principles are
identical. Note the focus on real life
experience and the bit about "dazzling". |