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		<title>What If You Wrote MBA Admissions Essays Not To Turn Them In? (And Then You Did)</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2012/01/mba-admissions-essays-not-to-turn-in/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2012/01/mba-admissions-essays-not-to-turn-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting the tone right in MBA Admissions essays &#8212; particularly a fine balance between self-confidence and humility &#8212; is really tricky. There are no hard and fast rules for this, and the exact mix depends on the candidate. The swaggering quant at BlackRock, NY, is going to have to adopt an altogether more modulated tone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving the HBS ‘Answer a Question You Wish We’d Asked’ Question</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/12/hbs-answer-question-wish-asked/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/12/hbs-answer-question-wish-asked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the various HBS applications I’m seeing, it’s clear my post today should be about how to approach the HBS “Wished-We’d-Asked” question. The first thing, which I hope is obvious, is there are two tests here: (1) can you find a question that is appropriate and important, and ask it in an interesting way – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving, and some Nourishment for the Upcoming MBA Application Grind</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/11/happy-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/11/happy-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ESADE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tsinghua]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have various clients who are in the &#8220;uphill&#8221; phase of their MBA applications; having done one or two for Round 1, now pushing for a few more by early January. The gloss of self-discovery and self-expression is gone. It&#8217;s now just about getting it all done and done well, in what seems like an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embrace Your Life and Career Inflection Points for MBA Admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/11/inflection-points/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/11/inflection-points/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Businessweek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In differential calculus an inflection (or inflexion) point is the point on a curve where the curvature changes sign and therefore shape. Lives and careers have inflection points too: those moments where, due to events or new insight, suddenly everything is turned around or looks different. Inflection points can be &#8220;achievements&#8221; but they don&#8217;t need to be. Often they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amen Mr Jobs</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/10/amen-mr-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sad news today is Steve Jobs is dead, and America and the world has lost one of the most capable and innovative leaders ever born. Steve Jobs’ Commencement address to graduating Stanford students in 2005 is the kind of orienting motivational document that is worth reading from time to time no matter who you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What &#8216;Angry Birds&#8217; Can Teach Us About MBA Admissions Success</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/09/angry-birds/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/09/angry-birds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Luckily, back when I applied for b-school there was no such thing as ‘Angry Birds.’ As Oscar Wilde said: I can resist anything except temptation. Even now, my iPhone winks at me… I resist. But I maintain everything we do and everything we are is potentially of value in competitive MBA admissions. So what can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment Setback Can Set You Apart for MBA Admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/09/unemployment-setback-can-set-you-apart-for-mba-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/09/unemployment-setback-can-set-you-apart-for-mba-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As things roll towards R1 deadlines I’ve been seeing quite a few unemployment stories used in the setback/failure essay slot, for example in the HBS “Tell us three setbacks you have faced” essay. This makes sense. Unemployment is a real setback. And it’s understood by Adcoms that many applicants have been laid off for no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experience Diversity is &#8216;The New Black&#8217; in MBA Admissions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/08/experience-diversity-is-the-new-black-in-mba-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/08/experience-diversity-is-the-new-black-in-mba-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[B-schools with luxury of choice of whom to accept into their MBA classrooms have always valued diversity in the matriculating class. The news is this trend is strongly on the up. Not only are schools admitting more minorities and foreigners and women – both HBS and Wharton hit record numbers of female enrollment with their current incoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digging Deep for MBA Admissions Value &#8211; Take Karate for Example</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/karate-mba/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/karate-mba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often, &#8230; no correction, always telling MBA applicants to extract the full MBA admissions value from what they have in their bio, and what they have done. Doing this is the only way to present as more valuable than the next applicant to the business school in question; that is, the only way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unpacking the Categories of MBA Admissions Dings</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/unpacking-the-categories-of-mba-admissions-dings/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/07/unpacking-the-categories-of-mba-admissions-dings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s July, and a new admissions cycle year starts at the MBA Admissions Studio. As it happens, during my off-season sabbatical time &#8212; which new clients have patiently waited out (thank you) I’ve had numerous emails of the “I-was-dinged-last-year, what-did-I do-wrong?” type. So this seems as good a place as any to start the discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does the sign on your desk say?</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2011/01/what-does-the-sign-on-your-desk-say/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2011/01/what-does-the-sign-on-your-desk-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows leadership is a key theme in MBA applications. One way or another, the b-school graduate is going to be a leader. Therefore showing evidence and understanding of, and aptitude and appetite for, the demands of leadership is central to succeeding in MBA admissions selection. Because of this, as an admissions coach, I&#8217;m always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know where the &#8216;empty calories&#8217; are in your MBA admissions essay?</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/12/do-you-know-where-the-empty-calories-are-in-your-mba-admissions-essay/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/12/do-you-know-where-the-empty-calories-are-in-your-mba-admissions-essay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me quote wikipedia: &#8220;Empty calories are a measurement of the energy present in high-energy foods with poor nutritional profiles, typically from processed carbohydrates or fats. An empty calorie has the same energy content of any other calorie but lacks accompanying nutrients such as vitamins, dietary minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, or in the case of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I&#8217;ve traveled the world, this is good for MBA admissions, right?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/11/ive-traveled-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/11/ive-traveled-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d estimate that 3 out of 5 MBA applicants to top-tier schools have traveled widely, for work or for fun. It follows that in their MBA applications they cite travel as an activity they value and put it among the important experiences they have had. They think that journeying across the world speaks for itself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MBA Adcom is not a venture capital firm</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/10/adcom-is-not-a-venture-capital-firm/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/10/adcom-is-not-a-venture-capital-firm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sometimes asked for the greatest mistakes applicants make in MBA admissions essays, and at some point I&#8217;ll pull together my all-time list. But in the meantime, here&#8217;s a mistake that I&#8217;ve seen a lot of among clients this year so far: muddling up the demands of MBA admissions and a venture capital pitch. What I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering the QS World MBA Tour&#8217;s admissions questions in 100 words or less</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/10/answering-the-qs-world-mba-tours-admissions-questions-in-100-words-or-less/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/10/answering-the-qs-world-mba-tours-admissions-questions-in-100-words-or-less/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Topmba.com recently asked for my brief and succinct summary input for an upcoming story on MBA application essays and letters of recommendation. If nothing else it was a challenge in writing tightly. And as it turned out, it provides a summary of some key deliverables and concerns, so I thought I&#8217;d share the experience here: What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round 1 MBA essays are taking shape: but why have many applicants turned into monks and saints?</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/09/monks-and-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s busy season, so I have to blog short, but here&#8217;s what I have to say today as MBA application Round 1 deadlines approach &#8212; and this is to my clients as much as anyone else out there (although the clients have heard it before): &#8220;You are not applying to join a holy order. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The business school campus visit, and how the HBS Director of Admissions writes about it</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/08/the-business-school-campus-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/08/the-business-school-campus-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b-school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Director of MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping up with Adcoms&#8217; blogs as I do (and I suggest MBA applicants do too) my eye stopped on this recent post by Dee Leopold, Director of Admissions at HBS. It offers two things: First it clears up some of the shibboleths of who&#8217;s noticing what in your b-school visit and how it is weighed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Chicago-Booth expects in its 2011 application essays, in their own words</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/07/what-chicago-booth-is-looking-for-in-its-2011-application-essays-in-adcoms-own-words/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/07/what-chicago-booth-is-looking-for-in-its-2011-application-essays-in-adcoms-own-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Essay Questions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA['blank pages' essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Why an MBA?' essay]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MBA Studio&#8217;s mantra is, &#8220;when Adcom talks, listen.&#8221; Don&#8217;t just hear. Really, really listen because these are the people who are choosing the few and dinging the many. The Chicago-Booth 2011 MBA application essay questions were posted on July 7, along with a post from Rose Martinelli, Chicago-Booth&#8217;s Associate Dean for Student Recruitment and Admissions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wharton&#8217;s MBA admissions essays for 2010-2011: a challenging set of questions</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/06/whartons-mba-admissions-essays-2010-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/06/whartons-mba-admissions-essays-2010-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mbastudio.net/?p=1071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wharton&#8217;s MBA essays for 2010-11 are great; and very significantly reformulated from previous years, demanding new comment and analysis here. The required question: What are your professional objectives? (300 words) This is in some senses the classic Why-an-MBA? question. What&#8217;s new is that it is really short, particularly when compared with the longer questions that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business jargon will sell a book, but it won&#8217;t sell you to Adcom</title>
		<link>http://mbastudio.net/2010/05/business-jargon-will-sell-a-book-but-it-wont-sell-you/</link>
		<comments>http://mbastudio.net/2010/05/business-jargon-will-sell-a-book-but-it-wont-sell-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MBA Adcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to keep this MBA Admissions blog fresh and personal (like an MBA essay should be!) and don&#8217;t just rehash or repost keyword-rich MBA admissions news. In this spirit I offer you a bit of whimsey from The Wall Street Journal &#8220;Speakeasy&#8221; where Teddy Wayne explains how his job as an MBA essay editor [...]]]></description>
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