Accepted! 50 Successful Business School Admission Essays

With fierce competition to get into business school, your admission essays are a critical factor in whether or not you are accepted. This book helps you craft essays that best market your strengths to business schools while avoiding the most common mistakes.

From finding a topic to polishing off your final essay, this book is a complete writing workshop. It includes frank advice from admission officers and 50 example essays from students at top schools including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, MIT, Columbia, Northwestern, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Duke, Dartmouth, University of Michigan, UCLA and NYU.

In This Book You will Learn:

What admission officers want to see in your essays

Which topics you should avoid

The 25 most common essay mistakes

Advice for specific essay questions such as why you want an MBA, why you want to study at a particular school and what you have to offer

How to find the three types of editors you need to read your essays

Why you should write the optional essay

Plus, you'll gain inspiration from 50 successful essays that students have written to get into their first-choice schools