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Great Application Essays for Business School

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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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Mar-30-2009

Bad for targetting BEST Business Schools

Hi,If you are one of those hi-flyers who wants to target the top 10 B-Schools - This is a crap book.However, HBS Essays is a FANTASTIC Book and a must have.

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Dec-27-2008

Important resource for MBA essay writing

A big help sorting out ideas, outlining, and putting them them all in essay form. The author takes a concrete step-by-step approach and breaks down the process of essay writing for the non-writer types. A great resource !

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Nov-30-2008

Super long essays that obviously didn't meet word requirements are not good examples!

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...

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Nov-25-2008

Excellent one

I found this book is so good for me to write an application essay, particularly, supplement essay. Take it, it will be helpful.

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Oct-19-2008

Essays for MBA

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.

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Oct-06-2008

Good starting point

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...

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Aug-26-2008

clear, concise and on the target

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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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Apr-07-2008

Differentiate yourself!

Take your essays seriously and buy this book! I did, followed it and got into a top 5 school.

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Mar-06-2008

Great ideas, impractical execution

Of the essay books, this does rank among the best in most categories. The advice is well thought out and gives you not only samples of prose but things to consider from the school's point of view. Items like word choice and essay style are also considered in detail.As one of the other reviewers...

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Jan-07-2008

Great Tool

I used this in conjunction with the Princeton Review Book. They both had things I liked that were different from the other.

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