Frequently Asked Question: What specific examples do you recall that illustrate the significant impact that MBA essays can have on MBA admissions?
Dr. Shel Watts of MBA Admit.com: There are many examples. Nearly every time I review the application of a candidate who failed to gain admission to their desired business school after applying on their own, I see a great deal of room for improvement in their MBA essays. The good news is that once I have worked with candidates to revise or completely re-craft their essays, these candidates have fared much better in the admissions process. In one case, with his newly written essays, a young man who had been rejected from Columbia’s full-time (September-start) program gained admission just a few months later to Columbia’s January start program. In another instance, I guided a young man on the waitlist at a top-10 busines school to re-write his entire long-term goal essay and he resubmitted it to the admissions committee—even though they had not asked him to do this. (He was highly qualified, but the first version he had submitted on his own was so awful that I did not think the admissions
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