Essays That Worked for Business Schools: 40 Essays from Successful Applications to the Nation's Top Business Schools

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Summary: Perfect for applicants
Review: I am an educational counselor and received all four of the "Essays That Worked" books recently. These newly revised editions are perfect for any applicant stumped by or anxious about writing a personal statement. The essays are inspiring, and the advice is frank and fresh. The authors did a great job of updating these classics, and I highly recommend them to anyone applying to college, law school, business school, or med school.

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Summary: Perfect for applicants
Review: I am an educational counselor and received all four of the "Essays That Worked" books recently. These newly revised editions are perfect for any applicant stumped by or anxious about writing a personal statement. The essays are inspiring, and the advice is frank and fresh. The authors did a great job of updating these classics, and I highly recommend them to anyone applying to college, law school, business school, or med school.

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Summary: Extremely helpful
Review: I am applying to MBA programs this fall, and I'm finding this book extremely helpful as I draft my essays. This edition is right up-to-the-minute with information and suggestions, and the essays are inspiring. Highly recommended!

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Summary: Perfect for applicants
Review: Samples given are not representative of business students today. Desperately needs to be updated with a new edition. Comments from the admissions officers were off color.

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Summary: Good dollar value, but lacks content
Review: Samples given are not representative of business students today. Desperately needs to be updated with a new edition. Comments from the admissions officers were off color.

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Summary: Skip this one - not worth it
Review: The essays in this book are painful to read. They lack any sort of creativity and imagination. Reading them almost convinced me not to go to business school because it would mean sitting in classes with these unimaginative writers. Curry and Kasbar put together a terrific book for getting in to college but this one falls short. Buy The Princeton Review Guide to MBA programs instead. The sample essays in that book are much better.

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Summary: A semi-useful application aid
Review: This book is good in that it gives you a nice array of examples in the different categories of questions. However, it doesn't review any of them or give guidelines on what worked and what didn't about each particular essay. Some are extremely long which doesn't coincide with 300-500 word maximum that all the schools I applied to have. Basically, a this is a cheap way to go if you need help breaking out of terminal brain-lock when it comes to writing your essays. Otherwise, I'd shop around. There are much better aids out there.