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Summary: Way overhyped and far too expensive
Review: This book doesn't give any particulars about essays or the information on the schools. It states a bunch of fairly obvious things and gives a bunch of example essays. (I thought your essays were supposed to be different and unique.) There are far many more books that are a lot less expensive. (Perhaps the cost of being officially supported is in the price?)I got far more out of the Business Week book.
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Summary: Invaluable Guide
Review: This book has been invaluable over the last few weeks as I work on applications to business school. Essays from all of the top schools are analyzed, and provide excellent insight for (I hope) admissions success. Thank you.
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Summary: Second most useful after Montauk's book
Review: This book is the second most useful b-school admissions book after "How to Get into Top MBA Programs" (link given above).
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Summary: Second most useful after Montauk's book
Review: This book is the second most useful b-school admissions book after "How to Get into Top MBA Programs" (link given above).
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Summary: Demystifies the MBA Admission process
Review: This book was invaluable to me. Let's put it this way: I wasn't sure that I had what is took to get admitted! I found the whole admissions process real competitive and being accepted to Harvard and Wharton was more like a dream than a possible reality.
A GMAT teacher recommands me to buy this book. "Quite expensive but you won't regret it". good advice since I followed most of the advice especially for the schools I was targeting. For a lot of schools (Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago.....), it displays anything you need to know ...and to say..to get admitted. authors analyse essays of each school...i t demystifies the questions, the traps, some good answers and loads of examples. The book is quite exhaustive: more than 600 pages but it is well organized, so it makes it pretty user-friendly.
Even if you do not feel that you can get in into the best business schools, IT IS NOT AS DIFFICULT as most people think, all you need is FAITH and a GOOD METHOD!
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Summary: indispensable guide for getting in to top MBAs
Review: Very, very good book. Well written, lots of ideas, clear strategies. Takes you through the selection process with some very sophisticated analysis that I haven't seen in other MBA books. The school section was the most valuable for me. The reviews have been written by recent graduates, and they give you both the positive and negative sides of the school, which I really appreciated. The help for the dossiers includes loads of sample essays, interview tips, and a whole section on letters of recommendation. There are very few books on applying to business school anyway, but this is a "must buy".
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Summary: all you need to know...
Review: With the GMAT in my pocket, the essays for school were the big concern. This book covers all the top schools, with sample essays for every question type, and some great analysis of what works and what doesn't. The opening chapter on positionning your dossier, and the HBS and Kellogg chapters are particularly good, but in the end all the school entries help you to craft your own essays.
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Summary: Hit & Miss
Review: With the seemingly endless number of books available about getting into MBA programs, this one is somewhat hit & miss. If you are looking for a book that details general strategies of how to get into any school, this book defiantly falls short. (Read Montauk's book for general strategies, even though it is from 96' almost all of the ideas are still applicable) While if you are looking for a book specifically to get into one of the schools it details, you should CONSIDER buying this book. I say consider because the book is relatively expensive, and for the most part you don't really learn any "tips" or strategies that aren't available in Montauk's book, the Business Week book or through talking to current students. What this book does well is consolidate a lot of the information that other publications have already stated. It also gives you that "window" into the recent changes at various schools for those people who don't have contacts at some of the schools or can't afford to visit before applying. The analysis of each program is pretty detailed because a recent graduate authors each schools section. Unfortunately, these recent graduates seem to come across too much as alumni, selling their school, than an objective author. Another interesting short coming of the book is that it doesn't detail out all the schools listed on the cover, only the ones listed on the left in white... These schools are, NYU, Chicago, MIT, Kellogg, Berkeley, LBS, Columbia, INSEAD, Stanford and Harvard. Noticeably absent is Wharton!!! I don't know HOW they left Wharton out.. but they did.
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