(This is a repost of the announcement in the B-school Application area, reproduced here for everyone's benefit. The forum is now beginning to accept entries.)
Hi Everyone,
We hope to strengthen GMATClub's B-school application services (so it grows as strong as the GMAT section), and thought that having essays from people who are admitted to b-schools will help the prospective students greatly! All we have today are those included in books like Bodine, Montauk, MBA Game Plan, and HBS 65 Essays. Those often contain "superhuman" stories that just don't help us "common Joes" much.
If we can get a greater sample of what good essays are from common people who do not have Olympic medals or saved the President from jihadists in Iran, it'll hopefully get more GMATClubbers into the school of their dreams!
Security/Privacy/Format: - Remove all personal info from the essays and as many proper nouns as possible; so no names of who you talked to, who you are, etc... To protect your privacy
- Mention your status with the school's application: admitted, rejected, waitlisted, deferred, withdrawn, etc...
- Include the essay question at the top of each essay.
- Please try to submit in password protected PDF file if possible. You can then decide to give out the password on an individual basis (by PM) or post it in a thread.
- Praetorian controls who can see this forum at all, so that's another level of security.
- If you're worried about people associating the essays to you, please send Praetorian your essays and he can post them up for you anonymously.
File Name Format/Organization:- Let's standardize the title of the post. Something like:
[Name of School] - [Question] - [Application Year]
Ex: Stanford - Essay A - What Matters Most - 2006-2007- I have created threads for each UE/E/TE school, and NE/NEF schools as needed. Please post your essays in those threads to keep this forum organized.
Access:For access, similar to GMATClub Challenges, you currently need 400 QUALITY posts to be invited by BB to the hidden forum with essays:
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If you are an 09 applicant, you will need 400 quality posts to have access to the forum. If you do this right, this will take you about 6 or more months -- long enough for us to know that you are legit.
The link is here:
admitted-student-essays-vault-113/