Attain

Admissions consulting. Attain Consulting offers MBA and college admissions consulting as well as seminars and workshops on admissions.

AdmittedEssays.com

AdmittedEssays.com is dedicated to helping prospective students gain admission to their top schools by providing them with quality examples of essays that have worked in the past. Through a network of affiliates, this site has compiled a database of essays that were submitted as part of successful applications.

MBA.co.za – Applying for Your MBA

Part of the MBA.co.za portal, which is focused on the MBA degree in South Africa, but offering useful information for any prospective MBA student. Topics covered include:
– What do business schools look for?
– When to apply
– The MBA application checklist
– The application essays
– The interview
– Letters of recommendation
– What is the GMAT?
– … [ Read more ]

MBAPrepAdvantage

The mission at MBAPrepAdvantage is to ensure you receive a thick envelope indicating acceptance into your top MBA school. To accomplish this, we offer you the absolute best admissions consulting and GMAT tutoring services available and all at a fraction of the price that the large admissions consulting and test preparation companies charge.

The admissions consultants are a former admissions officer with 16 years experience … [ Read more ]

mbaprograms.org

This site offers worldwide directory of MBA schools and programs that includes admission tips, scholarship links, and glossary of terms.

MBA Studio

“We believe that admissions tips, while nice, don’t help much. The real difference between getting in and being left out is a balanced, thoroughly produced application.

That means hard work and that’s what goes on here.
We are a specialist application studio that helps you find, produce, and polish the raw material of your application to make a great finished product. Together we take your file … [ Read more ]

AcceptanceLetter

AcceptanceLetter helps individuals prepare for, and manage, the competitive and complicated business school admissions process. We partner with you to make sure you are prepared, that you market yourself as effectively as possible, and that you maximize your chances of receiving an acceptance letter.

Clients of AcceptanceLetter receive one-on-one, customized support from graduates of Harvard University who have scored in the 99th percentile … [ Read more ]

Edit7

John Sorenson has more than 25 years experience helping foreign students get into MBA programs and graduate programs around the world.

Editor’s Note: this site seems to cater mostly to Japanese students; as always with these types of sites I claim no specific knowledge of quality or value so buyer beware.

With Honors

“We are a network of Harvard alums who graduated with honors from America’s most prestigious university. After years of writing Harvard term papers on subjects ranging from English to engineering, we teamed together to provide professional editing and coaching services for prospective college and graduate students like you.

Since our founding, we have interviewed numerous admissions officers, guidance counselors, and professors to learn everything … [ Read more ]

Business School Admission .Com

This website “is devoted entirely to business school admission and giving you the information you need to help you gain admission into your top MBA programs.”

MBA Exchange admissions consulting services

Free, no-obligation evaluation for admission to a top MBA program. Also provides one-on-one admissions consulting services.

Texas’ Turner Talks MBA Admissions

Matt Turner, Director of Admissions at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business discusses a wide range of admissions topics.

Editor’s Note: I partly added this because UT Austin is my alma mater (and I loved it there) and partly because some of the issues discussed really apply to any top program and applicants should be aware of them.

Clear Admit

“Clear Admit is an educational counseling firm that helps academic candidates through the grueling application process to top MBA programs. As a company, we work with applicants from around the world to ensure that they have the highest degree of success when applying to the best business schools.”

A Strong Admissions Essay Is Key to B-School Acceptance

One of the most important parts of the M.B.A. admissions process is the student essay. Yet many students hurt their chances by not putting enough effort into it. After all, this is perhaps the best ways to differentiate yourself from all the other students applying for admission.

Dan Rogers, who is now a first-year M.B.A. student at Harvard Business School, offers some advice on writing a … [ Read more ]

Top10MBA.com

Only admissions guide you will need when applying to top b-schools.

getting in

This article from FT.com’s MBA Planet section takes a look at the following topics:
– what are b-schools looking for
– the admissions office: your best friend and worst enemy
– the dreaded gmat
– work experience
– doing the paperwork
– the wow factor
– essays
– references
– interviews
– dare to be different

Playing the Wait-List Game

With so many people applying to B-schools, many are ending up in admissions purgatory. Here are some ways to make your name stand out.

IvyEdge

A for-fee company specializing in
essay editing, as well as total admissions consulting services.

B-School: Don’t Take “No” for an Answer

Though the topic of this article is increasing chances for admission to a school the second time around, the advice is naturally valid for all applicants.