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MBA Plan
Here is the plan that didn’t post correctly in my 1/18 post entitled, “my two goals” Filed under: MBA Financing, MBA Planning Tagged: financing, graduate school debt, MBA plan, MBA planning, MBAgirl,...
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Financing a Full Time MBA Responsibly
Let me start off by saying that budgeting does not come naturally to me. Many people may go through their whole lives and don’t see the value in a $250-$400 pair of shoes. I am not one of those...
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Deciding on My Top 5
One of the first tasks I have in my MBA plan is to nail down the top 5 programs I am targeting. I have been doing a lot of reading the past couple months to figure some of this out. There are so many...
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Handicapping My Chances
I recently found this great site called Beat The GMAT. They are an MBA oriented social network and seem to be a great source of information and they have a great community of folks in the process of...
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Avoiding the MBA Recommendation Letter “Black Hole”
One of the steps in my Grad School Action Plan is to create a “recommenders guide”. I decided to do some research on that topic today. Recommendations are one of the only pieces of the MBA...
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Wharton Campus Visit and Info Session Recap
This past Thursday I took off of work and spent the day at Wharton. My day started off well enough, I slept in a little, went to the gym and then got ready to head out. I wanted to arrive 10 minutes...
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MBA Reading List
I wanted to start compiling a list of things I am reading, re-reading, and plan to read to help me on my MBA journey. Any and all other suggestions welcome! Like that old P.S.A. says…knowledge is...
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Detailed GMAT Test Day Routine – Give Yourself Every Advantage
Recently some one asked me what I actually did on my GMAT test day. I thought it was a great question and it is one that people don’t ask enough or give the appropriate level of detail on. I have...
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My 2014 Columbia Essay Approach
In my last post I posted that Columbia’s application is now live and thus, their essay questions are available. I have a first draft of essay #1, “Given your individual background, why are you...
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Anonymous MBA Consulting Reviews
Recently, I asked all the readers of this blog and users of beatthegmat.com to send me reviews if they have used an MBA consultant. I suggested a specific format where they can be graded using an A-F...
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It’s Harvard Saturday!
I have been struggling and procrastinating on the the open-ended, “optional” application essay for the Harvard MBA program. Today, I finally tackled this, did some serious self-reflection and came out...
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Update on all things MBA
Progress on my MBA Action Plan: Applications: Making good progress against my goals. I have the applications essentially filled out and my Wharton essays complete and uploaded into the...
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All Three Round 1 Applications Are In!
Well, it has been a long road and today I completed my third and final Round 1 application. I am both tired and excited. Even though I (hopefully) have at least one interview ahead of me, I feel like...
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