5 Tips for Applying to NYU Stern for Round 1 - Understand the applicant pool, Make it personal, Show comprehension, Differentiate your Essay 3, Use Essay 1 and 2 to portray your career goals.

1. 5 Tips for Applying to NYU Stern
for Round 1
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2. 5 Tips for Applying to NYU Stern
for Round 1
This time of year we see two things from the people
contacting us about Round 1: panic about the deadlines
October 18 and earlier, and some planning for the later
Round 1 deadlines. It's a little late for the former (although
we can take people on for late-stage essay editing), but
there is still plenty of time to do a fantatic job on an MIT,
UCLA, Texas, Duke (round 1, not early action, obviously), or
NYU application.
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3. 5 Tips for Applying to NYU Stern
for Round 1
1. Understand the applicant pool
It is important to be aware of the fact that
Stern gets saturated with “I guess I’ll apply to
Stern” applications. You may be one of these
people.
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4. 2. Make it personal.
The implication of the above fact, coupled with
Stern’s very personal approach to the process
(requiring an on-campus interview), means that
nailing “Why Stern” is probably more important here
than any other school to which you apply (Tuck is
the only school that might put more emphasis on
this).
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5. 3. Show comprehension.
The collaborative nature at Stern is not super
unique … until you consider that the school is
in New York and facing the same challenges
that Columbia faces (big NY population, big
international population, meaning relatively
few students who fit the typical “U.S. student
packing bags and moving to a new city”
model).
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6. 4. Differentiate your Essay 3.
Don’t just use the PDF you submitted to
Booth. It will be so obvious and will reflect a
lack of effort that has major ramifications
considering the points above. That said, you
also don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Connect an audio essay to that slide show and
make it a combined multimedia presentation.
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7. 5. Use Essay 1 and 2 to portray your career
goals.
Most traditional career goals essays ask you
to explain what, why, how, and where (and
sometimes when). That’s the formula for
Columbia, Haas, Duke, and a host of others. A
few schools throw wrinkles at you. Booth
doesn't really need the "how." Yale
specifically asks the “when” question. Kellogg
asks you to “assess” your career progress.
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8. Continuation from # 5.
The wrinkle with Stern - like Wharton - is that your career
goals answer isn’t contained to the career goals question.
“How” is 1a (examining the choices you’ve made to date),
“why” is 1b (why an MBA), “what” is 1c (short and long-term
goals) … that is all pretty straight forward. But the trick is that
the “where” comes in Essay 2, particularly 2b. The
fragmented nature of Essay 1 and the tricky nature of Essay 2
often leads candidates to miss what is an easy opportunity to
lay out the usual career goals argument – it just happens to
take place over two essays. (The rest of Essay 2 can be
strategically approached as well, so fear not).
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Round 2, email mba@amerasiaconsulting.com to find out more about
packages, prices, and options. If you mention this post, we will offer a
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