2011 Clear Admit MBA Applications Workshop

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2011 Clear Admit MBA Applications Workshop
Learn the secrets of how admissions officers at Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and other top business schools evaluate your applications!


Time: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 1 PM to 5 PM
Location: 犇亞國際會議中心 - (台北市復興北路99號6F, http://www.primasia.com/conference/index/html)
Sign-up: send email confirmation to kevin@clearadmit.com
Fee: free

Clear Admit, the world’s premier MBA admission consulting firm, will host a free MBA admissions strategy workshop in Taipei at the Primasia International Conference Center (犇亞國際會議中心) on Saturday, August 6, 2011, from 1 PM to 5 PM. During the workshop, Clear Admit will utilize its experiences and connections at the admissions offices of top schools such as Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and Columbia to discuss how you can maximize your chances of being admitted to elite schools by preparing applications that will appeal to the admissions officers. The agenda of the event is listed as below:

1:00pm-1:30pm Quotas for Taiwanese and Chinese students: facts and myths
1:30pm-1:45pm Admissions officers: who they are and what this means for your applications
1:45pm-2:00pm Overall application strategy: is “being yourself” really enough?
2:00pm-3:30pm Secrets on writing the perfect application essay:
• Overall dos and don’ts
• Essay type: career goals
• Essay type: “why X school”
• Essay type: accomplishments
• Essay type: failures
• Essay type: abstract (e.g., Stanford’s “What Matters Most” essay)
3:30pm-4:00pm Interviews: why you need to prepare differently for each school
4:00pm-4:30pm Recommendation letters: who/what are the best recommenders and letters
4:30pm-5:00pm MBA alumni experience sharing

In addition, during the workshop you will have plenty of time to ask specific questions about MBA admissions and MBA programs. For those of you who prefer not to ask your questions in public, we encourage you to email us your questions beforehand so that we can discuss them anonymously during the workshop. Spaces are limited for this workshop and sign-ups will be on a first-come, first-served basis, so sign up early to make sure you get a seat!

Free Clear Admit guides and essay editing:
Each person who attends the workshop will receive one Clear Admit guides of his or her choice (see http://www.clearadmit.com/pub.html for a list of all available guides). Also, if you bring a copy of your resume to the workshop, you can enter a drawing through which Clear Admit will select five winners to receive one free round of editing for one essay (750 words or less) that is submitted to Clear Admit before August 31, 2011. Only those who attend the workshop (not those who sign up but don’t attend) will receive the free guides and be eligible for the essay editing drawing.

To sign up:

Email: Kevin Chen, Partner/Senior Admissions Consultant at Clear Admit, at kevin@clearadmit.com with the following information:

Your name
Your current company and title (if currently working)
Your undergraduate school
Your GMAT score (if available)
Your target business schools
Any questions you would like to ask


See you at the workshop!

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Kevin Chen
Partner/Senior Admissions counselor, Clear Admit LLC (http://www.clearadmit.com)
Master degrees: Stanford Graduate School of Business; Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Bachelor degree: Princeton University
Previous work experiences: Reuters; McKinsey; NBA

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ABOUT CLEAR ADMIT
Clear Admit is an MBA admissions consulting firm founded and staffed by full-time consultants with extensive experiences and connections at the admissions offices of top MBA programs such as Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and Columbia. As featured by BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal, Clear Admit uses a highly personalized methodology that combines the perspectives of MBA admissions officers, expert editors, MBA students, and MBA applicants to maximize applicants’ chances for acceptance at top MBA programs.