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What is an Extracurricular List?
An overview of the extracurricular list, explaining its purpose in the application process and how it is used to showcase your unique passions, skills, and personal growth outside of the classroom.
Empower Your Team: A Checklist for Leaders
A simple framework to ensure your team members have the resources, clarity, and trust they need to succeed without micromanagement.
Why is the Additional Info Essay Important?
An overview of why the optional "additional information" essay is a critical part of your application, with a focus on how to use it to provide context, explain special circumstances, and showcase your achievements.
The "Why?" Essay
A guide to mastering the "Why this school?" or "Why this major?" essay, with strategies for showcasing genuine interest, specific research, and a compelling connection between you and the institution.
How to Set Yourself up for Success on the MCAT
A top MCAT scorer reveals the resources, strategies, and biggest mistakes to avoid if you want to get your best score.
This Paul Weiss Cover Letter - ESG & M&A Focus
See how to align your unique background in sustainability and finance with a firm’s specific strengths, like Paul, Weiss's award-winning ESG practice.
The Informative Essay
An in-depth guide to writing an informative essay, with strategies for providing essential context, highlighting unique experiences, and showcasing your authentic self to admissions committees.
The Interview: What Not to Do
Avoid the most common mistakes in your interviews, from poor body language to unprepared answers, to make a lasting and positive impression on your interviewer.
"Tell Me About a Time...": Situational Question Guide
A comprehensive guide to answering behavioral and situational interview questions with the STAR method, with examples and tips for crafting compelling stories.
Gallery Assistant & Art Instructor Resume Template
Create a compelling resume for both Gallery Assistant and Art Instructor roles. This template helps you highlight relevant experience and skills for creative positions.
Supplemental Essays: What Not To Do
Avoid the most common mistakes on your supplemental essays and learn how to write a compelling narrative that is specific to the school and prompt.
Art Instructor Cover Letter: Example
See a sample cover letter for an Art Instructor position. Learn how to highlight your teaching experience and passion for art!
Supplemental Essays: An Overview
A comprehensive guide to understanding supplemental essays, with tips on why they're important, how to approach them, and how to make them stand out.
Cover Letter Example: HR Head Business Partner
Get a customizable cover letter template for an HR Head Business Partner role. Craft a powerful letter that highlights your leadership and strategic HR skills.
Stanford/MIT Essays: Examples & Analysis
An in-depth breakdown of successful application essays for Stanford and MIT, with a focus on what makes them compelling and how to apply those strategies to your own writing.
GMAT Week (July 21-24) Kickoff
In this kickoff session, join expert GMAT coaches Bruce H., Jennifer P. D., and Mihir G. as they cover the GMAT outline, recent changes to both exams, general study tips, Zoom vs. In-person testing, common mistakes, and more!
Personal Statement 3: Example & Analysis
A detailed breakdown and analysis of a third successful personal statement, with a focus on its compelling narrative structure and powerful conclusion.
Longer Essay: Harvard Examples Walkthrough
A detailed breakdown and analysis of successful "longer essays" for Harvard, with strategies for crafting your own and showcasing your intellectual curiosity.
Optimizing for Success
Learn how to optimize your application for success with strategies for showcasing your unique strengths, crafting a memorable narrative, and making the best possible impression on admissions officers.
Two Powerful Frameworks to Unlock the Hardest Data Sufficiency Questions on the GMAT
If you struggle with advanced data sufficiency questions (and who doesn't), there are two frameworks that will allow you to nail many of the hardest data sufficiency questions easily and quickly. The good news is that you can learn the techniques for FREE in this seminar. So if you need a little help raising your DA score on the GMAT - this is for you! This workshop will be hosted by Bruce H - Wharton MBA and professional GMAT/GRE tutor. Bruce has helped over 300 students achieve their target test scores, and developed the rigorous GMAT/GRE curriculum at UCLA!
