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Great Application Essays for Business School, by Paul Bodine, Accepted.com editor, is now available.

Paul did a great job in writing this book. I can't praise it highly enough. It is to-the-point, concise, and practical. In Great Application Essays for Business School, Paul teaches you how to:

• Find your marketing handle.
• Mine your personal experiences.
• Craft an outline.
• Structure your essays.
• Revise and edit your drafts.
• Answer the most common essay questions.
• Handle difficult issues such as less-than-stellar stats, non-traditional background, extenuating circumstances.

But you don't have to believe me. I might be biased. Take a look at a couple of the adcom comments that appear on the back cover:

“Paul Bodine’s Great Application Essays for Business School is a great ‘view from the trenches”, and a careful reading will offer many rewards to applicants. His overall messages—among them “be yourself, answer the questions, showcase what you feel is important for schools to know”—seem simple but are hard to act on when you are sweating through deadlines. He gives you a practical guide to getting it done. Paul Bodine takes on the essay writing process and breaks it down into actionable steps. He wants to help you tell your story. Paul knows there is no substitute for hard work and self-reflection, but his book should make an often daunting process much easier. Great Application Essays for Business School is a valuable how-to book with a generous spirit.

--Jon McLaughlin, Assistant Director of MBA Admissions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management

"Totally on target. Great Application Essays for Business School is a really terrific, practical, and insightful guide to the kind of writing that can make a difference in winning acceptance at a top MBA program. Many of the things recommended in the book are the kinds of things that I say when I speak with prospective applicants. I also love the level of detail. I really recommend it--a must-read for anyone with business school ambitions."

--Anne Coyle, Director of Admissions, Yale School of Management

 If you need help with your MBA essays, Great Application Essays for Business School is for you.