Archive for March, 2008
If made, this is going to be one sweet movie ala “Wall Street”, “Boiler Room” and hopefully the upcoming movie “Money Never Sleeps”.
From Variety.com:
“Based on the true story of John D’Agostino, “Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai” is about an Italian [...]
I tell my clients up front that they have to waive their right and that it is not really an option to not do so.
Not waiving your right could tell the adcom that you don’t trust your recommenders. It could tell them that you are paranoid or overly anxious.
It could tell them that this applicant [...]
One of my admissions consulting clients wrote me recently about his essays. He wanted to know what was the right way to “Grab the reader’s attention in the first few sentences with engaging content.”
My high-level advice was one of caution:
“I agree to a certain point. It has to grab the reader but I always remind [...]
A significant number of my clients are from India (non-US citizen). In my consulting conversations with them, the one thing I bring up with them is their status as an over-represented applicant group. That is, there are a lot of applicants applying from India, probably more so than any other group. Applicants to business [...]
