'GSB' tagged blog posts in Betsy Massar's Master Admissions Blog

Everyone who has applied to an MBA program or applied for any job worries about their resume.  How on earth do you fit your entire life story into one page?  And what an insult that someone actually thinks you can?

Your resume has almost nothing to do with your real life. It’s about your professional life, and it’s about...

It’s been a few weeks since I have posted, and for that I apologize; the mad rush of applications for the first round of business school deadlines got the best of me. I’ve tried to encourage my applicants to start early (as I have recommended time and time again, for example, in this blog post , but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the applicant will end early. There’s...

Welcome to the second of my 10-Tip series to help you in your campaign to get into business school. The first tip encouraged you to start early – because indeed, it is a campaign, and the earlier you start thinking about the whole process, the easier it will be to put this massive project together. I cannot recall anyone I have ever met in my life who has said,...

As someone who has been helping people with their admissions to business school for many years and who has a strong grounding in financial statistics and probabilities, I thought I could predict who gets the big prize. But when I discovered a text message from a client indicating that Derrick Bolton, Dean of Admissions at Stanford Graduate School of Business had rung her last night with the good news, I...