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Letters of recommendation are a key part of your application, and yet most people do not approach the process with enough planning and strategy. They wrongly assume that, since somebody else is doing it, their job begins and ends with just emailing a boss or former professor and they take it from there. In this quick video from Gurufi’s YouTube channel, we provide three quick tips for how to approach getting a great letter of rec. Check it out!

If you’d like to learn more about getting a great letter of rec, we’ve covered the topic twice before in much greater detail. You can check out these videos here and here!

For more help, check us out at Gurufi.com. Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at service@gurufi.com. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Graduate school admissions are fundamentally different than college, law school, MBA, or medical school admissions. Their structure, what they look for, and (probably most importantly) who staffs these admissions boards shape them in important ways. In this video, we go through the admissions process, talk about how this should help guide your approach, and provide some specific approaches.

 

For more help, check us out at Gurufi.com. Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at service@gurufi.com. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

When you’re applying for an MBA, it can feel like you don’t have any control over the process. After reading two articleson Giri Kesavan’s LinkedIn page, I knew that I wanted to speak with him about his approach the MBA process. He was detailed, structured, and outcome-focused in a way that far too few applicants are.

From the application process through his entire time at London Business School, Giri Kesavan was intentional about what he wanted. In this week’s episode of the Gurufi / GMATClub MBA Podcast, hear his approach to choosing, applying to, and excelling at his MBA program.

For more help, check us out at Gurufi.com. Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at service@gurufi.com. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

The question of whether and when to attend business school can be a hard question for many people. In this preview snippet of our GMATClub / Gurufi MBA Podcast, we spoke with Russ Morgan at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business about how to think about this important -and often vexing- question.

For more help, check us out at Gurufi.com. Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at service@gurufi.com. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Emory University’s Goizueta Business School has become an increasingly popular destination for aspiring MBAs looking to earn a degree that puts their career on a steeper ascent. As part of Gurufi’s ongoing collaboration with GMATClub, we are producing a weekly podcast. In this week’s episode, Gurufi CEO Brian Fobi talks to Evan Bailey about his journey to business school, how he transitioned from a non-quantitative background to a more quant-focused consulting track, and the unique ways that Emory prepares students for a 21st-century career.

Listen to the podcast here:

For more help, check us out at Gurufi.com. Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at service@gurufi.com. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Oxford Said has earned its reputation as one of the top business schools, not just in the UK, but in the world. In this week’s GMATClub Podcast, I speak with Rashmi Singh, who earned admission into Oxford Said’s MBA program. She walks us through her application timeline, some tips on how she stood out from the pack, and even a few things that, had she known then what she knows now, she’d have done differently. The GMATClub Podcast is a collaboration between GMATClub, the largest and most well-connected MBA forum and website in the world, and Gurufi, an online admissions consultancy that specializes in helping applicants build unique, dynamic, and engaging personal statements.

If you’re applying to Oxford Said, or any other MBA program, check us out at Gurufi.com. Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at service@gurufi.com. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Applicants are often told that they need to begin their personal statements with a bang. Tell an over-the-top story, open with an emotional tear-jerker, or start things off with some clever turns of phrases that will make the reader remember you.

This is horrible advice.

In 99% of cases, a “hook” of this kind will come across as insincere or gimmicky. It almost always feels like the writer is trying too hard. That why I often tell clients “let’s turn down the volume here” so that we can work to make the opening more sincere and authentic.

In this brief video, I talk about why you should avoid hooks and a technique for how to think about your openings.

For more help, check us out at Gurufi.com. Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at service@gurufi.com. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

In this video, we cover why it’s so important to contact potential advisors when you’re applying to graduate school.

In this week’s installment of “Getting Into Graduate School” we provide some important tips and strategies for getting a great letter of recommendation.

 

Writer’s block can derail your Personal Statement before you even begin! Too often, we let ourselves feel overwhelmed by the stakes involved. We think that every word has to be perfect, and this desire for perfection paralyzes us. This is 100% the WRONG approach to take to the early stages of writing a Personal Statement. Instead, just think in terms of getting your ideas down on paper, and then go from there! Here is a brainstorming exercise designed to jumpstart your mind into thinking about stories and content… and in the process remove you from that place of perfection paralysis.

For more help, check us out at Gurufi.com. Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at service@gurufi.com. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.