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MBA admission consultants play a significant role in the MBA essay writing process. Check key reasons why their assistance can be invaluable and help you to get into your dream business school.

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[suman-dubey]

The scope of Admissions Consulting

Most people view admissions consultants as just advisors for helping students gain admissions in the leading universities of the world. Their role is just to help students select the right universities to apply and then provide help in preparing the applications. The general view is that an applicant's relationship with the admissions consultant is very narrow, limited and restricted to just the application process.

This view has solidified in people's consciousness as admissions consultants have consistently refused to accept a larger and wider role - often preferring to keep the handshake short and sweet, so as to be able to service more clients in a packed admissions season. The truth is – for a candidate, securing admissions is just the means to an end and not the end in itself. The end is career success for which the admission is just the first step. A candidate might slip in through the cracks and get his way into a top school, but will he necessarily be successful there? Does he really know what he is doing? Is he totally clear about which program he should apply in, and what will provide him the best value? Or, is he applying as everyone else is doing the same and he has been brainwashed into believing something.

I do not think people are aware that not everyone who graduates from the top schools of the world are successful people. Many struggle with derailed careers, lack of jobs, and high debt. And, there are several others who because of some weird career change again start from scratch in their professional lives. I know people who have done their MBA after doing a PHD and then they went on to do business development. Imagine investing 5-7 years in doing a specialized masters and PHD and then giving all that away for an MBA which they could have done even before the PHD. And, worse post MBA getting into a job which does not utilize the high value PHD in any way. A good and honest chat with an admissions consultant would have probably prevented such a ridiculous decision.

Admissions consultants, having worked with hundreds of students have a very good idea about graduate careers and the profiles and backgrounds that are currently selling in the market. If utilized properly, they can really advice candidates on how to manage their professional and educational decisions. Additionally, it is often found that just when a candidate is getting ready for applying, he finds that his profile is not ‘worthy’ for the top schools. And, why is that? It’s because that candidate might have not invested time and effort in doing community work or building suitable extracurricular activities which are essential for selling someone’s candidature to the top schools. By the time they realize this fact, it is often too late.

So, engage your admissions consultant in a wider role. Ask him questions and allow him to guide your decisions. Don’t come to him with a decision already made and just ask him to edit your essays. That is total underutilization of the potential of an admissions consultant. If you are in high school or college and looking to apply for undergrad or graduate school or MBA in a few years, get in touch with your admission consultant now. Ask him what you can do over the next few years to suitably build up your profile, so that you become a very attractive candidate at the time of your applications. If you are already working and considering an MBA, talk to your admission consultant about possible choices of programs and careers. Try to find out how your current career will adjust to your MBA.

Trust me when I say this - that no educational program in the world will work for everyone. And, no one has any stake in your career other than you. So, it is your responsibility to find out for yourself what is best for you and not trust the general view that is going around. After all, you don’t want to invest in an education and then find out in the end that you have got no advantage in your career or worse, that you have suddenly become unemployable because of the generalization of your profile or over qualification. An MBA generally moves you from extreme specialization to extreme generalization. Watch out for this change. It can kill your career.

[suman-dubey]

Sharp change reported in the preference for the MBA

As you would read in this article from Businessweek.com, there is a shakeup in the thought process people have regarding the MBA. This is not to suggest that the MBA is going away anytime soon - it still continues to be a dominant educational program for career growth and will continue to be that way in the noticeable future. But, considering the large number of options people have for the MBA ( part-time, full-time, online, executive MBA, one year programs, boardroom MBA, etc), a debate has started regarding what is the best MBA format for an individual, and rightly so.

The full-time 2 year MBA, once considered the golden ticket to super corporate success is losing its sheen. Considering the investment required for such MBA programs in terms of time, money, opportunity cost - it is worthwhile to step back from the chatter and the dogma and critically consider if there is a way to have the best of both the worlds - that is get all the learning and the value of the MBA , without investing 2 years and going neck deep in debt.

There are "real" options available now, and they have been around for some time, but it required a sustained depressed global economy to wake people up to the possibilities. And, then there are other questions - Is the MBA the only program worth doing? Are there other more relevant options available for an individual? Will the MBA really aid my career or will it set it back? Have I done enough in terms of building up my pre-MBA professional profile to get a boost from the MBA? At no other time in the history of higher education has these questions been more relevant as they are today. So think hard and think on, and look before you leap.