'Great Applications for Business School' provides a flexible, practical system for enabling business school applicants to find their applications' central theme, brainstorm their essays' raw material using personal 'data-mining' techniques, craft an outline using theme and evidence sentences, and write, revise, and edit effective essay drafts. Bodine provides detailed strategies for answering the most common MBA admissions essay topics--from goals, accomplishments, and "self-revelation" essays to diversity, leadership and teamwork, failure, and creative or multimedia topics. "Great Applications" includes practical guidelines for understanding what schools actually ask, choosing the appropriate stories for each essay type, and structuring essays so they provide context, analysis, and the all-important takeaways. The foundational material that earned "Great Application Essays for Business School" GMATClub.com's "Best MBA Book" award in 2010 remains the core of this new edition.   But the second edition--30% larger than the first--also contains substantially new material: *             Forty-four actual, complete essays or admissions documents (versus 22 in the first edition) written by admitted applicants to the very best business schools (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Chicago, Tuck, Columbia, London, Kellogg, INSEAD, and MIT Sloan, among others). *             Treatment of the newest trend in admissions essays: creative, PowerPoint, and multimedia essays. *             Ten case studies showing how real applicants with specific challenges overcame their admissions obstacles to gain admission to top programs. *             Five "Put Yourself on the Couch" question sets that will spark the kind of reflection and analysis from which truly self-aware essays can emerge.  *             Extended appendixes on admissions interviews (containing sample interview responses) and wait-list letters (featuring before-and-after versions of two successful letters). "A must read... a smart and important book." --John Byrne, founder of PoetsandQuants.com and former executive editor at BusinessWeek. --Poets & Quants.com "A tour de force--a practical and lively guide. Paul Bodine really understands the inside track and offers his readers a wealth of useful information. Thorough and wide-ranging." ----Caroline Diarte Edwards, Director of Admissions, INSEAD "A very thorough and witty explanation of the admissions process. Excellent advice as to what to do and how to do it skillfully." ----Christie St-John, Senior Associate Director Admissions & Recruiting, Dartmouth Tuck School of Business: "'Great Applications for Business School' has great advice for any student interested in earning their MBA from a top school!" Paul Bodine is a seasoned business editor and writer with 25 years of experience in business, technical, scholarly, and educational editing and writing. He is a Senior Editor at accepted.com, America's most respected admissions consulting firm. Bodine has helped hundreds of clients earn admission to the world’s top business, law, medical, and graduate schools. One of America's most experienced admissions consultants (serving clients since 1997), Paul Bodine (paulbodine(at)yahoo(dot)com) has helped hundreds of clients earn admission to the world's top business, law, medical, and graduate schools as well as elite colleges. Paul's MBA clients have consistently earned admission to the most selective business schools, from Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, MIT Sloan, and Kellogg to Chicago, Columbia, Dartmouth Tuck, Berkeley Haas, Michigan, London Business School, INSEAD, and NYU Stern, among many others.    Aside from "Great Applications for Business School," Paul is also the author of "Perfect Phrases for Business School Acceptance," "Great Personal Statements for Law School," "Perfect Phrases for Law School Acceptance," "Perfect Phrases for Medical School Acceptance," and "Perfect Phrases for Letters of Recommendation" (McGraw-Hill). He has been interviewed by Business Week, Christian Science Monitor, MBAPodcaster, Law School Podcaster, and Law School Interactive and featured on Poets&Quants.com, GMAT Club, and BeatTheGMAT.com.