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Five Basic Principles of Essay Writing and Essay Editing

First Principle: The first step to getting your mba essays right is to be yourself: bring forth an authentic differentiation, present a genuine face and display an interesting applicant. Your MBA essays are about YOU; so after reading 2000 odd words from you the reader should want to meet you without asking "tell me something about yourself".

Second Principle: Remember that this is not an essay writing competition; this is a focused marketing campaign with the explicit objective of gaining admit into a leading international Business School.

Third Principle: Take at least one other person into confidence (preferably two: one who knows you closely and one who knows you lesser) and get a different perspective on the essays than your own.

Fourth Principle: I repeat (again!) - start on your MBA essays well in advance, do not wait till the last bell rings. Write, re-write, re-re-write and then check again well before the deadline. Begin work on your essays and recos 40-60 days before the deadline.

Fifth Principle: Always stay within recommended word limits. Sometimes a leeway of 10% might be excused but why take that chance: even "War and Peace" is often not read because of it's length! Besides, exceeding word length shows deficiency in discipline and more seriously might even indicate a lack of integrity (you add more words because you think the admissions committee might not count the words, right?).

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