GMAT™ Focus Edition Announced: What It Means For You

By - Mar 13, 17:20 PM   Comments [0]

By Stefan Maisnier This March, the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) announced the biggest change to the GMAT in decades – a new GMAT Focus Edition. This new admissions exam option is expected to launch sometime in the second half of 2023, while the current GMAT...

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What Do Humanities PhDs Earn?

By - Mar 13, 04:38 AM   Comments [0]

  At Gurufi, we have nearly two decades of experience in helping people earn admission into competitive graduate programs. As a result, we understand just what a complicated and fraught decision it is to pursue doctoral studies. When people are considering whether to pursue a Ph.D.,...

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Admissions Tip: Be Yourself!

By - Mar 10, 07:15 AM   Comments [0]

Would you like to know one thing that admissions committee members really want from applicants? Here it is: they wish – really, truly wish – that applicants would not try to write what they imagine the adcom wants to hear but instead just be themselves. Time...

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GRE Question of the Day (March 10th)

By - Mar 10, 02:00 AM   Comments [0]

Verbal The astrophysicist argues that our books and films about interstellar space travel are a form of mass _________, and that only a miracle on a scale heretofore unseen could allow a human being to voyage to even the closest star in another solar system. Blank (i) (A)...

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Choosing Between Multiple Schools

By - Mar 9, 08:10 AM   Comments [0]

When I checked my email this morning, I remembered why this is my favorite time of year! Two of my favorite clients got into their dream schools, and my back-and-forth emails with a client who just found out that he got into Stanford brought a...

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GRE Question of the Day (March 9th)

By - Mar 9, 02:00 AM   Comments [0]

Math The ratio, by volume, of soap to alcohol to water in a certain solution is 2:50:100. The solution will be altered so that the ratio of soap to alcohol is doubled while the ratio of soap to water is halved. If the altered solution will...

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Using ChatGPT to (Ethically!) Write Your Personal Statement

By - Mar 7, 12:28 PM   Comments [0]

Universities are freaking out about ChatGPT. This text-generating AI system has been an intense topic of discussion within universities and especially their admissions departments. Already, many students are using ChatGPT to write their academic papers, and the fear is that they’ll also use this technology...

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How to Get Into Georgetown McDonough’s MBA Program

By - Mar 7, 05:42 AM   Comments [0]

Shortcuts to Key Insights from this Episode An overview of both Georgetown’s MBA programs and the MS in Environmental and Sustainability Management or the ESM. What distinguishes Georgetown’s program in Environment and Sustainability Management from other similar programs. Where graduates of Georgetown’s MBA program and the MS-ESM program...

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GRE Question of the Day (March 6th)

By - Mar 6, 09:59 AM   Comments [0]

Verbal Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960s have portrayed him as (i) ___________ thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like. Blank (i) an adventurous a doctrinaire an eclectic a judicious a cynical   Correct Answer -...

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Four Tips for Highlighting Your Strengths in Your Application Essays

By - Mar 5, 04:30 AM   Comments [0]

One of the most important pieces of advice you can receive regarding your personal statements and application essays is this: Show, don’t tell.  But you might have been given this advice before and are wondering how to go about it. Let’s dive into how to show...

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