The Accepted consultant team is thrilled to welcome Sadie Polen, who previously ran highly selective summer programs at Harvard University, where she reviewed more than 1,000 applications a year. Through these programs, Sadie worked with partner individuals and organizations across the public service and political...

Now here's the issue... Those who inquire, "Am I too old to begin a Ph.D.?" are typically attempting to talk themselves out of it. This may shock you, but I believe that you should begin this process by trying to talk yourself out of it....

It’s almost spring now, but the next grad school application cycle is looming. Applying to graduate schools can be a highly stressful process. And you as an applicant’s parent naturally want to help them through it, but how can you do so? It’s been decades...

Math Set A consists of 350 consecutive multiples of 2. Set B consists of 200 consecutive multiples of 3. The median of Set A is 199.5 greater than the median of Set B. Quantity A Quantity B The \({30^{th}}\) percentile of Set A The \({70^{th}}\) percentile of Set B A)The quantity in Column...

“Academia is a killing field…” On my first day of graduate school, a fellow Ph.D. student who was a few years ahead of me provided this sobering bit of advice. Though I would eventually get a job at Harvard before deciding to do other things,...

Verbal Seeing (i)_________as perhaps the most significant cause of preventable ill­ness, such twelfth-century physicians as Moses Maimonides aimed the bulk of their (ii)_________pamphlets at the prescription of medieval dietary regimens, offering advice that often appears (iii)_________to modern sensibilities. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) (A) costiveness (D)didactic (G) disingenuous (B) bathos (E) maleficent (H) risible (C)...

I used to teach a summer seminar to aspiring MBA, law school, and college students about how to write a powerful personal statement. While transitioning my material to a new laptop, I recently discovered my old notes on “Twenty Quick Tips for a Great Personal...

Math x is an integer. Quantity A Quantity B \({(-1)^{x^2}+(-1)^{x^3}+(-1)^{x^4}}\) \({(-1)^x + (-1)^{2x} + (-1)^{3x} + (-1)^{4x}}\) A) Quantity A is greater. B) Quantity B is greater. C) The two quantities are equal. D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.   Correct Answer - B  - (click and drag your mouse to see...

In a recent discussion I had with Andrea Flores from IE University in Madrid, we talked about the Return on Investment of an MBA. It was a fantastic discussion that allowed us to explore ROI as a broad concept, but I did receive some messages...

Verbal Without a doubt, one of the pinnacle achievements of modern physics is the development of Maxwell’s equations. Their beauty lies in their elegant simplicity, while the breadth and depth of Maxwell’s equations speak for themselves. These four simple equations, coupled with the Lorenz Force Equation,...