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Present Yourself: Understand the Principles

Business school admissions are truly a puzzle for international applicants. Each school tries to portray itself as unique and states the qualities it wants in its student body, which sets it apart from others. The applicants, after painstaking research, shortlist the schools they feel best suited for. But the fact remains that their knowledge of their safe/reach/dream school is almost always secondhand—very few applicants can afford the high cost of going abroad and understanding the culture of their choice schools by staying over and interacting with faculty, students and staff at the school, as well as sitting in on the classes and taking part in events. They are forced to accept at face value what ...

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