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ijailin89
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:51:14 +0000

Echoing what L2AB said, don’t dwell on how you’ve had business experience, etc. (you can mention it, but you can also count on a thousand others writing about the same thing). I sometimes get the feeling that my lack of business experience (and total lack of anything related to business on my application… I actually went, “Hmm, which school do I want to go to?” and checked off Stern without knowing anything about it besides the fact that it was the business school and I wanted to go into business) was what attracted me to the admissions officers, haha.

Obviously, they must take some people who emphasize their business ventures, but they also take people who have worked in average jobs, done lots of ECs and been in a few important leadership positions, and don’t really know what DECA and such are.

So definitely mention the yacht business and stuff, but also try maybe writing an essay on the house-building (they like community service, I think… big part of Stern). There’s one question about what attracts you to NYU besides the city – I wrote about the big international presence, but just find something that makes you stand out from the others.