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At Capella University, you will earn your degree from an accredited university that delivers the challenge and energy of a traditional classroom, but gives you the flexibility to fit education into your life.
Programs offered:
• B.S. - Business Admin.
• B.S. - Business/Finance
• B.S. - Business/H.R.
• B.S. - Business/Marketing

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• MBA
• MBA in Marketing
• MBA in Finance

• M.S. in Education
• M.S. in Psychology
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Essays, Essays & more Essays

The essay....most dread this part of the application. But Stop! They're not as bad as everyone makes them out to be. Once you've got your thinking cap on its as easy as 2+2. From tips to sample essays to a whole tutorial on how to go about writing the essay. We've got it all out here.

Essay Tips

	A Dozen Tips for your MBA Essay
	Sample Questions and Approaches to Answering Them
	Plumbing the Inner Soul
	The pitfalls of MBA Admission Essays
	Writing a personal statement (Graduate School)
	The purpose of the college application essay
	Your MBA application essay stepping stone or stumbling block?
	Admission essay tips
	The art of writing the college essay
	Essay turnoffs
	Killer essays

Sample Essays

College
	Yale University	Georgetown University
	Vassar College	Princeton University
	Stanford University	Univ. of Massachusetts - Amherst
	Wellesley	Univ. of Pennsylvania
	Harvard	Brown University

Graduate School
	Purdue University - Elec. Engineering	Princeton University - Computer Science
	Stanford University - Elec. Engineering	Duke University - Public Policy
	University of Nebraska - Sociology	University of Washington - Non-Profit Mgmt
	Duke University - Genetics	Rochester Inst. of Technology - HR Mgmt
	UC - Berkeley - Urban Planning	UCLA - Film Production
	MIT (Sloan) - Ph.D. in Finance	Boston University - Social Work

Business School

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	Pennsylvania (Wharton) - 1		Harvard - Ethical dilemma
	Pennsylvania (Wharton) - 2		Harvard - Leadership
	Dartmouth (Tuck)		NYU (Stern) - 1 - Decisions
	Columbia		NYU (Stern) - 2 - Life Decisions
	Northwestern (Kellogg)		NYU (Stern) - 3
	UCLA (Anderson) - 1		MIT (Sloan) - Leadership
	UCLA (Anderson) - 2 - Accomplishments		Duke (Fuqua) - Diversity
	Harvard - Cross Cultural Experiences

Ellis College offers an online M.B.A. program created in association with Columbia Business School, Stanford University, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Application Essay Writing 101

I. Lesson One: Tackling the Question - Start Here!
	EssayEdge Extra: Who's reading my essay?
	A. Question-specific strategies for college, business school, law school, and medical school application essays
	B. Samples of various types of questions with comments by admissions officers
II. Lesson Two: Brainstorming and Selecting an Essay Topic
	EssayEdge Extra: One essay, multiple applications
	A. Brainstorming worksheet
	B. Selecting a Topic: Do's and don'ts with comments by experienced admissions officers
III. Lesson Three: Structure and Outline
	A. Descriptions and examples of five popular essay structures
	B. Sample outline and essay
	C. Strategies and examples of short essays
	D. Templates, severe writer's block cure
IV. Lesson Four: Style and Tone
	EssayEdge Extra: Trimming the Fat - Reducing wordiness
	EssayEdge Extra: Top 10 essay cliches
	A. Sentence variety with exercise
	B. Word choice: Common pitfalls
	C. Transitions: Improving flow
	D. Verbs: Active voice vs. Passive voice
	1. Active or Passive? Verb quiz
	2. Making sentences active voice, an exercise
V. Lesson Five: Introductions and Conclusions
	EssayEdge Extra: No Introduction??!!
	A. Descriptions, examples, and critiques of nine popular styles of introduction
	B. Conclusions: Do's and don'ts
VI. Lesson Six: Editing and Revising
	EssayEdge Extra: To title or not to title
	A. Paying attention to substance, structure, interest, and proofreading
	B. Actual essay gaffes (funny)
	C. Final steps

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B.S. Programs
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