MarquisParker.com // Business Strategist, Speaker, Advisor, and Coach

Stanford’s application is due tomorrow afternoon (10/28/03) and I’m freaking out. I submitted my application over a month ago, so i thought everything was straight, but that isn’t the case. I’m starting to worry that my recommenders aren’t going to have their parts ready in time. I know that they’re all busy, but I gave them two and a half months notice on this and none of them have submitted their stuff yet. I worked hard to get my stuff finished for Round 1 and I hope that I don’t end up getting pushed to Round 2 because they didn’t… Read the rest

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Today was a huge day for me and a lot of other people who were applying to HBS in the first round. I almost didn’t get my stuff submitted in time though.

I submitted my application on 10/4/03, so, at that point, I only needed to have my recommendations submitted and then I’d be straight. Easy, right? Heck naw. I notified my recommenders on 8/8/03, but, by the time I turned in my application, none of them had even had a chance to start yet. One of them turned their rec in for me last week, but, as of two… Read the rest

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What’s going on, y’all. My name is Marquis and I’m applying to business school for entrance in Fall 2004. I’m excited to have the chance to share my experiences with all of you because I hope that typing all of this stuff out will help relieve some of the stress that this whole process has caused me for the past few months.

To give you a little background on myself, I am currently a Software Engineer with a small software company about 30 miles outside of Washington DC. I’ve got a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Princeton and a… Read the rest

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