{"id":17531,"date":"2015-07-14T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=17531"},"modified":"2022-01-29T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:58:06","slug":"mission-admission-using-judgment-on-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-using-judgment-on-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Admission: Using Judgment on Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould I use Calibri or Times New Roman font for my essays?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould I list my GPA to the third or fourth decimal place?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have enough space to enter my full title, so should I write Vice President or VP Sales?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As candidates approach their first application deadline, small questions start to arise\u2014questions that often require using judgment to answer. We can safely say that no one was ever kept out of Harvard Business School for listing his\/her GPA to the third decimal point or for abbreviating a title. Remember, the admissions officers are not punitive. They are not mean-spirited people, reading your application and searching for reasons to reject you. So, if you have a small lingering question about your application, you can connect with the admissions office and ask someone there. Most often, they will ask you to<em>\u00a0use your judgment<\/em>. As long as your broad story is compelling, the smallest details should take care of themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cShould I use Calibri or Times New Roman font for my essays?\u201d \u201cShould I list my GPA to the third or fourth decimal place?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t have enough space to enter my full title, so should I write Vice &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-using-judgment-on-details\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&nbsp;<i class=\"fal fa-sm fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-admission"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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