UPDATE 6/7/13: STERN CHANGED ITS ADMISSIONS CYCLE! First round at NYU is now standardized to October, just like everyone else’s. Here’s what we had to say about things when we thought that Stern was staying the same. Some of this post is now null and void. So much for EssaySnark’s Predict-O-Meter! …or maybe you won’t [...]
Learn More...MBA Essay Questions: UC-Berkeley Haas
UC-Berkeley Haas General Info Berkeley-Haas Admissions Blog Haas Full-Time MBA Application Deadlines Haas used to have four rounds; for the 2013-’14 application season, they’ve standardized to three rounds. Apply in either October or January; don’t bother with Round 3. Round 1: October 16, 2013 Round 2: January 8, 2014 from the EssaySnark blahg: A BSer [...]
Learn More...A BSer is sick of the “culture” shtick.
April 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In the informal poll we did about a month ago on which school has the best MBA essay questions, we got this comment: Haas just goes on and on about their culture. I mean its [sic] great that you have a good culture; but don’t make it your selling point. It gets irritating after a [...]
Learn More...What do you think his career goals essay looked like?
January 9, 2013 by 2 Comments
We saw this announcement recently and thought it was worth dissecting: Tim Simonds has been named chief marketing and engagement officer at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Simonds, who is leaving his current role as general manager in global service marketing and marketing operations for General Electric’s Healthcare IT Division, earned his [...]
Learn More...practical app tips: Berkeley’s two Optional Essays (2 of 2)
November 28, 2012 by
Yesterday we went over the Berkeley Haas Supplemental Information questions. In addition, the Haas adcom has not one but TWO optional essays: (Optional) Please feel free to provide a statement concerning any information you would like to add to your application that you haven’t addressed elsewhere. (500 word maximum) (Optional) If not clearly evident, please...
practical app tips: Berkeley’s Supplemental Info questions (1 of 2)
November 27, 2012 by
With the Berkeley Haas F/T Round 2 deadline coming up, we thought we’d help out with some common questions around the Supplemental Information that they ask for. As we tweeted the other day, this school has a remarkably comprehensive applicant FAQ so hopefully you’ve started there if you were unsure on how to handle any...
($) Haas and culture
October 17, 2012 by
We mentioned Haas in our recent post on culture and fit. Since today is Haas’ Round 1 deadline, we thought we’d go into a little more detail on what all this means. Berkeley is one school that places a premium on culture. This emphasis comes from the top – Dean Lyons led a multi-year effort...
essay critique: Haas career goals
September 5, 2012 by
Another from the archives (the January 2011 archives). Clearly EssaySnark is not the type who keeps the inbox at 0. This is the two-years-ago Haas career essay. For those of you for whom this year is your first attempt at the application game, you may be shocked to hear that just this one essay was...
essay critique: an old one, for Haas, about music
August 31, 2012 by
This is from the archives. Some BSer will probably be cursing EssaySnark to the grave because we let this essay languish in our inbox so long – yes, we received this submission in 2011. You don’t believe us when we say that it might take awhile to respond to those requests for freebie help…? Well....
Doing the unheard of on Leap Day
February 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
You know that EssaySnark is not a fan of late-round applications. But some of you are bound and determined to throw your hat into the ring this year. Fine. We’re gonna do something equally crazy: In honor of the unusualness of Leap Day, we’re offering up a few copies of the various SnarkStrategies essay guides [...]
Learn More...Shortened admissions cycles and what you can do about them
February 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We know you’re impatient. It seems like ages ago since you submitted those Round 2 apps. Shakespeare said: “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” Some schools are issuing interview invites… But not fast enough! you think. You’re getting antsy. You start wondering, Shouldn’t I hear back by now? Earth to Brave Supplicant: The only [...]
Learn More...essay critique: Haas career goals
December 13, 2011 by
We haven’t done an essay critique in some time, and we’ve got a pretty good career goals essay that came through a few weeks back for Haas. The Haas career essay is a voluminous 1,000 words so we’re not posting the whole thing. We’ll give you just the first few paragraphs and then say what...
Advice from the adcom: Letters of Recommendation
December 7, 2011 by
>EssaySnark has previously laid out some parameters of how to pick your recommenders for your application to business school. That post is from November 2010, so it’s likely you’ve not seen it before. Go read it now. Today, we’ll let the admissions offices themselves offer advice on what those recommendations should say. This post is...
Low GPA? Want to really convince the adcom you’re serious?
November 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment
>Berkeley Haas offers a (non-MBA) degree called the Master’s in Financial Engineering. It’s a one-year program for the quants (you know, the guys who brought down the world economy a few years back with all their derivatives and CDOs and all). But this post is not about that. This post is about a special set [...]
Learn More...“failure” essays – a la Haas and Judge
August 25, 2011 by
Another Brave Supplicant stepped up to the plate recently, this time with a Cambridge Judge essay. We don’t get that many Brave Supplicants interested in Judge around here however the essay this Brave Supplicant sent over is totally relevant for lots of other schools — like Berkeley-Haas, for example. The essay question is “What did...
SnarkStrategies Guide for Berkeley-Haas – 25% off – this weekend only!
August 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Any Brave Supplicant out there wanting a little extra boost on your UC-Berkeley Haas essays can purchase the SnarkStrategies Guide for 25% off! That’s over $4 off the list price of $17.95. This promotion is available this weekend only, and only for paperback editions of the Berkeley guide purchased here. Enter promo code MMHEVVD7 when [...]
Learn More...SnarkStrategies for Berkeley-Haas just published!
August 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Big news, Brave Supplicants – the SnarkStrategies MBA Essay Guide for the Haas School of Business is available now! You can get the softcover edition now for $17.95; ebook and PDF versions also available.8/6/11 updated to add: Kindle version just released! SnarkStrategies Guide for Berkeley-Haas From the back cover: Did you know… Berkeley looks [...]
Learn More...Researching Haas (or any school)
August 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Haas is known (around this here blahg at least) as a school with tricky essay questions. What does “beyond yourself” really mean? Or any of their other visions or values or key qualities or whatever they’re calling them these days. For any school, you gotta do some research to get into the culture, the mood, [...]
Learn More...Another deep dark truth…
June 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The lack of knowledge in this industry is astounding. Anyone can call themselves an ‘admissions consultant.’ Claiming to be ‘experts.’ But few seem to have even the tiniest smidgen of a clue. Recently we saw an admissions consultant comparing schools. They were talking about Columbia and looking at alternates. They said that Harvard and Stanford [...]
Learn More...essay critique: Master of Finance Oxford Judge (or any career goals essay)
June 6, 2011 by
We have a brave Brave Supplicant here! This one’s applying to the Master of Finance program at Cambridge. This is outside our core audience of MBA applicants, and Cambridge is not on the radar of most Brave Supplicants we know, so we were reluctant to spend too much time on this essay for you people,...
Don’t be tempted. Don’t do the GRE.
June 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Yes, the GMAT is a nasty little bugger of a test. Did you think getting into a great bschool would be easy?? The thing is, some people are looking for shortcuts. The easy way out. Maybe not cheating exactly, but putting forth as little effort as possible to get the same results. Nothing wrong with [...]
Learn More...bschools with MBA application questions out
June 2, 2011 by
Related to: Berkeley Haas, Harvard, Cornell Johnson, Michigan Ross, Kellogg, Dartmouth Tuck, Wharton, Stanford GSB, Columbia
Here are the schools that have released essay questions for the 2011-’12 application season (last update 7/7/11): HBS | SnarkStrategies Guide for Harvard: Expanded hardcopy (softcover) now available! Buy from Amazon. Also available on the Kindle Columbia | SnarkStrategies Guide: Amazon Kindle version Berkeley Haas | Stanford | Michigan Ross | Dartmouth Tuck | Kellogg...
talk about confusing
May 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Speaking of Haas…. This is a tricky time of year in the bschool admissions world. The Haas website has essay questions posted for the “fall 2011 application.” For pretty much every other bschool on the planet, this would mean “questions for the application you’re submitting in the fall of 2011.” Not Haas. (Those Berkeley types [...]
Learn More...Why is Haas so popular around here?
May 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
For over six months now, the posts we’ve written on Berkeley Haas have trended towards the top in terms of popularity — they’re read more often on this blog than anything else. Why is that? Is it because we have a lot of articles on Haas? No. We have a lot more on Columbia. And [...]
Learn More...essay critique: Haas career goals
April 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment
So we’ve started to excavate the ancient emails and essays submitted to us back in December, to which we never responded, and we are offering a critique of this one with no guilt: Brave Supplicant N said “Please review my essay for Haas, which I already submitted in its Round II. This essay explains my [...]
Learn More...school fit part II
April 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
OK, so now you have a better sense what this “school fit” nonsense that everybody talks about means. How do you get a sense of what the school’s “values” are (to use Booth’s Kurt Ahlm’s word)? Well, some schools trumpet their ‘values’ all over the website — you just maybe didn’t realize it. UC-Berkeley Haas [...]
Learn More...We’re getting a lot of “waitlist” queries
April 5, 2011 by
First of all, to all you Brave Supplicants who haven’t even started the process of applying to bschool, yet another vote to GET STARTED NOW is coming from the echoed laments of those-who-went-before: all the myriads of Brave Supplicants who are anxious and fraught, now that they’ve been placed on the waitlist. If we had...
