EssaySnark’s Predict-O-Meter: As of 5/30/13, we are 2 for 3 on what we thought would happen with this year’s MBA apps. It’s May. Creeping up to the middle of the month. That means, bschools are gonna start releasing their new essay questions soon. Harvard is usually the first one out of the gate with questions. [...]
Learn More...“What about the Stanford Sloan Master’s?”
March 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We had a question posed recently: Essaysnark, I’m curious to hear about your thoughts on the Stanford Sloan’s MSc in Management program. Based on what I’ve read, its students learn the same subjects from the same professors as the Stanford FT MBA’s students. Plus it requires a GMAT score. Seems to be pretty selective and [...]
Learn More...Advantages of LBS
March 19, 2013 by 2 Comments
In our recent post about GMAT scores being lower at LBS, we mentioned in an offhand way how London Business School is unique. This prompted a BSer to ask: What are the advantages that you mention lbs offers that schools like Hbs or Stanford cannot? First off is the point you know we’ll make: School [...]
Learn More...“Why do GMAT scores go down in older populations?”
March 6, 2013 by 4 Comments
We mentioned on Monday that LBS has a lower GMAT score than many other top schools, and we said that one reason is because students at LBS are older. Students being older is mostly due to LBS’s preference for at least five years of work experience upon matriculation. We had a comment to that other [...]
Learn More...“Why is the average GMAT score at LBS so much lower?”
March 4, 2013 by 2 Comments
We caught a question on one of the applicant boards recently and thought we’d share the answer here with you, too. First, while LBS is definitely a very good school, most would not put them in the same category as HBS. This is reflected in the salaries that grads can command coming out, and it’s [...]
Learn More...Got the HBS interview invite? Great! What do you do next?!?
October 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you’re interviewing at Harvard — or in the coming weeks, at LBS, NYU Stern, or MIT Sloan — your interviewer will have read your entire application. This is not the standard blind interview where they only have your resume on hand. They will KNOW you. They’re not going to ask you to walk them [...]
Learn More...“Culture” questions (INSEAD, LBS, etc.)
June 29, 2012 by 4 Comments
We often see people struggle with essay questions that certain schools ask where you need to talk about culture shock. INSEAD has a question: Have you ever experienced culture shock? What insights did you gain? London Business School has had one like this and will likely have something similar in this year’s application: London Business [...]
Learn More...“I got into two great schools. Should I try again for Stanford?”
May 21, 2012 by
We answered a question on BTG the other day and thought it would be worth repeating here. The Brave Supplicant is in the admirable position of holding acceptances to two Really Good Schools – Columbia and LBS. Yet this BSer really wants to go to Stanford. We can appreciate that! Stanford is an amazing place....
One-year MBA options
April 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
Recently we talked about the Kellogg 1Y program – but we didn’t exactly explain what it is. So here’s some backstory to fill in the gaps, in case we piqued your interest in this quick-I-want-to-be-done-with-it MBA option. First though, let’s start with the basics. The Kellogg two-year MBA is the standard full-time MBA degree that [...]
Learn More...Reapplicant series Part 4: Indian engineers, finance dudes, and others who are qualified
April 3, 2012 by
There’s one specific class of Brave Supplicant who we want to talk about today: the applicant who did everything right, and still didn’t make it in. This post is for those who have strong profiles, who put in the work, who are at the right point in their lives to be doing this bschool thing...
"School X, or School Y with $$$?" (Part the last?)
March 13, 2012 by
>We sure have blabbered on about this for awhile. Here’s that long-promised post on the money situation. Or at least, a little more on the topic than we’ve managed to eke out thus far. First point: Yes we’ve been harping on and on that you need to make the “right” decision based on your heart...
essay critique: Master’s of International Finance
February 28, 2012 by
>As we said yesterday, we dug up this ancient essay from the Wayback Machine (January 2011) and blew the dust off the email and started to do a review of it… and then we found that it had been posted in some other forum before it had been sent to us. It was emailed in to...
Our annual “Should I apply now” reality check
February 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
>Last year we did a series of posts right around this time, and we’re realizing that we need to bring them all back. For those of you who just crawled out from under your rock and decided to apply to bschool, like, NOW…. read these, please: Considering applying to bschool now? DON’T This post will [...]
Learn More...Interview help now available!
January 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
So you’re going to interview — and you’re panicking. And that little interviewing guide we just put out is only making it worse. Additional EssaySnark services have just been announced to give you all that you could possibly need to make a strong impression: Practice Interview Sessions! Get a comprehensive review of your content, delivery, [...]
Learn More...More crazy.
January 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We have almost cleared our plates of those stacked-up overflowing gooey drippy pancakes essays that y’all have been serving up. We’re hungry for more! Or just plain crazy. If you need help in the next few days, same deal as last time: If you want feedback on JUST your career goals essay — even that [...]
Learn More...Craziness. You’re still working on essays… and we’re almost out of essays to work on.
December 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Here it is a couple days before deadline. You thought you’d be done by now. But no, you have so much more to finish. Here it is a couple days before deadline. Normally our dance card is totally full at this point. But no, we managed to clear the queue almost completely (yes you BSers [...]
Learn More...Are you top MBA material?
June 27, 2011 by 1 Comment
OK yes, we admit, that’s a little harsh. But we’re talking to more and more Brave Supplicants who are getting their nerve up to throw their hats into the ring for the upcoming admissions season. And more and more of them strike us as well… nothing. Like, not much. Plain vanilla. Not memorable. While getting [...]
Learn More...It has begun!
June 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Related to: Wharton, Stanford GSB, Columbia, MIT Sloan, Duke Fuqua, Dartmouth Tuck, Kellogg, Harvard, Chicago Booth, LBS
Admissions season is officially underway — you might even say it started a month ago. All the top schools have released their round deadlines (except NYU, Haas, UCLA), most have published their essays, and some have even opened up their applications. EssaySnark will offer more in-depth guidance on each of these schools’ essays in the [...]
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