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Learn More...Those media-crazed Californians.
February 26, 2013 by 1 Comment
We did the likes-attract post yesterday with a bunch of charts showing comparative patterns at comparative schools. Let’s keep going in that vein. We talked yesterday about the Stanford/Berkeley pattern and let’s go back to that again, since California is a lovely place to be dreaming about, given how cold and snowy it is in [...]
Learn More...The power of positivity
March 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
EssaySnark doesn’t want to get all metasophical on you or anything (yes that’s a word, we just made it up) but… We have this one client. He tried to get in last year. He started too late, and he got bad advice, and he submitted some really lousy apps. And of course he targeted the [...]
Learn More...“School X, or School Y with $$$?” (Part 1.75)
March 5, 2012 by
We started the “how to choose between different schools” converation last week with a discussion of culture. Culture, you realize, is another way to say “what are the people like” — it’s a very abbreviated shorthand for “this is what my life will be when I attend this school.” And the culture is really truly...
Plagiarism.
February 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We know that none of you would ever cheat. You’d never lie on your application to graduate school. You’d never write your own letter of recommendation. You’d never copy an essay that you found on a website. So this post is definitely not for any of you. We just figured we’d point to some recent [...]
Learn More...The best waitlist advice ever.
February 13, 2012 by
We know, we know, we know. Ending up on the waitlist sux. We prefer to see it as glass-half-FULL, however we realize that most people who get put on the waitlist think it’s a horrible thing and they’re totally depressed and they feel like it’s a rejection. (Earth to Applicant: It’s not.) We’ve had a...
Maybe this year will be different? Maybe…
February 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday we either freaked many of you out, or got you fully depressed, or just generally PO’ed, by telling you you’re too late to the admissions game. What we said was: Round 3 is typically not where success stories are born. And we referred you to the series of posts that we offered about it [...]
Learn More...It’s gonna be a competitive year
November 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Now that your turkey has digested, and before you head out on your Black Friday shopping frenzy, consider this: It’s very likely that there will be more of you applying this year. EssaySnark is boldly predicting that app volume will go up this year. Why? UCLA announced recently that their Rd 1 app volume was [...]
Learn More...($) career goals essays
August 26, 2011 by
Previously we talked about storytelling in your MBA essays. Career goals essays don’t lend themselves to storytelling as much, since those are more in the “Just the facts, ma’am” category and need to be future-focused (you can’t tell a story about the future without moving into science fiction territory, and that’s not advisable for a...
Is there an MBA bubble?" (the cost of education part 7)
July 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment
You guys ‘r probably sick of this by now. So here’s the (hopefully final) thoughts we’re currently thinking; we’ll just toss this out on a Sunday of a (U.S.) holiday weekend and get it over with. On this whole bschool bubble thing… Bubbles are about artificial or unnatural demand, right? Well the bschools are culpable [...]
Learn More...Round 3: UCLA still looking for candidates
April 11, 2011 by
A super-unusual second post in a single day. But this news, we thought, warrants it. Granted this is still coming with little time to spare… and notwithstanding our harping about how a Round 3 application has little chance… BUT: UCLA was trumpeting on its blog recently that there’s spots still open for Round 3. The...
Possible PROGRAMS where a Round 3 application might make sense
March 4, 2011 by
Related to: Babson Olin, Berkeley Haas, Chicago Booth, Darden, Vanderbilt, NYU Stern, Columbia, INSEAD, UCLA Anderson, ISB
OK OK OK, chill. Yes, there are a few cases where a last-round application to business school can be a viable strategy. There aren’t many, and most people really should wait till the upcoming admissions season in the Fall. We know it feels like forever away, but the summer will fly past quickly, and before...
Stern "personal expression" essay
December 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Remember how we freaked you out with the caliber of the video (and audio) essays submitted to UCLA last year? How amazing those candidates were? And remember how you discounted the whole thing, saying, “Who cares? None of my other schools want me to do a video. And even UCLA has that essay as optional. [...]
Learn More...at risk of completely demotivating you…
November 3, 2010 by
EssaySnark knows, this is a bit of a double-edged sword. UCLA has posted real-life examples (presumably from real-life applicants who they accepted) of the audio/video essay question that they had the last few years, which they’ve since made “optional.” Go check these out. (link updated 12/18/10) Those are actual submissions from the 2009-’10 application season....
I am giddy, expectation whirls me round…
October 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment
(William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act III Scene 2) Ah, Round One deadlines. So nice of schools to move theirs up this year. Now that the crush is past – what was it, HarvardWhartonStanfordColumbiaDukeMichigan all in a week’s time? – we can get on to other things. Oh wait, we’ve got UCLAKelloggBerkeleyMIT still. And then [...]
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