Yale School of Management General Info Yale SOM MBA Application Tips Yale SOM MBA Application Deadlines from the EssaySnark blahg: Changes at Yale SOM (October 2011) healthcare MBAs (May 2011) 2013 Yale Full-Time MBA Essay Questions (Expected in late June.) The 2012 Questions The 2013 essays are expected to be somewhat similar (slight changes [...]
Learn More...($) The most concise guide to applying to bschool, ever.
August 14, 2012 by
Want to know how to put together an application for business school? The first place to look is – uh – the website of the school you’re interested in. Believe it or not, yes, you can get amazing insights on how to apply from the schools themselves. Study those sites. Don’t just skim over the...
An essay (not ours) on leadership
March 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Ostensibly, bschool will teach you to be a leader. Of course, schools expect you to already be one, at least somewhat, before you apply. HBS is known to emphasize leadership over all else in its evaluation of candidate profiles. What does leadership actually mean? It comes up often enough in bschool essays. We mention it [...]
Learn More...Academic recommendations
March 14, 2012 by
Jumping back from all the post-admit decision-making debates to the other end of the process now…. You already know that you need to get letters of recommendation for your application to business school. Most schools require two; some want three. (You should not submit more than they ask for, by the way.) You also know,...
changes at Yale SOM
October 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
So they got a new dean. In EssaySnark’s opinion, Yale has been a bit of a school adrift for some time, but there’s new life on campus now that Dean Snyder has arrived. The brief backstory is that they lost their dean all-of-a-sudden in 2008, when Joel Podolny, who’d been there just a couple years, [...]
Learn More...Good (and not-so-good) reasons to want to go to School X
September 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
So you’re writing your career goals essay. And you know you’re supposed to put in reasons why you’ve chosen the particular school that you’re writing it for. And you’re trying to figure out what to say. This post over at the Yale Law School admissions blog might be helpful for you. Yes, it’s about law [...]
Learn More...where creativity does NOT pay off
August 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
DISCLAIMER! NOTICE! WARNING! This post links to another post about LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS. *NOT* MBA admissions. *NOT* for bschool. This is from the Director of Admissions at Yale Law School. It’s still totally worth reading. (We think we were separated at birth, us EssaySnark person and this Aksha Yale person.) She talks about some “creative” [...]
Learn More...healthcare MBAs
May 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
We answered a Brave Supplicant’s question on one of those forums recently, and thought we may as well cross-post here. To paraphrase, the question was, Which top schools are highly associated with pharmaceutical/biotechnology? Here’s what we said: The only bschool we’ve heard of that specifically offers a “biotech” MBA specialization is Cambridge Judge. Lots of [...]
Learn More...Debunking the ED/inflated yield nonsense about Columbia
May 16, 2011 by
A common refrain on many bschool admissions forums (which, by the way, are populated by a high percentage of UNeducated people — caveat emptor) is that Columbia is gaming the system with their Early Decision process. The logic is this: Columbia’s yield is artificially high because the vast majority of candidates accepted in their ED...
Round 1 congratulations!
December 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Decisions Week is always a whirlwind. EssaySnark wants to take a moment to congratulate those BraveSupplicants who’ve been accepted this week to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Booth, Yale, Duke, Kellogg, and any Columbia ED stragglers who may have gotten word. It’s been a very competitive season so far! Those who have been receiving offers definitely put [...]
Learn More...Overcoming Obstacles (the Yale Law way)
October 8, 2010 by
Taking the easy way out. It’s Friday. We just got through the first crush of deadlines. None of our clients had breakdowns and there were no tears this week. EssaySnark feels that is a major accomplishment. And so is taking a breather. Go read this post. About overcoming obstacles. By our new favorite blogger. Who...
Separated at birth (or, disappointments and obstacles, and winning the lottery)
October 6, 2010 by
EssaySnark found a blog today that was like looking in a mirror.* It’s a blog associated wtih admissions at Yale Law School. (OK, you’re right, there are absolutely no similarities between this blogger’s profession and ours.) And she tries to give advice to Brave Supplicants on the JD side. Who are struggling with a Personal...
What other programs have you applied to?
September 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
This question shows up on the application form for most schools, and people get all weirded out about it. It’s like they don’t want to be seen as cheating on the school by admitting that they’re also applying to other schools. But get real: Who applies to just one school? (Okay, EssaySnark did, and lucked [...]
Learn More...The ultimate blind date
August 24, 2010 by
EssaySnark sees this very odd phenomenon: Countless Brave Supplicants every year devote countless hours to studying for that nasty GMAT and countless more sweating over essays and even more cajoling past bosses to submit sparkling letters of recommendation… They lurk on Internet blogs and gobble up words of wisdom (or not-so-wisdom) spewed on discussion boards...
