A Brave Supplicant hit us up for some information about their situation recently and they agreed to let us post our answers to their questions here on the blahg – personal details appropriately omitted, of course. Here’s what they asked: Hello essay snark Hope you are doing great! I am from India and require 3...
“There’s too many candidates like me.”
April 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes people give up when they shouldn’t. It can be totally depressing to get rejected. But the obvious truth is, if you stop trying, then you’re definitely not getting an MBA. Oftentimes the reasons for rejection are fixable – maybe not easily so, but fixable nonetheless. A common complaint we hear is about the oversubscribed [...]
Learn More...The first objection we always hear from an Indian candidate.
April 4, 2013 by 2 Comments
We mentioned school visits again yesterday. It’s a really important step that so many people discount. Just read some of the Success Stories from BSers who’ve gone before and you’ll know what we mean. Now of course we hear the objections starting already. “But EssaySnark! I’m from India!” They say that as if that’s the [...]
Learn More...The most challenged of the challenging profiles: The Indian Applicant
November 27, 2012 by 1 Comment
We get a LOT of Indian IT guys hanging out in these parts, and we’ve had opportunity to review many many profiles of this type of candidate over the years. Your profile is what it is, and if you’re in the “male Indian engineer” category, then yeah, you already know that you’re up against some [...]
Learn More...EssaySnark is American.
August 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We have a wide range of nationalities hanging out here on the EssaySnark blahg. The commonality is that you all want to get into a high-end Western bschool — if not Harvard or Stanford, then Columbia, or Ross, or UCLA — or LBS or INSEAD or one of the other great European programs. We also [...]
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...
“What is a low GMAT?” (or, are you effing kidding?!?)
September 23, 2011 by
The title of this post should really be, AM I HOT OR NOT? Because that’s what he’s asking. Primpin’ and preenin’ in the mirror, and asking over his shoulder, “Does this 720 GMAT score make my butt look big?” In response to a Brave Supplicant’s query on our who-should-not-apply-in-Round-1 post, about his “friends” who are...
GPA conversion stress
September 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This post was edited in June 2013 to refresh the content; the gist of the changes was around the new way that Columbia handles grades from other countries. Today is a holiday here in the U.S. It’s Labor Day, where we recognize the contributions that unions have made in building our country. However, in honor [...]
Learn More...essay critique: ISB essay 1
July 11, 2011 by
The Indian School of Business is quite an impressive place. An accelerated one-year residential MBA. Great professors, strong relationships with a handful of excellent global programs (Wharton/Kellogg/etc). In a part of the world that’s on fire with new economic development. Something like, what, 8% annual growth? We’re too lazy to doublecheck that figure, but no...
“No time” to retest the GMAT. (Oh really?)
April 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
EssaySnark is not impressed. Here it is April — with all the time in the world — and we’re already getting a Brave Supplicant telling us that he “doesn’t have time” to retest the GMAT. OK fine. His original score wasn’t too shabby. The verbal is a little low, but if you have to be [...]
Learn More...essay critique: Haas “Beyond Yourself”
November 19, 2010 by
This week, someone asked about all the posting we’ve been doing — shouldn’t EssaySnark be really busy right about now? Actually, early November is always a lull — the Round 1 deadlines are mostly done with and clients hitting Round 2 haven’t realized that they should be already panicking. So, while we’re constantly busy from...
Profile Assessment: SS stands for SuperStar
September 14, 2010 by
Hello Ms. SS, the ever patient yet not so much SS. Thank you for your persistence in knocking on our door. If you weren’t so cute we’d be getting irritated. We have now gone over the profile that you’ve spammed us with submitted and (drum roll please) we think you’re going to be in excellent...
“i’m gonna sound REALLY bonkers at times…” (or, engineering -> finance – help!)
July 9, 2010 by
EssaySnark received a plaintive plea for help the other day. Here’s the email, posted by permission with some paring down by EssaySnark: [2 things: i'v condensed this msg as far as possible but its still a long one.. apologies and i'm gonna sound REALLY bonkers at times but pl read on as i really need...
