Guest Post! “My Thoughts on the Career Goals Essay” from a military candidate

EssaySnark is pleased to announce our new Military MBA microsite, and we’ve got a special guest post today from a successful military candidate who is headed to a Very Good School in a few months. While the advice offered here and the process that this STBBS has to offer are both relevant to BSers of [...]

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Military MBA

Military candidates, EssaySnark is grateful for your service. EssaySnark has helped military candidates with successful applications to: Harvard Stanford Wharton Columbia Duke Tepper Darden Cornell and many other great schools. We’re here to help you no matter what stage of the game you’re in. As part of our ongoing program to support to military MBA [...]

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Awesome Military Guy’s MBA Success Story – Final Installment!

Yay! You made it through the first two weeks of 2013! As a happy marker of that milestone, here’s another installment of the Amazing Military Guy’s success story. New to this story? Start with Part 1 here.   Awesome Military Guy’s MBA Success Story: Part 3 2012 With the GMAT in the rearview mirror [covered [...]

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Awesome Military Guy’s MBA Success Story Part 2!

We started out with giftage on Christmas and it continues on with New Year’s! If you missed Part 1 of this story, go read that first (where our former BSer talks about why he decided to go for an MBA) and then come back for Part 2 today. Awesome Military Guy’s MBA Success Story: Part [...]

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Merry Christmas! And a gift! Part 1 of Awesome Military Guy’s Success Story!

Yes it’s Xmas – and yes EssaySnark is around this week, as we always are at this time – thanks to bschool deadlines, we haven’t had a holiday vacation in uncountable years. If you’re feeling the heat and it’s not coming from the yuletide logs in the fireplace, no worries, we’re here to help! As [...]

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Guest post! From a badass! With advice: Don’t forget to smile!

EssaySnark has a soft spot for the military guys trying for bschool — and when we hear of one of ‘em making it in, we get pretty excited about it. (Actually, we get pretty excited about all of you guys getting in!) And this particular candidate had a LOT going for him — yet he [...]

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essay critique: Columbia essay 1 part 2

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On a previous episode of Essay Snark… Brave Supplicant from the military needed a do-over on his career goals. And he has since done over. Here’s what we’ve got now – we’re including just the “career goals” part of the essay here: In 2007, on a base in Iraq referred to as “Mortar-itaville,” it was...


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essay critique: Columbia essay 1 (2011-’12 version)

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We have another Brave Supplicant ready to go with his Columbia application! Let’s see what he has to say in his all-important career goals essay. Considering your post-MBA and long term professional goals, why you are pursuing an MBA at this point in your career? Additionally, why is Columbia Business School a good fit for...


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The one less traveled by… DARDEN

We’ll start our “less traveled by” survey with DARDEN, at the University of Virginia. Darden is a school known for being academically rigorous, for using the case method in all classes, and, in EssaySnark’s opinion, for being friendly.  For those who are tracking such things, Darden  lands just outside the Top 10 (#13 on the [...]

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