Answers to random BSers’ MBA application questions

August 1, 2012 by EssaySnark

We’re getting a lot of requests for freebie help and there’s no way we’re gonna be able to respond to all of them. And anyway, we coulda sworn we answered many of these questions already in various and sundry posts here on the blahg. If you’re a Brave Supplicant who’s just joined us for the…

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Here's what others have said about this:

TY says

August 1, 2012 at 12:33 pm

You are my friend even if we are not buddies on FB or LinkedIn or “whatever”. The first thing I do in the morning is check out the latest thoughts of my good ol’ pal EssaySnark!
- essaysnark says
  
  August 1, 2012 at 1:38 pm
  
  LOL just wait till we review your essays! We lose “friends” very quickly at that stage. 😀
  - TY says
    
    August 3, 2012 at 11:27 am
    
    LIKE!
    
    Wait, have you not started yet? It might be really awesome if you have not because I have now been thinking that I went the wrong direction with Harvard. My success showed innovation and analytical skills, but lets face it, innovation is not one of their decision criteria, and the GMAT and GPAs are enough to show analytical skills (I imagine). I have community involvement out the wa-zoo, but what they don’t see directly is leadership.
    
    I wrote a very rough draft of a leadership essay for Kellogg when I realized that it would make a better success story for Harvard than what I had had before. Do you want me to send it to you? (VERY ROUGH DRAFT! I just wrote the story down without much thought of it being an application.)
    - essaysnark says
      
      August 3, 2012 at 1:50 pm
      
      @TY, can’t say we ever “want” any essays sent!!! 🙂 (Essays = work for us ya know)
      
      It’s up to you if you want to submit something!
    - essaysnark says
      
      August 3, 2012 at 2:02 pm
      
      Oh wait – TY we don’t know if we’ve started reviewing your essays or not – we have no idea who you are! Misunderstood your comment originally. It sounds like you’d submitted something for a free review on the blahg? Confused what you’re asking about. We don’t track those things very well, it’s rather random. We do not typically do more than one essay review (or profile review, or answers to questions) for free. It sounds like you could benefit from a more structured approach to your process? Or at least help at the figure-out-what-to-say stage.
      - TY says
        
        August 5, 2012 at 11:15 am
        
        I am the Peace Corps volunteer in Africa who sent you HBS stuff. I have no idea what you are going to do with me, but anything will help! 😀
        
        (Topics were a failed negotiation and creating a motivation tool.)