This came up when we were helping a very motivated Brave Supplicant with understanding feedback on our Essay Decimator essay review at the end of last season.
This applicant had fallen into the trap that many, many applicants fall into: Their HBS essay was boring.
And there was a very specific reason why it was boring, which is the same reason that many others’ HBS essays also are boring.
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Hopefully that explanation is illuminating and gets the wheels churning on new ways of doing the HBS essay in particular.
Obviously we have lots more to say about HBS and how to tackle their essay in our Harvard SnarkStrategies Guide!
And finally, because we’re concerned that we may have inadvertently pushed some of you in the totally wrong direction with the idea that you want to avoid boring essays, we’ll point you to this super important post about an even worse issue that comes up a lot. It would be better for the essay to be boring than to have those issues going on.
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If you’re a go-it-alone type, that’s fine too, we invite you to dig into the many posts here on the blahg designed to help those who want to teach themselves the mechanics of good MBA essay writing.
Either way: This would be an excellent time to begin!!
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