Some of you may be too young to remember the details, but about 12 years ago, we had that big financial crisis involving mortgages and Wall Street and fancy-dancy securities called collateral debt obligations and all that jazz. The part you probably do remember is that it made the housing market melt down, and people […]
Continue reading...($) International applicants: Should you even be focusing on USA for your MBA?
tl;dr: Yes but. Big sigh. It seems like every day there’s more bad news coming out of the US. This country has not been made great over the last four years. If anything, the opposite is happening. 🙁 We could rant for days on social issues, but in the […]
Continue reading...A call to the business schools: TRANSPARENCY
First: Why do we say “Asian-American” and “African-American” and “Native American” – but not “Caucasian-American”? Shouldn’t we start to use that explicit label? Who cares that Caucasians are the majority. Just saying that Caucasians are “American” means that when we say “American” we expect it to mean “a white person” which is a flaw of […]
Continue reading...($) A Stanford applicant case study: Avoidable mistakes
Reblahgging because based on some profiles and BSers we’ve seen, this may be useful again!! We got an essay submitted for a freebie review last November and we spent a day reviewing it for everyone right before Round 2 (Stanford “What matters most and why?”) (tl;dr: getting rejected from Stanford is no indication of...
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We don’t publish sample essays for your own benefit, and now we have science to back that policy up
We have never published sample essays on the blahg. We also encourage you not to read others’ essays even if they make them available to you. As we have cautioned umpteen times before, reading other people’s essays will not make it any easier for you to write yours. And, there’s never any guarantee that someone […]
Continue reading...($) So how competitive will MBA admissions be this year?
We could be totally off on this but… based on our reading of the tea leaves and examining the overall state of affairs in MBA admissions and the world so far with Round 1, we’re starting to wonder about things. We had been pretty confident when the season opened up that things would be stable...
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That thin line between being smart and cheating.
Aw man, here we go again. Yet another post from EssaySnark on ethics. You’d think we’d get sick of hearing ourselves talk about this. But no. Because it matters. Especially in this mixed-up world we’re living in now. Ethics really really matters. In case you missed it, our title says: That thin line between being […]
Continue reading...Do you want someone to tell you that you will get in? Or do you want someone to tell you the truth?
There’s an unfortunate reality in this MBA admissions consulting scene where the lack of transparency works against you, the client/bschool applicant. You want to pick the best advisor to help you with your apps. But how do you know who that is? How do you evaluate whether an admissions consultant will help you get in […]
Continue reading...($) MBA app volumes and you
As we started to discuss yesterday: Yes, applications have gone down to the top schools in the U.S. Simultaneously, there’s been a strengthening of interest in bschools in places that aren’t called the United States. We’ve talked about this plenty o’ times, and it seems to be largely attributed to the image of American unfriendliness...
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($) OH NO! Bschools in trouble! (aka, Are MBA applications REALLY tanking?)
Apparently it’s time for our “Is there a bubble?!?” post. We write these every few years (2015 version: Our annual “bubble” post; 2014 version: The whole “MBA bubble” thing rises again; 2011 version: The cost of education/is there a bubble? 8-part series), because apparently it’s a cyclical trend. The media gets bored, or someone (usually...
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