Well that went fast didn’t it! There’s something very odd that happens to time in that sequence of dates between like December 15th and the first Monday in January. Or maybe that phenomenon of weird-time-experience only happens to those trying to write essays for Round 2 applicants (and the snarks who try to support them). […]
Continue reading...($) Columbia’s “Financing Your MBA” application question
We started talking about money in our post on “Can you make too much money to get into an MBA program?” so we figured we go into an actual dataset question that can cause some applicants to freeze up: MBA: Estimate how you will finance the cost of your total first-year budget. Premium content starts […]
Continue reading...($) Pro Tip: Start your Round 2 applications *now*
It’s December 1st. Many if not most of you are nervously awaiting decisions from Round 1 which are going to start happening as phone calls beginning as soon as next week (probably not this week, but we may be tracking things incorrectly and who knows?). (Side note: If you get an incoming call from an […]
Continue reading...($) Do “legacies” have an admit advantage?
So much has changed in such a short time. If you’d asked us this about five years ago, the answer would’ve been an unequivocal “Yes!” “Legacies” are candidates whose parents went to the school that they’re applying to. Sometimes other relatives like aunts or uncles, or grandparents, are included in the “legacy” equation. Premium content […]
Continue reading...Another prep step: App Fee Waivers!
Hopefully when you did your tour of your target school’s online MBA application you paid careful attention to their policies around issuing a waiver of the application fee. All schools offer at least one category of waiver, typically around service-based professions like military, TFA, and Peace Corps. (BTW, we have programs like that, too! Though […]
Continue reading...($) The MBA app dataset: A real opportunity
If you haven’t already done this, then do it now: Go create an account to start an application at one of your firm targets. Or if you have already done so, then go log onto that app and actually read it. Like, read it carefully. Don’t just skim. Do you see all the fields there? […]
Continue reading...Military awards and the Wharton app dataset (with insight for civilians and other schools too)
One of the most helpful things you can do as you’re procrastinating on actually getting started on writing your MBA essays is to spend some time with at least one school’s actual application. Last season in the lead-up to Round 2 we got this question from a military BSer about the Wharton application fields: (If […]
Continue reading...Bad MBA essay typos (2019 edition)
This topic is a never-ending source of amusement / mortification / horror depending on who you are and what stage of the essay-writing process the typo was discovered in. If it’s EssaySnark discovering it in an essay review, it may be kinda funny, or for common mistakes like messing up when “it’s” needs an apostrophe […]
Continue reading...($) When to update the adcom after they have your app
You got your app in. Yay! You did your best to report everything about your background thoroughly and accurately. Double yay! Now you wander back to that app to admire your amazing work and… you discover an error. OMG NO! Or: You weren’t looking for a new job, but one falls into your lap. Lickety-split, […]
Continue reading...“completely lost on HBS essay and need help”
We heard from a BSer once that he stumbled upon the ‘Snark through a google search that was phrased somehow like that, so let’s see if we can offer some starting points and ways to break into the analysis process for dealing with the Harvard MBA question this year. Just in case you’re in the […]
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