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($) Changing careers? Think through how you’re ready, even if you think that you’re not

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The trend throughout all of education is practical, experiential learning. You may have even talked about this in your Round 1 applications. If you mentioned HBS FIELD or Ross MAP or any such immersive, real-world, go-out-into-industry-and-do-something type program or project in your essays, then you were likely referencing this category of learning. This 2018 article...

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($) The simplest guide to MBA career goals. Courtesy of Berkeley Haas.

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This is pure career-goals gold. Not sure how we discovered this little gem, but tucked away at this Google Docs link is pretty much everything you need to think through your career goals for an essay to business school. (Here it is Continue reading......

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($) Aiming the post-MBA career goal appropriately

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It’s Veterans Day and we want to make a quick shout-out to all those BSers from the Armed Forces that we’ve worked with, past and present. If you’re going to be transitioning from the military into bschool, we offer resources for you, including a free blahg membership and other goodies, plus military-specific content! Our Military...

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($) “I’m just gonna say ‘consulting’ as my MBA goals.”

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And heck, we wouldn’t blame ya! Darden recently reported an all-time high starting salary coming from its 2019 graduating class , to the tune of $152k plus bonus. That’s likely skewed by one person’s $173k base — always be sure to question headlines like that. The numbers from Darden with that outlier salary excluded are...

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($) MBA career goals are goals for your career (“Well duh EssaySnark”)

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Are you being sponsored for your MBA? Do you have plans to return to your current company after you finish with school? Great! Today’s post is not for you. 🙂 Today we’re talking about applicants who want to go to bschool and then they have a pretty good idea of what they want to do...

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($) Are you proposing too big of a change?

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Most applicants to business school want to change careers. Bschool is an ideal vehicle for that. Most bschools want to hear about your plans to change careers in your essays. Crafting a solid set of goals is one of the most important steps you can take in building a strong application. There are many ways...

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($) Your task is not to try to impress the bejeebus out of them.

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Here’s some examples of the types of commentary we’ve offered to Brave Supplicants just like you in the past few weeks! (Modified to protect anonymity of course.) We figured, since we were repeating this so often to so many, that it would be worth publishing here as a caution for everyone. Here’s what we said...

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($) Reapp advice Part 2

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OK, picking up the discussion of reapplicant strategy from yesterday (which was mostly focused on HBS/Stanford reapplicants): For a school like Yale, they typically review the prior-year app in tandem with this year. Same with MIT, and Columbia, and many others. In that case, then an obvious improvement in a metric like GMAT score is...

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