It’s Day 2 of WRITING WEEK on the EssaySnark blahg! In case you missed our starting post: Don’t cheat your reader. Today we’ll talk about combining essay-writing strategy and tactics. When you have hardly any space in a bschool essay, you need to make every word count. Seems obvious, right? If it were, then we […]
Continue reading...($) Want to go into consulting? Here’s a tip to increase the chances of a successful pitch.
Last week we talked about venture capital as a goal in an MBA application. Let’s turn our attention today to the most common post-MBA goal that we ever see in BSers’ essays: Consulting. Today’ss advice is offered both for pitching consulting in your MBA apps — where it’s exceedingly difficult to stand out from the […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! NYU Stern MBA “short and long-term career goals”
For NYU Stern — and a number of schools — being able to articulate why you want the MBA, based on what you want to do with it after you graduate, is critical to getting the attention of your admissions reader. One of you readers of this here blahg has written an essay to do […]
Continue reading...($) “I’m just gonna say ‘consulting’ as my MBA goals.”
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 $173k base — always be sure to question headlines like that. The numbers from Darden with that outlier salary excluded are […]
Continue reading...($) “Is 30 too old…?”
We came across this awhile back: “Is 30 too old to work in a startup?” Hmmmm. If there’s a bias against “older” in startup recruiting, and “older” is defined as over 30, and there’s already a bias against MBAs in Silicon Valley… Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have all been on the […]
Continue reading...($) Why do people end up in consulting?
The data we analyzed yesterday from the five years of Kellogg MBA employment reports hopefully got you thinking, and researching further into career paths and data from your target schools. One clear takeaway was that you don’t have to do an internship in consulting to land a post-MBA job in consulting in your second year. […]
Continue reading...($) Post-MBA career trends at Kellogg
Or likely at most top American MBA programs over the past five years. This post focuses on Kellogg mainly because their employment reports are detailed enough on this particular dimension to do the analysis. They’re also a solid general management program which attracts employers of all stripes. They continue to send graduates into the traditional […]
Continue reading...($) The need for specifics
As you can see from some of the posts this week, we’re moving into Round 2 mode! We’ll be talking more and more about essay execution in the coming days — and pricing is going up soon! We’re starting to get busy, which means that if you want to use us to the greatest advantage, […]
Continue reading...($) “I want to work in edtech”
To which we say: As what? Edtech is an industry – a niche one at that, and definitely a trendy one. The main issue for BSers saying that that’s what they want to do is, more often than not, these are BSers who are coming in to the MBA a little clueless. Often, it’s candidates […]
Continue reading...($) What if you never took the GMAT? Are you at a disadvantage if you go to bschool with a GRE score instead?
This is a follow-on to some previous GRE vs GMAT posts. In case you missed those: GMAT vs GRE strategy questions: Which to take for an MBA? “I took the GMAT. If I take the GRE now, do I still have to submit the GMAT score in my MBA app?” This question isn’t about admissions […]
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