family business

($) Who / what situations are greenlit for an MBA app in Round 3?

February 5, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses HBS 2+2

Continuing our Round 3 MBA Strategy series today, we’ll follow up the recent posts about some risks and challenges in Round 3 ( part 1 and part 2 in case you missed them) with a flip to the positive: There’s a few categories of Brave Supplicant for whom we’re more inclined to see a potentially...

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

November 7, 2019 by EssaySnark

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...

($) “I saw my [friend/mother/grandfather] go through this experience and now my ambition is to…”

September 3, 2018 by EssaySnark - Discusses Berkeley Haas

Today is technically a holiday here in the U.S. – but we’re around reading essays just as fast as you are writing them! For those trying for schools like Stanford especially, we have a post today on a common practice used in MBA essays that doesn’t usually work. We see many essays that start...

($) Short term goal, long term goal, dream job – OH MY!

October 3, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia

Gosh, Columbia has tricked things out this year! Their career goals essay asks this: Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next 3-5 years and what, in your imagination, would be your long-term dream job? That’s on top of...

Who’s a good fit for the Columbia J-Term?

May 11, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia 48 Comments

This was originally posted two years ago. We’re reblahgging it now because a) it’s relevant, and b) it’s timely. There’s some comments at the bottom from BSers who have long ago been admitted to Columbia and other programs. We’re inviting you to post your own comments too if there’s anything we can do to demystify […]

The importance of career goals

June 28, 2016 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

Another reblahgolicious post today – because this stuff is important, and we realize that not all of you are digging far enough back in the archives to find all of it! We’ve had this here little blahgolicious project going for three years now, [UPDATE: ALMOST SEVEN! -ES 2016] and while we recognize that it’s a […]

A bschool that seems to be upping its game.

March 14, 2016 by EssaySnark - Discusses Kellogg 1 Comment

We’ve been waiting on Kellogg for awhile. They’ve seemed somehow a little bit stalled out for a few years. Yet now we’re feeling hopeful that there are glimmers of new things happening there. We heard about their recent Trust initiative: The Trust Project (this video library highlights the different angles they’re tackling this from). We […]

($) Getting an MBA to go back to the family business

July 22, 2015 by EssaySnark

Along with the overall increase in interest in entrepreneurship, more and more people are wanting to use the MBA to build skills needed to go back home and take over their family business. These are almost always international students, particularly from Asian countries; for some reason we just don’t see the American applicant with the...

($) essay critique! Kellogg career goals

September 28, 2013 by EssaySnark - Discusses Kellogg

You’re slaving away on essays all weekend and we are too. To show you our support, we’re going to be posting some essay reviews this weekend. This is for Kellogg Essay 3 Part 1: “What career/role are you looking to pursue and why?” Here’s what we got: By working in a medium sized company I...

($) The challenge of a “family business” goal

September 25, 2013 by EssaySnark

Some time ago, we answered a Brave Supplicant’s query about whether he had a shot at a Columbia admit when he didn’t have any work experience. The one glimmer of hope for this kid is that he’s wanting the MBA in order to prepare himself for a role in a family business. We gave some...