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

March 16, 2022 by EssaySnark - Discusses HBS 2+2 Leave a Comment

Despite our constant hand-wringing and all the cautions we float out there about Round 3, there’s a few categories of Brave Supplicant for whom we’re more inclined to see a potentially happy outcome for a late-season app to a top school. Premium content starts here… ———–   ———– Premium content ends.       * […]

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Filed Under: family business, GMAT/GRE, Round 3 Tagged With: deferrals, sponsored for MBA Bschools: HBS 2+2

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

September 29, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia Leave a Comment

Still working on your Columbia app? Let’s talk about what they are asking for with their career goals questions: Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next three to five years and what, in your imagination, would be your […]

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Filed Under: career goals, entrepreneurship, family business Bschools: Columbia

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

November 7, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: career changer, entrepreneurship, family business Tagged With: sponsored for MBA

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

September 3, 2018 by EssaySnark - Discusses Berkeley Haas Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: career goals, family business Tagged With: please don't do this Bschools: Berkeley Haas

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

May 11, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia 58 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 […]

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Filed Under: entrepreneurship, family business, J-Term/accelerated MBA, school reviews & insights Tagged With: sponsored for MBA Bschools: Columbia

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 […]

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Filed Under: career goals, EssaySnark products & services, family business

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 […]

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Filed Under: entrepreneurship, family business, school reviews & insights Bschools: Kellogg

($) 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...


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($) 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...


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Filed Under: consulting, essay critique, family business Bschools: Kellogg

($) 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...


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