In yesterday’s overview of the rigged system and biased feedback loop of school rankings -> school admissions practices, we challenged the admissions directors at the top schools in America to change the status quo, to use this moment in time of upheaval in their ecosystem to do things differently. Our diatribe laid blame for the […]
Continue reading...($) Coronavirus: Everything is politicized. Including your education.
First: EssaySnark must’ve spent too much time in the hot July sun over the holiday weekend, because yesterday’s post was half-baked and unfinished when it first went up. If you’re following the blahg and getting these posts by email, please be sure to click back over to the site to read it in its (now […]
Continue reading...($) Coronavirus: The importance of GMAT/GRE this year, plus advice on crafting a list of MBA targets
Last week we tried to help international applicants figure out where to focus: American MBA programs? Business schools in other English-speaking countries? English-language programs in European countries like Spain? Whether you’re an American, or are in the US already on a green card or visa, or if you’re an international candidate, it all comes down […]
Continue reading...Coronavirus and Fall 2020: What on earth are they going to DO?!?
A lot of school administrators have made strong statements in the past six weeks that they will be open for on-campus learning — leaving themselves some wriggle-room, in case their state or local governments prohibit it, or unless circumstances change and their public health advisors recommend that they don’t. Many schools promised to make final […]
Continue reading...Duke’s admissions policies in the face of coronavirus are … what? (UPDATED!)
For the Class of 2023 — unless their website has only gotten a partial update and some of the information available there is still from last season, which is possible — Duke Fuqua are apparently REQUIRING some candidates to come to campus to interview. Ummmm…. requiring?? Well, not “requiring” in that if you want to […]
Continue reading...($) When schools do resume on-campus classes, there will be many changes.
This week, Stanford announced tentative plans for their undergrads to rotate to campus for one out of three semesters starting in the Fall — incoming freshman on campus for the Fall term, outgoing seniors on campus for Spring, undecided who will be on campus otherwise. Most graduate and doctoral students will remain online-only. For those […]
Continue reading...So what are you going to do about it?
Probably the hardest part of all of this coronavirus stuff is the massive uncertainty. (Unless you have experienced the loss of a family member personally, in which case, the hardest part is absolutely what you are going through, and EssaySnark is very, very sad for that.) We’re doing our best to offer straightforward fact-based analysis […]
Continue reading...($) Heads up international students and prospects…
This is not established policy yet but, it’s not looking good. Remember how we were talking about the STEM option a few months ago? (The STEM program allows for a longer term for the automatic post-graduation H1-B work visa, to let you stay in the U.S. for up to three years.) Well darn it, there […]
Continue reading...($) Coronavirus and impacts to internship programs
There are so many complexities to the situation we’re living through. Not only is the actual pandemic causing us to completely change how we live, but the economic impact from those changes is immense — and still largely invisible. The most difficult part of all is that we don’t know what’s coming or when it […]
Continue reading...Will work-from-home become the new norm?
Coronavirus will most definitely change the world as we knew it. In what ways? Well, maybe one of them will be to make telework the preferred way of getting things done. About two weeks ago, the county government in Silicon Valley proposed exactly that. Given that the San Francisco Bay Area has had some of […]
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