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($) “Should I write about this horrible personal experience in my essays for business school?”

August 4, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Stanford GSB Leave a Comment

To continue the subject we started yesterday about disclosing personal stuff in MBA essays, but today on a different aspect: The difficult life event. If you’re coming from the military and have been deployed to combat, then it’s likely you have seen some awful things. Many people are currently dealing with the absolute tragedy of […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, "show don't tell" Tagged With: TMI Bschools: Stanford GSB

($) “Should I write about my ADHD in my essays for business school?”

August 3, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Harvard, Stanford GSB Leave a Comment

More and more, the schools are asking their applicants to get personal in the topics they choose for their MBA essays. We previously talked about aspects of your identity such as being Republican or Democrat, or religion, or being vegan, or a meat-eater so you can start with that post, especially if you’re trying to […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, optional essay Tagged With: TMI Bschools: Harvard, Stanford GSB

($) essay critique: Booth “who you are” essay

July 22, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Chicago Booth Leave a Comment

Thank you to the brave Brave Supplicant who sent in this essay for a freebie review here on the blahg! You too can toss your essay into the ring if you’re similarly brave!! Today’s essay is for Chicago Booth and their question that goes like this: An MBA is as much about personal growth as […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, essay critique Bschools: Chicago Booth

($) A question to explore before starting to understand why you want an MBA

June 17, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Most readers of this blahg who are pre-MBA are in the age range of about 26 to perhaps 32 years old. There’s some older folks too but today’s post is more focused on this age range. When you’re trying to figure out what to say in your MBA essays about why you want to go […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, "why MBA" essays, Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose

($) essay critique! Yale “biggest commitment” essay

December 30, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses Yale SOM Leave a Comment

Normally when BSers send in an essay for hopes of a freebie review here on the blahg right before deadlines, we have to let it languish while we’re fighting the good fight alongside those who are paying us to return feedback on their drafts super fast. Today is an exception! We got this Yale SOM […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, essay critique, values Bschools: Yale SOM

($) Here’s a test for Stanford “What matters most?”

August 30, 2018 by EssaySnark - Discusses Stanford GSB Leave a Comment

Seems like we’re writing a lot about Stanford just lately. (Even those posts weren’t explicitly about Stanford — yeah, they’re about Stanford.) It’s because the Stanford essays are so hard! If you’re trying for Stanford, then first step is to pick up our Stanford Essay Guide. Because we go into a lot more stuff there […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, personal expression Tagged With: authenticity Bschools: Stanford GSB

($) Essays about passion

August 20, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

What do you think might be the most important element of an essay that professes to talk about your “passion”? Hmmmm. Why don’t we start with excitement?? What’s missing from nearly every single instance of a “passion” statement in any essay we’ve literally ever reviewed is a sense that the person CARES about the thing […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, writing tips Tagged With: passion

($) Essay Critique! Yale “biggest commitment”

July 5, 2018 by EssaySnark - Discusses Yale SOM Leave a Comment

A couple weeks ago a brave Brave Supplicant sent in a Yale SOM draft for us to look at for review here on the blahg — and here it is! Thank you to this BSer for doing so, especially for doing it so early in the season when it’s going to be most helpful to […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, essay critique Bschools: Yale SOM

($) essay critique! Stanford “What matters most and why” military version

July 24, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses Stanford GSB 2 Comments

Hello BSers! It’s time! We have a submission for a Class of 2020 essay for the Stanford GSB that we’re going to discuss today, sent in by an earnest Brave Supplicant who’s undoubtedly thinking that this is a good essay. 🙂 We hate to be the one to dispel the illusion, but… Here’s what we […]

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Filed Under: "personal interest/life experience" essays, essay critique Tagged With: storytelling Bschools: Stanford GSB

($) “Is this an accomplishment?” plus a mini-rant in response to a question about Yale’s commitment essay

June 27, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses Yale SOM

We had a BSer ask us about being vegetarian last year during our work in their Complete Essay Package — it’s something that means a lot to this person and they were wondering if it would serve as an accomplishment? They were also worried if it would be a turn-off to the adcom. They were...


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