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($) MIT Sloan MBA’s interview-invite essay on the “mission” and creating a welcoming environment

February 4, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses MIT Sloan Leave a Comment

For anyone interviewing at MIT Sloan: Here’s some advice that we offered in response to a Round 1 BSer looking for input on their idea for essay topic for the “mission” prompt that MIT asks you to write about when they invite you to interview. Here’s the prompt that they give you: The mission of […]

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Filed Under: culture essays, interviewing, leadership Bschools: MIT Sloan

($) The challenge with any “contribution” essay

August 13, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses MIT Sloan Leave a Comment

We’ve offered lots of past warnings about tone and messaging in the context of “contribution” essays for your MBA app, and today is another that’s worth studying if you’re tackling one of these beasts. The essay prompt may ask, explicitly or implicitly, “What will you contribute?” It comes up in the MIT “mission” essay that […]

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Filed Under: "contribution" essays, culture essays Bschools: MIT Sloan

What leadership is (not).

June 29, 2018 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

Student making soft joke about terse reply from prof to her email

EssaySnark spends very little time on social media and we were reminded of why this is when we stirred up a hornet’s nest yesterday among, of all people, college professors. After seeing their responses to our tweet we are very happy that you Millennials are making your way through the workforce and will one day […]

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Filed Under: culture essays, general snark Tagged With: good manners, rant

($) Wharton essay 2: What will you contribute?

September 8, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses Wharton 9 Comments

We had thought we actually blahgged about this very important issue for Wharton essay 2 but apparently not. Apparently the post that we wrote last year on the Wharton “contribution” essay that warned of tone does not cover this other very important point that we thought it covered. So when we kept pointing BSers to […]

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Filed Under: culture essays Bschools: Wharton

What is culture?

May 8, 2017 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Today’s post is not about school culture which is a very important aspect for you to learn about and understand in your process of figuring out which bschools to apply to. If you want to learn more about that, then please see the many posts here on essaysnark.com about “school fit.” Today’s post is about […]

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Filed Under: culture essays, European schools

($) The simple way to answer Booth’s essay question this year.

November 23, 2015 by EssaySnark - Discusses Chicago Booth

Since we spent most of last week freaking you out about how hard it is to get in this year, we figured we may as well start digging into some actual essay-writing advice, to help you get on that horse and ride it. We’ll start with Booth. There’s a simple way to answer the Booth...


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Filed Under: "why MBA" essays, culture essays, school reviews & insights Bschools: Chicago Booth

($) essay critique: Any essay, really.

September 6, 2014 by EssaySnark

It’s Saturday, so apparently that means we’re doing an essay review. The essay we’re presenting you today (submitted for consideration for these freebie reviews here) was written for HEC Paris but no matter; the chunk we’re going to talk about is relevant to pretty much any school’s “Why?” essay – “Why MBA?” “Why us?” “Why...


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“Culture” questions (INSEAD, LBS, etc.)

June 29, 2012 by EssaySnark - Discusses LBS, INSEAD 4 Comments

We often see people struggle with essay questions that certain schools ask where you need to talk about culture shock. INSEAD has a question: Have you ever experienced culture shock? What insights did you gain? London Business School has had one like this and will likely have something similar in this year’s application: London Business […]

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Filed Under: culture essays Tagged With: culture Bschools: LBS, INSEAD

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