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You are here: Home / Snarchives for essay types / Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose

Applying to Grad School: Personal Statement vs Statement of Purpose

March 2, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Most Brave Supplicants wandering around on the blahg are planning to apply to business school for an MBA. However, we’re an all-purpose ‘Snark and we’ve had plenty of experience helping BSers trying for admission to all sorts of other types of graduate programs, including the JD/MBA, Master’s in Management, Master’s in Real Estate, Master’s of […]

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Filed Under: Master's programs, Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose

($) School research idea: What about talking to professors?

November 13, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Yesterday we tried to light a fire for you, by suggesting that bschool can be this incredible opportunity for personal growth and change, and that you can make the most of it when you go into it with the mindset of seeking out new experiences. That whole lean in thing that trended a few years […]

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Filed Under: Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose, school fit

($) Applying to The Kennedy School MPP/MBA

October 20, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses HKS Leave a Comment

In this year of change and societal upheaval, one school that’s seeing increased interest from graduate applicants is Harvard Kennedy School. HKS is known as a government and policy program, which has degrees which are sort of like the MBA, but in some ways, even more flexible. A wide variety of employers come recruiting at […]

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Filed Under: flavors of MBA, Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose Tagged With: diversity Bschools: HKS

($) 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! LSE Personal Statement

April 25, 2017 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

We spoke recently about the Personal Statement as part of an application to many (non-MBA) master’s programs, and voila! A Brave Supplicant has surfaced with a draft they want to be snarked up. This is for one of the Master of Science programs at the London School of Economics (good school!), in this case their […]

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Filed Under: essay critique, European schools, Master's programs, Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose, social enterprise

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