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($) “How much should recommenders material overlap with the stories I relate in my essay?”

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We got a question posed on the blahg that we coulda sworn we’d answered directly here at some point, but a search turned up nothing. We’re going to repost this because we know that not everyone reads the ‘snarchive and even when they do, they don’t always look at the comments. Here’s what we were…

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($) How not to confuse your adcom reader

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Writing essays is hard. There are many common mistakes that pretty much everyone makes — which we cover all the time here on the blahg, but we know that some of our posts are fairly far back in the snarchive at this point and unless you’re a total obsessive, you probably won’t read the half…

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($) Look back over your life

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Writing essays may be akin to navel-gazing. You need to understand who you are and where you’ve come from. One of the most difficult parts of writing many essays is coming up with the “lessons learned” out of a story. Schools like Tuck and Kellogg specifically ask you what you learned from an experience. It’s…

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($) essay critique! MIT Sloan cover letter

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Today we’re talking about MIT and their “cover letter” which is not really an essay but yeah it’s an essay. These are the instructions from MIT: MIT Sloan seeks students whose personal characteristics demonstrate that they will make the most of the incredible opportunities at MIT, both academic and non-academic. We are on a quest…

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($) essay critique: HBS “What more would you like us to know?” (military candidate)

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We have gotten a few more submissions recently for consideration for freebie discussion here on the blahg and we hope to get to all of them in the next week or two! This one came in for Harvard accompanied by this message: ES, I’m looking for a reality check on my HBS essay! I’m most…

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

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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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($) essay critique: Kellogg “recent and meaningful leader”

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One of those “Hey EssaySnark gimme some help and do it for free!” requests came in the other day and we were like, “PEOPLE DON’T YOU KNOW THAT THE DEADLINES ARE HERE?!??” We really don’t have time to do these free reviews right now. We’re kinda busy supporting all you Brave Supplicants who are actually…

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($) “How do I pick my best leadership example to write about?” (Kellogg “meaningful leader” essay)

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A Brave Supplicant working on the Kellogg essay asking you to talk about “a recent and meaningful leadership experience” asked us this question recently: Hi ES, How do I know what’s my best leadership story? Leadership is bringing about change, measured through impact, right? Any impactful story that I have might have at work in…

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($) essay critique! A “significant leadership” story for Tuck or Kellogg

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There’s this feature of the EssaySnark blahg where we will allow you to submit your essay for a possible freebie review right here on the website – out in the open, where everyone can see, and hopefully benefit, from the things that you could be improving. There’s this unfortunate habit of Brave Supplicants who are…

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($) Breathless bloat and gloat can backfire.

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This is most frequently an issue with the older MBA applicant though we see it across the board. You’ve been involved in some high-profile projects. You have a sense that the adcoms want to hear about “impact.” You combine those two into an essay that talks about how “we helped millions of people by launching…

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