Dang. You didn’t make it in. 🙁 BUT WHY??? Most schools are explicit with a no-feedback policy. All decisions are final, and they’re unable to talk to you about it because they don’t have the bandwidth to field all of those calls. But some schools are much more generous with their time and attention and […]
Continue reading...($) International applicants: Should you even be focusing on USA for your MBA?
tl;dr: Yes but. Big sigh. It seems like every day there’s more bad news coming out of the US. This country has not been made great over the last four years. If anything, the opposite is happening. 🙁 We could rant for days on social issues, but in the […]
Continue reading...($) What MBA programs are still viable for Round 3?
Happy Groundhog Day, Brave Supplicant! To continue with our Round 3 Reality Check series, today we’ll talk about programs that might be in range for an admit even at this stage of the season. In case you missed them: What about Round 3? To Round 3 or not to Round 3 Who / what situations […]
Continue reading...What do you do if you missed Round 2 AND YOU STILL WANT TO APPLY SOMEWHERE NOW?
Hey BSers! We’re reblahgging this from 2015 because dang, that was three years ago, and this info is timely for where some of you are at today!!! Recently we gave a whole assortment of ideas for what to do if you didn’t apply to bschool yet this season. [2015 post] And yes, we realize […]
Continue reading...What is culture?
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 […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! LSE Personal Statement
We spoke recently about the Personal Statement as part of an application to many (non-MBA) master’s programs, and voila! A Brave Supplicant has surfaced with a draft they want to be snarked up. This is for one of the Master of Science programs at the London School of Economics (good school!), in this case their […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! LBS post-MBA goals
Dang! This post was supposed to go up on Friday! And it didn’t! So sorry about that! We haven’t missed a post in like years! Here it is today; we hope it is worth the wait. 🙂 The general rule of thumb for applying to a top MBA program is, apply in the earlier rounds. […]
Continue reading...($) “Is a European MBA the kiss of death?”
Some time ago we had an exchange that went like this: I am an Indian male engineer. There, I said it. I am in college so, had no shillings to use your charged services. I really hope you answer this!!! Please…please…please do. So i recently took GMAT and got [a great score]. Now, I applied...
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Oh wait! Two more schools!
Silly ‘Snark – we gave some options (slightly crazy ones perhaps) for schools that could still be viable (less crazy) for targeting at this time of year and we forgot the basics: London Business School, and INSEAD. Given that INSEAD just got named #1 bschool by FT, then you can expect their apps to rise, […]
Continue reading...Do YOUR OWN research
We know how tempting it is to rely on others’ advice. Oh wait: We’re purveyors of said advice. We hope that you’re listening to what other people have to say, at least a bit! Otherwise, why would we be writing this, and why would you bother coming around to read it? Our goal is for […]
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