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($) International applicants: Should you even be focusing on USA for your MBA?

June 25, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: European schools, the admissions consulting industry, the world

Some cool schools give feedback

March 25, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses HEC Paris, Darden, Dartmouth Tuck, Yale SOM Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: European schools, Executive MBA/EMBA, reapplying, rejection Bschools: HEC Paris, Darden, Dartmouth Tuck, Yale SOM

($) What MBA programs are still viable for Round 3?

February 2, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: European schools, Executive MBA/EMBA, lower-ranked schools, part-time MBA, Round 3

What do you do if you missed Round 2 AND YOU STILL WANT TO APPLY SOMEWHERE NOW?

January 10, 2018 by EssaySnark - Discusses Vanderbilt, INSEAD, USC Marshall Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: European schools, Executive MBA/EMBA, lower-ranked schools, part-time MBA, rolling, Round 3 Bschools: Vanderbilt, INSEAD, USC Marshall

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

($) 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

($) essay critique! LBS post-MBA goals

February 6, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses LBS Leave a Comment

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. […]

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Filed Under: essay critique, European schools, technology Bschools: LBS

($) “Is a European MBA the kiss of death?”

February 1, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses HBS 2+2, IESE

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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Filed Under: European schools Bschools: HBS 2+2, IESE

Oh wait! Two more schools!

January 28, 2016 by EssaySnark - Discusses LBS, INSEAD 6 Comments

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, […]

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Filed Under: European schools Bschools: LBS, INSEAD

Do YOUR OWN research

May 7, 2014 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: European schools, selecting schools

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