We have another assortment of articles to offer to you today, to help you get into interview mode! First, if you’re interviewing with a school that – ugh! – requires another essay: The Interview Express Essay Decimator can help! Notable schools with this requirement opportunity include Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, and HBS. Speaking of HBS: […]
Continue reading...What exactly is going to happen tomorrow?
Many of you submitted to Harvard Business School for Round 2, and that means you’re likely already starting to feel a little nervous about what’s coming tomorrow. (In case you haven’t heard: Harvard will be releasing Round 2 interview invitations on Wednesday, February 3. ) Thankfully, the way the Round 2 sequencing works, with many […]
Continue reading...($) What should you wear to a Zoom interview?
Besides PANTS, of course? This cautionary tale came from the very early days of our pandemic times, circa March 2020: You will be wearing PANTS to your Zoom interview. Just in case you have to get up for something! What should you be wearing in the visible frame? Premium content starts here… ———– ———– […]
Continue reading...($) You’re interviewing! How to prepare? Here’s one situation
In what seems like a long time ago now, but was actually only **last month** aka December 2020, we talked about when is a deep dive beneficial in your MBA essays. Now that those essays are in the can and you’re starting to work on interview prep, we’ll ask the same question: When is a […]
Continue reading...($) Is it time to start prepping?
For interviews. Not for End of Days. (At least, that’s not the content we prefer to cover here on this blahg!) Say you have some apps in the hopper for Round 2 (which we assume that you do!). Say you want to stay on top of your process and be sure you’re ready for your […]
Continue reading...($) Did your interview invite come with another essay to write?
Some schools have apps that keep on giving. You get all those opportunities to present yourself through the essays — opportunities you struggled and sweated through, and decided in the end that you’re not so fond of “opportunities” like that at all! You pressed that final “submit” button on your last app for Round 1 […]
Continue reading...Practical interviewing tips, courtesy of Darden!
Hopefully all of you are or will be interviewing soon! We have plenty of interview tips here on the EssaySnark blahg and heck, there’s a whole MBA Interviewing Guide available to help you. And, today we’ll point you towards this great post from the folks at the University of Virginia Darden: They’ve offered a list […]
Continue reading...($) MBA interviewing is going to be different this year
Everything about everything has changed – even the advice we offer for how to prepare for an interview. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. For more on prepping for the interviews that we just know are headed your way very soon… There’s also a whole category on interviewing here on […]
Continue reading...What Harvard says to you on Tuesday is near-meaningless
Well, unless of course, if Harvard says they want to meet you to interview. For the loads of other candidates who are going to be told, “sorry” and given the so-called Early Release from Harvard’s Round 1, next Tuesday is going to massively suck. A very large percentage of those people are actually TOTALLY QUALIFIED […]
Continue reading...($) Timing of interview invitations
Welp, it’s officially Fall, or Autumn, or whatever you call the Pumpkin Spice season. We’ve made it through a Lockdown Spring, a Just-Wear-Your-Mask-Please Summer*, and now we’re teetering into Apparently-It’s-Not-Going-Away Fall, which also means we’re firmly in MBA Admissions Interview Season. Since many of you have many of your apps already submitted, that also coincides […]
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