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($) Did your interview invite come with another essay to write?

October 16, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Harvard Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: interviewing Bschools: MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Harvard

($) What should you wear to a Zoom interview?

October 14, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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… ———–   ———– […]

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Practical interviewing tips, courtesy of Darden!

October 9, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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($) MBA interviewing is going to be different this year

October 2, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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What Harvard says to you on Tuesday is near-meaningless

September 30, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Harvard Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: interviewing, rejection Bschools: Harvard

($) Timing of interview invitations

September 22, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: interviewing Bschools: Columbia

Tuck sucks. (Not totally. But yeah kind of.)

August 31, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Kellogg, Duke Fuqua, Dartmouth Tuck Leave a Comment

Tuck application deadlines with a small asterisk about the open interview

A generation of BSers ago, EssaySnark had done an informal ranking of “the best” schools — “best” being a term that’s sooooo subjective as to be practically useless, but in this case we were trying to recognize schools that were particularly applicant-friendly. It may sound odd, but traditionally, like for years and years all the […]

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Filed Under: interviewing, school reviews & insights Bschools: Kellogg, Duke Fuqua, Dartmouth Tuck

($) How to do a Zoom or Skype interview for your MBA

April 24, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Yale SOM, Kellogg Leave a Comment

Ha. You think you’re a Zoom expert now? We beg to differ. Even if you’re now spending 7 hours a day in Zoom meetings, there’s still more to be learned on the best etiquette for a Zoom interview for admission to your MBA program. Zooming with a second-year student or an admissions officer at a […]

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Filed Under: coronavirus, interviewing Bschools: Yale SOM, Kellogg

($) Should you contact admissions about a bad interviewer?

February 14, 2020 by EssaySnark

Your MBA admissions interview was awful. It was not just bad; it was horrible. The reason? BECAUSE YOUR INTERVIEWER WAS LOUSY. What do you do????? Before deciding to complain about an MBA interview experience, make sure to evaluate as much as you possibly can from the other side of the table. You need to get...


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($) Do you change tactics if you’re interviewing with a student?

February 13, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Our MBA Interviewing Guide breaks down the types of interviews (blind vs open) and who is conducting them (students, alumni, adcom) in greater detail, and of course you’re likely stalking the admissions forums and hearing about others’ experiences. So you probably already know the common setup at your target school. Despite our title today, we’ll […]

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