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A smattering of interview tips

February 24, 2023 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick-hit rando assortment of advice, warnings, and some rebuttals to that advice that will give you fodder for procrastination on ideas for reflection when prepping for your interview. We’ve collected these links over a period of time and rather than trying to distill them into a snarkolicious post of our own, we figured […]

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

February 23, 2023 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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Filed Under: interviewing Tagged With: EQ or lack thereof

($) How to mention a personal or “convenience factor” reason for choosing a school

February 22, 2023 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

There are gobs of reasons why you might have fallen in love with School X. Unfortunately, School X has heard all of them before. Some admissions consultants even spoonfeed their clients on what to say as a reason. That means that there are oodles of applicants citing the same things all the time. So how […]

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Filed Under: interviewing, school fit, waitlist/deferred decision Tagged With: authenticity, couples applying together

($) “What do you do for fun?”

February 14, 2023 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Based on the title of this post, you may think that EssaySnark is just being friendly. Oh no, ma cherie. We are talking about interviewing!!! There are so many basic questions that can so thoroughly trip up an unsuspecting (aka unprepared) BSer. Your interview, as you know, is your time to shine. As we’ve been […]

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($) The worst question you can ask your interviewer.

January 31, 2023 by EssaySnark

People are starting to prep for interviews – exciting! We’ve got posts in the ‘snarchive about the importance of the questions that you ask your MBA interviewer, and today we’ll offer up one question that we strongly recommend you never ever ask. This may be a difficult one to resist. But we exhort you: Please...


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

January 30, 2023 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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($) “When should I start practicing for my interview, and how?”

January 20, 2023 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We got a Plea for Help! from a distressed BSer in December, asking for some guidance on what may have gone wrong in their Round 1 applications, and they ended up going for the Post-Mortem Review (rejected app analysis) — and through that process, it was determined that they didn’t really do anything wrong in […]

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($) overpreparing

October 24, 2022 by EssaySnark

Now that some of you are getting ready for interviews, we wanted to throw out a caution: It’s possible to overprepare. Premium content starts here… ———–   ———– Premium content ends.   Continue reading......


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More advice for interviewing — and any other high-stakes professional interaction

October 17, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

People sometimes do odd things in high-stress situations, including basically any type of presentation, or even just when having the floor in a meeting with colleagues and seniors. Some of these things you may not even know that you do. Some are like those verbal tics that you might observe when someone is speaking. They […]

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“What do you do for fun?”

October 14, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Simple question, eh? It’s crazy how much BSers trip over it. This is the type of question that often comes up towards the end of the MBA interview, when your interviewer is winding down from the hardcore “Why do you want an MBA and what do you bring to the table?” types of questions. As […]

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