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Continue reading...($) MIT Sloan MBA’s interview-invite essay on the “mission” and creating a welcoming environment
For anyone interviewing at MIT Sloan: Here’s some advice that we offered in response to a Round 1 BSer looking for input on their idea for essay topic for the “mission” prompt that MIT asks you to write about when they invite you to interview. Here’s the prompt that they give you: The mission of...
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Now that most apps are in: What to do with your life
A person we know who exemplifies leadership, who is engaged in constant change and personal improvement for themselves over time, sent us this recently, and it has so much wisdom. It’s from Peter Drucker, who was a management genius, which means he was a people genius. If you’ve not heard the name before, you will […]
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This is a tricky thing to critique, because the type of MBA applicant who does this actually has a lot to offer. And by calling this out, it can make it seem like we’re critiquing the person, or saying that this applicant is not going to make it in to a top school. Not at...
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($) A map to writing Columbia essay 3: “a leader you admire”
No offense, Columbia, but this is a crappy essay question and we’re surprised that you are using it. But maybe the admissions committee knows something we don’t. Here’s what we do know: Most people’s essays about “a leader you admire” totally and completely suck. Or perhaps that was the whole point. Maybe Columbia is using...
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($) “What projects do I include on my resume for my MBA application?”
“EssaySnark! I’ve done so much stuff!” The worst thing in the world with an MBA app is a datadump instead of a resume. When BSers hear that their resume can be only one page long, there is often a) panic, b) resolve to include everything anyway. If you’re tweaking your font size down in an...
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($) If there is a secret to getting into a top MBA program, this is it.
We’ve kind of been hitting this theme a lot so far this season and partly that’s because you come to EssaySnark for the goodies you can’t get just anywhere. Nowadays, with the admissions offices being (slightly) more transparent with how they handle their admissions processes, and with more and more admissions consultants out there hawking...
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($) How are you ‘differentiated’ part 2
If you missed Part 1 of this topic, go read it here first and then continue on. So here’s the thing: When you’re truly differentiated, you kinda know it. You might be the type of person who realizes that you could come across as braggy in certain situations if you’re not careful, because...
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($) What does it mean to be “differentiated” in the context of your MBA applications?
This is another follow-on post to the “3 Innocent Mistakes” that we wrote about previously. You need to become the type of differentiated applicant that the schools want to see. You need to have a multi-dimensional approach. Stories of leadership and impact are ever more important in this day and age – but unfortunately, from...
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Once more with feeling: Does the dean matter?
As we’ve offered in previous posts, the answer to that is “yes and no.” We’ll just leave this up for now. The only time a dean goes from a higher-ranked school to a lower-ranked one is when there's something amiss at the school they're leaving. — Essay Snark (@EssaySnark) June 11, 2019 We were already […]
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