planning your strategy

($) The most brilliant and productive thing you can be doing now to prepare for your apps this year (as suggested by a BSer and courtesy of Darden)

April 9, 2021 by EssaySnark

WE’RE REBLAHGGING THIS FROM 2016 BECAUSE IT’S THAT GOOD. THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO THE BSER WHO SUGGESTED IT ORIGINALLY! Yeah that’s the longest title that has ever been written for a post on this blahg. Several years back, in the throes of Round 2 essays, we wrote a post about Darden’s essay...

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Some cool schools give feedback

March 25, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses HEC Paris, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Darden 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 […]

($) “No way. Like, really?? There’s gotta be SOMETHING I can do!!”

March 11, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

The thing is, once you’re in the year that you plan to apply to business school, much of your life that matters to this process is baked in. The elements that most schools will be evaluating are comprised of the milestones, inflection points, and the origins of trajectories that you’re already on. In other words, […]

($) “What can I do to improve my chances?” GMAT edition

March 10, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Are you planning on applying to bschool this year, like say you’ll be submitting your apps in Round 1 to hopefully begin as a member of the Class of 2024 in Fall of 2022? What can you do to improve your chances? Believe it or not, in most cases, the unfortunate answer to that question […]

($) Can you get blacklisted by a bschool?

March 4, 2021 by EssaySnark

We’re dusting this post off from the ‘snarchives — this was originally written way back in 2016 (!!) and someone recently asked us about why they’re not making progress on their apps after trying so many times. And, wellllll…. urgh. We’re not saying that this is what may be happening for this particular BSer, but...

($) “I got this incredible new job offer. If I take it, what impact will it have on my future MBA apps?”

February 19, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We got a follow-up question recently that we decided to discuss here for all of you. This question came in a few months after delivering a Comprehensive Profile Review to a new Brave Supplicant who was just starting to kick the tires on the possibility of a future MBA app. This person had used the […]

($) More thoughts on the possibilities and problems with a Round 3 application.

February 10, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

To continue the “Should I Round 3?” conversation we began this week: If you’re thinking about “When is it time for Round 3” then that’s a complicated question, based on many factors like how flexible are you in which schools you’re interested in, and also especially important is how flexible are you on timing. There’s […]

($) How to do bschool with a partner

February 4, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

There’s this unfortunate term that academia and the business world used to use, when a married couple decides to move to a new place so that one of the members of the couple can pursue an opportunity. This term is “the trailing spouse” (or “trailing partner”) and it’s meant to depict the person who has […]

($) When should a Columbia Regular Decision MBA app get submitted?

November 24, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia Leave a Comment

If you have Columbia Business School on your list of school targets this season, you may be wondering: When exactly do I need to submit my application in order to have the greatest chances of success? For any other school that you’re planning to try for, it’s not that complicated: Round 2 deadlines are coming […]

($) A Stanford applicant case study: Avoidable mistakes

October 30, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Duke Fuqua, Stanford GSB

Reblahgging from the past, because based on some profiles and BSers we’ve seen lately, this info may be useful again!! We got an essay submitted for a freebie review last November and we spent a day reviewing it for everyone right before Round 2 (Stanford “What matters most and why?”) (tl;dr: getting rejected from...