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($) A Stanford applicant case study: Avoidable mistakes

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Reblahgging because based on some profiles and BSers we’ve seen, this 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 Stanford is no indication of...

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($) If you get feedback from the adcoms…

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We spoke about the opportunity to get feedback from the admissions team at certain applicant-friendly business schools and we wanted to follow this up with a seemingly obvious bit of advice that must not be obvious since we see BSers flub this up every year. If the adcom tells you specifically what was wrong with...

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($) Breadth or depth?

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When the schools say they do a “holistic review” then that means you need to look at your own application strategic, from a whole-person perspective. Every single asset in your application — the core stats (GMAT/GRE, GPA, TOEFL), the essays, especially the resume, and also importantly the letters of recommendation and even the oft-overlooked app...

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($) Career Readiness Competencies: What employers — and adcoms — look for

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This table is pretty durn self-explanatory so we’ll just start with that: We’re posting this in the “profile assessment” category as a tool to invite you to self-assess your own skills, with this new knowledge that a) perhaps you have either a limited view of what an employer-valued skill actually looks like in practice, and...

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($) It’s impossible to predict your outcome based on aggregate data

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Obviously the first place to look when considering whether you can make it into a top MBA program is the school’s class profile. You need to know their average GPA and GMAT and age. This is the necessary start to your strategy. If your stats are too far off of any (or all) of these...

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($) What REALLY matters in MBA admissions?

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There is no “one thing” that’s going to get you in to bschool. But there are many things that matter, in many different ways. We cover the common myths and misunderstandings here quite a bit and today’s post is yet another attempt to educate the next crop of eager Brave Supplicants who are pondering the...

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($) “i’m gonna sound REALLY bonkers at times…” (or, engineering -> finance – help!)

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EssaySnark received a plaintive plea for help many years back, and now here in 2017, we’re reblahgging the post we wrote to that other BSer long ago. We’re not so keen on the request for a profile review submitted through the website anymore, mostly because a) our entire blahg gives you insights and answers to...

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