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January 21, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Berkeley Haas, Kellogg, MIT Sloan Leave a Comment

You may have seen that last week, we gave Darden the Radcom of the Year Award for 2020. They’re not the only school doing anything noteworthy right now. One runner-up is Berkeley-Haas, for (thank you!) deciding to, uh, change the status quo in how they communicate with their prospect community. This happened in the still-early-days […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights, selecting schools Bschools: Berkeley Haas, Kellogg, MIT Sloan

Radcom of the Year Award for 2020: UVA Darden

January 15, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Darden Leave a Comment

EssaySnark's Radcom of the Year 2020 - Darden

There is no question about it. No other school even came close. The very best applicant-friendly school on the planet this past year was UVA Darden. This post explains: A study in contrasts: Darden and Tuck We know that other sites have already anointed Scott Beardlsey as the best bschool dean, so this may be […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights Bschools: Darden

The reasons why Michigan Ross’s “waitlist everybody” Rd 1 decision is so cruel.

January 6, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Michigan Ross Leave a Comment

We actually love Ross but this season, and especially after the first round, not so much. They probably thought they were being fair and applicant-friendly in the decision to not reject any of their Round 1 candidates . But really, the unintended consequences of that in terms of emotional impact on applicants are severe. Here […]

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Filed Under: GMAT/GRE, rejection, school reviews & insights, waitlist/deferred decision Bschools: Michigan Ross

Some schools are being hard-asses about standardized testing and test scores (and a rant)

December 7, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Darden, Michigan Ross, Dartmouth Tuck, Columbia Leave a Comment

A number of schools seem to be trying to play the status-quo game: They’re maintaining their pre-covid policies and not really making many accommodations to their processes and policies. In a “normal” year we would not even call any attention to this. It’s what schools do. With the exception of changing their essay questions and […]

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Filed Under: GMAT/GRE, school reviews & insights, the admissions consulting industry Tagged With: rankings, rant Bschools: MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Darden, Michigan Ross, Dartmouth Tuck, Columbia

What MIT did not succeed at doing with their Class of 2022 admissions strategy.

October 21, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses MIT Sloan Leave a Comment

We spoke about how the MIT admissions season played out in the numbers in our post earlier this week. One additional comment to make is to examine who they actually admitted — or at least, who they admitted, who decided to also attend. The biggest shifts in the class breakdown were in: Women going from […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights Tagged With: diversity Bschools: MIT Sloan

($) Some schools really threw out the playbook when coronavirus came along.

October 19, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Berkeley Haas, MIT Sloan Leave a Comment

We’ve been watching the changes in the bschool ecosystem since the world got upended in March and have been repeatedly surprised — and surprised again when we studied the class profiles of some top schools. Premium content starts here… ———–   ———– Premium content ends.   But yeah. Talk about being opportunistic and willing to […]

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Filed Under: coronavirus, school reviews & insights Tagged With: innovation Bschools: Berkeley Haas, MIT Sloan

($) Which MBA programs care if you care about their culture?

September 25, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Yesterday we presented an argument for a strong correlation between an applicant’s success in showing UC Berkeley that they cared about Berkeley’s culture based on how the applicant pitched the admissions team in their MBA essays. We also talked about why you might want to care about culture anyway, regardless of if the school cares […]

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Filed Under: school fit, school reviews & insights

More “wow the world in 2020 omg” and also bschools are changing and that gives us hope

September 21, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Wharton, Harvard, MIT Sloan Leave a Comment

HBS Class of 2022-Profile: race/ethnicity of US students

It’s safe to say that we are in the midst of massive change in our world. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday only reinforces that reality — the reality that EVERYTHING is being reshaped and reformed. That’s why everyone is so stressed out right now — that, and the massive uncertainty, where we […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights, the world Bschools: Wharton, Harvard, MIT Sloan

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

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

($) Writing Week! Day 4: The problem of the parrot.

August 27, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

You may be wondering why we’re spending so much time talking about issues of writing style on a blahg that’s supposed to be about strategies for getting in. A good set of essays for an MBA application will answer the question that the school has posted in its essay prompt. That goes without saying. Anyone […]

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Filed Under: "why MBA" essays, school reviews & insights, writing tips

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    The 2020-2021 Duke Essay Guide - covers the 25 Random Things essay and all the rest too!
SnarkStrategies Guide for Duke Fuqua - up to date for the current season!
   
    The 2020-2021 MIT Essay Guide covers the org chart, the contacts for two references, and additional tips for the cover letter and 'introduce yourself' video -- and everything else you need to know!
SnarkStrategies Guide for MIT Sloan MBA - totally revised for the Class of 2023!
   
    The 2020-2021 Tuck Essay Guide has been refreshed with latest insights and advice for your essays about "investing generously" and "why Tuck"!
SnarkStrategies Guide for the Dartmouth Tuck MBA - completely overhauled for 2020, to help you demonstrate how you are nice, aware, etc stuff!
   
    The Yale SOM MBA Application Guide for Class of 2023 candidates!
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    The 2020-2021 Chicago Booth MBA Application Guide - ready to go to support your Class of 2023 essay strategy!
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    The 2020 Wharton MBA Application Guide - even more advice on how to get to a win with those essays!
SnarkStrategies Guide for The Wharton School - with new tips for 2020!
   
    The 2020 Kellogg Essay Guide - with a full methodology to identify your 'lasting impact' and your 'values' -- plus tips on 2020 world events and applicability to your essays!
SnarkStrategies Guide for Kellogg MBA - updated and revised for the new realities of 2020!    
      The 2020 Stanford MBA Application Guide - for "what matters most" in your MBA application!
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