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($) How do you know if you’re “Harvard material”?

August 29, 2022 by EssaySnark - Discusses Harvard Leave a Comment

When understanding chances of admission to Harvard Business School, the difference between qualified vs differentiated and is important to understand. In the hypercompetitive environment that we’re expecting this season, we might even need to add a third level: “Distinctive.” That’s the candidate who will end up with the H/S/W admits. How do you know which […]

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Filed Under: profile assessments, school reviews & insights Bschools: Harvard

More on rankings (Columbia and undergrad)

July 5, 2022 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia Leave a Comment

Back in March, we shared with you how a professor at Columbia University had investigated the data reported by Columbia to U.S. News about undergraduate admissions. Here’s the original analysis by Dr. Michael Thaddeus , unsurprisingly a math professor there. After the school administrators got over their anger and embarrassment, they apparently did the right […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights, the admissions consulting industry, values Tagged With: rankings Bschools: Columbia

($) The secret to how to get into HBS

April 22, 2022 by EssaySnark - Discusses Harvard 2 Comments

[WARNING: This is a looooong post! May want to jump to the bottom and hit that little Favorite button to save it for later! (Favorite feature available to blahg members)] We’re republishing this from the ‘snarchives to help you eager-beaver BSers who want a leg up on the quintessential of the quintessential-est schools. Because anybody […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights, the admissions consulting industry Bschools: Harvard

($) Taking a non-traditional approach to Stanford Essay B “Why Stanford?”

November 16, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Stanford GSB Leave a Comment

Those Stanford essays are HARD! Here’s some comments* that we offered to a BSer working through content strategies on Stanford Essay B, after they had tried a novel approach in their first draft (that really didn’t work, but was unique!), and then tried a more standard approach in their second draft (which also didn’t work, […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights, writing essays Bschools: Stanford GSB

Head’s up if you are thinking about Tuck for Round 2

November 3, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Dartmouth Tuck 2 Comments

Last year we published a piece called “Tuck sucks” which is unfortunately still the general opinion here in Snarkville. 🙁 We actually want to like Tuck — really we do! For years and years, we promoted Tuck to certain BSers who we knew would fit their culture and could thrive in the community they have. […]

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Filed Under: application rounds, school reviews & insights Bschools: Dartmouth Tuck

From a BSer of years past, helping you with Harvard in small ways

October 18, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Harvard Leave a Comment

A very generous former Brave Supplicant forwarded this to us many years ago, after they were through with their entire admissions process, and we figured now was a great time to share it with you! Links go to the Harvard website. HBS Lingo (We cover some of this in the HBS MBA Application Guide, too […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights Bschools: Harvard

($) WRITING WEEK! Day 4: The problem of the parrot.

August 26, 2021 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

($) More commentary on our EssaySnark Unranked list

August 4, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

If you tried last season and didn’t make it into a school like Tuck, you may have had a sad takeaway after seeing our recent list of rankings of the top MBA programs. It may have left you feeling bummed. “Like, what am I, chopped liver? I couldn’t even make it into the school near […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights Tagged With: cheerleading, rankings

($) EssaySnark Unranked: Our list of top schools based on how hard it is to get in

July 19, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

“The best” MBA program is one that you can get into. Right? Who cares how “good” a program is, especially when each school apparently rates so differently based on who you ask. Once you’re focusing on the “best” schools, you know what that list is going to look like. It’s going to have schools like […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights, the admissions consulting industry Tagged With: rankings

Tracking the system: How are schools changing in terms of diversity and inclusion?

July 12, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Michigan Ross Leave a Comment

HBS class breakdown by race and ethnicity showing 11% Black, 9% Latinx, 53% White

Changes are coming slowly. It’s been over a year since George Floyd was murdered. All the schools issued statements about Black Lives Mattering at the time. What evidence have we seen that there have actually been changes in how things are run at these places? Darden continues to be more flexible with testing policies, which […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights Tagged With: diversity Bschools: Michigan Ross

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