Are you feeling more confident right now — or less so? Often, the experience of developing the strategy for the first set of schools bums people out. They start to get discouraged, and wonder if they’ll ever get their apps where they need to be. Sometimes people start feeling desperate, and look to lob off […]
Continue reading...($) What does “quality” mean when it comes to top MBA programs?
Our recent rant about the GMAC Researchers’ marketing poll, where they asked if test-takers felt that schools use the GMAT in order to ensure “quality”, made us think further about the actual question: What does quality actually mean when we’re talking about business schools, and how can you evaluate it for yourself when you’re trying […]
Continue reading...($) Targeting MBA programs based on your personal values.
This post actually is probably only written for a small handful of you. And that’s OK. Don’t feel bad if you read this and don’t experience much of it resonating. You can still get into an incredible MBA program if none of these ideas are part of your experience of researching and selecting schools and […]
Continue reading...($) Going beyond the MBA rankings: How do you choose which bschools to apply to?
Happy June! Summer is almost here! How do we know that? Well, because The Round 1 Countdown launched recently! Whether you sign up for The Countdown or just keep coming back here to the blahg, we’ll be rolling up the sleeves and getting started in the nitty gritty of figuring out what it takes […]
Continue reading...($) False negatives, false positives, and you.
Last week we posted on the perennial question, “What are my chances?” In that post we promised to talk more about predicting someone’s possible admission to other (non-HBS) schools, so let’s dive into that now! Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. What we want to convey in these posts is […]
Continue reading...($) Talking to current students about their bschool experience
One of the very best ways you can find out about a bschool that you’re interested in is to talk to the students who are going there. (Pro Tip: Lots of applicants never do any of this. You can stand out in your applications by doing this.) Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium...
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Bschool is what you make of it.
If you’re sitting here in early 2021 thinking about applying to bschool in the fall for the Class of 2024, then here’s the very best advice we can offer for you today — and, actually, for many other (most? all? other) points in the long process you’re about to embark upon. And if you’re sitting […]
Continue reading...($) How to do bschool with a partner
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 […]
Continue reading...More on schools doing things well
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 […]
Continue reading...($) Going beyond the numbers: Why is it so much harder to get into Kellogg than it is Haas, given their admit rates?
This post was prompted by a very legit question asked by a BSer planning a Round 2 strategy a few weeks ago: Given that the Haas admit rate is actually lower than Kellogg, why would EssaySnark claim that it’s easier to get in? Many years ago we published our own “rankings” on which schools were […]
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