For as long as we’ve been the Snarkiest Snarker of MBA Essays, we’ve had a program providing support to military candidates trying for business school. We see honor in choosing to serve the country, and we respect that choice, and have wanted to offer resources to a segment of the applicant population that was considered […]
Continue reading...So what are you going to do about it?
Probably the hardest part of all of this coronavirus stuff is the massive uncertainty. (Unless you have experienced the loss of a family member personally, in which case, the hardest part is absolutely what you are going through, and EssaySnark is very, very sad for that.) We’re doing our best to offer straightforward fact-based analysis […]
Continue reading...Please be kind.
Some service worker screw something up? You didn’t get the egg rolls you ordered in your takeout? Please be kind. Some receptionist hang up on you by mistake when you called to make an appointment for your cat? Please be kind. Did your computer freeze on you — again — and now you have to […]
Continue reading...($) The MBA admissions essay question that every business school should ask for the Class of 2023
This is purely hypothetical and not based on any tipoff that EssaySnark has gotten from any particular admissions director at any specific top school, but… It’s still something that we think could come up, and we invite you to consider this now. There could be many variations on this. One simple prompt the admissions teams […]
Continue reading...A case study: Let’s examine an event that the media covered
Since you don’t have anything else to do these days besides refreshing your inbox every five minutes, hoping for an interview invitation to come in for your Round 2 applications (or looking at finance sites to see how bad the markets are crashing), we’re going to continue distracting you with our philosphi-politi-intellectual postings about what […]
Continue reading...“But what about fake news?”
We recently posted a plea to all of you to pay attention to the news, politics, and world events so that you can be a more informed consumer and aware citizen. But how can you be an intelligent consumer of the news when so much of the media has a bias? This is a seriously […]
Continue reading...A request: Please pay attention to what’s going on in the world
Even the most diehard political junkies are probably burnt out and exhausted by all that’s gone on in politics over the last few years. If you were never interested in politics anyway, then it’s easy to tune out of all the nonsense, and stay tuned out. But the things that the governments are doing matter. […]
Continue reading...Doing a post-mortem on the experience of applying to business school.
Some of you are still working on apps to schools like NYU Stern (Round 3 — totally viable!! — due on January 15) or MIT Sloan (how on earth have they managed to be so awesome in setting their deadline so late in January??) or INSEAD or LBS who both have viable deadlines in the […]
Continue reading...YOU are the only one who needs to be happy with your MBA essays.
And your mom. But your mom will like them no matter what. Obviously it’s really the adcom that we want to like your essays. Not your mom. But the most important person in the world who really needs to like your essays is YOU. That’s because you’re the one who needs to be confident in […]
Continue reading...A secret about school. (Any school.)
You say you want an MBA, and we believe you. But do you want an education? Do you even know what they’ll teach you in the hallowed halls of Columbia or Kellogg or Cornell or whatever school you end up at? You’ve read through the website enough to plug the name of a class into […]
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