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 […]
Continue reading...“Ack! Why can’t you just get on the phone and talk to me, EssaySnark!??”
We don’t do free pre-sales consultations. We’re not interested in blowing smoke up your patootey about how awesome you are and yes you’re going to make it into Harvard just fine, don’t worry about that GMAT score.* Heck, even after signing up for our MBA admissions consulting services, we don’t even get on the phone […]
Continue reading...This post is for everyone who INTENDED to do Round 1…
Did you not manage to submit the apps you had planned to for Round 1? If so, we want you to not feel bad about this. There’s likely only one of these two reasons why this has happened, and neither one of them is your fault. You either got stung by: Procrastination (which may feel […]
Continue reading...HBS Mid-Cycle Decisions and the Moods of a BSer
Another reblahgged post from the past… because today is the day! Today is U-M Day. If you applied to Harvard in Round 1, then you’ll be nervously checking your email* today at 12noon Eastern time. If you’re in Europe, you probably didn’t get much work done so far today. If you’re on the West […]
Continue reading...Nobody sets out to be a bad person.
Have you seen any of these Fyre Festival documentaries? Pretty incredible, how all of it went down. The entrepreneur dude who tried to pull it off is called a pathological liar. The most incredible part of all is, even after he got prosecuted by the FBI, he launched a totally new swindling scheme. Apparently his […]
Continue reading...A reminder that we’re trying to help
Last year we did a Post-Mortem Reject Analysis for someone after Round 1 decisions did not go as expected. This person was a reapplicant; they had tried the year before, and then the reapp was also rejected. Here’s part of what we said after some back-and-forth questions once they got our assessment and were questioning […]
Continue reading...Don’t click on crap.
Want to change the world? Here’s what you can do: STOP READING STUPID DRAMA-PORN. Doesn’t matter how you feel about the Kardashians. By clicking on an article about any of them — good or bad — you are feeding an industry that survives on peddling trash. It’s not that those people are trash. It’s that […]
Continue reading...How to improve yourself
It’s so easy to let things slide. One way to make sure that you advance yourself every year and get better and better as a person, and closer to your own specific goals, is to place a priority on those actions every week. If there’s something very important to you, that keeps getting pushed off […]
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