Commencement time! This one is worth watching: EssaySnark agrees: Truth matters. As many of you head into the grueling process of putting together ideas and thoughts and words and sentences that will become assembled into the various pieces of an MBA application… We encourage you to stay true. Be honest. Don’t lie, steal, manipulate, thieve. […]
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As a reminder to those not in the U.S., today is a national holiday. Go out and have a good time, BSers! No snark today.
Continue reading...Black History Month
Can you name both of the women in this photo? image from Washington Post, photographer credit Bettmann/Getty The whole point of Black History Month is that Black history is American history. We’re not going to get into all the political debates about making it illegal to teach African American Studies, because really?? We’ll just invite […]
Continue reading...($) Changes schools are making in response to ChatGPT and AI
We gave our thoughts on applicants using ChatGPT for essays in the MBA admissions process. We’re guessing some applicants already did this in Round 2 for the Class of 2025. The timing of the release of ChatGPT definitely would have allowed for that, and the schools were blindsided by this new development. Professors in schools […]
Continue reading...($) Should you use ChatGPT to write your MBA admissions essays?
In case you haven’t been tracking latest developments in tech and society, there’s this AI that now can produce pretty good writing, just by feeding it a prompt. It’s called ChatGPT and available at https://chat.openai.com/ . If this truly is brand-new news for you and you’ve not heard of it before, then here’s a description […]
Continue reading...($) How do you talk about “the network” in your MBA essay?
Everybody does it. “I want to go to School X because of the network.” But is that something that’s really true for you, in the actual meaning of the word? Is it just another buzzword you’re including because you think that’s how you’re supposed to be writing in these essays? Premium content starts here… If […]
Continue reading...($) Case, case study, and case method
Many applicants to Harvard especially will be using these terms in their essays this year. Case Case study Case method Many of them will be using them wrong. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. The 2022 Harvard MBA Application Guide for the Class of 2025!
Continue reading...We are in mourning
Too many guns Too many deaths Too much hatred Too much apathy Too much Too much Too much What is wrong with America Oh yeah
Continue reading...No, EssaySnark is not on reddit (much).
So you can be assured that we’re not responsible for this — but this reddit post definitely cracked us up! We highly doubt this essay earned an “F” – that looks like it was added later (doesn’t it seem like a different color of red ink?). But who knows?!?? The professor was clearly dismayed at […]
Continue reading...Radcom of the Year 2021
It’s that time of the year again: It’s our annual Radcom Awards! “What are the Radcom Awards?” you say? But of course, the Radcom Awards are where EssaySnark recognizes the radness of a specific school’s adcom! We’ve tried to give recognition to great admissions teams even from the very beginning of […]
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