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($) Should you use ChatGPT to write your MBA admissions essays?

January 17, 2023 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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($) How do you talk about “the network” in your MBA essay?

September 23, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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($) Case, case study, and case method

August 4, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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!  

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We are in mourning

May 25, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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

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No, EssaySnark is not on reddit (much).

February 24, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

marked-up college essay

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 […]

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Radcom of the Year 2021

January 21, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

2021 Radcom of the Year: Chicago Booth

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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Gnats, typos, and other pesky things

December 2, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

This is an assortment of the funny/not-funny typos in MBA applications that have come across our desk in the recent past — funny because of what they are, not funny if they make it into an actual application! (in an international applicant’s essay): “I spent one year as an exchange student in a blue collard […]

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How to receive feedback

April 12, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

diagram of how to sit with discomfort

Different work environments, and individual managerial styles from different managers, totally impact the experience of receiving feedback. The other determinant of the experience is how you are able to handle the very difficult experience of being told you’ve messed something up. Obviously there’s all sorts of levels and qualities of “feedback” from the innocuous “Attaboy! […]

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Black Friday Sale!

November 27, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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($) Identifying your priorities: What matters most to you in an MBA program?

June 18, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

This casual beginning-of-summer season is alluring, and deceiving. She’s a seductive mistress. She’s wooing you with these dreams of a fancy MBA and it all seems so easy, that it’ll fall into place no problem. You’re planning on submitting apps in Round 1 and sitting here right now, you have all the time in the […]

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