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($) Updating the adcom on a job change

January 16, 2020 by EssaySnark

If you switch jobs in the midst of your process of applying to business school, do you need to tell the admissions office about it? We started this topic about updating the adcom about changes to your profile and status and this case is an important one to discuss more in-depth. If you change jobs,...

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($) When to update the adcom after they have your app

January 15, 2020 by EssaySnark

You got your app in. Yay! You did your best to report everything about your background thoroughly and accurately. Double yay! Now you wander back to that app to admire your amazing work and… you discover an error. OMG NO! Or: You weren’t looking for a new job, but one falls into your lap. Lickety-split,...

($) In this competitive season… Warnings to the stereotypical finance-guy applicant

November 14, 2019 by EssaySnark

You probably don’t consider yourself a stereotypical anything. But certain career paths in certain fields like finance and consulting tend to look an awful lot alike from one person to the next. Sure, maybe you switched from IB to PE two years after college. Used to be, that was a really big feat to pull...

No, you don’t need to work for a big company to get into a top school. But there is one advantage.

June 18, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

One of the very resilient myths out there in MBA Admissions Land is that you need to work for some big-brand famous-name company in order to get into Whanvard. We’ve covered such myths many times before: 3 Myths about MBA Admissions *Really* debunking the “big-name company” myth And this alternate take: 5 Myths about MBA […]