We’ve said before that good drafts are not written, they’re assembled. As you are gathering your inventory of soundbites and examples and ideas and bits of content together, and you start compiling them into actual outlines, you’re going to have to take a step back multiple times, to make sure you’re really on track. One […]
Continue reading...The EssaySnakr
The EssaySnakr! What on earth could that mean? Maybe it means: We are the snakr of essays. Yum yum! Or perhaps we’re trying to tell you that: You will need many snakz ready as you start to take up camp in the essay-writing zone. These both may be true! Mostly though what we are bringing […]
Continue reading...($) Inauthentic is…
We recognize that our exhortations to “Be authentic!” may sound abstract or make you feel obtuse. Here’s a quick list of things that usually ARE NOT authentic. If you’re doing any of this in your MBA apps, then this is an opportunity to reconsider! Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends.
Continue reading...($) Brainstorming essay topics
One reason that we’re always emphasizing the need to start your essays early is because of the creative process that’s involved with writing. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. We have a whole assortment of support available for helping you through the essay creation process in the form of our […]
Continue reading...Using a friend as your admissions consultant.
In education there’s this thing called Bloom’s Taxonomy: This reflects the domains of educational design, consisting of the domain of knowledge and how do you scaffold a learner through the process of acquiring new cognitive skills and understanding. Why are we talking about this in a post about your friends? Well, we often hear of […]
Continue reading...($) A great way to prepare for Round 1: Keep a journal
We’re resuscitating a post from 2017 today because it’s illustrative of something tangible that you can DO RIGHT NOW to begin working on your Round 1 MBA applications. The references are to some events in the culture that seemed to have occurred a lifetime ago, but only happened in the past five years. If you’re […]
Continue reading...($) Sweating the small stuff: Formatting decisions on MBA essays
We have occasionally talked about formatting essays in terms of double spaced or single spaced and hopefully you already got the memo about font size. Because everything matters in your MBA essay submission. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. As with so many aspects of your application process, a mistake […]
Continue reading...($) Job titles can be their own form of jargon!
More and more admissions teams are becoming more and more directive in how they present information and guidance to applicants like you, and more and more we’re seeing them be quite explicit on something important: NO JARGON IN ESSAYS AND APPS We say this so many times here on the blahg but it’s worth repeating […]
Continue reading...“I will exploit this opportunity to go on to build greater success.”
That sentence sounds innocuous enough, doesn’t it? At risk of turning into the hypersensitive language police, we have to offer a caution on it. Words like “exploit” or “dominate” or another word like “ammunition” are commonly used in the business world. “We’re going to exploit this market opportunity to dominate the competition.” Or: “We’ve got […]
Continue reading...($) This may be the most meaningful advice that we can offer for anyone trying to write powerful essays.
Yeah that’s a click-baity headline, and wwe’ve probably promised something similar in gobs of other posts in the past. But really, this one is important! Our advice is to… Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. Ha! Apparently there’s a whole opus on these most-important posts from The […]
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