This perhaps snarkier-than-standard post from several years back is worth reblahgging just as a way to maybe open things up in how you’re looking at the MBA and what you’re hoping to do with the next few years of your life. As with most everything here on the blahg, it’s heavy on the opinion, so […]
Continue reading...($) “I thought I was supposed to talk about the buzzwords.”
Another comment came in on that post from Monday on buzzwords that asked this: With the word limit constraint, how are BSers supposed to convey how much we want to go to whichever institution if we dont use the Buzzwords the schools prescribe? I thought we are supposed to… because that shows we have been...
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Who values alumni networks the most
Once you’re accepted by the Great Business School of Your Dreams (or more accurately, once you’ve paid the deposit and you’re officially part of the school community), then your business network suddenly expands by an order of magnitude. This is great. You’ve been accepted. You’re part of an elite group of people who go to […]
Continue reading...There’s “class size” and there’s “class size”
No no, don’t worry, we’re not about to launch into another diatribe about alumni networks. We went on long enough about that back last summer. Today we’re simply drawing a distinction between two different aspects of the bschool experience. As we said in the title, there is class size, and there is class size. By […]
Continue reading...($) How to talk about “the alumni network” in your essays
EssaySnark did a whole rant on “the value of the alumni” network awhile back and we wanted to touch on the most practical part of all that. In case you missed it, we made a bunch of points on bschool and The Network (start here for the series). This isn’t the Facebook kind of network,...
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Be a sponge, but have a filter.
We had a rant not long ago on alumni networks and Wharton which was first prompted by a post we saw on a Beat the GMAT wall. Another admissions consultant, a graduate of Wharton, was answering a BSer’s question, and he claimed that a key factor in choosing a school should be, among other things: […]
Continue reading...How bschool alumni networks really work
A big part of bschool are the parties connections. You’re gonna form lifelong relationships with the people you go to school with. Bschool is a major bonding experience – just wait till your first group project (or your third Happy Hour!) and you’ll understand what we mean. 😉 These relationships are typically tightest with those […]
Continue reading...The All-Important Alumni Network: A Brief History (as imagined by EssaySnark)
We see BSers all the time writing in their essays about how they are applying to School X because of “the network.” They do this because it’s what the schools talk about. We can’t imagine a BSer anywhere in the world coming up with the idea on their own. Nobody chooses a school because it […]
Continue reading...It’s not the size, it’s what you do with it.
We dug into Wharton’s claim to 91,000 members in their alumni network. Even though we believe this to be inflated, we know that Wharton has a lot of alumni. The size of the network seems to be touted by the schools as a competitive advantage. OK, that could be a strength – though in our […]
Continue reading...We don’t think it’s as big as you claim it is.
We know, we know. It’s easy for one to get infatuated with one’s, uh, size. It can be a point of pride. “Mine is bigger than theirs.” This size thing. We’ve been told it’s important. “No, really, it is bigger. I’ve measured it. Wanna see?” Uh, no, thanks. Please put that thing away. What we’re […]
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