alumni network

($) “I thought I was supposed to talk about the buzzwords.”

September 21, 2022 by EssaySnark

The thing with buzzwords is that when you’re using them in your own essay, you may lose sight of the fact that they’re buzzwords. And, it seems like you’re SUPPOSED to be using them! Why else would the schools be talking about all these things so much? Here’s a question we got on this from...

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($) ROI and the MBA

September 30, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

Who values alumni networks the most

January 30, 2014 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

There’s “class size” and there’s “class size”

January 7, 2014 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

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 […]

($) How to talk about “the alumni network” in your essays

September 19, 2013 by EssaySnark

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,...

Be a sponge, but have a filter.

June 18, 2013 by EssaySnark 4 Comments

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: […]

How bschool alumni networks really work

June 3, 2013 by EssaySnark 1 Comment

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 […]

The All-Important Alumni Network: A Brief History (as imagined by EssaySnark)

May 31, 2013 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

It’s not the size, it’s what you do with it.

May 28, 2013 by EssaySnark - Discusses Dartmouth Tuck, Wharton Leave a Comment

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 […]

We don’t think it’s as big as you claim it is.

May 23, 2013 by EssaySnark - Discusses Harvard, Wharton 2 Comments

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 […]