Probably the hardest part of all of this coronavirus stuff is the massive uncertainty. (Unless you have experienced the loss of a family member personally, in which case, the hardest part is absolutely what you are going through, and EssaySnark is very, very sad for that.) We’re doing our best to offer straightforward fact-based analysis […]
Continue reading...A secret about school. (Any school.)
You say you want an MBA, and we believe you. But do you want an education? Do you even know what they’ll teach you in the hallowed halls of Columbia or Kellogg or Cornell or whatever school you end up at? You’ve read through the website enough to plug the name of a class into […]
Continue reading...“Ack! Why can’t you just get on the phone and talk to me, EssaySnark!??”
We don’t do free pre-sales consultations. We’re not interested in blowing smoke up your patootey about how awesome you are and yes you’re going to make it into Harvard just fine, don’t worry about that GMAT score.* Heck, even after signing up for our MBA admissions consulting services, we don’t even get on the phone […]
Continue reading...Prediction: What will cause you the most pain and suffering in the next six months?
EssaySnark don’t know you. Who is EssaySnark to say? Ahh, au contraire, little buttercup, EssaySnark DOES know you. EssaySnark knows your heart. EssaySnark knows who you are. And EssaySnark knows that what will cause you the most pain in the next six months’ time comes down to one thing: […]
Continue reading...How to improve yourself
It’s so easy to let things slide. One way to make sure that you advance yourself every year and get better and better as a person, and closer to your own specific goals, is to place a priority on those actions every week. If there’s something very important to you, that keeps getting pushed off […]
Continue reading...The shame of a low GMAT score
We want to talk about something here today that we’re guilty of contributing to — inadvertently, yes, but we’ve done it. It’s the shame that many BSers feel about their performance on the MBA admissions test. We see this in the opposite manifestation: When someone has done well on the GMAT, they’re quick to volunteer […]
Continue reading...The dejection of rejection
Amidst all the high-fives and congratulations flying around lately, there have also been some very sad Brave Supplicants. If you haven’t made it into bschool this round, you’re probably feeling pretty darned bad about things. You’re probably beating yourself up. Feeling plenty of regret. Replaying the sequence of events and kicking yourself over one thing […]
Continue reading...There is nothing wrong with you.
You do not need to be fixed. You definitely do not need to be packaged or branded. You don’t need to be spun, or promoted, or polished up to a shine. (OK, maybe you need a shower, but…) The problem with this process of applying to business school is that it sends the signal that […]
Continue reading...This is what you don’t want to have happen
In the world of bschools, leadership has been the byword for at least a couple generations now. Used to be, business school prepared you for management. The first business schools were created in the era of assembly lines and automation and they needed workers who were kind of like cogs in a machine; everybody needed […]
Continue reading...The power of positivity
EssaySnark doesn’t want to get all metasophical on you or anything (yes that’s a word, we just made it up) but… We have this one client. He tried to get in last year. He started too late, and he got bad advice, and he submitted some really lousy apps. And of course he targeted the […]
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