It happens. The spike of adrenaline and rush of endorphines around getting an admit. The frantic phone calls to family, and high-fives around the office. All of that subsiding over the course of the next few days to a happy hum of contentment: YOU DID IT!!! You got into bschool! A top MBA program actually […]
Continue reading...If you applied in Round 2…
…should you be panicking yet if you haven’t been invited to interview??? Well, if you LIKE panicking — if it’s something you ENJOY — then go to town! But we advise against it! There really isn’t any reason for panicking just yet. Yes a lot of schools are issuing interview invites, and yes if […]
Continue reading...Figuring out how to get started
Yesterday we talked about why we don’t publish sample admissions essays — and yet, we totally get why you’d want them! You haven’t written an essay in years!! For some of you, maybe you’ve NEVER written one! If you’re an international applicant coming from an educational system where mostly they use standardized testing as the […]
Continue reading...Keep on truckin’!!!
One thing is likely true for you: You have probably lost track of what day it is. That whole “first of September” thing that you had on your calendar, when you planned to have most of your apps already done? Yeah, that date came and went quickly didn’t it? We’re now already at September the […]
Continue reading...So what are you going to do about it?
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 […]
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