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($) Do “legacies” have an admit advantage?

October 26, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

So much has changed in such a short time. If you’d asked us this about five years ago, the answer would’ve been an unequivocal “Yes!” “Legacies” are candidates whose parents went to the school that they’re applying to. Sometimes other relatives like aunts or uncles, or grandparents, are included in the “legacy” equation. Premium content […]

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Filed Under: app dataset, the admissions consulting industry Tagged With: diversity

What MIT did not succeed at doing with their Class of 2022 admissions strategy.

October 21, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses MIT Sloan Leave a Comment

We spoke about how the MIT admissions season played out in the numbers in our post earlier this week. One additional comment to make is to examine who they actually admitted — or at least, who they admitted, who decided to also attend. The biggest shifts in the class breakdown were in: Women going from […]

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Filed Under: school reviews & insights Tagged With: diversity Bschools: MIT Sloan

($) Applying to The Kennedy School MPP/MBA

October 20, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses HKS Leave a Comment

In this year of change and societal upheaval, one school that’s seeing increased interest from graduate applicants is Harvard Kennedy School. HKS is known as a government and policy program, which has degrees which are sort of like the MBA, but in some ways, even more flexible. A wide variety of employers come recruiting at […]

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Filed Under: flavors of MBA, Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose Tagged With: diversity Bschools: HKS

Which school will do it first?

July 20, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Some of you may be too young to remember the details, but about 12 years ago, we had that big financial crisis involving mortgages and Wall Street and fancy-dancy securities called collateral debt obligations and all that jazz. The part you probably do remember is that it made the housing market melt down, and people […]

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Filed Under: the admissions consulting industry Tagged With: diversity, rankings, rant

Trying to walk the talk

July 2, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Yale SOM new faculty joining in 2020

For as long as we’ve been the Snarkiest Snarker of MBA Essays, we’ve had a program providing support to military candidates trying for business school. We see honor in choosing to serve the country, and we respect that choice, and have wanted to offer resources to a segment of the applicant population that was considered […]

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Filed Under: general snark Tagged With: diversity

A call to the business schools: TRANSPARENCY

June 15, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

First: Why do we say “Asian-American” and “African-American” and “Native American” – but not “Caucasian-American”? Shouldn’t we start to use that explicit label? Who cares that Caucasians are the majority. Just saying that Caucasians are “American” means that when we say “American” we expect it to mean “a white person” which is a flaw of […]

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Filed Under: the admissions consulting industry Tagged With: diversity

Microaggressions

June 12, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

You’re in a big meeting at a client site. You’ve never been there before. The meeting is hot into discussion, and your boss turns to you and says, “Can you go print out the Acme Report for last quarter? Get copies for everyone. I think we need that to make this decision.” It’s not your […]

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Filed Under: values Tagged With: diversity, your life

Is this change for real this time?

June 11, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

There’s a criticism going around social media directed at these suddenly woke white folks accusing them of only NOW recognizing that Blacks and other non-white minorities have been dealing with racism since forever. Because suddenly it’s trendy or cool to be all #BLM, but it’s not legit. It’s just because other people are doing it […]

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Filed Under: the world Tagged With: diversity

The Consortium application

November 4, 2011 by EssaySnark - Discusses Dartmouth Tuck, The Consortium Leave a Comment

As you now know since we just covered it again yesterday, The Consortium is trying to increase minority enrollment in the best bschools in America. We’ve never said much about it before because a) if you’re qualified to apply to The Consortium, you honestly don’t need much help — The Consortium offers lots of support, […]

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Filed Under: application rounds Tagged With: diversity, Teach for America Bschools: Dartmouth Tuck, The Consortium

More on diversity in bschool

November 3, 2011 by EssaySnark - Discusses The Consortium 2 Comments

Previously we wrote about The Consortium, which is an org dedicated to fixing the imbalance and supporting more diversity in business. Did you know that less than 25% of the students at most top bschools are U.S. minorities? What’s up with that? Only 25%?? Even worse, it’s less than 20% at lots of places. Forte […]

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Filed Under: planning your strategy Tagged With: diversity Bschools: The Consortium

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