Last summer, people across this country and even around the world rose up in protest following the murder of George Floyd. There was certainly a new awareness that came over many Americans. We had a lot of Black Lives Matter header images plastered on the websites of major corporations. That’s now faded into the background, […]
Continue reading...One aspect of being culturally sensitive is paying attention to language.
Right about this time last year, there was an incident in Central Park in New York City. A white woman was out with her dog, in a part of the park that’s specifically designated as a bird watching zone. She was letting her dog run around off leash when they came upon a man who […]
Continue reading...($) Do “legacies” have an admit advantage?
So much has changed in such a short time. If you’d asked us this about five years ago, the answer would’ve been an unequivocal “Yes!” “Legacies” are candidates whose parents went to the school that they’re applying to. Sometimes other relatives like aunts or uncles, or grandparents, are included in the “legacy” equation. Premium content […]
Continue reading...What MIT did not succeed at doing with their Class of 2022 admissions strategy.
We spoke about how the MIT admissions season played out in the numbers in our post earlier this week. One additional comment to make is to examine who they actually admitted — or at least, who they admitted, who decided to also attend. The biggest shifts in the class breakdown were in: Women going from […]
Continue reading...($) Applying to The Kennedy School MPP/MBA
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 […]
Continue reading...Which school will do it first?
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 […]
Continue reading...Trying to walk the talk
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 […]
Continue reading...A call to the business schools: TRANSPARENCY
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 […]
Continue reading...Microaggressions
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 […]
Continue reading...Is this change for real this time?
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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