emerging markets

($) The MBA and a healthcare career

October 17, 2016 by EssaySnark

We’ve written before about the seemingly ever-increasing need for talent in healthcare in the U.S. and even gone so far as to say that if you want to go where the jobs are, go into healthcare after your MBA — but we recently realized that dang, that post was back in 2013, and that’s a...

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($) “Should I apply to Wharton’s Health Care Management track?”

September 22, 2013 by EssaySnark - Discusses Wharton

Well this ain’t so bad; this BSer sent in their question for free help less than a month ago! And here we are answering it! (We’re kidding. We don’t like keeping people waiting this long. Many of you sender-inners gave up and actually purchased essay reviews which is always an option, especially at this crazy...

($) Beware the trendy goal. You may have to work harder for it.

January 3, 2012 by EssaySnark

One area that Brave Supplicants are often haplessly ignorant about is the trendiness of career goals. A few years ago, everyone wanted to go work for a hedge fund. (This was pre-2008, obviously.) Before that it was tech startups. PE was popular for a time, too. Last year, everyone was talking about emerging markets. Most...

Because the adcom looks at the whole package…

October 13, 2011 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

So the other day, we laid out the arguments for why, indeed, the adcoms do in fact look at everything in your MBA application holistically. Here’s where you come in. Every applicant is flawed, right? It’s true, none of us are perfect. Many Brave Supplicants get exceedingly nerve-wracked about this, thinking they need to hide […]

($) “international business” is not a career

July 29, 2011 by EssaySnark 4 Comments

We hear it all the time: a shiny-faced Brave Supplicant starts the conversation with us by claiming that they want to “go into international business.” “What exactly do you want to do?” we ask. “Work for a multinational company,” is the answer. “OK great. But what do you want to do?” “Oh! Maybe emerging markets,” […]

($) essay critique: Haas career goals

April 28, 2011 by EssaySnark - Discusses Wharton, Berkeley Haas

So we’ve started to excavate the ancient emails and essays submitted to us back in December, to which we never responded, and we are offering a critique of this one with no guilt: Brave Supplicant N said “Please review my essay for Haas, which I already submitted in its Round II. This essay explains my...