ethics

($) If you get fired, do you need to tell the adcom?

October 13, 2021 by EssaySnark

What happens if you get laid off while you’re applying to business school? Or if you just can’t stand your job anymore and you quit? (After all, with those awesome apps you’ve submitted, you’re going to be leaving in a few months anyway, right? Why not just tell your boss to shove it now? A...

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It’s not ethical for you to have an admissions consultant review your recommendation letters

August 9, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Basically, the title of the post says it all. However, for a little review: 1. You cannot write your own recommendations. (But you can help your recommenders come up with ideas for what they will write about.) 2. You also cannot have an admissions consultant help write or edit your recommendations. You cannot ferry drafts […]

Plagiarism is just foolish.

July 28, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

In the midst of commencement season this past May, one University President apparently decided that it was too much trouble to write his own speech. He stole chunks from someone else’s. That didn’t go well. (tl;dr: He resigned within days.) We speak regularly about ethics in MBA apps, and we’ll drill down a bit more […]

There’s surely a story here

June 3, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Sometime in the last month or so, this message appeared on the Columbia Business School application information page : For those of you on a screenreader, it essentially says that application data must be accurate, that applicants need to write their own essays (but not letters of rec), that the information will be verified, and […]

C’mon you guys.

February 5, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Stanford GSB Leave a Comment

You’re not yet a student at a top MBA program — but you will be soon. Please don’t act like the students at the top MBA programs are acting right now. You’ve heard about schools trying to contain coronavirus with restrictions on student gatherings. You’ve heard about students flipping the bird at those restrictions, and […]

If you’re willing to blur the lines… where does it end?

December 22, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Say you fudged a number here or there. Like, maybe you earned a $50,000 bonus one year, but someone told you that it’s possible to look like you make too much money to get into bschool, so you reported it on your app as a $20,000 bonus instead. Or maybe you heard that the schools […]

($) Should we really have to point this out?

August 20, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We try to make it clear around here that we don’t edit essays (and we don’t think you should have them edited either). We don’t tell you what to write. We do critiquing and give massive amounts of feedback. We provide coaching and offer gobs of best practices on how to do this thing you’re […]

($) MBA admissions and background checks

April 14, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Turning attention back to those who received admits in Round 2, let’s talk about the process of accepting an offer. Different schools definitely do this differently, and not all schools even conduct background checks — but many of them do, and the process may seem intimidating. “Ohmygosh. They’re going to dig into my background. I […]

Ethics & Professionalism: Changing jobs during the MBA app process

October 31, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

What if you decide that you need to go get a new job, but you’re in the process of applying to business school? How do you handle the situation of interviewing for a new position if there’s a chance you would be leaving next summer? We covered this in a three-part series back in 2012 […]

That thin line between being smart and cheating.

September 11, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Aw man, here we go again. Yet another post from EssaySnark on ethics. You’d think we’d get sick of hearing ourselves talk about this. But no. Because it matters. Especially in this mixed-up world we’re living in now. Ethics really really matters. In case you missed it, our title says: That thin line between being […]