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Plagiarism (doh!)

June 16, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We tend to write about plagiarism every year or so on this blahg, and we wanted to take another moment just to educate y’all on what it is and why it’s a real problem if it happens with your MBA application. Most people don’t actually try to plagiarize, though occasionally a misguided applicant will literally […]

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Filed Under: the admissions consulting industry Tagged With: ethics

($) Ethics & Professionalism: Changing jobs during the MBA app process

March 2, 2022 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? Back in the snarchives you’ll find this covered in a […]

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($) Seeing “sample” essays will not help you be authentic.

November 9, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Stanford GSB 4 Comments

We’re reblahgging this from sooooo long ago because hey, this stuff is useful! And important!! Today we’ll reiterate our policy on posting sample essays. Premium content starts here… ———–   ———– Premium content ends.    

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Filed Under: writing essays Tagged With: authenticity, ethics Bschools: Stanford GSB

($) 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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Filed Under: switching jobs before applying Tagged With: background checks, ethics, getting fired

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 […]

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Filed Under: recommendations, the admissions consulting industry Tagged With: ethics

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 […]

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Filed Under: general tips Tagged With: ethics

There’s surely a story here

June 3, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Columbia statement on ethics

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 […]

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Filed Under: general tips Tagged With: ethics, your life

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 […]

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Filed Under: coronavirus Tagged With: ethics Bschools: Stanford GSB

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 […]

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($) 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 […]

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