Continuing the awesomeness that is our series from the trenches – Advice From Those Who’ve Gone Before – we now have a second post from the 6-month-out MBA grad who started us off with Making the Most Out of Business School. What Kind of Life Do You Want? “Relax and rest up before school starts,” […]
Continue reading...If you really want to learn about Wall Street culture…
We’ve been wanting to write about this for awhile now and the timing seems pretty much ripe today. We recently received a review copy of the new book Young Money by Kevin Roose. So, full disclaimer: We received this book for FREE. However, this review is entirely our own opinion, and the publisher never even […]
Continue reading...Culture: Columbia, NYC, and Wall Street
We got a question from a Brave Supplicant recently asking about Columbia and cut-throat culture and, in fine Snark style, we wrote a lengthy blahg post without ever actually answering the BSer’s question. We got hung up on the first part where we thought he was saying that we are saying that we don’t like […]
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If you’re thinking of applying to bschool – and especially if you’ve already been accepted for the fall and are waiting for the months to pass until the adventure actually begins – we hope you understand how much READING will be involved. You’ll have cases to prepare and textbooks to study and plenty of business […]
Continue reading...Reapplicant series Part 4: Indian engineers, finance dudes, and others who are qualified
There’s one specific class of Brave Supplicant who we want to talk about today: the applicant who did everything right, and still didn’t make it in. This post is for those who have strong profiles, who put in the work, who are at the right point in their lives to be doing this bschool thing...
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A firsthand report on Amsterdam’s Master’s of International Finance
Recently we had a very motivated commenter named give us an extensive firsthand report of his/her experience at the University of Amsterdam and the Master of International Finance. However, all these valuable insights were posted in response to our critique of an entirely different Brave Supplicant’s application essay to that program — and thus, were […]
Continue reading...So you want to be an i-banker?
Last week we were all hearts and gratitude and talking about service. Which is where our passion is. It was Thanksgiving after all, which is about thanks and giving, in case that escaped you. Thanksgiving is over. Now it’s time to get to work. And to start off a Monday-after-the-holiday with a real reality check […]
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