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($) Another reason Round 1 can be particularly advantageous: Scholarships

June 8, 2022 by EssaySnark - Discusses Berkeley Haas, Harvard Leave a Comment

When you’re aiming for the most selective and “elite” MBA programs, our stance is you should be aiming to be accepted. Don’t try to maximize for scholarship dollars, since that’s near-impossible to control — unless you’re willing to be flexible on the tier of the school you’re trying for, and you have a profile (particularly […]

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Filed Under: selecting schools, tuition Tagged With: financial aid Bschools: Berkeley Haas, Harvard

How are you going to pay for it?

April 20, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

GMAC Chart - MBA applicant survey - funding sources

We admit to being DownerSnark when the subject of MBA scholarships comes up. Mostly it’s because it’s….one of those things. Where applicants are often woefully misinformed or unaware of the realities of the situation. If you’re applying for a graduate program in many other fields, there is a significant amount of free money available. That’s […]

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Filed Under: tuition Tagged With: financial aid, sponsored for MBA

Did you know that there may be more essays to write?

February 16, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

If you’re planning on starting your MBA in the fall – regardless of whether you know where you will be attending yet or not – you may want to start doing some legwork to find sources of funding. (We talk about this topic and many others in greater depth in our Accepted Student’s Pre-MBA Guide.) […]

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Filed Under: tuition Tagged With: financial aid

($) Columbia’s “Financing Your MBA” application question

December 16, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia Leave a Comment

We started talking about money in our post on “Can you make too much money to get into an MBA program?” so we figured we go into an actual dataset question that can cause some applicants to freeze up: MBA: Estimate how you will finance the cost of your total first-year budget. Premium content starts […]

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Filed Under: app dataset, tuition Tagged With: financial aid Bschools: Columbia

($) How the schools are adapting to coronavirus and what it means for you: MBA Scholarship opportunities

March 26, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Along with all the waitlist offers we’ve already started to see for Round 2, there’s one more unfortunate side effect of coronavirus on the admissions cycle right now, and that’s unfortunately a tightening of the pocketbook and a decrease in the amount of scholarships that schools are likely to dole out. This is for several […]

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Filed Under: coronavirus, tuition Tagged With: financial aid

($) The factors that make you much more likely to get a scholarship award along with your MBA admit

May 1, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Sure you want to get into a good program. But you also think it would be kinda nice to get a scholarship, too. Well…. we’re a little bit of the DownerSnark on that idea. They’re not gonna pay you to get an MBA. At least, not most of you. This may come as a surprise […]

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Filed Under: GPA and grades, tuition Tagged With: financial aid

($) Applying where the scholarships are (wherein we talk up Ross, Cornell, Darden, and others)

April 22, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses Cornell Johnson, Darden, Michigan Ross Leave a Comment

We’re not exactly advocating this as an actual strategy for selecting your MBA programs to target. But it’s something to consider! It’s certainly more practical and intelligent (yes we said it) than using rankings as the priority tool to choose where to apply. If a top MBA program has a special scholarship fund earmarked only […]

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Filed Under: finance, healthcare, selecting schools, tuition Tagged With: financial aid Bschools: Cornell Johnson, Darden, Michigan Ross

($) Success Story! Sometimes it takes awhile – and sometimes it really pays off!

March 16, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

This seriously happy note came in from a BSer in May last year and we figured it was appropriate to post it now, since so many of you are getting antsy waiting for admit decisions — here’s something that hopefully you can be looking forward to (or at least some variation of it) in the […]

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Filed Under: Success Stories, tuition, waitlist/deferred decision Tagged With: financial aid

($) App Dataset Dilemmas! Sticky questions about finances in MBA apps

December 28, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses Yale SOM, Columbia, MIT Sloan 2 Comments

One of the many ways things can get messed up with your MBA applications is rushing through the data entry task on your application. The app dataset is an important part of your pitch — not just a chore you need to get through as quickly as possible. We’ve offered a range of strategic comments […]

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Filed Under: app dataset, tuition Tagged With: financial aid, sponsored for MBA Bschools: Yale SOM, Columbia, MIT Sloan

“If my GMAT score is good enough, will I…?”

November 9, 2017 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

NOTE: We’re reblahgging this from 2012, since it’s a timely topic that gets asked about a lot!!   Had a Brave Supplicant ask us about GMAT scores and scholarships recently — something like, “If my score is impressive enough, will I get a full tuition grant at bschool?” Here’s what we said: It is actually […]

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Filed Under: GMAT/GRE, tuition Tagged With: financial aid

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