low GPA

($) How to get off the waitlist

December 15, 2022 by EssaySnark

Along with the many frothy and celebratory emails that EssaySnark gets around this time — beyond the ones wishing holiday cheer, we’re talking here about ones where our clients are reporting acceptances by their schools of choice — we also get a few that feel like they come loaded with bricks: “They put me on...

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essay critique: Master’s of International Finance

February 28, 2012 by EssaySnark - Discusses LBS, U. of Amsterdam

>As we said yesterday, we dug up this ancient essay from the Wayback Machine (January 2011) and blew the dust off the email and started to do a review of it… and then we found that it had been posted in some other forum before it had been sent to us. It was emailed in to...

Low GPA? Want to really convince the adcom you’re serious?

November 29, 2011 by EssaySnark - Discusses Berkeley Haas 1 Comment

>Berkeley Haas offers a (non-MBA) degree called the Master’s in Financial Engineering. It’s a one-year program for the quants (you know, the guys who brought down the world economy a few years back with all their derivatives and CDOs and all). But this post is not about that. This post is about a special set […]

($) The best way to offset a low GPA

September 30, 2011 by EssaySnark

We had that question about the optional essay yesterday. And you know what we were thinking the whole time we wrote that answer yesterday, right? That this guy should be taking a class? “But EssaySnark, we’re in the week before deadlines!!!!” you say. “Yes, but you could still REGISTER for the class, at a minimum!”...

Low GPA + lots of leadership in undergrad = optional essay?

September 29, 2011 by EssaySnark 3 Comments

>Got this in the inbox yesterday: i wanted your opinion on the optional essay…i have a 700 gmat, but poor undergrad academics..however my work has been solid ([big bank] and private equity) and strong recommenders…would you recommend applicants to take about low grads (alot of leadership in undergrad and a failed startup)??? you’re help would […]