You’ve probably heard that storytelling is an important part of writing good MBA essays, and you’ve also probably been stumped by what that even means. Pretty much the entirety of our writing tips and show, don’t tell posts here on the EssaySnark blahg is devoted to helping you build this skill, and it’s core to […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! Stanford “What matters most?” with pointers of what’s not helpful
Some brave Brave Supplicant submitted an essay for consideration for a freebie review here on the blahg and we’ve got a few things to say about it! Here’s a snippet of a “What matters most to you and why?” essay — offered not as a sample essay, but as an opportunity to see what works […]
Continue reading...How to get rejected from bschool.
Here’s a quick list of mistakes we see people making in their bschool apps All. The. Time. Underestimate the importance of Round 1. Toss out totally ambitious career goals – like saying you want to be CEO. Toss out totally ambiguous career goals – like saying you want to lead a company. Paper the country […]
Continue reading...($) “Tell ’em what you’re going to tell ’em, then tell ’em, then tell ’em what you told ’em”
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Continue reading...One more tip for authenticity in your MBA essays: Don’t read other people’s essays
When BSers get stuck on what they’re supposed to say in their essays, they frequently leave an exasperated comment asking for help. “Do you have a sample I can look at?” they ask plaintively, trying to keep the whine out of their words. If you read other people’s essays – even “successful” ones that got […]
Continue reading...($) 3 Innocent Mistakes MBA Applicants Make
(Besides not starting early enough. Which is the #1 mistake almost everyone makes, regardless of how much we warn about it. Pro Tip: It would be good to get started sometime soon!) While there are a near-infinite number of ways to muff up your MBA apps, there’s some common issues that we see crop up...
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What if you miss the deadline by only a few minutes or an hour?
It would really suck if you’re still getting your application done at 11:15pm when the deadline is at midnight and you only then discover that the school has a hard cut-off for the word limit on their field that you’re trying to paste your essay into, and your essay is too long, and suddenly you […]
Continue reading...Too much spin is a turnoff and becomes the opposite of an authentic presentation of yourself.
This is kind of general life advice which you already know, but we’ll issue this warning as you gear up for the months-long process of figuring out what to say in your essays to get into business school. Yes, you need to impress your reader. But there’s a fine line between writing about your achievements, […]
Continue reading...Bad MBA essay typos (2019 edition)
This topic is a never-ending source of amusement / mortification / horror depending on who you are and what stage of the essay-writing process the typo was discovered in. If it’s EssaySnark discovering it in an essay review, it may be kinda funny, or for common mistakes like messing up when “it’s” needs an apostrophe […]
Continue reading...($) Embroider it on a pillow.
But please don’t write it in an MBA essay. We originally started this blahg because we saw too many earnest MBA applicants (aka BSers) saying earnest MBA applicant things in their essays. That was nine years ago (and we’d already been reading MBA essays for many years before then). Alas, not much has changed. 🙁 […]
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