Many people feel like politics doesn’t really impact their lives — or conversely, some people feel that presidents have power over markets and the economy. Contrary to popular belief and to the assertions of many politicians, the president doesn’t really have that much influence on the economy, which you will learn about in bschool if […]
Continue reading...($) What’s going to happen to the economy and should you care about that right now?
We started to talk recently about how the changing world may be changing priorities among business school students and all that is admittedly speculative, and also, such changes take awhile to be perceived in actual data. In the category of not sure I want to focus on this because there’s nothing I can do about […]
Continue reading...($) The world is changing. Here are the business schools we’d be considering if we were applying to start an MBA in 2021.
There are lots of factors that go into choosing which schools to apply to. We’re not in the business of dictating priorities to anyone. However, if EssaySnark were applying to bschool this year, these are the trends in the world that we’d be paying attention to, resulting in this list of schools we’d be targeting, […]
Continue reading...June.
This right here is a (quasi) education blahg. We’re, like, you know, into people getting smarter. Improving themselves. Learning about the world and how it works. With all this clamor to re-open American society, we just hafta say… Things are going to be much much worse again before they will be better. Sure, you’ll be […]
Continue reading...($) Coronavirus and career goals for the Class of 2023 applicants
First, news from industry: Yesterday Amazon announced that any of its workforce who is able to work from home is now allowed to continue doing so until at least October 2nd . So, for all those summer internships… well, we just don’t really know. It’s also the furthest-out date we’ve heard a company announce on […]
Continue reading...($) Coronavirus and the MBA: This is what everyone’s career goals essay is going to say this year (with a history lesson)
EssaySnark has another prediction. We also have to point out that given how many predictions we’re making right now, we’re gonna be wrong on some of them. We’re going out on a limb in so many areas, based on digging into the data that we have, based on knowing what’s happened in past cycles, and […]
Continue reading...Not to be alarmist, but…. Things are going to get bad.
WARNING We’re covering economic predictions today and possible impact to society. It is a welcome-to-reality post, which means that we’re writing direct. If you are feeling fragile, if you’re not sure you can handle all the uncertainty — which is a legit reaction!! — then please skip today’s post. We’re going to talk about […]
Continue reading...($) Should you apply now? Are you thinking about Round 1?
If you’ve been trying to figure out if you should apply now for the Class of 2022, or wait till the Fall and try for Round 1 and the Class of 2023, we have ideas. Premium content starts here… ———– Premium content ends. Coronavirus and the MBA Coronavirus and the […]
Continue reading...($) Coronavirus and the MBA: If you got into business school, what happens if you decide not to go?
Note: Our fancy-dancy blahg-post-emailer-thingie didn’t work quite right yesterday, so to all you who are receiving this post in your inbox: Please go to the blahg to check out yesterday’s post in full. You received only a partial post instead of the whole shebang. If you are not yet receiving posts this way: […]
Continue reading...($) Coronavirus and the MBA: Class of 2022 admits and decisions to attend
First: On Sunday we had a quick thank-you post where we also mentioned that you can now follow the blahg to get news in your inbox. On the coronaMBA front: If you now have collected multiple admits to multiple schools as a result of your hard work on Round 2 applications way back in January […]
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