We caution against overreliance on rankings all the time — we especially warn BSers about getting so fixated on going to “the best” school that they lose sight of all reason. No one school is “the best” for everyone, and ANY good school is going to be a great experience, depending on how you go […]
Continue reading...More on rankings (Columbia and undergrad)
Back in March, we shared with you how a professor at Columbia University had investigated the data reported by Columbia to U.S. News about undergraduate admissions. Here’s the original analysis by Dr. Michael Thaddeus , unsurprisingly a math professor there. After the school administrators got over their anger and embarrassment, they apparently did the right […]
Continue reading...Rankings aren’t real (2022 edition)
If you’re any kind of numbers geek, this article from a Columbia University professor that analyzes the data that make up the U.S. News college rankings — and how Columbia ranks so highly — is well worth a read. (Warning: #longread. Also, PDF here in case that link ever goes dead.) The professor is debunking […]
Continue reading...($) You can have 2 of these 3.
In the world of business, especially software development and other such projects, you may have heard of the relationship between these things: – Time – Quality – Cost You can get two of these three, but you cannot have all of them. Meaning: If you want it faster, you have to sacrifice quality or pay […]
Continue reading...Most applicants can’t let go of the rankings. But the rankings really are not designed to help you.
The other day, the President of Princeton University wrote an op-ed against college rankings . ‘The president of where?” Princeton. You’ve heard of them, right? Oh yeah, of course you have. They’re the #1 ranked university for the past 11 years. We’ve blahgged plenty o’ times about why we don’t like rankings, and agree completely […]
Continue reading...($) ROI and the MBA
This perhaps snarkier-than-standard post from several years back is worth reblahgging just as a way to maybe open things up in how you’re looking at the MBA and what you’re hoping to do with the next few years of your life. As with most everything here on the blahg, it’s heavy on the opinion, so […]
Continue reading...($) More commentary on our EssaySnark Unranked list
If you tried last season and didn’t make it into a school like Tuck, you may have had a sad takeaway after seeing our recent list of rankings of the top MBA programs. It may have left you feeling bummed. “Like, what am I, chopped liver? I couldn’t even make it into the school near […]
Continue reading...($) EssaySnark Unranked: Our list of top schools based on how hard it is to get in
“The best” MBA program is one that you can get into. Right? Who cares how “good” a program is, especially when each school apparently rates so differently based on who you ask. Once you’re focusing on the “best” schools, you know what that list is going to look like. It’s going to have schools like […]
Continue reading...($) Going beyond the MBA rankings: How do you choose which bschools to apply to?
Happy June! Summer is almost here! How do we know that? Well, because The Round 1 Countdown launched recently! Whether you sign up for The Countdown or just keep coming back here to the blahg, we’ll be rolling up the sleeves and getting started in the nitty gritty of figuring out what it takes […]
Continue reading...($) Going beyond the numbers: Why is it so much harder to get into Kellogg than it is Haas, given their admit rates?
This post was prompted by a very legit question asked by a BSer planning a Round 2 strategy a few weeks ago: Given that the Haas admit rate is actually lower than Kellogg, why would EssaySnark claim that it’s easier to get in? Many years ago we published our own “rankings” on which schools were […]
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