A number of schools seem to be trying to play the status-quo game: They’re maintaining their pre-covid policies and not really making many accommodations to their processes and policies. In a “normal” year we would not even call any attention to this. It’s what schools do. With the exception of changing their essay questions and […]
Continue reading...Which school will do it first?
Some of you may be too young to remember the details, but about 12 years ago, we had that big financial crisis involving mortgages and Wall Street and fancy-dancy securities called collateral debt obligations and all that jazz. The part you probably do remember is that it made the housing market melt down, and people […]
Continue reading...Inflation is low. Why is MBA tuition increasing AT ALL?
So hmm. EssaySnark got a little triggered. Back in April, we wrote this whole post ripping HBS a new one, because we stumbled into this — from the overview of the HBS financial report published in October 2018 by Havard Business School’s CFO: MBA tuition is budgeted to increase a modest 2 percent in fiscal […]
Continue reading...Does it help to go with an MBA admissions consultant who has worked in MBA admissions?
Short answer: No. Except in perhaps one very limited case. Long answer: Keep reading. There are lots of admissions consultants out there who advertise themselves as former admissions officers, as if this is some massive advantage to you as their potential client. We actually believe that in some cases – like when the admissions consultant […]
Continue reading...You are being brainwashed and used.
This is admittedly an odd post to be publishing on a blahg selling services to help you get into business school, but there it is. Go watch this Exhibit A video: Transiting to a new industry by leveraging transferable skills Of course, that advice is 100% sound. It’s what we help applicants do in […]
Continue reading...What leadership is (not).
EssaySnark spends very little time on social media and we were reminded of why this is when we stirred up a hornet’s nest yesterday among, of all people, college professors. After seeing their responses to our tweet we are very happy that you Millennials are making your way through the workforce and will one day […]
Continue reading...Why we think rankings are stupid.
It’s because Harvard is stupid. There is no way that your Harvard education is that much better than what you will get at Tuck or at Duke or, heck, at Cornell. Rankings mess with your head. From the description of a book, aptly named Engines of Anxiety , that studied the effect of US News […]
Continue reading...You don’t need to lie.
Despite the ridiculousness coming out of the American political establishment these days and the atrocious excuse for a role model1 that that makes: YOU DO NOT NEED TO LIE ON YOUR MBA APPLICATIONS. Here’s a story from Air Force vet turned product marketer turned entrepreneur turned professor Steve Blank about how he was told to […]
Continue reading...We were bummed to have discovered this.
Well-meaning or not, a BSer we worked with this past season ended up executing on an application strategy decision that, had we known about it, we would’ve advised against. This person used our help to apply to a bunch of top-tier Round 1 schools. They did a good job on those essays. Apparently somewhere along...
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Totally and completely random EssaySnark pet peeve
OK so, if you’ve been coming around here any length of time, you know that some stuff bothers us. Like, overfocusing on brand and ranking when you’re choosing the bschools you want to apply to. Like, neglecting good manners and not saying ‘thank you’ when someone does you a kindness. Like, ohdunno like several dozen […]
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