We shared many thoughts yesterday about the massive problems with the propaganda coming out of the GMAT side of this industry. There’s one more thing we have to call out. OMG GMAC Researchers, what are you thinking???? Here’s one of the questions that they asked in this survey of test-takers from January to April 2021: […]
Continue reading...Oh how interesting! The GMAT people think the GMAT is a good thing!
/endsarcasm The GMAC Researchers people recently published results of some questions that they had included in their surveys of test-takers (which is preserved on the snarky server here in case that link ever goes dead), and not surprisingly, they were selective in what they chose to emphasize. While it’s true that “the majority of test […]
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. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. This post is merely to say, evaluate any potential consultant with clear thinking and logic — EssaySnark included. What are their qualifications? What are they claiming to be the advantage […]
Continue reading...Some schools are being hard-asses about standardized testing and test scores (and a rant)
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...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 […]
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