Hopefully when you did your tour of your target school’s online MBA application you paid careful attention to their policies around issuing a waiver of the application fee. All schools offer at least one category of waiver, typically around service-based professions like military, TFA, and Peace Corps. (BTW, we have programs like that, too! Though […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! Columbia essay 1 and an edtech career
Now that everyone is solidly in essay-writing mode around here, let’s look at another actual essay! This came in a few weeks ago through our Try your hand! Spin the wheel! See if you win a prize! feature where you can submit an essay for consideration of review here on the blahg. This is what […]
Continue reading...($) “I want to work in edtech”
To which we say: As what? Edtech is an industry – a niche one at that, and definitely a trendy one. The main issue for BSers saying that that’s what they want to do is, more often than not, these are BSers who are coming in to the MBA a little clueless. Often, it’s candidates […]
Continue reading...“I will definitely recommend you to others! (later.)”
EssaySnark has a corporate initiative designed to allow us to give back to the world a little by offering some pro bono and reduced-price deals to those in the service-based professions. Awhile back we did a freebie Comprehensive Profile Review to someone through our Military MBA support program and we got this note back from […]
Continue reading...Success Story! With a different ending than you might expect!
We got this super exciting update from a Round 1 BSer who’d been waitlisted at a Very Good School, and we just had to share it with you (with permission, of course). Enjoy and be inspired! Hi EssaySnark! I know I have been radio silent for the past few months, but I did want to […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! Tuck career goals
Hey Brave Supplicants! We’ve had a few submissions of essays since the Thanksgiving holiday and we’re going to try and get a few more of these free website critiques out to all of you who are waiting. There’s also the Crowd-Sourced Essay Review forums which we’ve been known to pop in on from time to...
Success Story! “I earned $1,000/hour from studying the GMAT!”
The EssaySnark gets their jollies from seeing BSers get into bschool – and we really really dig it when we see the Good Guys overcome Big Obstacles and make it happen. Here’s a very inspiring story that we held onto since receiving it back in the Spring – we thought it might do be good […]
Continue reading...The Consortium application
As you now know since we just covered it again yesterday, The Consortium is trying to increase minority enrollment in the best bschools in America. We’ve never said much about it before because a) if you’re qualified to apply to The Consortium, you honestly don’t need much help — The Consortium offers lots of support, […]
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