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What if you don’t get in? Planning your Plan B.

January 13, 2023 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Today we’re posting a series of links to articles that we have collected over the years, to help you learn about learning, understand your understanding, and deepen your ability to gain insight into yourself — insights that you can use in practical ways. One of those very practical ways is figuring out what to do […]

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($) “What can I do to increase my chances after submitting?”

January 10, 2023 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Many of you are still in recovery from the stress of submitting your Round 2 applications – or you still haven’t submitted all of them that you’re trying for. However, some of you may come off the rollercoaster of the past few days and then stand there feeling a little lost. There’s often a big […]

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If you tell the adcom you’re going to do something…

September 30, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

…you’d better do it! Yeah this is coming at you from the Department of the Obvious, but you’d be surprised. Every year, we get some intrepid BSer with some type of flaw in the profile – not-great GMAT or GRE, blemish-prone GPA – and they decide that they’re going to compensate for that flaw and […]

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This post is for everyone who INTENDED to do Round 1…

September 19, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We had a snarky blurb of a post up since Friday and we figured, hey, no need to be snarky! Because we know a lot of you are not quite where you wanted to be. Did you not manage to submit the apps you had planned to for Round 1? (Round 1 totally isn’t over, […]

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($) Authenticity and MBA career goals

June 1, 2022 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

In what is a totally understandable impulse, we frequently get BSers asking us what career goals are “best” to use in their MBA essays. It comes up over and over again. We know where that question comes from. When faced with the task of applying to bschool, it seems that you’re dealing with one test […]

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Applying to Bschool: The Strategy of Authenticity

May 23, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We’re reviving this series from the ‘snarchives because it’s so important as a concept to understand in constructing high-quality MBA applications — and in life!   We talk a lot about strategy in your MBA apps here on the blahg. Strategy comes down to: pitching the right schools pitching the right way maximizing your strengths […]

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Work doesn’t make you happy. But meaningful work might.

March 18, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

In a recent Slaughter & Rees Report from The Tuck School , we get this: In his Nicomachean Ethics , Aristotle defined the highest form of human flourishing—eudaimonia, or “good spirit”—as the application of one’s talents to meaningful endeavors of personal and community consequence. This flourishing is largely independent of the results of these endeavors; […]

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($) Backup plans and next steps: What if it’s looking like you might not get in?!??

February 18, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Some of you are starting to worry, which may or may not be justified. If you tend to be a worrier, you already know that about yourself, and you may intellectually recognize that you’re doing it, and be unable to stop. Worrying in this case only adds to your stress levels and is not productive, […]

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Anxiety and your interview (MBA or otherwise)

February 15, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Yerkes Dodson Curve from wikipedia

NOTE: We’re reblahgging this article written in February 2020… the Before-Times. While the gist of it in the context of anxiety in an MBA interview is still valid, we acknowledge that anxiety (and depression, and a host of very real mental health challenges) is a totally different thing for many of us these days. Anyway, […]

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A fun exercise to be intentional

January 28, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

It’s the last Friday of January. Where did this first month of 2022 go?!?? Whether you’re someone who makes New Year’s resolutions or not, it’s important to track the passage of time, so you can evaluate what you’re doing with it as it goes by. That one precious life, you know? Now that we’re 1/12th […]

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