Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. Ha. After 3+ years of WFH, you think you’re a Zoom expert now? We beg to differ. Even if you’re now spending 7 hours a day in Zoom meetings, there’s still more to be learned on the best etiquette for a Zoom interview for admission to your MBA program. Premium content starts here… If you’re reading this in email, click through to get the full ‘Snark! ———– Username Password   Everything is important and shoul ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. This is a stub of a post that we wanted to build out further — but given current circumstances, we’re just sharing it here unfinished. This was feedback we offered to a client on their resume (back when we were doing that type of direct consulting work). Maybe it’ll be useful to some of you, too. And hey: Thanks for sticking around! The best way to make decisions around what to include and how to present it is to k ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. People get so stressed out when they’re applying to bschool – and this post likely won’t help with that. For starters, let’s state the obvious fact which is frequently overlooked: Nobody’s profile is perfect. Everybody presents with some weaknesses and flaws. But you have some strengths, too, right? Your main objective with your app is… ——————————- While much of the blahg is available completely for free, the conte ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. Last season, Yale changed the language in one of their FAQs about the Behavioral Assessment that’s a part of their application process. Looking at the language change may be instructive as we examine the concept of messaging in your MBA apps. Premium content starts here… ———– Username Password   Wherein EssaySnark overanalyzes the minutiae of the adcom’s statements – so you don’t have to!     &nb ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. We see a lot of essays that are kinda like this: “First of all, where did you learn to drive like that?” (mumbles) “Can you speak up, Ricky?” “The car. Handled real good. I felt like I was on a space ship, and uh… I’m not sure what to do with my hands.” When we see an essay like this, it comes across rather similar, as if the Brave Supplicant is thinking, “I don’t really know what to say here so I’ll just write wo ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. We don’t suggest doing the resume at the beginning of your MBA application strategy development process. Circle back to this task LATER after you have your strategy fully mapped out. When you do, you can take advantage of the advice that we’re sharing here, that we first gave to a BSer who was questioning how to structure their background on the page. Premium content starts here… If you’re reading this in email, c ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. Another title for this post could be: Please don’t try to differentiate yourself as an MBA candidate based on your goals. We sorta covered this many years back here and it came up again in this post a few years back (before most recent tech softening/meltdown/whatever is happening there) emphasizing the importance of career goals but it deserves a dedicated discussion. Premium content starts here… ———– Username P ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. Hi folks, If you’re reading this, that means you still have an active subscription to a purchased product here on essaysnark.com. We intend to honor all paid subscriptions that were active at the time of this decision to shut down, however we are not updating or publishing new content. The main exception is that there were a handful of posts already pre-written and ready to go, which we’ll still be releasing here o ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. We’re reblahgging this from the ‘snarchives because it is oh so important! This concept can make a difference in moving a good essay into the category of great. You can see this concept in action in this post where we focused on only the first few sentences of a BSer’s career goals essay. Premium content starts here… If you’re reading this in email, click through to get the full ‘Snark! ———– Username Password &n ..read more

Thank you for following the EssaySnark blahg! If you are on a paid blahg membership, you'll need to visit essaysnark.com to see full posts that are marked with the ($) in the title. This post could also be titled: Why you will have less hair on your head and possibly bruising on your forehead when you make it to September the 6th. (That’s because you will either tear your hair out in chunks, and/or hit your head rhythmically on your desk multiple times, and/or you will age so much with the stress of it all that your hair will fall out, before you are done with this essay.) How can this be so h ..read more