We had a Brave Supplicant tell us recently about feedback received from schools applied to last year. A few supercool schools are way awesome in doing this — the usual suspects, like Darden and Tuck (and does NYU do it? misremembering). So this BSer reported back to us about the things the adcom-y person said.
And we went through the commentary that was offered by the admissions person to this applicant and just sorta sighed.
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TJ says
Curious – What’s the grammatically correct alternative to “showed up”?
essaysnark says
Shown.
TY says
I don’t think that ‘shown’ works in that context. Perhaps ‘arrived’ would work.
choth21 says
MIT kindly gave me feedback on my application. This wasn’t officially offered, but I emailed and asked, and an hour later, I was on the phone with an Admissions Officer who read me comments that the readers made about my application.
essaysnark says
That’s really encouraging, choth21, and it shows what a cool place that Sloan is! Can’t recall hearing of any other school actually sharing the adcom’s comments directly with a BSer (Tuck does something similar but they don’t READ them to you!). Thanks for the report about your experience. Hopefully they told you something useful that you can use to your advantage this season!