…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 overcome all weaknesses at some point IN THE FUTURE. And they include in their optional essay their plans to a) take a class, b) retake the GMAT/GRE, c) solve world hunger.
Maybe they’re totally well-meaning and sincere when the write that essay (though sometimes we wonder …) yet what happens so often is, they submit the app, including what is essentially a promise or commitment to the adcom contained in that optional essay. And then they turn their attentions to the next app, and the next one – probably including this same promise in each of them. And then the deadlines are over and MAN THAT WAS HARD! I’M EXHAUSTED! and they take a little break from it, and then lo and behold, time passes, and sure enough, it ends up being months later and did they manage to actually do the thing they said they were gonna do?
Maybe they don’t even think about it again … until the adcom comes calling.
And then, panicked, they ask us what to do.
And we’re like “DUDE!!!”
(Or “DUDETTE!!” in case you don’t consider “dude” to be as gender-neutral as we do.)
So here we are NOW, telling you that if you commit to retaking the GMAT or enrolling in whatever class we advised that you enroll in, that you actually follow through with it and complete the thing you’re saying you’re going to complete.
Just be full-fledged adults who manage their commitments in the Real World. Follow-through is what character is made of.
In other words:
Don’t be a flake!
You’ll only be cheating yourself.
Tell us what you think.