Round 3

($) How the schools are adapting to coronavirus and what it means for you: Standardized testing and Round 3 apps

March 23, 2020 by EssaySnark

The schools are changing the things that they can. You’ve likely heard that a lot of schools are allowing Round 3 apps to be submitted without a GMAT or GRE score, with the caveat that a valid test score must come in later on — for example, by July 1st in the case of Columbia....

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So really. What about Round 3?

March 17, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

What we know: Nothing. What we suspect: Round 3 will be much more of an option this year than it has been ever before! We’ve already offered some generalized discussions of how this situation may impact things in our posts over the past week ( especially here and here). All the schools are worried that […]

($) “Will applying in Round 3 weaken my application next season?”

March 2, 2020 by EssaySnark

If you have signed up for any of the business schools’ contact lists and have not yet submitted this season, or if you’re following them on Facebook or attending any admissions events, you likely have been inundated with enthusiastic messages encouraging you to pull the trigger on a Round 3 application. There are a number...

($) Who / what situations are greenlit for an MBA app in Round 3?

February 5, 2020 by EssaySnark - Discusses HBS 2+2

Continuing our Round 3 MBA Strategy series today, we’ll follow up the recent posts about some risks and challenges in Round 3 ( part 1 and part 2 in case you missed them) with a flip to the positive: There’s a few categories of Brave Supplicant for whom we’re more inclined to see a potentially...

($) To Round 3 or not to Round 3?

January 28, 2020 by EssaySnark

As we introduced recently, it’s Round 3 Debate Time! How do you make a decision on whether to try for an MBA in Round 3? Are there standing rules for who should, or should not, try at this time of the season? Are there schools that you should never try at for Round 3, or...

($) What about Round 3?

January 27, 2020 by EssaySnark

RIP Kobe. Returning to our regularly scheduled programming… For those of you still in the bschool application cycle, we’ll talk a bit about Round 3. You probably know from hanging out on applicant forums that the last round is a tough one. Most years, EssaySnark says, don’t even bother. The chances are just...

($) Just In Time MBA App Prep: What if you JUST decided to apply to bschool? Like, NOW?

January 7, 2020 by EssaySnark

Most of the advice here on the blahg is about “DON’T DO IT!!” – meaning, a last-round app to bschool is very very challenging and has much less probability of success than it does in the first two rounds of the admissions season. There are many factors and reasons for this and we discuss them...

An abundance of riches!! OMG Yay!! …….. eeek now what?!?

March 15, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

There is much celebration happening in Snarkville this week – so many admits! And so many of you with multiple admits!! WOO-HOO!! This week that’s only exciting. Next week and the week after….. well, that’s when it may start to become a little overwhelming. If you’ve made it into more than one MBA program, the […]

($) If you’re still thinking about a Round 3 app (even though we told you not to) read this.

February 26, 2019 by EssaySnark

Actually, read this. It’s Everything You Need to Know, in one compact little guidelette. A few prognasticators have hinted that this year’s app volumes were up in Rounds 1 and 2 so there’s even less likely (if they’re right) that a Round 3 app has a chance. We talked before about why the schools have...

($) Admissions teams like to say there’s no harm in applying in Round 3, you can try again next year

February 15, 2019 by EssaySnark

And yes, that’s true. But the people who are saying that have never struggled with the challenge of figuring out what to write as a reapplicant. And so what we say to their advice is: DON’T LISTEN We touched on this marginally in the Be careful about applying to Columbia now post earlier this week,...