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($) Got a glitch with your grades? TAKE ACTION NOW!

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Continuing with our theme of “What can I do to improve my chances?” we need to also discuss the sensitive subject (for some of you) of academics. A low GPA is a serious issue with a candidacy for business school. And maybe it just goes with the territory… Not to get all judgey and stuff,...

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($) What’s a good undergrad GPA?

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First: We just published our MIT 2018 MBA essay guide — overhauled for the Class of 2021 to include the org chart requirement! For today: We recently talked about What’s a good GRE score for getting an MBA and we’ve done plenty of those “good enough?” posts on the GMAT — like, is a 710...

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($) The very best messaging for handling an issue with low GPA

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One of the most common statements that MBA admissions committees hear from applicants who have rocky academics is, “My GPA does not reflect my ability.” We have cautioned against this before as not quite the ideal. So then, what is? We’re reluctant to be too direct in making suggestions for what to say in an...

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($) Low GMAT? Low GPA? Please don’t say these things in your essays.

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First of all, if your GMAT is low, then we don’t recommend writing an optional essay about it at all. The optional essay is meant to explain, and thereby neutralize, issues and weaknesses in your app. If your GMAT is low, there is no amount of explaining that will neutralize it. The only thing that...

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($) Optional essay for low GPA: “I have proven myself since then by excelling at my job.”

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We see statements like that quite a bit in optional essays about poor academic performance in college and we had thought we’d done a post explicitly discussing it, but it appears that we have not. This one on “My abilities did not match my performance” touches on it. However it deserves a post of its...

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($) All schools do a “holistic review.” But…

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So we just spent 1,000 words yesterday telling you that the schools look at everything. And they do. In every chat, webinar, and info session, you’ll hear admissions directors of top MBA programs tell you that they do a “holistic review” of their candidates, that they don’t weight any particular component of the profile, that...

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We tried. We really did. But we’ve caved.

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So many times over the past year and a half, we’ve been tempted to blahg about the person who’s become the Republican candidate for President of the United States. So many teachable moments – and some positives, too, actually! There has been debate in Snarkville about it (not nearly as heated as the debate last […]

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($) There’s two possible reasons why you didn’t make it in. (But really only one.)

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Lots of wondering BSers wandering around recently. Here’s where we lay out the truth of the matter. Note: If you were waitlisted, then this post does not apply. As lame as it sounds to make this claim, if we’re doing an ex post facto analysis of how well you did on your app, then this...

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