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($) Updating the adcom on a job change

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If you switch jobs in the midst of your process of applying to business school, do you need to tell the admissions office about it? We started this topic about updating the adcom about changes to your profile and status and this case is an important one to discuss more in-depth. If you change jobs,...

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($) “My GMAT (or GRE) score is not what I wanted. What do I do now, since Rd 2 is happening?”

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We totally understand the stress and frustration that can go along with a GMAT or GRE result that wasn’t at the level you expected. You’ve probably tested multiple times, and you also took multiple practice exams, and thought you were going to be fine. Yet still, for whatever reason, that score has not soared to...

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($) You got in somewhere good. Should you try for somewhere better?

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This question comes up fairly often: “Hey EssaySnark! I got into School B! Do you think I should try for School A?” where School A = Harvard or Stanford or Wharton, and School B = not When this question comes at this stage of the admissions season – right after Round 1, before Round 2...

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($) “Which order should I do my remaining apps in?”

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So, Round 2. Let’s get busy, shall we? We already offered some guidelines for how many apps might be appropriate to try for Round 2, given the time remaining. And of course you need to know which schools are on this list that you are targeting, and hopefully you have vetted these to be realistic...

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($) “How many schools should I apply to in Round 2?”

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Perhaps surprisingly, the answer to that question is not “As many as you possibly can.” Along with many other areas, this is where our suggestions to you will run counter to oft-repeated advice from many other MBA admissions consultants you may encounter. Getting into bschool is not a numbers game. “You miss 100% of the...

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($) Please don’t paper the country with apps

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This seems to happen more with international applicants, but not exclusively. However, we do tend to see it a lot with Indian candidates in particular. It could be a factor of how for many international candidates, the American style of school application is different, so they’re just learning what the process is about or maybe...

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($) Are you too old to get into business school?

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Short answer: No, definitely not. Nuanced and more accurate answer: It depends on what you mean by “business school.” And by “old.” And for that matter, by “you.” If you’re asking, “Am I too old to get into a hypercompetitive full-time American MBA program?” Then it all depends on who you are and why you...

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($) “Uh-oh” or “YAY!”: Are Round 2 apps in your future? What we can predict and what you should expect

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If you didn’t bother to go through our wonky decision tree recently, then we’ll offer a recap for you now (we can’t call it a tl;dr since all of our posts are tl, even the summary stuff, but you knew that already). This is for those of you in that special pocket of h3ll called...

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($) “I did 4 schools in Rd 1. Should I really be thinking about Rd 2?”

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We are reblahgging this from 2012 because it’s timely! And those of you who read our “Rd 2?!?” decision tree on Friday can check this out if you got all the way down to Q6 and the “ALMOST-YAY!” verdict! -ES About this time in the Round 1 cycle one long-ago year, we got an email...

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