If you’re just starting the process of applying to bschool for the first time, this post is not for you. Today we’re mostly talking to those who are either still on the waitlist, or who will be reapplicants, and who will be informing the adcom about an updated GMAT score either in a waitlist update […]
Continue reading...($) The first place to look at your reapplicant strategy
As we started to say last week: If you’re going to be a reapplicant to an MBA program in the Fall, we’ve got some stuff for you to think about. One place to start is to do some self-analysis around those career goals that you pitched. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content...
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If you’re starting to feel like uh-oh…
So Round 1 happened. And now Round 2 is like really far along. And you’re sitting here going, what happened?!? If you have this nagging sense of doom creeping into your gut, thinking that after all that, it’s not looking like you’re going to get in anywhere, then leave it to EssaySnark to make some […]
Continue reading...($) More thoughts on the possibilities and problems with a Round 3 application.
To continue the “Should I Round 3?” conversation we began this week: If you’re thinking about “When is it time for Round 3” then that’s a complicated question, based on many factors like how flexible are you in which schools you’re interested in, and also especially important is how flexible are you on timing. There’s […]
Continue reading...($) Critical advice for reapplicants
As with many things, policies on what’s required by each individual school for a reapplicant to their MBA program vary. However, there’s one rule that we would insist on, in terms of how to best navigate the process of presenting yourself the second (or third??) time around. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium […]
Continue reading...($) “Will I be canceled if I change my mind after accepting a school’s offer?”
We’re reblahgging this from 2015 – yikes! This situation has the same answer today, but we are taking this opportunity to change how we say it. This is admittedly a rare situation but those are fun to talk about sometimes, too. We had a BSer who went through the whole process and got accepted at...
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Some cool schools give feedback
Dang. You didn’t make it in. 🙁 BUT WHY??? Most schools are explicit with a no-feedback policy. All decisions are final, and they’re unable to talk to you about it because they don’t have the bandwidth to field all of those calls. But some schools are much more generous with their time and attention and […]
Continue reading...($) Can you get blacklisted by a bschool?
We’re dusting this post off from the ‘snarchives — this was originally written way back in 2016 (!!) and someone recently asked us about why they’re not making progress on their apps after trying so many times. And, wellllll…. urgh. We’re not saying that this is what may be happening for this particular BSer, but...
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($) Reapp advice Part 2
OK, picking up the discussion of reapplicant strategy from yesterday (which was mostly focused on HBS/Stanford reapplicants): For a school like Yale, they typically review the prior-year app in tandem with this year. Same with MIT, and Columbia, and many others. In that case, then an obvious improvement in a metric like GMAT score is […]
Continue reading...($) Reapplicant advice: What to change? What to stay the same?
There are so many complexities involved with applying to bschool — and applying as a reapplicant is especially complicated. To a large degree, your reapplicant strategy needs to be built around what the specific school you’re trying for values. The strategy you develop to reapply to Harvard is going to be less similar than what […]
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