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Some cool schools give feedback

March 25, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Darden, Dartmouth Tuck, Yale SOM, HEC Paris Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: European schools, Executive MBA/EMBA, reapplying, rejection Bschools: Darden, Dartmouth Tuck, Yale SOM, HEC Paris

($) Can you get blacklisted by a bschool?

March 4, 2021 by EssaySnark

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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Filed Under: reapplying

($) More thoughts on the possibilities and problems with a Round 3 application.

February 10, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: reapplying, Round 3

($) Reapp advice Part 2

July 23, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses Yale SOM, MIT Sloan 2 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: career goals, reapplying Bschools: Yale SOM, MIT Sloan

($) Reapplicant advice: What to change? What to stay the same?

July 22, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses HBS 2+2, Harvard, Stanford GSB Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: reapplying Bschools: HBS 2+2, Harvard, Stanford GSB

($) If you get feedback from the adcoms…

March 26, 2019 by EssaySnark

We spoke about the opportunity to get feedback from the admissions team at certain applicant-friendly business schools and we wanted to follow this up with a seemingly obvious bit of advice that must not be obvious since we see BSers flub this up every year. If the adcom tells you specifically what was wrong with...


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Filed Under: profile assessments, reapplying

($) “If I’m really really really really really excited about a school do you think they will let me in???”

January 3, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

This question coming of course from a Brave Supplicant with a really low GMAT. And the answer is…. actually, yes! Or at least, maybe! Depending on the school, and particularly if you’re trying in Round 1. In Round 2, it’s much less common for even the friendliest most culture-driven schools to be quite so accommodating. […]

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Filed Under: low GMAT, reapplying

($) Reapplicant advice: “What can I do to increase my chances?”

October 17, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Last season we had a slew of Round 2 BSers who were reapplying to bschool. No problem with that, plenty of schools are very open to reapplicants. The problem occurred with the essays. In multiple cases, these applicants hit us up for help really really late – like, less than a week before their deadline. […]

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Lay of the Land: Leveraging the app dataset

August 1, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Hopefully by now you’ve at least created an account in one or more of your target schools’ applications and taken a look through. If you have not done so yet, STOP. Click off this site. Go to Harvard or Wharton or Columbia or wherever it is you’re dreaming of attending and create an app in […]

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Filed Under: app dataset, reapplying, recommendations

($) International Re-applicants to U.S. schools who still haven’t made it in

April 20, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We had this in our recent Lay of the Land post about the fate of international applicants to U.S. MBA programs this season: You didn’t have to be an incredible candidate to make it in this year. You could present a profile with some glitches and, as long as your essays and recs came in […]

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