Many Round 1 applicants have already been getting those happy phone calls with news from admissions folks telling you that you’re in. Or those calls will be coming today, or tomorrow, or soon. Others though are facing the prospect of your phone never ringing, and sometime this week or next, having to log onto the […]
Continue reading...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...The dejection of rejection
Amidst all the high-fives and congratulations flying around lately, there have also been some very sad Brave Supplicants. If you haven’t made it into bschool this round, you’re probably feeling pretty darned bad about things. You’re probably beating yourself up. Feeling plenty of regret. Replaying the sequence of events and kicking yourself over one thing […]
Continue reading...We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: All MBA decisions are independent events.
Now that the craziness of the first round deadlines is behind you, we wanted to make an important point clear: All school decisions are independent events. We have touched on this at regular points throughout the life of the blahg, including this post on “I got into one school, should I now try for a […]
Continue reading...Quote of the Day
“Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way” – J.K.Rowling
Continue reading...Quote of the Day
“There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” – Lou Reed
Continue reading...Quote of the Day
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
Continue reading...Success Story! “I could present myself as a better applicant…”
After issuing congrats to a very happy Brave Supplicant last year who wrote to us with news of their success, we asked if we could share their story on the blahg, and this is what we got!! Figured all of you toiling current-crop BSers might appreciate a pick-me-up story of where your hard work will […]
Continue reading...The major problem with the way Harvard Business School manages admissions.
We are reblahgging this from when we originally posted it three years ago because all of you current-crop of BSers need to hear this right about now. We’ve frequently applauded HBS for improving the process for Brave Supplicants, and for being more transparent, such as with GRE and GMAT scores in applicants and students […]
Continue reading...Dang, that was not very helpful.
In case you read yesterday’s rant post about when to time your waitlist updates to the adcom and felt like we were too much of UnsupportiveSnark and not enough of HelpfulStrategySnark, today’s post is for you. The BSer in question can totally make it into bschool – but given where we’re at in the current...
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