Now that the craziness of the first round deadlines is pretty much behind you (and some decisions may have already hit you hard), we wanted to make an important point clear: All school decisions are independent events. It matters most to remember this once decisions start coming out and people start getting rejected. Just because […]
Continue reading...What Harvard says to you on Thursday is near-meaningless
Well, unless of course, if Harvard says they want to meet you to interview!! For the loads of other candidates who are going to be told, “sorry” and given the so-called Early Release from Harvard’s Round 1, this Thursday is going to massively suck. A very large percentage of those people are actually TOTALLY QUALIFIED […]
Continue reading...($) How to interpret feedback from the adcom
We had a Brave Supplicant tell us recently about feedback received from schools applied to last year. A few supercool schools are way awesome in doing this — the usual suspects, like Darden and Tuck (and does NYU do it? misremembering). So this BSer reported back to us about the things the adcom-y person said. […]
Continue reading...Remember that some schools offer feedback to unsuccessful applicants!
Today is just a reminder that we’re at that time of year that feedback sessions may become available at certain schools! If you tried making it in for the Class of 2024 and now you realize that those dreams are dashed… A few admissions teams have policies that are really designed to help encourage you […]
Continue reading...($) Can you be too old to get into an MBA program?
Dang, applying to business school can be tough on the emotions!! Round 1 decisions aren’t all out yet, but a lot of schools have released by now, and it’s caused a lot of consternation — because yeah, getting rejected, or getting waitlisted, this is a tough thing to have happen. You make it all the […]
Continue reading...Why it hurts so much to get rejected from bschool
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...This might be where that sucky situation starts to materialize for some of you… :-(
If you’ve been following the blahg since the summer, you may recall a post we wrote titled One of the most under-recognized challenges in the entire process of applying to business school. Well, now is where that under-recognized challenge may be starting to pop into your awareness. Hopefully not!!!! But for some people, yeah, this […]
Continue reading...($) One of the most under-recognized challenges in the entire process of applying to business school
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Continue reading...($) Be sure to update your recommenders on outcomes – even if you don’t get in.
One of the hardest conversations to have is to tell your boss that actually, no, you won’t be resigning your position in a few months, because you didn’t make it in. 🙁 Telling other people that your applications were rejected is a tough thing indeed. It involves so many emotions, most notably shame. The mere […]
Continue reading...($) What does being rejected really MEAN and how can you process it?
tl;dr: Being rejected sucks, and if that’s what’s happened to you this season, we’re sorry. 🙁 Most BSers we work with experience at least some rejection, and the vast majority of them also experience at least one success. That success may not be the admit to their top choice #1 school, but they do their […]
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