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Why it hurts so much to get rejected from bschool

December 9, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: All MBA decisions are independent events.

October 5, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: planning your strategy, rejection

What Harvard says to you on Thursday is near-meaningless

October 3, 2022 by EssaySnark - Discusses Harvard Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: interviewing, rejection Bschools: Harvard

($) How to interpret feedback from the adcom

April 7, 2022 by EssaySnark 5 Comments

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. […]

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Filed Under: GMAT/GRE, rejection

Remember that some schools offer feedback to unsuccessful applicants!

April 5, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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($) Can you be too old to get into an MBA program?

December 14, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: profile assessments, rejection, school fit

This might be where that sucky situation starts to materialize for some of you… :-(

November 22, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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($) One of the most under-recognized challenges in the entire process of applying to business school

August 17, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Today we’re going to talk about something that we’ve never before heard anyone talk about. Premium content starts here… ———–   ———– Premium content ends.  

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($) Be sure to update your recommenders on outcomes – even if you don’t get in.

April 5, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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($) What does being rejected really MEAN and how can you process it?

March 29, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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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