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($) When informing the adcom about a new GMAT score (waitlist, optional essay)

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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…

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Dang, that was not very helpful.

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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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($) Timing your waitlist update to the MBA adcom

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We got a question from yet another waitlister and thought we’d share some thoughts with all of you: Hey guys, Been a tough season – 4 rejections & 2 wait lists. I read your waitlist guide, and would like to send an email to the adcoms with documentation showing I’ll be promoted June 1, and…

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($) If you’re waitlisted and you’ve also been accepted somewhere else…

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Should you pay the deposit at the “somewhere else”? What to do, what to do. You have one admit in hand…. but you really really really want to go to this other school. Our advice is to look at this in very stark black and white terms: If you really want to go to bschool…

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($) Question from a waitlisted BSer: “I hope the adcom does not take this negatively…”

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A BSer who ended up with multiple waitlist offers but no outright admits shared this with us recently: I just started a new job with a consulting startup focusing on pre-revenue biotech and medical devices startups. I am planning to inform the ad com regarding this. I hope they do not take this negatively as…

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($) So many BSers waitlisted.

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It’s happened again this year: Record numbers of applications coming in to some of these top schools. It’s a little hard to believe, given that last year was also a record-volume year, and the year before that too. Apparently it’s like the stock market: EssaySnark keeps thinking it’s gonna come crashing down, and yet instead,…

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($) “Who do Rd 1 waitlisted peeps compete with?”

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With the first wave of results coming out, we got a question that’s worth covering here for all of you: Hi EssaySnark, I was just waitlisted for [School] and I have a question that I can’t seem to get clarity on. Are waitlisted applicants in R1 be competing alongside R2 applicants for admission slots? Or…

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