Being waitlisted suuuuuuuuucks. We totally understand the urgency of wanting to get answers. There’s unfortunately no way that someone can sit there on the outside and prognosticate about what your errors in execution might have been based solely on looking at some core stats from your profile or a few ideas in a post on...
Oh, woe, the waitlist. :-( Some perspectives.
In times of uncertainty, buy gold. Or if you’re an MBA admissions director: Put everyone on the waitlist. Some BSers are in the “abundance of riches” category but certainly not everyone is — and if you’ve landed on the waitlist, then the most important thing we can say to you today is IT’S NOT YOU. […]
Continue reading...Waitlisted? What not to do.
This is reblahgged from the ‘snarchives because unfortunately it’s apparently needed advice again at this time of year… We talk about the waitlist being a glass-half-FULL thing and nobody believes it. Yes, it’s true that being put on the waitlist is not an offer of admission — yet! However, it is up to you whether...
($) Letters of support for your waitlisted application.
Today’s post was inspired by a couple of questions we’ve received from Rd 1 waitlisters — and it’s such a tough spot to be in, especially at this stage! Not because you may not get in (hopefully you do!!) but because the seemingly endless stretch of time from the waitlist news to today can really […]
Continue reading...($) How to mention a personal or “convenience factor” reason for choosing a school
There are gobs of reasons why you might have fallen in love with School X. Unfortunately, School X has heard all of them before. Some admissions consultants even spoonfeed their clients on what to say as a reason. That means that there are oodles of applicants citing the same things all the time. So how […]
Continue reading...($) What to do (and not do!) in waitlist update letters
Being on the waitlist can be a very stressful place to be, and yet it offers real opportunity to change your fate! How you handle the waitlist update might be the make-or-break chance, when you’re on the border in the adcom’s eyes between an admit and lingering longer in the limbo state. Some schools don’t […]
Continue reading...($) What to do if you landed on the waitlist
Of course…. this is not what anyone wants or even expects. Most Brave Supplicants who worked their patooties off in their essay-writing process had hoped that that effort would turn into an admit. However, given the uncertainties of this process, it’s likely that a lot of applicants ended up in that limbo state of waitlistness […]
Continue reading...($) How to get off the waitlist
Along with the many frothy and celebratory emails that EssaySnark gets around this time — beyond the ones wishing holiday cheer, we’re talking here about ones where our clients are reporting acceptances by their schools of choice — we also get a few that feel like they come loaded with bricks: “They put me on...
($) Be prepared for this to take awhile
This is an unfortunate post for us to have to write — and it’s the kind of thing that, for the people to whom it likely most applies, the reaction to reading this is likely to be denial, or at least a brush-off or sense of disregard. You might not be that worried about what […]
Continue reading...($) When informing the adcom about a new GMAT score (waitlist, optional essay)
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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