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...($) When informing the adcom about a new GMAT score (waitlist, optional essay)
If you’re just starting the process of applying to bschool for the first time, this post is not for you. Today we’re mostly talking to those who are either still on the waitlist, or who will be reapplicants, and who will be informing the adcom about an updated GMAT score either in a waitlist update […]
Continue reading...($) If you’re waitlisted and you’ve also been accepted somewhere else…
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: Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium […]
Continue reading...“I’m waitlisted, and the adcom wants me to retake the GMAT…”
We’re inching closer and closer to those decision release dates. Yes, the waiting is indeed the hardest part of this process! For today, we’ll share with you an inquiry one year that went like this: Hi there, Last week I was wait listed by [really-good-school] and then a week later they emailed me saying they...
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($) “I’m on the waitlist. Can I ask my interviewer for feedback?”
Got a question from someone who was waitlisted after the interview at a Top School that’s worth discussing today: Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. BTW, the BSer in today’s story did in fact get in to the school they were waitlisted at, so, happy ending! And we hope your […]
Continue reading...($) 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...($) What to do (and not do!) in waitlist update letters
Being on the waitlist can be a very stressful place to be, and yet it offers real opportunity to change your fate! How you handle the waitlist update might be the make-or-break chance, when you’re on the border in the adcom’s eyes between an admit and lingering longer in the limbo state. Some schools don’t […]
Continue reading...($) How schools make decisions off the waitlist (and how much hope should you have?)
We’re getting a lot of questions about the waitlist and though we don’t like to do the blatant upsell, we do have services in the Waitlist Assist which really is your best opportunity for letting us dig into your profile directly and figuring out what may have gone wrong for you. There’s unfortunately no way...
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($) If you were waitlisted in Round 1 2021…
First: We’re sorry. 🙁 It was probably somewhere between massively disappointing to totally devastating to have been waitlisted instead of admitted when you got the news in December. Next: The waitlist is actually a good place to be! It means you’re still in the game! Presumably a Round 1 waitlist also means that you put […]
Continue reading...($) 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...
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