It’s an unfortunate, but true fact: Most top business schools do not provide application feedback to waitlisted applicants. If you find yourself waitlisted to your dream school, feedback-less, how will you know what to do next? If your target school won’t let you know why you weren’t given the full golden ticket to acceptance,…
The Waiting Game: What MBA Applicants Should Do After Hitting SUBMIT
Within twelve hours I heard the same question from three clients, so I suppose this question may be on the minds of more than three, “now that I’ve submitted my applications, what should I do?” The following are a list of suggestions: 1. Continue to learn about each school by speaking with faculty, alumni and…
MBA Admissions: Expediting Decisions
Recently, a school asked a client to interview on campus and he planned to fly across the country for the interview. At the same time, he was also waiting to hear about an interview from another school near the first school and asked me for my advice. I suggested he write the director. I specified…
MBA Admissions: What’s Happening at Accepted
There’s something for applicants at every stage of the admissions process at Accepted.com. Here’s a rundown of upcoming events. Round 3 Special: $100 off all service orders of $1000 or more purchased before February 22, 2010. Please use coupon code R3100 during checkout. Beautiful B-School Photo Contest Share your pictures from your b-school visits. And…
The Nine Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make on an MBA Waitlist Featured This Month
The Nine Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make on an MBA Waitlist is Accepted’s featured ebook this month and is currently 20% off. However the month ends on Sunday. If you are waitlisted and want to know: What to emphasize in your waitlist correspondence. How to highlight recent achievements. How to ameliorate weaknesses in your…
Annual Bday Sale: 50% off Accepted Ebooks
Just as my birthday rolls around once a year so does Accepted’s annual birthday sale. I want to share my presents with you by offering you once-a-year savings on Accepted’s Ebooks and CD’s. All Accepted’s ebooks are 50% off through this Monday May 11. To receive your discount, just enter coupon code SAVE50 at checkout,…
Admissions News: Duke’s New MM, WL Chat Transcript, Moms in Business
A few admissions news items from this week: Duke’s Fuqua School of Business will offer a master’s program aimed at recent graduates with little or no work experience starting in August 2009. The program will provide a Masters in Management Studies (“MMS”) and consist of 12 business courses taught over four six-week terms or nine…
HBS Applicants Face Big Week
Harvard Business School’s Admissions Director Dee Leopold announced in her blog that next week will be a critical week for MBA applicants to HBS. HBS will extend offers of admission to about 40 round-one waitlisters shortly after April 2. HBS will release all round-two admissions decisions on April 2 and will not make congratulatory calls…
6 To-Do’s if Waitlisted and Upcoming MBA Waitlist Chats
Maverick of the “En Route to MBA” blog gives excellent advice to waitlisted MBA applicants in his recent post “Waitlist -> Admit – How?” based on his experience getting accepted from the Carey waitlist. (Congrats Maverick!) Maverick refers to a “waitlist appointment” in his post. If you are lucky enough to be waitlisted at a school…
Accepted.com News: $100 Off Special, Beautiful B-School Photo Contest, UNC Chat,
This is the quiet season in terms of admissions, but it is anything, but dull here. We are planning exciting initiatives for 2009 and 2010 applicants. Here are just a few: Late Season Special. Accepted’s own modest contribution to the Porkulus, I mean Stimulus, Plan: $100 off all orders over $1,000. Use coupon code SAVE100…
The Three Essential Components of Successful Wait-List Letters
Effective wait-list letters often contain three key components. First is an “update” section informing the school of recent professional and nonprofessional developments since you submitted your application. This section is your ostensible reason for writing, so it should be substantial and full of as many significant changes as you can think of (promotions being the…
From My Inbox: Help with MBA Waitlist Letters
Feedback from Accepted’s Inbox: “It was indeed a big help for me to write a waitlist letter. I am now confident about what and how I should write one to get off the waitlist!” What was the “It” that NK found so helpful? The Nine Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make on an MBA Waitlist….
What You Don’t Need to Know on a Waitlist
At the Ross waitlist chat yesterday, there were the usual percentage of questions related to waitlist stats. Indeed, at this time of year every year, waitlist applicants obsess over previous years’ acceptance rates at the schools waitlisting them. Nervous, tense applicants ask, “How many students at School X have been waitlisted and then accepted? Is…
Michigan Ross Waitlist Chat
If you are waitlisted at Ross, this is your chance to ask questions, listen to others’ questions, and obtain informed answers. On Thursday, January 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT, Soojin Kwon Koh, Director of Admissions at Michigan’s Ross School of Business will respond to your questions about Michigan Ross’s waitlist…
MBA Waitlist: What do you do?
An MBA applicant recently told me that he was advised to retake his GMAT by a school representative. The school had waitlisted him and is among the few to offer feedback. He really didn’t want to retake the GMAT and asked my opinion — hoping I would give him “permission” not to do so. Big…
Happy New Year and Help!
As we say good-bye to 2008 and welcome 2009, I want to thank you all for your loyal following of this blog, your participation in Accepted.com events, and of course, your patronage. Accepted has enjoyed its best year ever. Thanks to all of you. Looking ahead to 2009, we plan to make this web site…
MBA Admissions: Multiple Acceptances and Waitlisted
A few MBA applicant bloggers are dealing with questions now that they have received first round decisions. First Hakuna Matata!!! is thrilled to be accepted to Yale SOM and Cornell Johnson. Congratulations! He asks several questions in “3 down…1 to go!” and I am going to respond to those that aren’t visa-related. (I know nothing about immigration…
Accepted Welcomes Natalie Grinblatt
It is with great pleasure that I welcome Natalie Grinblatt to Accepted’s staff. Natalie previously served as: Assistant Dean at Arizona State University’s W P Carey School of Management. Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Cornell’s Johnson School Director of MBA Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at the University of Michigan (where she also…
Thomas Caleel Leaves Wharton Admissions Office
The Wharton Adcom Blog announced today that "After three years of service, Thomas Caleel (WG’03) will be vacating his role as Director of Admissions and Financial Aid as of 30 June, 2008. In his role as Director, Thomas has been a passionate ambassador of the School and the MBA Program, and Wharton faculty, staff and…
Writing Effective Wait-List Letters: A Quiz
Think you know how to write an effective wait-list letter? Test your knowledge with the following quiz: 1. Wait-list letters may be three or more single-spaced pages long: (a) when the applicant has a lot of accomplishments to talk about, (b) they should never exceed two pages, (c) only for law school wait-list letters, (d)…
