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…
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…
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…
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)…
MBA Admissions: Should You Apply Round 3?
The first two weeks of January pass in a blur of deadlines. At most business schools, these critical dates are followed by at least one later deadline. The schools almost all acknowledge that chances of acceptance at these later deadlines are lower. That information frequently prompts the following question in my inbox, my BW thread,…
MBA Admissions: Michigan Ross and UCLA Anderson Waitlist Chats
Accepted.com is hosting two waitlist chats this week: Michigan Ross with Soojin Kwan Koh and James Hayes today Tuesday March 27 at 2:00 PM PT/5:00 PM ET/9:00 PM GMT. UCLA Anderson with Craig Hubbell, Jessica Luchenta, and Jennifer Tabbush on Wednesday March 28 at 4:00 PM PT/7:00 PM ET/11:00 PM GMT. Both chats will take…
Submitting Additional Material to Wharton? Think Twice
After I reviewed the Wharton waitlist chat transcript, Wharton’s policy towards post-deadline submissions wasn’t entirely clear. Nor was it clear why waitlist applicant are categorically discouraged from submitting anything while applicants before receiving an answer can exercise their judgment as to whether they can submit additional material. Thomas Caleel, Director of MBA Admissions and Financial…
