If you didn’t get into law school this year, it’s never too early to start planning a strategy for next year. Below are five tips that will help you change the results next time you apply if you did not get into law school this time. 1. Evaluate your application. After you’ve licked your wounds,…
8 Reasons Medical School Applicants are Rejected
Each medical school receives thousands of applications every year and most schools have less than a hundred spots available. That means that you need to be extremely careful when applying to medical school (as a first time applicant or a reapplicant) that you don’t transgress those common mistakes that will get you rejected. The most…
Reapplying to Med School: Evaluating Your Medical School Profile
Hopefully by now, you have your acceptance in hand and are gearing up for Fall. If so, then congratulations and good luck! But what if all you’ve received are rejections? To start with, know you’re not alone. Last year, only 21,030 applicants made the cut, out of 53,042 applicants – that’s about 40%. And although…
You Can Do It: Reject Rejection!
For some, the new year is a time for hearing good admissions news; but for others, 2017 may be off to a grim start. If you’ve received a rejection letter from your target school (or – sigh – from all your target schools), then you may be feeling more doom and less hopeful for the…
3 Steps for Rejected Applicants
By now, many of you have received answers from early application efforts – either you got in…or you didn’t. If you got in, congrats – you probably feel amazing! However, if you face a fistful or rejections or waitlist notifications, then it’s normal and ok to feel disappointed and to express that disappointment. But I…
The Dreaded Med School Rejection: What Now?
“Dear Incredibly Hard Working Pre-Med and Hopeful Doctor, Our admissions committee has met, and we regret to inform you that you were not selected as a student for our entering class. There were many qualified blah blah blah…” Ouch. I worked hard I shadowed. I volunteered. My GPA was great! I gave everything I had for…
What if Your Child is Rejected from Medical School?
While we always hope for the best, sometimes life does not go as we expect. If your child has received rejections from all of the medical schools that s/he has applied to, it may seem like the end of the world. Here are a few tips to help your future physician overcome this devastating experience: 1. Give them some time…
3 Ways to Beat the Rejection Blues
For some ’tis the season for hearing good admissions news; but for others, this holiday season may be more grim. If you’ve received a rejection letter from your target school (or – sigh – from all your target schools), then you may be feeling more Grinch and less glee this season. It’s hard to get…
Moving Forward After Medical School Rejection
It is devastating to receive a rejection. We actually experience physical pain. The same parts of the brain that are activated when we are kicked or punched light up when we experience rejection. Given the very real physical and emotional pain of rejection, as anyone who has been through it before can attest, there are…
Got Dinged? You Can Handle It!
It may or may not be fair, but many of you are going to get at least a few rejections. What are you going to do about them? First and foremost—if you’ve gotten dinged at your top choice school, that doesn’t mean that you’re never going to get in. It doesn’t even mean that you…
4 Reasons You Got Dinged (And What You Can Do About It)
Many top MBA programs released decisions in the past several days, including: Chicago Booth, Cornell Johnson, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, UVA Darden, and Wharton. Did your app hit the chopping block? Here’s why: 1) You didn’t qualify. You gotta call a spade a spade sometimes (or always, really). If you had weak…
MBA Essays That Earn an Automatic Rejection
You could have a perfect GMAT score, a 4.0 from Yale, and a list of extracurriculars as long as your leg, and still end up in the reject pile for transgressing any one of the following three MBA application sins: 1. Lying or lacking credibility Lying on your application is literally one of the dumbest…
The College Rejection Crisis
This year, Stanford University accepted only 5% of applicants. While enrollment is down in general, competition for spots at elite U.S. universities is on the rise. As a New York Times article reported last week, the competition is “more cutthroat and anxiety-inducing than ever.” These top colleges are receiving more applications than they’ve ever received,…
Tips for Executive MBA Reapplicants
If you have been rejected from an Executive MBA program, it often comes down to one of three reasons (or combination thereof): 1) Your academic record was not strong enough to convince the admissions committee you could handle the rigor of an EMBA program, 2) Your work experience was not sufficient/relevant enough yet to be considered a…
The Dreaded Med School Rejection: What Now?
Journeys with Joshua: Joshua Wienczkowski walks us through med school at East Tennessee’s College of Medicine with his monthly blog updates. Get an inside look into med school down South through the eyes of a former professional songwriter with a whole lot of clinical experience — thanks Joshua for sharing this journey with us! Update:…
Lessons from Accepted’s Admissions Director Survey
In November, Accepted surveyed MBA admissions directors at top MBA programs. We asked “What behavior or information would cause you to reject an MBA applicant who otherwise is a strong candidate?” and published the results here. Accepted CEO, Linda Abraham, gives her thoughts on the results, what was surprising about them, what was expected, and implications…
The MBA Admissions Directors’ Recipe for Rejection
We asked 14 admissions directors, “What behavior or information would cause you to reject an MBA applicant who otherwise is a strong candidate?” While the recipe for instant rejection may vary slightly from school to school, the common ingredients are ethical lapses and poor behavior. These are broad categories that each admissions director elaborates on…
When You Receive College Rejection Letters
Accepted’s college admissions expert, Whitney Bruce, responds to Suzy Lee Weiss’s Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, “To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me.” When I work with high achieving students, as I presume Suzy Lee Weiss to be, we talk about failure. To the straight-A, student leader, it’s often a foreign concept in 11th grade….
Plan B for PhD Applicants
There’s no getting around it: rejection letters are discouraging. Especially when you’ve invested as much time and energy in something as you have in your PhD plans. What can you do when you don’t get in anywhere at all? Take a deep breath. This isn’t the end of your plans. Take stock. Did you make…
Rejected MBAs: Now What?
You just received your final rejection letter. You have four options. You can: a) Mope and sulk. b) Decide you don’t need or want an MBA. c) Reapply next year. d) All of the above. Listen, we’re not going to deprive you of your right to be bitter about rejection. Do what you need to…
