EssaySnark's Strategies for Reapplying to Bschool: Successfully, This Time!
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Sometimes, we need a failure before our story can turn into a success. Sometimes, we need the wake-up call of not getting what we want to realize that we REALLY want it! Sometimes it takes not getting it to know how important it is.
Let EssaySnark help you tackle your reapplication to business school. You'll be taken through a self-assessment of your original application to see what went wrong the first time. You'll know for sure if you need to re-take the GMAT or not. And, you'll discover the winning additions to a profile that every adcom loves to see a reapplicant present.
This Guide will show you what's important. Use it. Start early and have the best chance of turning your "Not yet" to an "Oh, yeah!"
Essay Snark
Essay Snark is an MBA admissions consultant who is sometimes amused and often appalled by what candidates write in their MBA essays to top bschools. Essay Snark shares others' mistakes, so you don't make admissions directors laugh or, worse, want to hurl when they read your essays. If you, intrepid applicant, want to have your essay reviewed by Essay Snark (and posted anonymously - yes everyone will see it), email it to gethelpnow(at)essaysnark(dot)com. Emailing your essay means you give explicit permission for it to be posted (obvious identifying information such as your name and the name of your employer will be removed), and you release Essay Snark from any claims that may result from possible humiliation over said snarkiness. (And please, people, don't email us two days before the app deadline and expect to hear back in time.)EssaySnark has helped clients with successful applications to:Harvard HBSStanford GSBWhartonColumbiaNYU SternMIT SloanKelloggChicago BoothBerkeley HaasYale SOMUCLA AndersonMichigan RossUVA DardenDuke FuquaCornell JohnsonGeorgetown McDonoughUSC MarshallVanderbiltBabsonUT-AustinINSEADIEIESEEsadeOxfordLBSISBand many more...
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EssaySnark's Strategies for Reapplying to Bschool - Essay Snark
EssaySnark's Strategies for Reapplying to Bschool
–Successfully, This Time!
A SnarkStrategies Guide
by EssaySnark
Snarkolicious Press
SMASHWORDS EDITION
version 1.1
originally published May 22, 2012
This SnarkStrategies Guide is copyright 2012 EssaySnark.
Cover image copyright Eric Isselée, used under license from Fotolia.com
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Stanford GSB
Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Northwestern Kellogg
Dartmouth Tuck
NYU Stern
Your MBA Interview
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There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
Hindu proverb and something Hemingway liked to say
Table of Contents
There's Hope!
OK, So What Went Wrong?
Why you didn't make it into bschool
Don't Be That Dude (or Chick)
The Reapplicant FAQ
Reapplicant-Unfriendly Places
Improving Your Profile
The best additions to a reapplication
The Self-Assessment
Career Goals
Last year's goals
EssaySnark's career goals exercise
Your career goals as a reapplicant
Your Other Essays
A 10-Step Essay Critique
The GMAT (or GRE)
Who does not need to retest
Indian engineers and the GMAT
The GRE
Academics
How can you boost your academic profile?
Resume
Recommendations
Extracurriculars
Your Target School
The Bottom Line
Your Next Attempt
The Essays
The Reapplicant Essay
What if you're an Indian male engineer
Trying for Other Schools, Too
Need More Help?
There's Hope!
If your application to bschool was rejected, then we're sorry! Really. That sucks. We feel for you. We also know that there are plenty of well-qualified candidates who don't make it in each year. Bschool admissions is a competitive game, and just ticking off the boxes of GMAT score and GPA is often not enough – the schools are looking for more. If your profile is exceptionally common, like you're an Indian engineer or an American male in finance, then it may be tougher for you to get in than some other candidates.
But there's hope! Getting rejected from bschool can be incredibly instructional – you now know more than you did before! You have information you can go on to improve. There are places in your profile that could be boosted and there are things you can do differently if you're ready to give this another go.
This SnarkStrategies Guide will show you how.
How to Use This Guide
While most people won't pick up this application guide until after they've already gone through the entire process (and been unsuccessful) with at least one application, the fact is that the information in this Guide is suitable for anyone looking to make the most of their presentation to bschool. The self-assessment tools provided herein would be useful at any stage of their process. The main focus of this Guide is to help you examine your own profile and look at your presentation in a way that an admissions committee member might, so you can identify your own weaknesses and evaluate potential gaps. You'll then get suggestions and recommendations for how you can offset those weaknesses in your next try for the school.
In fact, we'll launch things off with our first bit of formal advice:
Start your reapplication early. Like, now.
As a reapplicant, you have a higher burden of proof, so to speak. You need to convince the adcom that you are way more fabulous now than you were just a few months ago when you first tossed your hat into the ring. Typically, the kinds of stories that make for the strongest impressions for the adcom readers are ones where there's some form of demonstrable impact – you took up a big initiative at work, you led the team and brought it home, and you