Monday, May 07, 2007

Feedback session in Wharton

Starting from today, rejected applicants of R1 and R2 in Wharton may request feedback session by phone. Requests will be served on first come - first serve basis. The number is 215-898-6183.

For now, I decided to refrain: the idea is to keep the place in the line vacant for future reapplicants.

Update: all slots were occupied during first 2,5 hours of work of the phone line.

A word of consolation to those applicants who did not make it in time to secure a feedback session: just don't overconcentrate on this issue. Research blogs of current students who were reapplicants, see what they write about feedback information. You will see that no feedback session would give you a clear answer Why you failed to win the place. They won't tell you: there were too many typos in your "What matters". They won't tell you: your interviewer didn't happen to like your orange tie. What will happen is that they will give you bare and banal information: lack of a prerequisite quality, unclear goals, dull essays etc. There is no guarantee that you will have enough time and room till the next year to fill in the gaps, if any - you won't get broad international experience in next 6 months if you have none at the moment, but anyway - aren't you going to improve before your next application? You are, and you will be better no matter whether you got this feedback call from a school or not. Be yourself. In so many cases, feedback information pushes people to pad their applications with not-so-real details designed specifically to meet the expectations of a school. You don't want to go this road, are you? If you arranged a session, absorb every bit of information you will get (but again, don't overanalyze it). If you did not - don't be sorry. Live your life.


Comments:
I, for one, am anxious to know what kept me out of the schools that dinged me, so have requested for a feedback from all of them.

Secondly, with the VISA not in my pocket yet, I do not want to take chances by not asking for a feedback. Am not a pessimist, but would rather get a feedback than repent later.
 
Yeap, you have a point. I don't really expect them to surprise me, because I know I had a weak Why MBA essay in my package, but still, it is difficult not to ask them directly what was wrong :)
 
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