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Selecting between two schools [#permalink] New post 11 Aug 2006, 12:48
Hello,
I was waitlisted for EMBA program at my program of choice last year. Came close, but not close enough !
I am going to reapply next year and hope to get in.
I have a quick question about accepting admission from backup schools.

I want to ensure, I wait to hear from my school of choice which I am very confident given I was waitlisted last year and I am working on my weaknesses. But I want to ensure I have the backup school covered, while not wasting a lot of money forfeiting the deposit.

I am going to apply to couple of backup schools. If I get an admission to one of my backup schools and they ask me to pay the deposit, how much time I would get to accept the admission and pay the deposit and how much is the deposit usually?

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 [#permalink] New post 12 Aug 2006, 07:01
Deposit is typically a maximum of 2k-3k. I'm not sure I completely understand your first question though.

If you apply to all the schools in the same round, then you should have enough time to make your decision without paying a deposit to your back-up schools.
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Thanks for the response.
As I mentioned, I am applying to EMBA programs, so the dates do not match up like the full-time program.
If I apply in the 1st round of the backup school, I will get the response well before (a month or two) I would get from my preferred school.

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 [#permalink] New post 13 Aug 2006, 09:36
then apply second round. if you don't want to do that, you should check with the back up schools to what the requirement is in terms of giving them a response. typically they'll ask for a response around the 1.5 - 2 month time frame.
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