{"id":1799,"date":"2010-01-06T00:17:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T08:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2010-01-07T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T08:21:00","slug":"mba-admissions-acceptances-with-and-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/mba-admissions-acceptances-with-and-without\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA Admissions: Acceptances with and without $$$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an interesting direct message from a fellow <span>Twitterer <\/span>this morning. This MBA applicant writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>do MBA programs negotiate at all about $ packages? I'd prefer to go to School A but School B gave me a pretty big merit scholarship.*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 80%\">*I substituted School A and School B for the real names. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes and no. It's not so much a matter of negotiation as information. If you go to School A and perhaps with a hint of hubris attempt to \"negotiate\" an aid package, you may just irritate. Irritation doesn't usually lead to generosity.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you inform School A of your dilemma and with humility ask them to help you solve this problem, namely that you really prefer School A but have been offered a generous scholarship from School B, you are simply a human being asking for help.<\/p>\n<p>You are also demonstrating the people skills and grace that make you an even more attractive candidate. Furthermore you are giving them a chance to match School B, confirm an acceptance, and maintain their yield numbers.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn't work 100% of the time, but this can be an effective approach to a delightful dilemma.<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/aboutus\/editors.aspx?editorid=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/Linda%20Abraham.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1260121830433\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12px\"><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/aboutus\/editors.aspx?editorid=1\">Linda Abraham<\/a>, President and Founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\">Accepted.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an interesting direct message from a fellow Twitterer this morning. This MBA applicant writes: do MBA programs negotiate at all about $ packages? I&#8217;d prefer to go to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,6],"tags":[47,39,214],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-current-events","tag-financial-aid","tag-mba-admissions","tag-twitter","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}