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Reapplicant waitlisted, dinged, try third time? [#permalink] New post   22 Oct 2021, 06:52
I currently have 17 years of experience in the tech industry on the business side (frequent pivots: from Marketing, to Consultant, to Management). After returning to work post family related career break, I applied for 2021 intake to 3 one year programs: 2 with a tech profile with a 5 yr experience requirement (1st round) and a top mid career mba program (2nd round) with a 10 yr experience minimum. I got dinged in the lowest ranking one, interviewed in a top tech one and than was waitlisted, and finally was waitlisted without interview in the highest ranking (mid career) one and stayed on the waitlist until the very end.
I reapplied for the 2022 intake to the ones that waitlisted me, with an improved score and new accomplishments plus a new business venture in the making (co-founding a tech consultancy) and was dinged in both. I’m having a hard time understanding the situation. I am very motivated to pursue an MBA in the top program because it’s a perfect match for my professional goals. I don’t see a way of significantly progressing in my career without an MBA. Do I stand a chance if I reapply for the third time? How do I find out where I went wrong?

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Re: Reapplicant waitlisted, dinged, try third time? [#permalink] New post   22 Oct 2021, 08:47
I hear you it is very frustrating. But you may want to analyze what is causing the problem. Maybe your essay is not convincing to the school, like your goals may be too generic or too specific and not clearly aligning with their program. In my opinion, getting into T10 or even T20 is tough and every aspect of the application has to convince the school. Also, I would spread out my applications to schools in a wider range (3 top, 3 medium, 2 low niche schools from the top 100 schools). Note, there are schools who would like to improve their ranking based on their students virtue. If you put more details someone might be able to analyze and help you. Good luck!
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Reapplicant waitlisted, dinged, try third time? [#permalink] New post   22 Oct 2021, 09:30
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Demography - Eastern European, Female

Undergrad/postgrad (combined program) - MA in Psychology, Jagiellonian University (ranked #1 in Poland), GPA 3.4/4 Chancellor’s scholarship for GPA in top 10%
EA (2021) 155 (V 11, Q 13, IR 11)
GMAT (2020) 680 (V 44, Q 39, IR 8)
GRE (2019) V 167, Q 156, AW 3.5
TOEFL (2019) 113 (L30, R 30, W27, S 26)


Work experience
- Partner at a boutique consulting company specializing in sales optimization for IT companies (1 year, ongoing)
- Director, heading expansion into a new market for a Polish IT corporation in North America, NY (3 years)
- consultant for the same company^, keynote speaker in international conferences
- business analyst for the same company, headed a prestigious project for a big international client
- PR manager for the same company
- PR and marketing manager for a fintech startup
- 3 more roles managing a small marketing team

Post-MBA goals
- grow the venture I am cofounding (tech consultancy)
- long term: CSO, CEO for a tech company

Applied to (2021 intake):
- 1 year Cornell (1st round) - dinged
- tech mba NYU Stern (1st round)- waitlisted after interview
- MIT Sloan Fellows (2nd round) - waitlisted without interview, until the end

Reapplied to (2022 intake) 1st rounds:
- NYU Stern - no interview invite (ding)
- MIT Sloan Fellows (ding)


Other relevant info - career break 18 months 2019-2020 (family related).
Jagiellonian University’s business accelerator grant winner, co-founded a company sold after 3 years.
Currently working on launching a new venture (tech consultancy) as co-founder. I strongly believe in the validity of the business idea and I have great people and companies working with me. We still have work to do before launch but we’re well underway.

I put a lot of work into the essays, they were written after deep and sometimes daunting reflection and from the heart but maybe I did not get them right after all.

Since I have no education in business, I feel that an MBA would make a great difference. With experience in bringing an Eastern European tech company into the NA market, I want to study and make connections in the US which I see as the most important market for the new venture.

I’ll be grateful for any insights.
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Re: Reapplicant waitlisted, dinged, try third time? [#permalink] New post   23 Oct 2021, 01:30
One more question, can you recommend any other programs? I have 17 years of experience but I can’t do an EMBA in the States because I don’t have a work visa.

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Re: Reapplicant waitlisted, dinged, try third time? [#permalink] New post   25 Oct 2021, 09:32
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Hi green321 --
Sorry to hear you didn't have good luck the first two times around. Did you try getting feedback from any of the schools? It might not hurt to ask. We have seen 3x reapplicants be successful, though with that challenge in mind, plus you being a less typical MBA candidate due to your advanced work level, I agree that you need to broaden your reach of programs. Perhaps look at entrepreneurship-focused programs like Wash U Olin, Babson, Rice. There are other schools with 1-year programs too -- Duke, Emory, USC -- and other tech focused programs -- Cornell Tech, Kellogg MBAi. There are not a lot of programs like Sloan Fellows, other than Stanford MSX but that can be even harder, and EMBAs which as you pointed out are structured differently. But those would typically be the right program for your work level and career stage, so I can see why schools may have a hard time fitting your profile in.
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One more question, can you recommend any other programs? I have 17 years of experience but I can’t do an EMBA in the States because I don’t have a work visa.

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Re: Reapplicant waitlisted, dinged, try third time? [#permalink] New post   25 Oct 2021, 10:41
Thank you so much for the answer!

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Re: Reapplicant waitlisted, dinged, try third time? [#permalink] New post   25 Oct 2021, 13:16
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Happy to help!

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Thank you so much for the answer!

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