Thank you so much for offering to help. Technically you have admits so you count as a veteran 👍👍👍
Nikhil is setting up some interview prep sessions and your experience may come in pretty handy.
You decided to skip Tuck this year? I’m not sure they would give you a scholarship this year but I know people who have a plied to the same programs multiple years and received similar results. They did not improve their position but it did not get worse usually it is surprising way to me at least.
Good luck with your application this season. Things are a bit mixed and unclear but it looks like the volume may be down this year. Last year it was hard to read because you never know if more people are applying or if fewer people applied to more schools. One interesting thing that did happen last season was a lot of people who got admitted, chose not to attend. Anyway, I am thinking and expecting this year to be less competitive, especially for the lower rank schools. Keep in mind, the top 10 are always competitive no matter what. It’s the other programs that tend to become less competitive in down years.
In terms of schools and scholarships, I would definitely consider safety schools. It seems like you’re going for reach and target but those are unlikely to result in meaningful scholarships. And hopefully I’m wrong and you get a massive scholarship and you will laugh at me. I think that would be an awesome feel good payback. By the way, I love to be wrong in the situations when things turn out much better than my pessimistic view so never hesitate to point out how wrong I was and how things turned out. Anyway, I do think you need some scholarship options and I would look at foster and McCombs as well as Kelley and Darden. David is actually one of the least expensive programs and they’re pretty good with scholarships. I also did not see Fuqua on your list. It’s a peer school with Ross and Yale they also provide free application fee waiver so there’s no cost to apply besides having to write some interesting essays. Even if you don’t want to attend, they are pretty good with scholarships and because they are peers schools with Yale and Ross, you can use it to leverage for scholarship in those two 🤷♂️ If you’re looking for consulting, Tepper is good as well as Emory… i’m not suggesting you apply to all of these by the way, just listing some ideas 😇
However, I’m hoping you can translate your veteran applicant experience and stronger profile into some scholarships in your target schools. But personally, I wouldn’t count on it yet and I would plan to apply for some scholarship options in round two.
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