Highly Qualified Applicant Denied to Every Program
Hi WSO community.
I graduated earlier this year from H/P/Y, and will be joining a top BB in a few weeks to start full-time.
I applied to some deferred enrollment MBA programs this past spring, and was shocked to be denied from a few of the ones I thought were guarantees. My GMAT was 770, and GPA is 3.9. I'm a white male.
So, I'm wondering: do AdComs ever reject candidates because they don't think the candidate would accept an offer? If not, what do you think potentially went wrong for me?
I am not familiar with deferred enrollment, but I have researched admissions extensively. You could have been denied for a myriad of reasons: - If it is a private school, maybe you were not a good fit - Maybe they felt you did not have a lot of experience - COVID-19 has had a lot of unknowns for colleges, so they could have denied several deferred enrollments - You could have had a bad application- it happens
My advice would be apply next year during priority deadline. That is the best chance of you getting admitted.
Sometimes you do things at the wrong time. You have great scores, there are plenty of schools who would love to have you.
Hi Intern in IB,
Without seeing your app, it's obviously hard to say. Your stats are excellent, but perhaps you came across as a little cocky in the app? Also realize that the deferred admissions programs are not just looking at stats, they also look for:
I have over the last few years interviewed a few MBAs who were admitted via deferred admit programs. I was very impressed with the level of achievement of these college students when they applied to business school. Here are links to the interviews if you want to listen:
https://blog.accepted.com/stanford-mba-grows-his-amazing-tech-startup-e…</a">Stanford MBA Grows His Amazing Tech Startup
https://blog.accepted.com/hbs-22-student-launches-innovative-new-studen…</a">Entrepreneurship at HBS: How Stride will Help You Fund Your Future
https://blog.accepted.com/harvard-business-school-admissions-and-more/</a">Harvard MBA, 2+2 and How to Get In
In addition you might be interested in https://blog.accepted.com/applying-for-an-mba-with-no-work-experience-w… .
Go figure lol. If you were lucky enough to be born black or as a woman you would be going to H/S.
The girl with the highest GPA in the economics department three years ago from my target with a 760 GMAT working at MBB got rejected by H/S. Got into Wharton though. btw I wasn’t the one who threw the MS.
Yeah, the woman part may not have been completely true due to the fact that there are more woman in college and thanks to diversity hiring are making up more and more slots at top jobs.
Pretend I said if you were black/latino lol
I do agree that woman have a slight advantage in terms of recruiting and placement in finance but its nowhere the level that WSO makes it out to be. At best its a tiebreaker. At worst the ratio of qualified candidates by gender is 60/40 male female.
Competing fields such as law and medicine now have majority female populations in graduate programs. In fact, at top medical schools the imbalance is heavily tilted towards woman, last year 2/3 of Duke Medical Students were female. There needs to be diversity recruiting for white males in medical school!
https://medschool.duke.edu/education/student-services/office-admissions…
Look at the school discussion on gmatclub and mba admissions this past cycle. Tons of 760-780 applicants were denied at the M7’s.
Yep, I had 3.6/770 from an Ivy and got denied from 5 of the 6 M7 programs I applied to this year. I'm definitely not the norm, but had friends from my school who had lower GPA, lower, GMAT, and less impressive work experience get into HSW. Admissions is more than the stats, UG, and WE.
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