Submitted Stanford and Wharton over the last couple of days. Wharton essays are quite standard and I have been sitting on them for a while now. So am pleased with the way they have turned out. The 2nd Stanford essay looked good to me when I last saw it. Hopefully I managed to tie together my interests and goals into what I can get from and contribute to Stanford. The 1st essay is so out of whack that even if I had 1 full year to work on it, I would still be whining about it. And I had just 4 weeks of which, 1.5 was lost to Kellogg decision anxiety + Tuck interview decision anxiety + Some old fashioned illness. Now if I were Marina I could have finished this essay and thrown in a couple of extra apps in 2.5 weeks :) But I am a very slow writer. That's just a polite way of saying that I am a champion procrastinator. So that essay went out without my 100% satisfaction. I wanted to make it completely from the heart but ended up writing it strategically. Anyway, it's over now.
Now on to my last application - MIT. Sloan is my biggest strategic mistake this app season, well until the decisions reveal something else. I knew that I was applyingt to Sloan right from the beginning and this is the only school where there is an advantage to applying in the 1st round. Yet, I postponed it to the very end. Now I have to tackle it with my energy, enthusiasm and ability to stay sane at extremely low levels. Don't know how it will turn out. Couldn't they just have a standard why mba/why sloan/career progress essay. Now thanks to the Cover Letter I'll have to write that from scratch.
I hope, no I swear that this coming weekend will be the last weekend I'll spend telling adcoms how I have repeatedly saved my company from ruin, while working for the poor and downtrodden of the world and maintaining a moral stature which would put Jesus himself to shame. I can't put up with this !@#$ any longer.
Now on to my last application - MIT. Sloan is my biggest strategic mistake this app season, well until the decisions reveal something else. I knew that I was applyingt to Sloan right from the beginning and this is the only school where there is an advantage to applying in the 1st round. Yet, I postponed it to the very end. Now I have to tackle it with my energy, enthusiasm and ability to stay sane at extremely low levels. Don't know how it will turn out. Couldn't they just have a standard why mba/why sloan/career progress essay. Now thanks to the Cover Letter I'll have to write that from scratch.
I hope, no I swear that this coming weekend will be the last weekend I'll spend telling adcoms how I have repeatedly saved my company from ruin, while working for the poor and downtrodden of the world and maintaining a moral stature which would put Jesus himself to shame. I can't put up with this !@#$ any longer.
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I wanted to submit to sloan as well but the pain of writing essays proved too much for me. Now after the horrible interview experience, I'm down to only 2 schools and I'm questioning my wisdom of only applying to 3 schools. At least with six schools you have a higher chance of getting in somewhere...
I might have made myself sound like a marathon writer, but in reality I just cannot STAND feeling anxious about having something to do so I tend to do it sooner then later. Basically - I am a total procrastinator but once I start something I sprint to finish it.
Yay for only one application left! Whatever will you do with all your free time?
at least since you want MIT Sloan so much you have a good chance at getting it done & doing it well. I just ran out of steam after i submitted my favorites, and missed all the R2 shots cause procrastinating is so much more fun than essay writing.
Everyone shares your pain about stanford essay A -- how can anyone be 100% sure they nailed it? I did the opposite of you, i threw the montuk book out the window and rambled from the heart. panicing now that i didnt demonstrate this or that important mba attribute. we'll see how it all turns out.
Great job with Stanford. I totally understand the writer's lag. I'm a slow writer too. When I started this process, I endured tons of criticism over my writing style... or lack thereof. But I took these apps as a great learning process.
Good luck with the cover letter! I know you will writing an amazing letter that will knock the socks off of sloan's adcom.
You know - having the first decision be an admit certainly makes you feel like a winner. In essence I can no longer fail whether or not I get into the other schools. :)
I'm toying with the possibility of Sloan myself - I kind of like the school and the whole entrepreneurial thing (which is not saying much any way since most Yetis are going in with the entrepreneurship angle). If I can resuscitate a recommender, then I think I'll go for it. But you're right, R2 at Sloan is a dog.
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