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MBA application , Rejection Feedback Request

MBA application , Rejection Feedback Request

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Started by Anonymous 19 years, 5 months ago
This petition is addressed at the admission committees of all business schools to have the minimum decency to provide a detailed personalized rejection letter to all the applicants rejected. MBA application process is very involved, tiring and expensive. On an average an applicant spends 1 to 1.5 yrs on the application process and preparing one application thoroughly takes anywhere between 2 to 3 months of hard work. An average applicant applies to 3 to 5 schools. Average application fee to a top 10 business school is $200 Naturally all the applicants will not secure an admission. A rejection letter, popularly known as a \'ding\', is very vaguely worded and it does not give the applicant any clue as to why the application was rejected. Some schools provide a very generic and superfluous feedback session. This session\'s primary purpose is to get the applicant to reapply. There has been plenty of cases where re-applicants get rejected the second time even after a valiant effort to cover all the points mentioned in the feedback session (and of course paying the application fee once again!). So in short, the current feedback session in whatever form it exists now is useless. (University of Texas is one exception; it sends a very detailed rejection analysis - Good job Austin!) An applicant who has spent a lot of money, sweat and time on MBA application deserves better when it comes to a rejection. Since an applicant trusts the judging ability of a school to decide whether his/her application is good enough, the Admission committee can be more considerate and let the person know their judgment as well as the reasoning. This constructive criticism will give a much needed closure, and will let the applicant sleep well. I\'d call this a minimum decency that should be extended to anyone who has taken the pains to spend 1.5 years to apply to a business school. The cliched excuse of too many applicants to provide feedback on is too lame - after all each of those pay you handsomely, and all it takes from your side is to request the decision maker to write a small note covering all aspects of the reasoning behind the decision. We all know that it is not so much additional work! I request your support for this cause; if you need more information or clarification please write to me at [email protected]. Similarly if you have a ding letter from a school, please send it to me so that I could showcase a few letters to show how lame the wording of those letters are.

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February 16, 2007

The stories shared in the comments prove that this opaque process burns out talented people who deserve clear answers. Email the admissions office at your target schools today and demand they adopt the transparency model used in Austin. Post this petition link on LinkedIn to put public pressure on the committees responsible for these policies.

February 16, 2007

The momentum behind our demand for transparent feedback is growing rapidly. Post this link to your LinkedIn profile and tag the admissions offices of the schools you applied to. We need them to see that applicants expect better treatment for the time and money we invest.

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Jason Guerrero
19 years ago Featured

The transparency is non-existent. We put our lives on hold for these schools and the least they can do is tell us where we went wrong.

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Kevin Petersen
19 years ago Featured

Hard to improve when you have no idea what you did wrong. Need this.

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David Pearce
19 years ago Featured

If I am paying 200 bucks per app they could at least spend 2 minutes telling me why they said no. It is just basic respect.

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Mark Todd
19 years ago Featured

Completely agree. Spent thousands on apps and gmat prep just to get a template email back after months of waiting.

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Elena Jimenez
19 years ago Featured

Feedback right now is basically a joke. Waste of time.

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Sarah Reyes
19 years ago Featured

SO TRUE. The application fees are robbery when they dont even bother to tell you why you didnt make the cut.

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Arvind Kumar
7 years ago

I support the cause.

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Sujeet
9 years ago

I support it !!

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