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Considering Grad School? Here's Your Check-list

If you live on this planet, chances are your life has been inevitably altered by COVID-19. Even higher probability: if you’re a 2020 college grad, the global pandemic and its economic ripple effects have encroached upon your post-graduate plans. As Time Magazine aptly stated in an article titled How COVID-19 Will Shape the Class of 2020 For the Rest of Their Lives,

“This year’s graduates are staggering into a world that is in some ways unrecognizable.”

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Should you apply to an MBA during COVID-19?

Uncertainty is tough. In fact, research shows that it is even more stressful than negative outcomes.

That initially surprised me, but I read that the reason has to do with neuroscience and our need for control. It’s human nature.

Over the course of twenty years in working in MBA admissions, I’ve observed that far too many talented professionals ‘undersell’ themselves in the application because of those uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty. Some avoid applying to a more competitive school. Others avoid applying at all.

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