Rejection: How To Deal With Those Business School Dings -...

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It's a rare MBA applicant who gets into every single school on their target list. So what do you make of those dings? In this episode of Business Casual, Maria, Caroline and John interpret what a ding really means about a rejected candidate and what it doesn't. They also comment on the latest COVID-19 news impacting schools, from Businessweek's decision to suspend its MBA ranking to Harvard's consideration of increasing its class size in 2021.

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