Anyone applied 2 years in a row to the same school and got accepted the second time?

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I don’t think you need brand new ones. You should, however, have a different (better) story for why MBA/why (specific school) and your essays should reflect that change. Depends on the school, some review both years’ essays at the same time, some don’t... so keep that in mind when making the judgement call on how different to make them.

The main thing I believed helped me was the “what changed during the last year” essay. THAT one you should absolutely destroy by showing something big (i.e. promotion, change in career goals, etc).

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How much did you change up your applications / essays? I’m more worried about essays. would be a real struggle to come up with complete original new ones but can obviously fix the rest of my app with updates since the last time I applied

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Awesome... very helpful. I’m on the waitlist so hopefully it doesn’t come to this but will definitely leverage this info if needed

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Super common. I did this and got into a few schools. Why?

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