Planning on applying to B school this year. Tough project has limited GMAt/app prep time. Better to wait until Round 2 or just suck it up and apply Round 1?

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Good advice here - but also absolutely do not rush an application to meet a R1 deadline. Submit your application when you are 110% confident that it is the best it can be.

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It's always inconvenient. Prep like you will do round one, then can make a game time decision on R1 vs. R2

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How old are you? If you are young, round 2 is fine. If you are older it may hurt.

Also you can stagger schools across rounds. Maybe do one or two more competitive ones in Round 1, like HSW. Tuck and Berkeley have 4 rounds and you can go for a November round if you are applying there.

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