Questions to avoid

This might be a slightly mean post, but people, you have to stop asking the following 2 questions:

1. My stats are blah blah blah. What are my chances?
2. You must have discussed [essay3/gmat scores] with your classmates. What do most people do/score?

No one can tell you your chances except for members of the admissions committee. I know it's very tempting to think that current students have some sort of insight into the process, but honestly, we have no friggin' clue. Really. None.

As for the second question, once people get into bschool, they almost never discuss the application process, except maybe to express relief that the whole thing is over. One reason is that once you get into a school of your choice, you no longer feel the need to constantly obsess about how you got there (yes, I know it seems an impossibility right now to even imagine a state of being where you're not thinking about the process, but trust me, you WILL get there). And the other reason is that there is so much going on once you start school that there's not much time to sit around reminiscing about your essays. Recruiting will kick in almost as soon as you join, and if you think this process is tough, wait till you get to that one [pause for evil laughter: *mwahahahaha*]

So anyway, don't mean to be mean, but you will be saving both of us (and other students you talk to) a lot of annoyance if you would simply leave these 2 questions out of your list.

Happy Halloween!