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wnlovess> As you can imagine, everyone who applies thinks that their essays are unique and interesting. In fact, while many people *do* have interesting stories to tell, many people do not actually do so very well. This is the difference between a professional writer (for instance a reporter or author) and ordinary writers like you and I- we frequently don't do a very good job communicating what could well be an interesting story in the first place.
And when you think about what defines an applicant, the 'story' is the most important. Even with 'clearer' numbers like the GMAT or GPA, what adcom are looking for are insights. For instance, a high GMAT but low GPA hints at you being "smart but lazy". There is no cutoff because unlike a 高考, the school will not decide say, let's take the 780 GMAT guy over the 770 GMAT guy. Instead, the school will likely look at both guys, and think 'OK, their GMAT is high enough. I believe they're smart enough. Now, do they have the maturity, the leadership skills, the professional capability, the ability to influence, etc etc that we look for in all business school students?" They then turn to your recommendation, essays, background (what you did before) for this. Indeed, one might argue that what is then most important is not to be 'UNIQUE' per se (after all, everyone is unique, because there is no one like you), but to show that you have these qualities.
Just to give you some context, I took about 30-50 hours to write each essay. I had two extra Lauder essays, so that's about 180-300 hours for Wharton's essays alone- and this even though I am a native English speaker. In contrast I spent only about two weeks (studying on and off) on the GMAT. Certainly less than 50 hours total. So I would recommend that you not worry about your GMAT/GPA (although again, TOEFL is a concern because you are scoring much lower than the cutoff for Wharton's peer schools, like HBS) and instead spend more time on your essays.
And as for R1 VS R2, one thing to note is that the strongest applicants tend to apply in R1. A very high % of reapplicants, who have strong reworked essays, apply in R1, as do those that have spent a long time on their applications. So your competition there might be even stronger. R2 tends to attract more 'last minute' applicants, or applicants for whom Wharton is not the first choice (and who had hence spent their time applying for other schools in R1).
But really, all this is unimportant for one simple fact: adcom is not comparing merely R1 vs R1 and R2 vs R2. Many adcom members have been reading essays
for decades. During that time, assuming they read about 1000
applications per year (8 members of adcom, and 8000 apps in total),
that's something like >10,000 applications they would have seen in their
professional life. What they're comparing you to is not the other
applicants in that round, but to all the applications they have
read. It is highly unlikely you can be 'unique' among >10,000. Indeed, ensuring that there is no difference between R1 and R2 is exactly the point of the wait-list. If adcom had any concern about you at all, they simply wait-list you. Then, there would be no difference to you having applied
in R2 instead.
Good luck, hope this helps!
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