As you know, I’ve been wait listed for USC Marshall’s MBA.PM program. This is old news, but I wasn’t able to write about it when it happened, so I feel as though it deserves its own space along with the many other posts I’ve written about applying to business school.

When I submitted my application back in mid-January, I looked at the USC website and saw that the decisions for round 2 applicants would be reached on April 5th. What I did not realize however, was that April 5th was the decision date for the full-time MBA students, not for the ones entering into the part time program. I think it was only a couple of days into April when I decided I should probably check my status to see if anything was posted.

Something was posted. It was this.

I freaked out a little, because it was already early April, and my decision had been released almost a month prior! I had no clue. I did not receive an email notifying me that a decision had been reached, so I had no clue for an entire month that the decision was made, a decision, I might add, that I have been looking forward to for more than a year.

So I clicked the link and opened up a nice letter clearly stating that I had been wait listed.

They really get you with that, “Thank you for your interest” and “After review of your application”, because that’s how UCLA’s rejection letter started. My heart was skipping beats as I skipped over the entire paragraph. I was already prepping for rejection the moment after I saw the first sentence, and then when I saw the ‘wait list’ portion it was like a culmination of relief and ‘what the fuck’, in the best way possible.

I probably won’t find out until mid-June whether or not I got in. They likely won’t let me know until all of the applications are submitted, which is all the way up until June 1st. Such anticipation! June is so far away it seems, but I know it will be here before we know it, and I have pretty much told myself since day one that I got in. There’s no other way to look at it.

I followed up with an email stating some progress I had made in a couple of online classes I took since applying, as well as my 100% intent to enroll if selected. I almost can’t breathe I’m so excited. I already want to start prepping, buying notebooks, a laptop, reading hundreds of pages a week, and writing dozens of papers. I just want to learn so badly, to get out of the scope of what I currently know about business, which is not much, and open myself up to new knowledge and experiences. And on that beautiful campus! With such talented people! I think I need to make a trip to Office Depot and smell the school supply aisle.

All of this motivates me even more to work on my e-book on applying to business school, as it brings back all of the memories of that whole experience; studying for the GMAT, messing with my admissions essays like flat hair, raking through past accomplishments professional and otherwise, taking classes in finance and entrepreneurship….it was INTENSE. A whole year dedicated to something can’t be wrong, and I knew being on that wait list was my some kind of reward for all of the hard work. It was the universe’s way of saying, “Okay, we see you, here’s a glimmer of hope and don’t even think about giving up.”

You get what you put into it and I see that now more than ever. For now I’m just going to continue learning, blogging, and passionately pursuing what I believe I was born to be: everything.

Isn’t it wonderfully odd? Onward friends, onward!

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Monique is an exceedingly happy human from LA. She runs the blog A Novel Quest, and writes. A lot.

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