AL-70 · Education Path & ROI

MBA Reapplicant
EV Engine

Dinged this cycle? Roughly 10% of HBS's entering class are reapplicants, and several M7 programs report reapplicant admit rates at or above their overall average — but only when the profile actually changed. This engine prices your four paths: reapply to the same schools, restructure the portfolio, take the admit in hand, or skip the MBA — then ranks which profile improvements buy the most admit probability per dollar and per hour.

📊 School reapplicant statements + class profiles, 2025–26 · tier salary premium NPVs from 2024 employment reports. All embedded; see citations below.
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Your Situation Reapplicant Decision Model
Enabled only if you hold an admit
Reapplying past ~30 shifts the calculus toward EMBA formats (AL-57)
Profile Changes Before Reapplying Admit-Probability Uplifts
+4pp admit probability · the single largest controllable lever (see AL-51)
+3pp · demonstrated trajectory is what reapplicant readers look for first
+2pp · board seat, nonprofit founding, community initiative
+2pp · most dings trace to unconvincing "why MBA, why now"
+1pp · fresh letters that speak to growth since last cycle
0pp uplift, ×1.0 multiplier — schools explicitly discourage this; it usually re-dings
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Expected Value by Path
Key Metrics
Sensitivity — Reapply EV vs. Total Uplift
Analysis & Caveats
Improvement Costs Efficiency Ranker

Each profile change has a dollar cost, an hours cost, and an admit-probability uplift. This tab ranks them by pp-per-$1K and pp-per-100hrs so you spend the off-cycle year on the highest-leverage moves. Adjust costs to your situation.

Registration + prep materials; tutor-heavy plans run higher (AL-45, AL-51)
Extra scope, visibility projects, manager conversations
$0 DIY; admissions consultants charge $5–8K for full-package review (AL-64)
Efficiency Ranking
Reading the Table
Reference Data & Citations
  1. Harvard Business School admissions: reapplicants consistently make up roughly 10% of each entering class; HBS requires a complete new application each cycle. hbs.edu/mba/admissions
  2. MIT Sloan admissions blog: reapplicant admit rates have historically run a few percentage points above the overall applicant pool average — reapplicants who show concrete change are advantaged. mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/admissions
  3. Most M7 programs (HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, Columbia, MIT Sloan) treat any application after one full cycle as a fresh application: new essays, new letters, updated scores — no carryover file review. School admissions policy pages, 2025–26 cycle.
  4. Tier admit-rate baselines: M7 ≈ 12%, T8–15 ≈ 22%, T16–25 ≈ 32%, T26–50 ≈ 45% — consistent with the tier conventions used in AL-52 (Portfolio Optimizer) and AL-68 (Waitlist EV Engine), 2024–25 published class profiles.
  5. Tier salary-premium NPVs (15-yr, excess over no-MBA baseline): M7 $650K, T8–15 $480K, T16–25 $340K, T26–50 $220K — same table as AL-69 (Deferred Enrollment Engine), 2024 employment report basis.
  6. GMAC Application Trends Survey 2024: reapplicants represent a meaningful single-digit share of total MBA application volume. gmac.com/market-intelligence-and-research