Multiple Rejections

[joan_was_quizzical]

I maybe should have put this in the general Applications section, but I want to hear from my fellow philosophers.

If you have applied to the same school for, say, 3 years in a row, and have been rejected each time, does this begin to look bad on future applications? When I log into my online application tracking thing it has a record of all my past applications, so I assume that the admissions people can see this as well. Do you think a record of multiple past rejections are likely to effect current applications somehow?

Purely hypothetical question, of course...

[thelonious23]

The process is so opaque, but it seems to me that if a school has rejected someone, the only thing that is likely to change that decision in the future would be if the application is improved. For one reason or another, perhaps you're just not a good fit there. Why not cast the net a little wider, try some different schools?