<p>now, i know some may frown on this, but it might be possible, though probably unlikely for the vast majority who re-apply.</p>
<p>it might depend on factors such as whether the school keeps records of those who applied. for instance, say, that one is rejected and then retakes the GRE and gets a much higher score. this may tremendously strengthen the applicant, but it might be possible for the adcoms to remember that the student applied for the same program [with a lower gre score] the previous year (although it might be possible that they might not remember the student). </p>
<p>but perhaps one might have done a huge amount of additional work, such as research in a lab after graduating from college, and that may tremendously help. in fact, i sometimes wonder why people don't seem to do this when applying for undergrad colleges (since older students are more mature and a fraction of those who reapply are probably those who are tremendously passionate and hardworking; although a good fraction of those who reapply might also be desperate or directionless).</p>
<p>I dont see why not if you were to make your application better, I dont see the harm in it. The worse they can do is reject you right? so there is no harm in it.</p>
<p>I did it, no one seemed to care. One program stipulated that if you were rejected twice, they wouldn’t permit you to apply a 3rd time. My boss at the time said that when he saw an application for a second year in a row, his only relevant thought was “this person must really want to go here!”</p>
No graduate schools frown on reapplication at all. There are no factors that determine whether your reapplying is viewed positively; there are only factors that determine whether your reapplication is successful.</p>
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It doesn’t happen at the undergraduate level because a) you can apply to transfer, and b) it makes you a huge prestige whore.</p>
<p>I don’t know that answer b) is necessarily exclusive to undergrads: let’s face it, lots of grad students are also ‘huge prestige whores’. Let’s be perfectly honest: many (probably most) grad students at Harvard chose the school because of the brand name. </p>
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<p>Well, the question then would be, what exactly would you be doing in the interim year? A prospective grad student can (hopefully) be working in a decent job during an interim year. But there’s not a lot of decent jobs available to just high school graduates.</p>
<p>That would only happen if, during the first round, the student had an otherwise strong profile but scores so low the application got screened out prior to review.</p>