Admissions Success Stories

Best of luck! getting to an interview stage is a win in itself!
I hope you will get to your dream school

all the best, ... was waiting for this post....
In Marathi we call this situation bhijat ghongada the waiting period with no result in hand.... :roll:

Goodluck Mayo, I am pretty confident that you'll make it.

Good luck getting into Haas Mayo.

- pradeep

Thanks everyone for the best wishes. In the Haas waitlist, you are offered the opportunity to submit two new recommendations. My two new recs were submitted a few days ago; one was from the software technical director from my program, the other from none other than Eric, founder of BeatTheGMAT.com.

Thanks Eric!

Congratulations man looks like you really earned it!!

And the wait continues....

"The Berkeley MBA Admissions Committee has now had the opportunity to review once again your application for fall 2009 admission. The committee continues to be impressed with your many accomplishments, and would like to keep your application on the waitlist at this time.

While a few waitlisted candidates have now been offered admission to the Class of 2011, many others have been denied admission. The fact that your application remains open and active is a positive sign of the committee's continued interest in you."

I can imagine how frustrating this must be! But keep the faith! You haven't received no, as they point out, and it's a great sign!
GOOD luck!

Mayo,
I think you will get in in the end! And if not, well, UCLA is a great school and I was impressed when I visited it last December! So, you're not so badly positioned! Good luck!!

What was your response from Columbia?

MBA Hopeful wrote:What was your response from Columbia?

"Although the Admissions Committee has given careful consideration to your application for admission to Columbia Business School, we are unable to offer you a place in the class. The number of students who apply for admission to the School is many times greater than those we can accept. It is unavoidable that we must disappoint many fine candidates."

Nothing from Haas yet^?

mjjking wrote:Nothing from Haas yet^?

I heard from them at end R2 - still sitting on waitlist. Waiting for end R3 now.

Congratulations on the acceptance, even if you don't get into Haas there's a great backup.

I have to say this thread is a little disconcerting to me. I have a decently lower GPA in the same major (3.01), slightly higher GMAT (750, 6.0 AWA), slightly more volunteer work, and similar job experience (software engineer) while hoping to attend Columbia class of '13 or '14...your application looks great to me, I'm surprised you were not accepted!

Don't let my application and its results discourage you! What I've realized from applying and going to the UCLA admit day is that everyone is different. At the UCLA admit day, I did not meet a single person who had the same story. If your story (even if it superficially looks like mine - lots of engineers apply) speaks to the Columbia admissions committee and you've hit the numbers, you can still get it.