The Application Process

Lattefah84 wrote:

dmateer25 wrote:Welcome, Brianm and meechele418!

Best of luck to you both. Keep us updated with your application progress and status.

Happy Holidays!

and no welcome for me?

Okay I'll remember

lol. sorry, Lattefah84! I must have missed your post. Welcome to the forums!

dmateer25 wrote:

Lattefah84 wrote:

dmateer25 wrote:Welcome, Brianm and meechele418!

Best of luck to you both. Keep us updated with your application progress and status.

Happy Holidays!

and no welcome for me?

Okay I'll remember

lol. sorry, Lattefah84! I must have missed your post. Welcome to the forums!

Oh, thank you very much

Nice to see the profiles. If it helps, why not share the differentiating factors of the schools you applied/plan to apply.

Here is my profile:

Age: 30
Gender: Male
Current City: Seattle
Nationality - Indian
GMAT: 690
GPA: Got 4th rank at university, I should say 3.99
Advanced Degree: Chartered Accountant (same as CPA of US) - 21st rank at the country level
Full Time Work Experience: 9 years with 5 years of international experience (secured several awards)
Working at : Big 4 accounting firm
Application year: 2010
How far along in application process: Submitted the final application just now .
Others: Served as board member at a non-profit professional organization and serving as a committee member at internal auditors chapter

I am switching my career (interested in management consulting). Schools I selected and some differentiating factors:

Duke - Team Fuqua, strategic concentration
Tuck - close-knit community and unprecendented access to the faculty
Kellogg - noncompetitive culture, Labs
LBS - Experiential projects such as Shadowing project, second year project
Sloan - consulting focused, especially its consulting club
Ross - Action-based learning

Just finished up my last two apps yesterday and today! Commence the prayer!

I'm trying not to turn this into my own personal blog, but wanted to update that I had my Kellogg interview yesterday.

Overall it was different from what I expected, but I think I did fairly well. It lasted about 35 minutes, and the questions were what I expected (see the ClearAdmit wiki for some good debriefs), but it didn't quite flow as well as I hoped. The interviewer (a current student) asked a lot of clarifying questions as I went through my first question "take me through your resume." I was trying to keep my answer to 3-4 minutes but it ended up going longer because of the interviewer's questions. Nothing wrong with that obviously, I just didn't get a chance to talk about some of my more recent experiences, which I am somewhat disappointed about. It threw me off a little, so my delivery on some questions could have been better, but all in all, I got less nervous as the interview went along. So I'm fairly satisfied with how I interviewed.

I am nervous though because at the end she did not offer me time to ask any questions. I had to ask her if I could ask a few questions, which I proceeded to do. I'm not sure if it was because we started late or because I really messed up in some way (I hope not!).

Now all my apps are in, all mandatory interviews are done. It's nerve racking already!

Just submitted all of my applications for Round 2. W00t! Here is my profile and best of luck to everyone!

Age: 25
Gender: Male
Eth: Indian
Nationality: USA
Current Location: Chicago
UGPA: 3.0
Graduate GPA: 4.0
GMAT: 710 (49Q; 39V)
Work Exp: 3 years (2 years as a Lehman Brothers Analyst, 1 year as a FactSet Quant aka Financial Engineer)
Applying: 2010
Undergrad: BS in Top Computer Science program from Carnegie Mellon
Graduate degrees: Master of Science in Quantitative Financial Engineering

Where I applied in round 2:
Wharton
Booth
Stern
Columbia
Sloan
Harvard
Stanford

....and I'm being waitlisted left and right!!

Keepin this thread alive! I submitted my Texas app on 1/15 and this morning, 1/23, received an interview invite! Gotta love rolling admissions, woo!

New member here!

Age: 25
Gender: Male
Current City: Cleveland, OH
Nationality American - Caucasian
GMAT: 610 (Work in quantitative job but scored much higher on verbal) <--1.5 months of studying.
GPA: Cumulative 2.9 Business Undergrad: 3.2 (3.6 senior year)
Full Time Work Experience: 4.0 years @ time of enrollment: 1 yr of admissions counseling, 1 year as a financial analyst with the federal reserve system, and 2 years as an analyst at a business valuation/IB firm.
Application year: 2010
How far along in application process: Interviewed last week at Michigan for the part-time weekend MBA program. Anxiously awaiting a decision.

To further my post, I understand the average GPA and GMAT are lower for part-time programs and that the quant nature of my job may outweigh the GPA and GMAT (also took one MBA level statistics course and got a B). In addition, I can speculate that the adcom must be somewhat interested given that I was invited to interview. I have a letter of rec from a Ross MBA alumni who is also a managing director at our firm.

I've been speculating like crazy but am not concerned with getting accepted, but just a matter of what year!

But if anyone is/has applied to the same program and has received a decision, I'd love to hear your profile.

Age: 27
Gender: Male
Eth: African American
Nationality: USA
Current Location: NYC
UGPA: Optional Essay Material... (entered school as Pre-Med...enough said)
GMAT Target: 700
Work Exp: 4.5 years in Digital Marketing.. currently a Search Engine Marketing Analyst for Bloomingdales.com
Applying this year for Fall 2011
Undergrad: BA in Economics
Continuing Studies: Certificate in Digital Media Marketing

Definite Target Schools:
HBS - dreaming
Dartmouth Tuck
Yale SOM
NYU Stern
Columbia GSB
*others TBD

Well, after a week of speculating and preparing myself for the worst. . . .



ACCEPTED!

I guess I am proof that even with some scores below the average, experience, letters, and well constructed essays (the areas of my app with which I was most confident) can make a HUGE difference!

Great Job & Congratulations! Best feeling in the world I bet!!!! Now deposit time lol

Oh yeah...deposit, empty the savings, etc.


But still a GREAT feeling!

Congrats goblue! As a Ross alum myself (BBA), I know you'll have a great experience. Plus you get the new building. They started tearing down mine the day I graduated!

Gender: male
Nationality/ethnicity: Indian
Current Location: Chennai, India
After MBA: Top 3 consulting firms
Year: 2010
GMAT: 710
UG GPA: 8.9/10 (equivalent to 3.56/4.)
Masters GPA: 3.3/4.0
Undergraduate:a major engineering school in India
Major:Mechanical engineering
Masters: Mechanical engineering from Stanford
Work experience: 3+ years full-time in automation, engineering
Extracurricular Activities: volunteer and leader in a NPO
My schools: Darden (2010, R2), INSEAD(Jan 2011, R1)