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Dear ozzy10fl,
Thanks for your post!
As of Wednesday, I hadn't heard of any R1 Stern invites being issued, so it's likely best to just sit tight at this point. [Note: a great place to check on 'current status' for any school (invites going out, decisions being issued, etc) is the Clear Admit Wiki: https://www.clearadmit.com/wiki. This site is updated frequently with exactly this kind of information. It also has interview field reports that applicants submit, etc.]
As far as how Stern's process works from an operational standpoint - e.g. the life of an application, interview process, etc, I've included a clipping from an interview that Clear Admit conducted with Stern's director of admissions (Isser Gallogly) earlier this week:
Clear Admit: Walk us through the life of an application in your office from an operational standpoint. What happens between the time an applicant clicks ‘submit’ and the time the committee offers a final decision (e.g. how many “reads” does it get, how long is each “read,” who reads it, does the committee convene to discuss it as a group, etc.).
Isser Gallogly: We obviously have three deadlines, but we employ a rolling decisions process, which makes us unlike some other schools that have a round system. We do provide notification deadlines as to when we will get back to you, but typically that’s the latest possible date and we try to get out our decisions as soon as we have them. We recognize that this is an anxious process, and we don’t make people wait unnecessarily.
Our process is holistic and individualist. Everyone gets reviewed by the Admissions Committee and every application is reviewed more than once, so it’s not just a single individual’s decision. And in some cases, the committee will debate considerably. In every case we just try to ensure that everyone gets a full and complete review and is seen from more than one vantage point.
One aspect I think is unique about our process has to do with who’s reviewing the applications. In some schools, students, part-time help or alumni are involved. But at NYU Stern all applications are reviewed by trained admissions professionals who are part of our full-time team. Occasionally we will bring in some help, but even then these are people who have been a part of our team.
The second point is that our interview process is very different than most schools. First of all, the interview is not optional, it is required. Second, the interview is by invitation only. We only do it if we are serious about the application. Between 25 and 30 percent of applicants are invited in for an interview. This means that we are not going to waste anyone’s time.
Almost all of those interviews happen in New York City with one of our admissions professionals. I always tell people that if you are applying to Stern, set aside the time and money to travel to New York and interview. We take it very seriously.
Our interviews are conducted almost exclusively by trained, professional admissions staff – individuals who are trained assessors of talent. We rarely have students or alumni conduct our admissions interviews – we think our students and alumni are terrific, but most of them are not professional interviewers. So our staff really invests the time to meet each candidate individually in the process. I do interviews myself.
Furthermore, the interview is not blind. The interview is 30 minutes long, and we are not going to waste people’s time by asking them to tell us why they want to go to business school. We’ve already asked that in the application. We want candidates to take it to the next level in the interview. At the same time, these interviews are conversational, they are not interrogation.
Last year our selectivity was 14 percent, making us more selective than most other business schools in the world. So, we want to make sure that we are screening not only on paper but in person as well. I think anyone who has done a job interview has seen some wonderful resumes and then been surprised during the interview that the person was somewhat different than he or she appeared on paper.
It is our responsibility in admissions to make sure that the quality of the Stern network is as high as possible, which is why we have trained professionals conducting all of our interviews with candidates. It’s the only way we feel we can ensure the consistent high quality of students at Stern.
Really, though, it’s in the benefit of the applicant. The applicants typically like the opportunity to have 30 minutes speaking directly to a member of the Admissions Committee. This is their chance to make their case in person.
Not only do we want to make sure that applicants are the right fit for us, we want to make sure we are the right fit for them. When they come to visit Stern as part of the interview they can have lunch with a student, visit a class, and have a tour of the school. All this helps them make an informed decision as to where to attend.
So our approach to the interview is unique and a bit different – but we think that this special part of our process really does get us the best possible talent.
Getting back to the application process as a whole, people have three notification possibilities. There is the invitation for an interview, the waitlist or the one no one wants, which of course is to be denied.
After a candidate goes through the interview, we typically get back to them within three weeks. Last year we admitted between 50 and 60 percent of those who were interviewed.
In terms of how we notify candidates of our decisions, we do almost all of it with an online status check. This allows applicants to see where they are in our process 24/7. When people’s status does change, we also send them an email.
When people are admitted we do try to have the person who conducted the interview give them a congratulatory call. Those are special calls to make. Every once in a while, these calls catch people by surprise, but for the most part we find that candidates stay pretty much on top of their online status – they watch that pretty closely.
For the full interview, click here:
https://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/12/admi ... -gallogly/
Best of luck,
Graham
Thanks for your post!
As of Wednesday, I hadn't heard of any R1 Stern invites being issued, so it's likely best to just sit tight at this point. [Note: a great place to check on 'current status' for any school (invites going out, decisions being issued, etc) is the Clear Admit Wiki: https://www.clearadmit.com/wiki. This site is updated frequently with exactly this kind of information. It also has interview field reports that applicants submit, etc.]
As far as how Stern's process works from an operational standpoint - e.g. the life of an application, interview process, etc, I've included a clipping from an interview that Clear Admit conducted with Stern's director of admissions (Isser Gallogly) earlier this week:
Clear Admit: Walk us through the life of an application in your office from an operational standpoint. What happens between the time an applicant clicks ‘submit’ and the time the committee offers a final decision (e.g. how many “reads” does it get, how long is each “read,” who reads it, does the committee convene to discuss it as a group, etc.).
Isser Gallogly: We obviously have three deadlines, but we employ a rolling decisions process, which makes us unlike some other schools that have a round system. We do provide notification deadlines as to when we will get back to you, but typically that’s the latest possible date and we try to get out our decisions as soon as we have them. We recognize that this is an anxious process, and we don’t make people wait unnecessarily.
Our process is holistic and individualist. Everyone gets reviewed by the Admissions Committee and every application is reviewed more than once, so it’s not just a single individual’s decision. And in some cases, the committee will debate considerably. In every case we just try to ensure that everyone gets a full and complete review and is seen from more than one vantage point.
One aspect I think is unique about our process has to do with who’s reviewing the applications. In some schools, students, part-time help or alumni are involved. But at NYU Stern all applications are reviewed by trained admissions professionals who are part of our full-time team. Occasionally we will bring in some help, but even then these are people who have been a part of our team.
The second point is that our interview process is very different than most schools. First of all, the interview is not optional, it is required. Second, the interview is by invitation only. We only do it if we are serious about the application. Between 25 and 30 percent of applicants are invited in for an interview. This means that we are not going to waste anyone’s time.
Almost all of those interviews happen in New York City with one of our admissions professionals. I always tell people that if you are applying to Stern, set aside the time and money to travel to New York and interview. We take it very seriously.
Our interviews are conducted almost exclusively by trained, professional admissions staff – individuals who are trained assessors of talent. We rarely have students or alumni conduct our admissions interviews – we think our students and alumni are terrific, but most of them are not professional interviewers. So our staff really invests the time to meet each candidate individually in the process. I do interviews myself.
Furthermore, the interview is not blind. The interview is 30 minutes long, and we are not going to waste people’s time by asking them to tell us why they want to go to business school. We’ve already asked that in the application. We want candidates to take it to the next level in the interview. At the same time, these interviews are conversational, they are not interrogation.
Last year our selectivity was 14 percent, making us more selective than most other business schools in the world. So, we want to make sure that we are screening not only on paper but in person as well. I think anyone who has done a job interview has seen some wonderful resumes and then been surprised during the interview that the person was somewhat different than he or she appeared on paper.
It is our responsibility in admissions to make sure that the quality of the Stern network is as high as possible, which is why we have trained professionals conducting all of our interviews with candidates. It’s the only way we feel we can ensure the consistent high quality of students at Stern.
Really, though, it’s in the benefit of the applicant. The applicants typically like the opportunity to have 30 minutes speaking directly to a member of the Admissions Committee. This is their chance to make their case in person.
Not only do we want to make sure that applicants are the right fit for us, we want to make sure we are the right fit for them. When they come to visit Stern as part of the interview they can have lunch with a student, visit a class, and have a tour of the school. All this helps them make an informed decision as to where to attend.
So our approach to the interview is unique and a bit different – but we think that this special part of our process really does get us the best possible talent.
Getting back to the application process as a whole, people have three notification possibilities. There is the invitation for an interview, the waitlist or the one no one wants, which of course is to be denied.
After a candidate goes through the interview, we typically get back to them within three weeks. Last year we admitted between 50 and 60 percent of those who were interviewed.
In terms of how we notify candidates of our decisions, we do almost all of it with an online status check. This allows applicants to see where they are in our process 24/7. When people’s status does change, we also send them an email.
When people are admitted we do try to have the person who conducted the interview give them a congratulatory call. Those are special calls to make. Every once in a while, these calls catch people by surprise, but for the most part we find that candidates stay pretty much on top of their online status – they watch that pretty closely.
For the full interview, click here:
https://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/12/admi ... -gallogly/
Best of luck,
Graham
Graham Richmond
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[email protected]
215 568 2590
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