A lot of business schools are sending out final decisions this week for round 1 applicants. HBS will notify interviewed applicants today, along with booth, and later this week wharton and LBS will send out decisions. Good luck with everyone waiting to hear back. Hopefully, this year won't be as brutal as the past 2 years.
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Yeah... goodluck everyone. Would love to hear where the WSO community will be headed to b-school next year.
Good luck to the WSO MBA hopefuls - hope to join you guys next year.
Good luck everyone. Hopefully I'll be in this same spot in a few years.
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Good luck.
Word on the street is that PE Megafunds are getting hammered at HBS this year. See page 47 of the below link.
http://gmatclub.com/forum/calling-all-hbs-2011-applicants-including-960…
This does not bode well for us applicants...
Interesting - here's the stats for those too lazy to click over to GMATClub:
Looking on the bright side, that might mean the admissions committees this year are looking to take a few more "non-standard" students this year. Might bode well for those at MM funds Comp...MM PE people with banking experience are still pretty traditional...
Good luck to everyone
The only reason why it might bode well for me is because I have an abundance of ECs and "international" elements to my profile. Things that you definitely wouldn't expect out of someone that works 100 hr weeks at megafunds. I'm definitely going to continue to tweak my essays to promote this aspect of my application rather than my work accomplishments. Honestly, I think I'd rather attend Stanford over HBS anyways (if I were to be so lucky as to have a choice).
I'd say this is a pretty big warning for someone who things that work accomplishments alone will guarantee them admittance to a top business school.
Great point. A lot of the top schools are taking a different approach to admissions this year. HBS has a new dean who comes from a marketing background and wants to recruit more women and "non-traditional" applicants. Wharton hired a new dean of admissions after the financial crisis, and they completely changed their essay questions. Ditto for Columbia.
This does not mean that finance superstars won't get in. But I think they're really looking carefully at your story, what you want out of an MBA, ways in which you can use the degree to go beyond conventional wisdom, etc. Not to sound too cliche, but it really is a holistic process. Several of my good friends, with awesome stats, work experience at top firms (bulge bracket, MBB, etc.) got dinged at HBS, stanford, wharton, in round 1.
heard back, in at Rice, waiting for 2nd rounds at all other places
Congrats. Any scholarship $$?
yep gonna try to get more when i get into other schools :> decent size right now
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