Admitted to Chicago Booth Class of 2011 Thread

That is awesome!

I thought you were gonna let me hold the press conference in the chatroom before announcing this officially!!!!!!!

Congratulations! Hey, I like the avatar picture. I still think you should have gone with the pink one we picked out.

Soni - glad you're coming. Sorry I didn't get to meet you at ASW...or maybe I did. Dunno.

A couple of follow up comments:
-I was prepared for the LEAD activity to be lame, and--let's face it--it probably didn't teach us much about business or leadership. Maybe it was a chance for me to step up and take charge of something. But it was paper airplanes and I just didn't care. That aside, it was a good chance to bond with my squad mates, and that's something that I appreciated the rest of the weekend. With several hundred people around, it's really nice to start with a base of 10 or so who you're familiar with. So I won't expect LEAD to be revolutionary, but I think I'll make some good friends there.

-I missed the Thursday night GC dinner, so I didn't know about rogue gathering during the alumni lunch. But I ended up sitting next to MeddlingKid, who's a very pleasant guy. Our guy from UA was engaging (I think we use that word a lot around here) and the other admits peppered him with questions while I tried to eat as much free food as I could.

-Several people have commented about the culture of collective pride/individual humility. That was definitely my impression too, and it's refreshing. It's one of the aspects of Chicago that makes me really excited to be a part of the school.

I'm looking forward to meeting more of you soon. Now I need to hunt down Rhyme's guide to class bidding. Who's joining me in turbo micro this fall?

I know!! this totally sucks! Apparently this is not the first time the admit weekends have clashed for the two schools and there is no love lost between them. I have already registered for DAK II but if I end up getting into Booth as well then I'd have to do some serious thinking. Its still a good problem to have though

See you in Turbo !

Which one is the turbo econ? I will take the regression stats instead of regular stat and will take footnote and M&A accounting right away. I am not sure if I should also skip the intro to econ. I think the course curriculum says that not many people wave it and that you need a very good understanding of econ to do that.

Any ideas?

Turbo is 33101 with Kevin Murphy. I already have the Pindyck and Rubinfeld textbook that he uses, so I thought I'd spend some serious time on review before school starts. We'll see if I can actually follow through on that, though.

Any current students out there who have thoughts on turbo? Everyone says it involves a lot of outside work, so I'm prepared for that aspect.

I hear you, I am brushing up on my accounting and stats. Now, I may want to brush up on my econ too... hummm it sounds very very optimistic...

33101 has an average of 13 hours of work per week as opposed to 33001 with 3 hours... OUCH ..... I think that I will think about it, now...

Isa - big thanks for your post re AW! Great! Terp, Wedbud - thanks also for you insights. Good to read your impressions.

Isa, you mentioned that current students were quite open about what they don't like about Booth. If you have a minute (and remember), could you post some of their findings?

Those of you with cnetids...

https://programs.chicagobooth.edu/courseeval/

Title Instructor QTR YR ENRL Responses % RESP Q. 1 HRS /WK
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2003 58 52 90% 18.9
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2003 35 29 83% 17.6
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2004 62 51 82% 18.6
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2004 42 35 83% 14.8
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2005 65 53 82% 18.6
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2005 27 19 70% 18.4
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2006 65 56 86% 14.1
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2006 64 51 80% 15.4
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2007 65 64 98% 13.8
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2007 65 52 80% 15.3
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2008 70 64 91% 12.6
Advanced Microeconomic Analysis Murphy, Kevin AUT 2008 65 55 85% 11.8


Thats a LOT of hours.

Yeah, but it's trending downward over time. If I put it off until 2010 maybe it'll only be 8-9 hours.

I bought that textbook too, but the 6th edition (like 10 bucks) lol

Guys, seriously don't spend your time studying....

haha, I like rhyme's advice. I'm down.