Calling All 2011 Booth Applicants!!

For those looking for hotels when visiting Booth, just got this in the mail: $59 -- Downtown Chicago Hotel near Magnificent Mile

https://www.travelzoo.com/hotels/chicago/916161/?utm_source=top20_us&utm_medium=email_top20

https://www.travelzoo.com/hotels/chicago/

If my alumnus interviewer doesn't respond (only one showed up in the system for the city I live in!), I'll try to trek up to Chicago! Thanks w103psp

Oh, I think that's by design. If the alum doesn't respond, email adcom and perhaps they can assign you someone else.

dingleberries

Nice tip! Anyone with any experience in Chicago know how difficult it is to make it to camps from here?

Leave very early and find out how to get to campus in advance. Many people during Booth Live were late because they caught the wrong bus. Traffic is terrible out there so plan ahead and be early.

Take a cab...Save the stress.

I have my interview off campus tomorrow.
Any suggestions?

Hey, got dinged here, so I'm now 1 and 1, for interview invites. Keep on truckin

Can anyone take a look at my slides and provide me with some feedback?

PLEEEESE!!

Boy...you have a Wharton invite and a Booth ding!!...Thats kinda unusual for me to know!

Btw..I just took a look at your ppt. Now, I am no expert, so please take my words with a pinch of salt. Here is what I think of the ppt:

1. Slide 1 is completely wasted in making a cover sort of thing. With only 4 slides of space, may be it could have done a better job. That being said, it is not a make or break act as I have seen successful ppts with 3 slides too.

2. The PPT talks about TECHNOLOGY...and not YOU!! Ideally, you should have used this space to tell them about yourself. While the layout and design of the ppt is neat and clean, I think it really lacked content. It tells nothing about you at all.

Just my 2 cents.

Two problems:
1) They want to know about you.
2) In minimum words.

I too learned that the hard way when I applied in 2007... though I did not commit #1 mistake

First off, congrats on the interview invite to Wharton!

I completely agree with point 2. The slides should be about you, which should implicitly or explicitly demonstrate how you will benefit the Booth community. It should make the reader say: "I want this person as a classmate," and the reader should be able to provide specific reasons that are compelling and differentiated. Even more challenging but potentially more impactful is if your story demonstrates personality traits--intellectual curosity, sense of humor, community service-oriented, etc.--and makes you come alive as a person.

Technology as an overall theme is fine, but this should be a secondary focus (primary focus should be you) and must include a stronger connection to Booth. I think this connection only comes up in a paragraph on the third slide, and this mention isn't specific (maybe you talked about it in more detail in your other essays). Are there tech clubs at Booth that you plan to join and have big plans for? Any tech conferences at Booth you want to help organize? Etc.

Ditto all of the above. I would also add that your ppt is long on assertion and short on evidence - what is it about you that makes you capable of executing on these plans? I assume you covered that in other essays, but anyone in the world can set goals, and adcom is first and foremost interested in what your past says about your future potential, so any space that isn't directly grounded in evidence from your past is ultimately wasted space that will fail to differentiate you. No one is gonna pull your app out of a long stack just because you set the right goals - even if they are laudable goals, which they are.

I appreciate the feedback from everyone...I definitely see what you guys are saying. Over this process I have really seen that once you outline your goals, they check the goals box off and then see what you've done so far. Good luck to everyone!!

Good luck man - just ace that Wharton interview and nail r2 essays, one offer erases all the dings!

kegewe, I know some other folks also shared their comments, which I support but I wanted to make one more time. The fact that you can easily share this powerpoint in an anonymous board somewhat speaks volumes about its content. I could have written that presentation... Someone else could have written it as well. It's not unique if it doesn't have YOU in it (not talking pictures but a description of who you are).

My non-admissions-consultant, non-adcom, non-current-student, just an MBA candidate 2 cents.