Calling all Darden-UVA Applicants(2015 Intake) Class of 2017

Im from Mexico City! Does anybody knows why there are any dates available to interview? I tried scheduling my interview but everything is full what should I do?

Hi Guys,

I am an International Female applicant for Class 2018 (would be applying in R1 2016) from India. Can anyone please evaluate my profile for Darden?

All India Senior Secondary Exam (High School) - 95.0%, (Top 5% in the country)

Undergraduate: Bachelors in Commerce (Honors) - 70.3% from SRCC, university of Delhi - Best Commerce Undergraduate College in Asia

Work experience: 4 years of work experience (by Fall 2016) in BlackRock - world's largest Asset Management Firm - working as a Senior Financial Analyst in the Securitization Domain (US GSE client).

Great ECAs throughout and leadership experience at work place.

What would be my chances with this profile? Would really appreciate the help!

Hi Manali,

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Earlier this week, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced it will welcome a new and diverse cohort of ventures to the 2015 i.Lab Incubator program, a university-wide initiative that supports early-stage businesses from U.Va. and the greater Charlottesville community. The i.Lab and the incubator are operated by Darden’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The 24 ventures in the 2015 class include 10 founded by Darden students, 10 founded by U.Va. students or faculty members, and four founded by individuals unaffiliated with the University.

“This year we saw a particularly experienced group of applicants,” said Philippe Sommer, director of Darden’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. “It will be an incredible asset to have entrepreneurs in the incubator with deep expertise in fields such as engineering, biomedicine and education.”

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The i.Lab Incubator program includes a 10-week summer accelerator, during which participants develop and refine their business ideas and participate in the community of fellow entrepreneurs. Ventures receive a $5,000 grant, office space, mentoring support, networking opportunities with local investors, and access to accounting and technological expertise. The program also includes a clinic with faculty and students from the U.Va. School of Law, who offer guidance on the legal aspects of new-venture creation.

Participants in the i.Lab Incubator can also tap into the experience of a cadre of entrepreneurs in residence, who provide one-on-one coaching and offer sessions on various aspects of the entrepreneurial process.

Eight ventures from the 2014 class will remain with the program for the coming year — the largest number of returning ventures in the program’s history. “These young companies have made great strides, figuring out their business models and how to manage risk,” continued Sommer. “We are all impressed by their desire to persevere and to continue exploring the market for their offerings.”

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what's your GMAT - very important for Indian candidates but it helps that you are female and not engineer/IT based.

My current GMAT is 680 But I am retaking it. Hoping for 720+. If I do get that, what would be my chances?

FROM Darden Admissions Blog: Entrepreneurship at Darden: 10Thoughts

The internet is full of content to read – but how does an MBA student know what content is worth his or her time? That’s the problem that Jack Mara’s (MBA ’15) new venture, 10Thoughts, aims to solve. Through user recommendations, 10Thoughts curates a list of current articles worth reading and delivers them to you via email once a week (or through a visit to their website), allowing MBA students to easily target well-written, thought-provoking articles in their spare time, rather than wading through the sea of content that comes to them through various channels. Mara, who is originally from Boston, MA, really wanted to take advantage of the entrepreneurship classes offered in the second year at Darden. In his Starting New Ventures class with Professor Saras Sarasvathy, he decided that his project was going to be helping fellow second years achieve whatever goals they had for the year. This broad idea led him to create plans for people trying to accomplish things such as running every day, quitting smoking, or reading more. Of the plans that he worked on, Mara felt that he was having the most success helping his classmates read more: he was recommending five articles a week, and his classmates were reading and enjoying them. A desire for more variety led him to ask several other MBA students for article recommendations, and when that took off – at the time, over 30 people were signed up for his manual email updates – he decided to make it an automated service. And thus, 10Thoughts was born. After establishing his idea in Starting New Ventures, Mara went on to take Developing New Products and Services with Professor Raul Chao, where he continued to refine and develop 10Thoughts. From there, he began a Darden Venture Project (DVP) so that he could focus on 10Thoughts full-time — another perk of Darden’s second year curriculum. Professor Chao serves as his advisor for this project. Mara credits Darden’s strong entrepreneurial curriculum and faculty with the success of 10Thoughts. Professors Sarasvathy and Chao were key in instilling the mindset of constant experimentation in him, and teaching him that true entrepreneurship is about the process of getting something to succeed. He learned that the idea for a start-up is irrelevant – you never know what ideas are going to work, but success comes from experimenting over and over. The more tests you can run, says Mara, the faster you can figure out what works and what does not. Now, with its easy-to-navigate website (built by Mara’s younger brother, Jeffrey, a student at Lehigh University), 10Thoughts has over 800 subscribers from a variety of business schools. Users can sign up for weekly updates of the most popular articles, follow up to five friends for a more finely curated list of content they want to see, and even make their own article recommendations. And, it’s just going to keep getting better: Mara and business partner Jerome Hughes (MBA ’15) will be in Darden’s iLab this summer. Mara tells us his summer goals include developing an app so that 10Thoughts can be mobile, improving article curation and delivery timing, and perhaps getting some members of larger companies to recommend articles. He is also looking to grow his customer base and garner more feedback, so he encourages you to sign up for the service (10thoughts.com) and send him your thoughts on your experience (maraj15@darden.virginia.edu). Best of luck to Jack, Jerome, and Jeffrey as they continue their adventure with 10Thoughts!

Haven't logged in for a bit but figured I'd give an update for the waitlisted hopefuls out there:

Although it killed me a little bit because I really truly LOVED Darden I ended up declining the offer for financial reasons as Johnson essentially offered me a life changing amount of $

Hope this spot goes to one of you guys on the forums! And I hope you all have a fantastic time in Charlottesville!

Best wishes to everyone who interviewed!

Anyone heard anything from Darden yet?

They usually start calling R2 waitlister accepts and R3 accepts today. Not sure if anyone started receiving calls yet?

Oh that's a relief thank you I've been reading previous posts on this thread, and people say Darden adcom starts calling admitted applicants the day before, and also there are changes on the application page that you see the day before only if you're admitted. Mine hasn't changed yet, so I'm worried.

They started calling yesterday itself. See link https://blog.clearadmit.com/livewire/?school=uva-darden

Hope they will call today as well!

Yes, let's hope for the best;)

don't stress out if you dont get an early call! i didnt get a call until super late the day of (like 4pm and i'm based on the east coast!) and was also offered a sizable scholarship. i swear they just pull names out of a hat . good luck to everyone!!

Good Luck to all Darden UVA Round 3 Applicants.

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