Calling All Fall 2010 Yale SOM Applicants

Silver Scholar candidates are judged slightly different from regular applicants because they are admitted right out of undergrad. If you look at last year's YSOM thread, there were couple of Silver Scholar admits. Maybe you can compare your stats to their stats.

Also, every applicant should utilize the YSOM applicant forum:
https://som-talks.som.yale.edu/forums/

Any question you have, you will get the info directly from the admissions office and plus, you will get to read the same questions you might have from fellow applicants.

Thank you nink!

I will be applying Round 1, if my boss gets her recommendation in in time. Thinking positive!

Hi All,

Another first post ...

Planning to apply in R2. Just got done with my GMAT on Monday, so started looking at the essays etc now. Hope to be able to visit the school in the next few weeks.

Profile :
GMAT - 740 (Q 50, V 40)
Undergrad GPA : 3.2 (Sucks big time)
Experience : IT - 8+ years (Currently consulting at McKinsey & Co)
CFA Level 1.

Also planning to apply R2, just finished the Columbia ED app, but need a few days to recover.

ROLL CALL PG UPDATED

Hi!

Currently applying for Silver Scholars - I have a quick question regarding the apps. I tried using the Yale SOM Admissions Forum but had problems after registration so trying my luck here.

Since I'm a Silver Scholar I do not have full time working experience but have done lots of internships. Obviously I would like to put them into my application.

Now, among the sections of the application there is "Work Experience" and "Activities"

"Work Experience" instructs to only put in "full-time, post-baccalaureate employers", so I am assuming no internships (that were also during college) here. Correct?

"Activities" instructs to put "meaningful activites from college to to date". Does this mean activities (such as internships) during college go in here as well?
Was not quite sure with the wording.

Thanks in advance!

Between the two, I would list your internship experiences under Work Experience. Internship exp is not activities.

i'm just about done filling out the forms and didn't see a place in the Academics section to mention awards received during undergrad.

is this correct? i got scholarships in college but have no space to mention those in my resume. what say?

Submit just now.... 220USD kind of expensive

no one? if someone can answer this for me i can submit it today.

I wouldn't mention scholarships unless it was a big, named scholarship. I mean every undergrad gets little scholarship here and there during his or her undergrad years.


Usually, one would mention it on his or her resume (Fulbright Scholar, etc). If you can't sqeeze it in on your 1 pg resume, why not just use the copy and paste option instead and squeeze it in there. It can't be more than one line.

thanks nink. its not a big scholarship such as fulbright or rhodes so i guess i will skip it.

Guys, how should one refer to Yale SOM in the essays? Is simply "Yale" OK, or should it be YSOM, or just SOM instead? A little confused now, because HBS is just HBS and it's pretty clear, but with SOM - not so much ?

Count me in for R2

Applying through the Consortium

I don't think this is big deal but students here refer to the school as YSOM, or Yale, depending on our preference.

Hi!, Nink,

Appreciate your inputs on this thread. Wanted to reach out to you to evaluate my profile for YSOM:

* 4+ years of work experience: 1 yr in boutique consulting, 3 yr in a top 3 consulting, few months in a marketing strategy role at a Fortune 500 firm

* Undergrad & Grad: in Engineering, from top 3 schools. Graduated at top of class at both. Decent involvement in extra-curriculars

* GMAT: 700 (Q48, V38)

* Long & short term goals: Want to start a services firm based on a very new business model (have flushed out the details but can't provide them here for obvious reasons). In short term I'd like to go back to consulting for 2-3 years to get rid of student loans and to make some additional industry contacts.

Questions:

* Based on this limited information, do you think I have a good fit for SOM?
* Interested in YSOM because in some of the other threads I read that SOM has a strong strategy & entrepreneurship focus (in addition to finance, of course). Is that true? Or does YSOM primarily focus on candidates interested in banking/PE/VC post-mba?
* Can you kindly provide some statistics on:
(i) % of SOM graduates that accepted an offer from a top 3 consulting firm (overall consulting percentage is available in employment report but not sure what kind of firms are represented in that)
(ii) % of SOM graduates that started their own firm at graduation (might be tough to track)

Thanks so much for your feedback and inputs. Would appreciate blunt answers (better to know the hard reality)