Following up on a post by 2012dreams, this thread is to discuss particular scholarships/fellowships for women, interesting facts about female applicants, recruiting and on-campus events, application strategies, or just discuss some of the things we'll be dealing with "trying to balance work and life" (however cliche that may be).

List of current female GMATClubbers applying for the class of 2012. If I missed you, please, add your name to the list:

ElleBee (DUKE)
HCGirl10
2012dreams
MBAgirl2010
highhopes
ariel
aditi123
cozmo8
claire84
kbonnie
sapphireka
Salisaaa
thescientist
alymarie
dreamer2achiever
LB20
Milie
ChicagoGurl2012
nehag84
arora2m
AspiringSloanie
snowdrift
annae
eekthecat
Gmatter111
chicagoan
Aenigma
muffeebrown
klr
anu1979
mashazee
theDreamChaser
manasa
zippy10
ykostyuk
dcdevil
gottabwise
zhyl
conmisdosmanos
amanda2010cn (Admitted to Darden)
westsew
lesdeux
sneaky
justniky
DesiGirl
BSbound
Mystik742

Other female GMATClub members:

11MBA
mrsmarthi
marymary
piyatiwari (class of 2011)


Useful threads for Women applicants:
business-attire-for-women-58705.html
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/01/a- ... out-women/

Thanks!

To kick-off the discussion. During a Forte forum I attended recently, Admissions directors mentioned that in order to balance the Men:Women ratio they do not plan to accept women at lesser standards, but are trying to broaden the spectrum of female applicants that apply so they can get more qualified female candidates. Indeed, the main focus of the forum seemed to be to attract women who are looking into other fields such as law and medicine and to make them consider MBA as an option.

On another note, it would be interesting to see this year and last year what percentage of GMATClub women who applied got accepted to the top schools and if that differs from the rest of the applicant pool.

What do you think?
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Wow....MBAgirl2010, it really is a a good thread. I hope to join this thread, but it will soon be decided in next couple of days. But I am sure I may peek thru this thread.

Appreciate your initiation.

Put me on the "other" list, I'm planning on applying for the class of 2013.

I agree that they aren't blatantly letting unqualified women in, but I do think it at least acts as a tiebreaker if a qualified male and female were pitted against each other.

Excellent idea for a thread. any interest in a chat for female applicants - we could invite female students?

This thread should give you more usernames from prior years..

business-attire-for-women-58705.html

Here are some I remember..

k88 -- FY - not sure where she decided to go.
chitchat - FY Haas
bigbad - FY Harvard
skaballet - SY at Ross
FairPlay - SY at London Business School
nervousgmat - SY Kellogg
aaudetat - Duke grad.

Since we are applying to similar schools I am hoping we can help improve the numbers of GMATClub women at h/s/w Good luck with you R1 apps, are you doing all three in R1?
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I am taking things slowly and trying to do my best with every app. I took my HBS app through hell and back with revisions and had several alumnae friends read through essays for advice, etc. As a result I am really happy with what came out (also exhausted). I will do Wharton and Emory with the same approach for R2, this way I have no regrets as to what I could have done better (plus I'm not in a rush). Thinking of dropping Stanford for family reasons.
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I hear the interviews may be announced in the third week of the month. 20 days are a fairly short time, I wonder how the HBS adcom would pull that off.

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please add me to the list too

great thread! count me in...

Thanks for starting this thread! I am applying for fall 2010 too...