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Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017

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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   03 Feb 2015, 16:01
Thank you for you reply. I asked them and sent a copy of diploma, they said now my application is complete and will be reviewed by Admission Committee and I am still in R2.
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Hey Guys. I applied to R2. and everything was fine. I was interviewed Jan, 21.
Today I received an email "At this time your application remains “incomplete – not ready for review.” to submit Diploma copy.
is there anyone who received same email? does this mean my app will be considered for next round?


Honestly, when this stuff happens I suggest you e-mail the admissions advisor. It doesn't necessarily mean that your application will be pushed off to the next round - that is quite a ways away after all - e-mail the advisor and ask. That's their job after all. :-D


I agree with Pullo on this one. There are only three status updates that they list on the update page, and the one Zak got indicates that his application is not being reviewed. Seems odd since you have already been interviewed, so you should email your adviser as your update sounds like it contradicts that fact that you've been interviewed.

These are the three different updates...
Processed: complete, ready for review, official
Your application is complete and being reviewed by the Admissions Committee.

Processed: incomplete, ready for review, unofficial
One or more of your required documents are unofficial. Your application has been forwarded to review. Official documents are required if you are admitted and prior to matriculating into the program.

Processed: incomplete, not ready for review
Your application is incomplete and not being reviewed by the Admissions Committee.
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   04 Feb 2015, 16:07
PLEASE HELP! Does anyone have the format of the email addresses for those in the admission office?? I forgot to get a business card from my interviewer and need to email her a thank you note!
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   08 Feb 2015, 00:11
I think that you need the email address of the specific person, not the office email.
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   08 Feb 2015, 22:11
Received an invite a few weeks ago, interviewing next week.

Make sure to check all your email folders. My invite was hidden in the "Promotions" folder of gmail.
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   08 Feb 2015, 22:15
People from R1 who interviewed in India, can you share your account of interview?

Who was it with(alum or adcom)? Was it blind? What questions?
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   08 Feb 2015, 22:40
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 02:00
Hi guys,
Had my iterview in Mumbai this weekend.
Apart from the regular ones, a question that stumped me a little was "Tell me about an article that you've recently read regarding the industry that you want to transition to post MBA."
Overall the tone was pretty conversational.
Good luck to the rest!
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 02:04
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Hi guys,
Had my iterview in Mumbai this weekend.
Apart from the regular ones, a question that stumped me a little was "Tell me about an article that you've recently read regarding the industry that you want to transition to post MBA."
Overall the tone was pretty conversational.
Good luck to the rest!


Looks like its one of their favorite questions. I have seen it being mentioned at several places.

I need to ask you guys that, I am travelling halfway across the country to Delhi to be interviewed for McDonough. What are some of the mandatory documents that I should carry with me, apart from the resume? Passport? Copy of application?
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 02:08
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Hi guys,
Had my iterview in Mumbai this weekend.
Apart from the regular ones, a question that stumped me a little was "Tell me about an article that you've recently read regarding the industry that you want to transition to post MBA."
Overall the tone was pretty conversational.
Good luck to the rest!


Looks like its one of their favorite questions. I have seen it being mentioned at several places.

I need to ask you guys that, I am travelling halfway across the country to Delhi to be interviewed for McDonough. What are some of the mandatory documents that I should carry with me, apart from the resume? Passport? Copy of application?


Just your resume and a photo id.
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 15:00
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Hi guys,
Had my iterview in Mumbai this weekend.
Apart from the regular ones, a question that stumped me a little was "Tell me about an article that you've recently read regarding the industry that you want to transition to post MBA."
Overall the tone was pretty conversational.
Good luck to the rest!


This question has shown up a lot on this thread, with only a few slight variations! How did you answer it?

Because I'd seen this question posted so many times, I read like a dozen industry articles leading up to my interview date. And I didn't get asked this one. All of my questions were pretty standard, actually. I think I would have preferred a few more outside-of-the-box questions. Everyone asks the "Why MBA" question, so in my interview it kind of felt like, oh gosh, here I go again with the same story, tailored for this school now. I was cool with that, but I had so many unique reasons for applying to the program, that I couldn't organically insert into the conversation of generic interview questions.
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 15:05
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ChilledBeer89 wrote:
Hi guys,
Had my iterview in Mumbai this weekend.
Apart from the regular ones, a question that stumped me a little was "Tell me about an article that you've recently read regarding the industry that you want to transition to post MBA."
Overall the tone was pretty conversational.
Good luck to the rest!


This question has shown up a lot on this thread, with only a few slight variations! How did you answer it?

Because I'd seen this question posted so many times, I read like a dozen industry articles leading up to my interview date. And I didn't get asked this one. All of my questions were pretty standard, actually. I think I would have preferred a few more outside-of-the-box questions. Everyone asks the "Why MBA" question, so in my interview it kind of felt like, oh gosh, here I go again with the same story, tailored for this school now. I was cool with that, but I had so many unique reasons for applying to the program, that I couldn't organically insert into the conversation of generic interview questions.


I had that question, but it didn't include the part about the industry I want to transition into. It was tough to answer because I totally blanked on the WSJ articles I had read specifically for the off chance that I got that question, so I ended up talking about an Op-Ed on the paid vacation/paid maternity leave proposed by the president. Not sure how it went, but it is a tough question to answer.
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 15:10
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ChilledBeer89 wrote:
Hi guys,
Had my iterview in Mumbai this weekend.
Apart from the regular ones, a question that stumped me a little was "Tell me about an article that you've recently read regarding the industry that you want to transition to post MBA."
Overall the tone was pretty conversational.
Good luck to the rest!


This question has shown up a lot on this thread, with only a few slight variations! How did you answer it?

Because I'd seen this question posted so many times, I read like a dozen industry articles leading up to my interview date. And I didn't get asked this one. All of my questions were pretty standard, actually. I think I would have preferred a few more outside-of-the-box questions. Everyone asks the "Why MBA" question, so in my interview it kind of felt like, oh gosh, here I go again with the same story, tailored for this school now. I was cool with that, but I had so many unique reasons for applying to the program, that I couldn't organically insert into the conversation of generic interview questions.


I had that question, but it didn't include the part about the industry I want to transition into. It was tough to answer because I totally blanked on the WSJ articles I had read specifically for the off chance that I got that question, so I ended up talking about an Op-Ed on the paid vacation/paid maternity leave proposed by the president. Not sure how it went, but it is a tough question to answer.


Did you interview with an adcom or a current student? I interviewed with a current student, which may be why the questions I was asked were the baseline questions? It was also a blind interview, which I thought was nice. His assessment will be completely independent of my application and therefore an entirely different viewpoint
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 15:13
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This question has shown up a lot on this thread, with only a few slight variations! How did you answer it?

Because I'd seen this question posted so many times, I read like a dozen industry articles leading up to my interview date. And I didn't get asked this one. All of my questions were pretty standard, actually. I think I would have preferred a few more outside-of-the-box questions. Everyone asks the "Why MBA" question, so in my interview it kind of felt like, oh gosh, here I go again with the same story, tailored for this school now. I was cool with that, but I had so many unique reasons for applying to the program, that I couldn't organically insert into the conversation of generic interview questions.


I had that question, but it didn't include the part about the industry I want to transition into. It was tough to answer because I totally blanked on the WSJ articles I had read specifically for the off chance that I got that question, so I ended up talking about an Op-Ed on the paid vacation/paid maternity leave proposed by the president. Not sure how it went, but it is a tough question to answer.


Did you interview with an adcom or a current student? I interviewed with a current student, which may be why the questions I was asked were the baseline questions? It was also a blind interview, which I thought was nice. His assessment will be completely independent of my application and therefore an entirely different viewpoint


Adcom, it was blind but she had my resume with her and she never asked me to 'walk' her through it, she just asked specific questions about the work and how my history progressed into the MBA.
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Adcom, it was blind but she had my resume with her and she never asked me to 'walk' her through it, she just asked specific questions about the work and how my history progressed into the MBA.


That sounds like a fun question! My student interviewer was going into an industry so completely different from mine (which I am guessing was the point), so when he asked me to walk him through my resume, I caught myself being extra jargonny, and not making much sense. I've got to work on telling a finance person what exactly an advertising executive does. I used to date an investment banker and even he thought all I did was make pretty commercials all day. :-)
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 10 Feb 2015, 19:24
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Adcom, it was blind but she had my resume with her and she never asked me to 'walk' her through it, she just asked specific questions about the work and how my history progressed into the MBA.


That sounds like a fun question! My student interviewer was going into an industry so completely different from mine (which I am guessing was the point), so when he asked me to walk him through my resume, I caught myself being extra jargonny, and not making much sense. I've got to work on telling a finance person what exactly an advertising executive does. I used to date an investment banker and even he thought all I did was make pretty commercials all day. :-)


I also got interviewed by a second year. She asked the standard questions, nothing out of the ordinary except for a question on: Name an international incident that's relevant to your country.

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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 19:11
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Adcom, it was blind but she had my resume with her and she never asked me to 'walk' her through it, she just asked specific questions about the work and how my history progressed into the MBA.


That sounds like a fun question! My student interviewer was going into an industry so completely different from mine (which I am guessing was the point), so when he asked me to walk him through my resume, I caught myself being extra jargonny, and not making much sense. I've got to work on telling a finance person what exactly an advertising executive does. I used to date an investment banker and even he thought all I did was make pretty commercials all day. :-)


I also got interviewed by a second year. She asked the standard questions, nothing out of the ordinary.


Was her industry different from your target industry? I found myself unable to really explain my resume to someone unfamiliar with my industry. Whenever I've been asked to walk someone through my resume, it's always been for job interviews. So chances are they have a fairly deep understanding of the things I discuss when I walk through it.

Also the student that interviewed me must be a master poker player. I have no clue how the interview went!
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 19:23
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That sounds like a fun question! My student interviewer was going into an industry so completely different from mine (which I am guessing was the point), so when he asked me to walk him through my resume, I caught myself being extra jargonny, and not making much sense. I've got to work on telling a finance person what exactly an advertising executive does. I used to date an investment banker and even he thought all I did was make pretty commercials all day. :-)


I also got interviewed by a second year. She asked the standard questions, nothing out of the ordinary.


Was her industry different from your target industry? I found myself unable to really explain my resume to someone unfamiliar with my industry. Whenever I've been asked to walk someone through my resume, it's always been for job interviews. So chances are they have a fairly deep understanding of the things I discuss when I walk through it.

Also the student that interviewed me must be a master poker player. I have no clue how the interview went!


Yeah. I work in Investment Banking and she worked in Non-Profit. So worlds apart! I didn't have a hard time explaining what I do though.

She did ask a question along the lines of: Name an international incident that's relevant in your country right now. - That stumped me for a bit. Didn't expect it.
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 19:25
Anyone know what the typical admit rate for people that are interviewed?

I read somewhere that McDonough typically interviews about 70% of applicants.
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Yeah. I work in Investment Banking and she worked in Non-Profit. So worlds apart! I didn't have a hard time explaining what I do though.

She did ask a question along the lines of: Name an international incident that's relevant in your country right now. - That stumped me for a bit. Didn't expect it.

That's a good one. If I had been asked this I'd probably go straight to something about ISIS as my answer. lol I bet most people answering this question did!

ckchua wrote:
Anyone know what the typical admit rate for people that are interviewed?

I read somewhere that McDonough typically interviews about 70% of applicants.


I think admission rate is just shy of about 50%, so if 70% of applicants are interviewed, I guess the chances of admission after interview are over 70%? I do know that all the admitted students were interviewed.
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Re: Calling all McDonough Applicants (2015 Intake) Class of 2017 [#permalink] New post   10 Feb 2015, 19:39
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Yeah. I work in Investment Banking and she worked in Non-Profit. So worlds apart! I didn't have a hard time explaining what I do though.

She did ask a question along the lines of: Name an international incident that's relevant in your country right now. - That stumped me for a bit. Didn't expect it.

That's a good one. If I had been asked this I'd probably go straight to something about ISIS as my answer. lol I bet most people answering this question did!

ckchua wrote:
Anyone know what the typical admit rate for people that are interviewed?

I read somewhere that McDonough typically interviews about 70% of applicants.


I think admission rate is just shy of about 50%, so if 70% of applicants are interviewed, I guess the chances of admission after interview are over 70%? I do know that all the admitted students were interviewed.


My answer was recent incidents with China and Taiwan. I come from the Philippines and our relations lately have been shaky at best.

So they basically reject about 30% of the people they interview - Hoping I'm not part of that statistic!
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