Calling all MIT Fall 2009 applicants!

To meet the "describe your accomplishments" prompt, I briefly mentioned a few of the things that are covered in my other essays. But as for the "example of how you had an impact on a person or group," I would use something that's not covered in the other essays. I think it's a chance to cover something new and present more information.

I mention a few things in the cover letter but don't go too much into detail - I saved that for the other essays. For instance, I mentioned I participate in activity X, and in one of the essays, go into detail on how I defended my idea in X.

No problem - Just login at https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=mit-mba --> Click on the Print button at the bottom of the column to the left (just below 'Check Your Application') --> Choose HTML or PDF.

I had deferred my admit, and am matriculating at MIT Sloan in Fall 09. Looking forward to a big GMAT Club group.

Interestingly, just looked at the MIT website...there's a new (at least to me) interview guide posted: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/admissions/MITSloan_interview_guide.pdf

And they say:



So if the deadline for R1 is 2/2 - does that mean interviews will be released until then?
that's a looong wait..

Just read the bottom of the email... it says:

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here's hoping for many invites this week!!

Hi

I am an R1 applicant to Sloan. guess the invites haven't started as yet. Last year the invites started exactly the same time.. however only invites for newyork were given out first. International invites came out just before christmas. Not sure if they would be following the same trend this year.

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Well I think today they would be finalizing their first batch of interviews and I am sure some of us would receive an invite today. Lets see if my application was good enough to put their 'MIT doesnt like Indians from India' myth away

Good luck folks.

first of all congrats to those that received invites. I am an international applicant but located in the Boston Area, so I am not sure how that works, although I am not sure MIT is sending the interviews by location this time. I am just wondering, does the application status change online from submitted to invited to interview or smtg?

There seems to be an indication that invites are being released geographically. If your friends are in Boston, NYC or DC, then that might explain it.

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FYI - Sloan Tech Trek

100 MIT Sloan Students Visit Silicon Valley:

Despite the recession and California's slumping economy, more than one-hundred MBA students made a "Tech Trek" to the South Bay in search of jobs and new technology


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I had my interview a while ago- the interviewer was adcom and took maybe 3-4 pages of notes. They had studied my application pretty thoroughly and knew my stories well. I knew going in beforehand that MIT had a reputation of wanting to hear stories that weren't in your app- however my interviewer had quite a few questions about one of my accomplishments, and we delved into that for the majority of the discussion. The rest of the time was spent on generic questions:

Tell me about a time when you were on a team
Tell me about a time when you had to convince people to do an idea
Tell me about a time when you had an idea shot down

MIT was one of the most friendly interviews I had...extremely open, engaging, and really wanted to know "you". It's kind of annoying in my opinion that the interview happens wayyy after results for some schools come out, I myself have already been way out of the "interview/MBA" mindset for months now and was pretty unprepared for the interview. I guess this way they ensure that they only get the people who are die hard Sloanies, I myself loved the school but still could not bring myself to do the had core prep that I did for my other interviews. Hope this helps some of you interviewing for R1 and the rest of you in R2.

Got an interview invite!

Congrats!

I'm sure you did fine, no worries. I find that those who claim they had a great interview always seem to be explaining away a rejection. And the rest of us have just average interviews.

Good luck!

I am in. All the best to everyone. This is THE target school for me.