Calling all MIT Sloan Fall 2011 Applicants!

According to the Nov. 17 chat, invites will go out in early December and continue until the end of January.

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So yesterday, while I am away from my desk, my wife sits on my laptop and opens up gmail. My account opens up and suddenly she sees an email with subject line

"Calling all MIT Sloan Fall 2011 Applicants!"

She gets so excited as she thinks, it of course has come from MIT (interview call) - only later to click on the link and realize "Damn - that was a bummer!".

I just thought to share this funny moment as I am sure each one of you and your partners are eagerly waiting for those calls

Later

emailed them at MIT, following was their response.

'The interview invitations will go out in mid December via e-mail. Decisions will be released by January 31.'

Thank you so much(pun intended)!!!!

It's official folks... I've closed the Round 1 roll call at 114 MIT Sloan MBA applicants!!!

As invites (and dreaded waitlist/ding notifications ) roll out, please respond and I'll continue tracking stats on page 1.

Good luck everyone!

If you start reading from this post (link) you might come to that conclusion.

Edit: People saying that invites are based on regional interview hubs.
Edit: Last year GC invites: first Boston invite 12/3/2010; first NYC invite 12/4/2010; first NC invite 12/8/2010 (I'm from NC)

43. I am planning on retaking it, because I disputed a quant question with GMAC and was successful in my dispute. GMAC/PearsonVue admitted their error and are giving me a free retake. I did not know I had won the dispute when I submitted my app.

My work experience is quite unique, though. As are my passions and what I could bring to the class in terms of diversity. I'll also only have 3 years WE by the time I matriculate.

Fact: MIT admits about 70-80% of those interviewed. Admissions Committee member told me this. Unlike other schools, the adcom does the interviews and there are obviously many fewer adcom members, than alumni or 2nd years (for other schools). They said the biggest hurdle at MIT is actually GETTING the interview.

not funny MIT, not funny! Although i do feel for the "Sanitation Crisis" !!!

Thanks! Now time to prepare! This will be my first non-blind interview thus far, which makes me a little anxious....

710/3.5/ivy

Seriously, good luck all! This month is quite the stress-inducer....

For Chicago, it looks like the first interview invite last year was Dec 18 (vs Dec 3 for Boston), so it looks like we in the Midwest have a while to go.

ppzz, I'm sure you'll find plenty of examples of women with high GMATs and GPAs who didn't make it.

My GPA is about average for the schools I applied to, and my GRE is above the mean, and I haven't made it anywhere yet. I'm non-traditional. Older than the average. That seems to offset any supposed gender advantage. And the truth is, the men AND women who make it are pretty darn impressive.

I get that you are frustrated, many of us here are in a similar position, but let go of the urge to compare yourself to others. No one is 'better' than you, and you are not 'better' than anyone. Some deserving people get in, some deserving people don't. C'est la vie.

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Sexonthebeach, I certainly wasn't asking for any kind of reassurance, and am in fact glad to hear you balancing out the feedback, particularly backing it up with hard data (your quote from Rod regarding the cover letter). I simply thought I would post it as sometimes individuals here are far more knowledgable than I, have followed MBA admissions for more time than I might have, and thus might have some direct experience with the matter, or perhaps heard Rod directly address the issue. That's all.

Vis-a-vis stats, I am fully aware that they are in no way the end all be all, and would humbly direct you to the "for what its worth" statement I had above them. They also were by no means posted as a way of "looking for reassurance". Just was putting mine out there as many have done in the past. I'm in range, so are 90%+ of those on the board it would appear, and as you rightly state plenty more goes into it. Thus ill add, to address your point 2), that*for what it's worth*, my undergrad institution is Cornell University.

Hope you accept my apologies if for whatever reason the whole issue came across as whiny or panicky..again I was just threw it out there to see if any had heard the issue directly addressed. I frankly had assumed that my app would be delayed to R2 and was pleased just to have it even included in R1.

Best of luck to all

hey all, just an fyi for those posting questions along the lines of:

"I'm from region x, can anyone tell me when invites for region x started coming out last year?"

all you need to do is look at last year's "calling all..." thread--that is what the people who magically know the answers are doing. it's pretty informative, and generally reassuring to see that they keep on coming out thru january (assuming you survive ding day of course).

sorry i can't post the link (<5 posts) but just enter 'mit 2010' in the search bar up top and you'll find it easily enough. the invites start on page 14.

congrats to those with invites in hand. fingers still crossed here in philly...

Not sure, but I just assumed he was referring to interviews in general.

I just went through last year's thread and International applicants (including Asians) got their invites on Dec 9th, Dec 17th, and Dec 18th! I saw nothing in January. No invite whatsoever. Where did you see the invites?

This just goes to show that the stereotype is indeed true - MIT students have no social skills, whether in real life or online.

I keed, I keed. Just couldn't resist.

nothing here in HK.. any of you international candidates (lurkers included) has received an invite?

Another thing, it seems that this week there will be a massive ding email but that some people receive the invites later in the month. This means that there are also dings coming after the massive ding?

That's probably right but I doubt adcom will wait on sending out invites for a region due to any reason other than logistics of deciding on hub cities etc. Who knows maybe they do first fill out domestic quotas and then dive into the internationals based on the number of seats left, and that's the reason for late invites. Anybody's guess really..