Round 1 Deadline: 10/24/2011 | Decision Date: Week of December 19, 2011 Round 2 Deadline: 12/5/2011 | Decision Date: Week of February 20, 2012 Round 3 Deadline: 1/23/2012 | Decision Date: Week of April 9, 2012 Round 4* Deadline: 3/26/2012 | Decision Date: Week of May 14, 2012 * Round 4 is for Domestic applicants only; Round 3 is the final round for International applicants.
Essays
Essay 1: Describe how your professional and personal experiences have led you to pursue an MBA at this time. Please share with us your short and long term goals and why the Texas MBA at McCombs is the program best positioned to help you achieve them. Limit: 900 words
Essay 2: At the McCombs School of Business, we are proud to have an active and diverse student community. What do you consider to be your personal strengths and how have you leveraged them in the past to enrich your work and non-work communities? Limit: 500 words
Optional Essay 1: If your standardized test scores are low or if you have not had coursework in core business subjects (i.e. calculus, microeconomics, statistics, financial accounting), please tell us how you plan to prepare yourself for the quantitative rigor of the MBA curriculum. Limit: 200 words
Optional Essay 2: Please provide any additional information to the Admissions Committee that you believe is important and/or will address any areas of concern that will be beneficial to the committee in considering your application. Limit: 200 words
LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL - Identify specific personal and professional qualities that demonstrate the leadership potential of the applicant and provide detailed examples to support your recommendations.
TEAMWORK - Share your observations of the applicant's ability to be an effective team member and provide detailed examples to support your recommendations.
AWARENESS - Through your relationship with the applicant, how open and willing has he/she been to solicit and accept feedback? In your experience, has the applicant been able to handle failures/setbacks in a constructive manner?
What weaknesses do you think could impact the applicant's future success?
Section II - Rating Scale
Leadership Potential
Teamwork/Collaboration
Initiative/Motivation
Ethics/Integrity
Maturity
Analytical Skills
Section III - Overall Assessment
Please make any additional comments which you think will help in assessing the candidacy of the applicant
Please choose one of the following to express your overall assessment of this applicant: Exceptional Candidate (Top 2%), Excellent Candidate (Top 10%),Good Candidate (Top 25%),Average Candidate (Top 50%),Below Average.
Section IV - Upload Letter Option The admissions committee prefers the online form for recommendations. Uploading a letter of recommendation here is optional. Please also complete the form and ratings above.
Re: Calling all Texas - McCombs Fall 2012 applicants [#permalink]
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:47 am
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I'm in for R1. I wonder what caused them to dump the rolling admissions policy. Granted, from the 2011 thread, It sounds like they more or less dumped it last year.
Happy to know I'll have at least one response for Christmas, Ideally a positive one!
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Re: Calling all Texas - McCombs Fall 2012 applicants [#permalink]
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:16 am
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Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Finance GMAT 1: 740 Q49 V42
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Re: Calling all Texas - McCombs Fall 2012 applicants [#permalink]
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:38 am
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Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2010 Posts: 139 Location: Dubai, UAE Schools: IE Business School, Manchester Business School, HEC Paris, Rotterdam School of Management, Babson College Followers: 1
Profile: 680 GMAT /5 yrs WE at matriculation / 26 years old Undergrad Degree: Finance; 3.2 GPA Background: Top 25 public university; Commercial Banking; 1 year International.
McCombs is my first choice.
stryu
Re: Calling all Texas - McCombs Fall 2012 applicants [#permalink]
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:16 pm
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Joined: Tue May 10, 2011 Posts: 2 Location: Boston Schools: Sloan, Tepper WE 1: Corporate Finance (Telecommunications) Followers: 0
Not sure about R1/R2 and McCombs is not my first choice.
Profile: Male Age at matriculation: 31 W/E at matriculation: 6 years, Corporate Finance (Fortune 500 Telecomm Company) Undergad: Economics (2.9) Grad: Accounting (3.3) GMAT: 700
saeedt
Re: Calling all Texas - McCombs Fall 2012 applicants [#permalink]
Profile: Male International applicant Age at Matriculation: 26 W/E : 4 years 8 months in IT services GMAT: 710 Undergrad: Electrical engineering/ 3.03 GPA Extracurriculars: moderate
Would be happy to collaborate with someone from India/ Bangalore.
subhashghosh
Re: Calling all Texas - McCombs Fall 2012 applicants [#permalink]
How are you guys thinking about the second essay - the strengths analysis one? What do you think would be the best strategy here? Identify 2-3 strengths but only illustrate how you used that strength at work and a non-work setting, or identify 2-3 and illustrate how you used one strength at work and another at a non-work environment, or just identify 1 strength and illustrate how you used that at work and at a non-work setting?
Am I thinking about this essay in a convoluted way?!?!
Appreciate your thoughts!
backliteyes
Re: McCombs 2012 - Calling All Applicants [#permalink]
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:18 pm
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Concentration: Technology, Strategy Schools:McCombs GMAT 1: 650 Q35 V45
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How are you guys thinking about the second essay - the strengths analysis one? What do you think would be the best strategy here? Identify 2-3 strengths but only illustrate how you used that strength at work and a non-work setting, or identify 2-3 and illustrate how you used one strength at work and another at a non-work environment, or just identify 1 strength and illustrate how you used that at work and at a non-work setting?
Am I thinking about this essay in a convoluted way?!?!
Appreciate your thoughts!
I hate to be vague or unhelpful, but it's really up to you. You should write it in whatever way you feel best plays to your strengths that you can back up with specific examples. In my opinion the setting of your examples doesn't matter so much as the strength of them, as long as you use at least one of each.
Alright I'm going to stop helping the competition now.
mbain2012a
Re: McCombs 2012 - Calling All Applicants [#permalink]
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:05 pm
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Concentration: Finance, General Management Schools:Kellogg, Booth, Fuqua, McCombs GMAT 1: 690 Q44 V41
GPA: 3.76 WE: Corporate Finance (Energy and Utilities) Followers: 0
What do you guys think about the 2 required / 2 optional essays? Seems like a pretty strange format to me. In my other apps, I don't plan on utilizing the lone Optional Essay because I don't really have extenuating circumstances to address. However, in McCombs I almost feel obligated to do one of the optionals since there are two.
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