Chicago (Booth) 2013 - Calling All Applicants

Next round of crazy coming up next week!

Yeah, waiting here.

Does anyone know what time Booth releases mid-decisions on Wednesday?

It looks like round 1 mid-decisions were released at about 9am EST.

If I recall correctly 9 am Chicago Time.

Does anyone know exactly how alumni interviews are being scheduled? I'm assuming it's a little different from Columbia's ambassador program. The one thing I'm really interested to know is whether the alum knows that you are matched to him/her before you actually contact that alum? I'm asking because my boss went to Booth, and although it's extremely unlikely that I'm matched to him, I would rather that not be a possibility at all given that I don't want my co-workers and least of all my boss to know that I may be leaving in a couple months...

To my knowledge, co-workers cannot be matched, it's a pretty obvious conflict of interests. (I have an alumnus co-worker that gives interviews and he cannot interview me)
Also, I guess that the alum is contacted by the adcom in advance, for example to check availability to interview in that period of the year.

Two thoughts:

- The applicant's opportunity to provide the school with a co-worker's opinion is in the recommendation. I think with the interview the school is looking for as independent and objective a feedback provider they can get. Seems like a co-worker or a close acquaintance of any kind would be inappropriate. Since the school will know where both the applicant and the interviewer are employed, an accidental match seems unlikely.

- If you don't want anyone at your office to know about your MBA plans I assume this came up in some type of "why isn't my supervisor providing my recommendation?" explanation. I would imagine that even if point one above wasn't true that the school will know your feelings on the subject based on that explanation and will be sensitive on the issue.

Basically...I would guess that there is almost zero chance that you will be paired to interview with a colleague.

Good luck to Round 2 candidates tomorrow! I am hoping our fellow GC members do well.

Thanks! Are you going to make it out to Cambridge for AdMIT weekend?

I am hoping to make it next weekend. I am still "negotiating" with my manager .

Ha. Well good luck with that! I'd be curious to hear how the two weekends compared. Although, after tomorrow, it could be a moot point (for me).

I am hoping that's not the case for you. I am definitely rooting for you to get an invite (and then get in).

Thanks! I'll PM you so we don't clog up this thread .

Good luck everyone, fingers crossed tomorrow morning!

Does anyone know what time they will send the emails out? Maybe knowing the time will stop me from incessantly checking my inbox all day...probably not. I assume they will send an email, right?

Based on the email received just after submission, it's 9 AM CST.