GSB R1 and R2: Lets the pants pooping commence!

i knew it was a mistake to check this thread before going to bed... now i imagine ill be tossing and turning praying for the hail mary miracle invite.

I am surprised, to say at least, that you were dinged in GSB without even an interview Hoped to see you there next year... Wish you best of luck with you Columbia interview! Ace it!

OFFICIALLY DENIED


thanks for coming out loser!

Sorry to hear that. But you're all set now...right?

helg,

have you been accepted to GSB? you were on waitlist correct.. sorry if i missed that.. all the best!

Dinged... not much of a surprize. I think my work history was too light for GSB.

Officially dinged. I hope we will have the chance to meet sometime in the future Helg. Good luck to those on the WL and those with interviews in R2.

Sorry to hear this man...

eyes forward, peli. you've got more coming your way.

So it looks like its down to:

dukes 750/>3.0/4 yrs consulting; interview for R2 invited to interview
yb: 730/4.0 (!) /2.5 years valuation/forensic accounting background invited to interview
3underscore: 680, GPA??? (UK - 1st Class Honours, Top10 school), 28M British, 5.5 Years working experience (Market Risk, Banking) (confirmed submitted) invited to interview
cmns18: 710 3.95, 3 years NPO, co-authored article on HIV/AIDS politics (confirmed submitted) invited to interview
GMATcram: UNKNOWN STATS, invited to interview
jchen1731" UNKNOWN STATS, invited to interview
cappy: 700 GMAT, 3.1, 4YRS medical device sales, invited to interview
dmatt: UNKNOWN STATS, invited to interview
world464: UNKNOWN STATS, invited to interview
gmatclb: UNKNOWN STATS, invited to interview
lxa: 750 GMAT, 3.9 GPA, just graduated recently but worked in family business in poland invited to interview

Not a bad list - the odds of at least one of you ending up with an admit is pretty darn high.

At least one?

I'm hoping at least 5-8.

Theres only 11 on that list. Assuming roughly 1:3 to 1:4 odds - which if you want to know how I get to those #'s ... Assuming roughly 5000 applicants - a fair number given Kellogg - and a 70% yield (bw last figure 67%), class size of 550, you need 785 offers of admission to fill - R1 maybe 300 offers, R2 maybe 300 offers, and R3 maybe 200 or less depending on waitlist and yield. Thus, assuming 5000 applicants or about 1700/1700/1600 (a little more weight in R1/R2 seems reasonable) - 1700 candidates, roughly 50% interviewed, approx 850 interviewed for 300 or so spots. better odds than 1:3 but that 300 admit is probably admit and waitlist, (you arent going to offer 900 admits for a class size of 550) so, arguably, it sits at somewhere between 1:3 and 1:4 - so were talking maybe 3 or 4 from the remaining 11, on average.

Admissions411 supports this somewhat - of the 131 interviewed, 43 accepted - roughly 1:3. I suspect teh average is a bit lower in reality because admissions411 is full of strong 700+'s... but it's probably a fair proxy in this case, and it makes "sense" if you approach the figures backwards like I have.

Five to eight is very high - that implies that anywhere from 45% to 75% of interviewed candidates are admitted. I just don't think that adds up. That would mean that out of hte roughly 1500 applicants in a given round, and hte 750 interviewed, up to 562 offers go out for a class of 550.

I'm not sure if it impacts your bottom line numbers but I think the actual distribution of applications by round is quite different from your's. Anecdotally, R1 is medium sized, R2 is huge, and R3 is small. Admissions411 data backs that up. Looking at class of 08 data for several top schools suggests that the distribution for R1/R2/R3 is around 41%/56%/3%.

Yea it would, but it all depends on how you look at the admit %'s in each round...

So...

# of apps per round:

41% = 2050
56% = 2800
3% = 150

apps per year

assuming an equal distribution of admits, which is totally a guess

41% = 321
56% = 439
3% = 23

2800 * .5 = 1400 interviewed

439/1400 = 31% - about 1:3

If however you assume that they take a roughly even number in the first two rounds and less in the third then we might have:

R1: 370 admits/waitlists
R2: 370 admits/waitlists
R3: 40

370/1400 = 26% odds - more like 1:4

Either way, were still talking about 1:3 to 1:4 - which still translates to about 3 or 4 admits.

i am not part of this list ?

Just came back from my GSB interview.....the guy was surperb and very smart...I have relatively different background and he asked me very smart questions to have a better understanding of my ST and LT goals...i am impressed....he was in finance/marketing..also did IB/IM/PE for some years..

thanks, willget800!

am still on WL in GSB and working hard to change my status (coupla updates submitted as well as some extra recos) looking forward for the R2 decisions release deadline

couple of updates AND a couple of recos?