Hi all,

Please post any questions, thoughts or suggestions regarding the Kellogg 2012 waitlist here. Using this topic will ensure that any post pertinent to the waitlist process will not get lost amidst all the other Kellogg related discussions on the main thread.

Having already been on the waitlist last year, I know how excruciating the wait can get. Hopefully we can support & help each other out during this course! Here's hoping that all of us on this waitlist get admitted!!

Cheers!
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Hey guys,
I'm having another distracted day at work so I did some data mining (fun!). We seem to have an equal number of waitlisters from each round totaling up to 46 (see lists below). According to the first-page stats, this is roughly equal to the total number of admits across both rounds! Even if you bump up the admit figure by 20% to account for people that didn't update their status, that still means 46 waitlists to 60 admits. This ratio is only a little better (44 waitlists to 100 admits) on beatthegmat.

I think you might be on to something, Consulting2Finance.

Round 1
BYURover
Mappleby
FIM
Omnivorous
Scorpionz
abman1947
AshForGMAT
KPrizzle
Themangoman
Toriburu
MrMV
Chmatmar
Njindia
Socalledpremba
Elena1985
TheWaitingGame
Ctrlz
Twobeersameer
mbat1
jetlau3
mbagirl23
spain55

Round 2
Consulting2Finance
Ebart
Tbird
Cervieri
Bertreynoldz
Dkatzdkatz
JMG
Oodl
DevelopmentMBA
sajhan409
futbolmundo
rmlaf
cymin
vsetia
vicky615
healthcareguy
visu83
LadyRoadWarrior
Generalhorn
Abacab
Theresalwayshope
Asmithtexas
Petergibbons
greenwave86

As a former waitlister who was accepted, good luck to all of you. I applied R1 3 years ago (has it really been that long?) and was waitlisted the day before the notification date. I was admitted along with the R2 applicants in mid-March.

Just be patient with the process. A waitlist means that you are good enough to make a meaningful contribution to life at Kellogg, but they just want to see how the R2 applicant pool looks before finalizing anything. Further if you have any meaningful updates to tell them, by all means let them know, but don't get in touch just for the sake of getting in touch.

Personally, I only sent one update in late February and that was because I'd been working on a new product for a consumer electronics company. In my application, I'd described my work but not with too much detail. When my company went public with the new product, I wrote to offer more information regarding my contribution.

Good luck to all of you with the process!
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I just got admitted as well!! So excited!!

From what I know of last year and what I understand from this year, most of the decisions will be released on the date communicated by the school. In this case, most of us should be hearing on Feb 14th.

However, last year there were SOME instances where folks from the R1 waitlist were kept on the waitlist right until the R3 decision date..Needless to say they were not happy campers..

I think we needn't start yelling at Kellogg just now..Just a week to go now, so let's just be strong and hope for the best!!
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HCF, thanks for putting this together, although as a small note I was WL R2. I was the first to report a WL since I got the email late at night while having trouble sleeping over my Booth waitlist earlier that day. FML.

But anyway: If I take your +20% assumption to account for under reported admits and also apply it to the BTG number you apply, that means there are roughly 180 admits so far between BTG and GC. Using last year's yield and a class size of 655, Kellogg admitted roughly 1100 students last year (the front page says 1112). Therefore BTG and GC admits represent roughly 16% of the admitted class so far (this may be high since some people likely post on both sites and would be double counted).

If we assume that BTG and GC combined represent 1/5 of acceptees (I think a fair assumption that may be higher since we are talking about people with good enough applications to get in and the two largest forums out there) that means we have roughly 900 acceptees so far. If Kellogg repeats its traditional yield of around 60% that leaves 115 spots for the class of 2014 (give or take). If we expect the yield on the waitlist to be higher, say 75% (which is north of Wharton's yield), that leaves roughly 150 more admits from the waitlist and R3. Again if we apply the 20% rule that means there are roughly 500 people on the waitlist plus R3 applicants for 150 spots. On its surface a 500 person waitlist seems way too high but we'll leave it for now.

That seems like fairly decent odds to be honest, even with what seems to be a very overstated waitlist number of 500. I honeslty have no idea how many apps come in for round 3 but given how many people typically get in from that round, it has to be de minimus. Even if we say there are 100 great aps from R3 that are as solid as the waitlisted R1 and R2 folks, we still have a 25% chance of getting in. In actuality the chance may be much higher.

And this is with me making assumptions that skew towards us not getting in. The only assumption that you could debate that hurts our chances is my assumption that 20% of applicants post on BTG and GC. However even if that is high, its likely at least partially counterbalanced by my other assumptions.

That's just RIDICULOUS!!! Wouldn't it have been ironic if you did get in off the WL at this point. Doesn't matter anyways cause you're going to Tuck, Tuck, GOOSE! New Hampshire is the bestest place ever!
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Long time lurker-- got a call yesterday and was accepted! Had been waitlisted in R2

I was wondering about that as well. They expect to start handing out decisions by Jan. 24th, that's a little over a month from now.

If any of us are admitted, I'm holding a sweet waitlister party in Evanston...