Calling all ROSS Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2017

International candidate...I also got on the waitlist yesterday and the text said that I need to accept the waitlist by 20th March 2015 and not 20th May 2015.
I am surprised they put people in waitlist without interview

I'm absolutely surprised that I got waitlisted without having been invited for an interview till I was waitlisted.

I said in a previous post that I'm presumably behind those who got interviewed THEN waitlisted. I still think I'm objectively behind them, BUT I think an advantage I have is that through the interview, I can bring something they haven't seen before to sway the waitlist decision. So we'll see!

Best of luck to everyone.

Alum vs Skype? Any preference there for interview or not really? Thank you.

Hey everyone,
Just wanted some clarity on the interview process.Any advice on which one of the two options is better for the interview-In person with a Ross Alumnus or Skype interview with a current MBA student? I live in Bangalore,India so if I take the option of an interview with an alumnus, will it be scheduled in the same city? Also, if you guys could post some of your interview experiences, it would be great. Honestly, I wasn't expecting an invite since it's mid-May already, but it came as a pleasant surprise last night.
Thanks guys!

In person interviews are always much better then skype.
for interview questions you may want to scroll this thread back and forth and find interview reports/questions posted by other members.
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Great thanks!

In person is definitely better than Skype. Less awkward.

As for the interview, I went to campus and interviewed with a 2nd year MBA student, so it might be a little different with an alum. But the adcom directors stressed before the interviews, as long as you can clearly get across why MBA, and especially, why Ross in particular, you should do well.

def talk about MAP and how that fits into your goals / will make you a better leader! also if you can share very specific tidbits about the ross mba experience and how that differs from other schools i think that helps. if you read soojin's blog one of the earlier entries mentioned their selection criteria and one of them was "go blue"-ishness. i have a pretty ordinary profile and was admitted with $40k scholarship sooo i think that strategy worked for me : ). good luck!

Surprised no one's talking about the Dean quitting..

Nothing to say. Godspeed. She's done a good job, although she won't be remembered like Paul Danos will. And with the next dean, UMich has a great opportunity to further boost Ross' image and rankings position.

I have a not so good experience with In-person interview. So it is same for both I guess. I got a straight reject post Interview. I actually flew to Delhi for Team exercise and In person interview. Ross actually overbooked one of the alum so much so that he cancelled my slot last moment and I actually had to force another alum to take my interview as I went to Delhi for both the interview and team exercise.

It didn't work out for me. Hope it works out for you.

All the best.

P.S. I am also from Bangalore

I will be interviewing off campus with an alum soon. Again, I was waitlisted without interview on May 15th. I'll give a quick report about the interview later this week.

Interviewed with alum in local coffee shop. Questions were very typical. 30 minutes or so then 10 minutes or so for my questions. The fact I was a waitlist wasn't brought up and I didn't ask him questions about it.

So guess it's waiting from here! I expect to find out within the next week or two at most should I get good news. Outlook would otherwise become grim from there IMO, since there's an event for admitted students and waitlist admits in June. But in theory for US waitlists it "could" take till mid-August, which I called them to confirm..

Best of luck to those waiting.

By Paul Lanzillotti, Amerasia Consulting Group
Today's blog post is going to be the first in a series that covers business school rankings. More specifically, it's Amerasia's attempt at ranking top MBA programs by industry and based on publicly available data. Our motivation for doing this is quite simple - business school rankings differ quite drastically from publication to publication. US News seems to be the most consistent and widely followed. After Businessweek ranked Fuqua at number one, they decided to change their methodology.  Whether the two are correlated is up for debate. John Byrne over at "Poets and Quants" covered the change quite extensively here.

Regardless, we've never felt completely comfortable with the rankings because (to our knowledge) the raw data that drives the rankings has never been fully disclosed. Yes, we do know that the methodology (ranking model) has been discussed on relevant websites, but it's a cursory explanation of the process in our opinion. Also our opinion - that the process is still very much a black box.  So we decided to start over and see what we could come up with.  Most importantly we started with the very numbers that the school's career centers are reporting via their respective employment reporting.

Our opinion is that recruiting (i.e. who's hiring) drives most programs "investment" decisions - in students, faculty, courses, experiential initiatives, alumni outreach, etc.  So to know to what a specific MBA program is really all about, you need to see the end result. In other words, what industries are hiring MBA graduates and from what schools?

Now before we get into the numbers, a few words of caution. What we have done is our first attempt at a numerically based ranking and its not perfect. It's based on our interpretation of the numbers put forth by top business schools. Let us explain. Most MBA career centers report employment numbers according to the categories that we use in our rankings. Some schools break "industry" categories into further sub-categories. Other programs - i.e. Michigan Ross - roll up their industry categories under more general headers like "manufacturing". So you could be a "marketing" professional but be within the manufacturing industry. To be forthright, it's a little confusing. (This is why we have decided to exclude Michigan Ross from some categories until we gather a little more insight into their self-reported numbers.)

None-the-less, we have tried to make sense of it all and to do this we did combine some categories in order to get an apples-to-apples comparison across schools. Clear as mud?  That being said, we welcome any constructive feedback you may have. Either post your comments below or email us at MBA@amerasiaconsulting.com.

Top MBA Programs in Finance (2015)
AKA THE RANKING OF BUSINESS SCHOOL PROGRAMS BY PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES ENTERING THE FINANCE INDUSTRY IN 2014.
Our first ranking is "Finance" and Chicago Booth comes out on top.

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Top MBA Programs in Finance by Percentage of Graduates Entering the Industry (2015)[/caption]

 

Source Data:

We compiled this ranking based on information taken directly from the following MBA employment reports.
Haas

https://haas.berkeley.edu/groups/careercenter/reports/14-15ReportSummary.pdf

UCLA Anderson

https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/adm/cmc/2014%20PARKER%20CMC%20Employment%20Report%2002.10.15%20LR.pdf

Stanford GSB
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Stanford%20GSB%20Employment%20Report%202013-14.pdf

MIT Sloan

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/Class_of_2014-intern_employment_report.pdf

HBS

https://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/data-and-statistics/recruitingreport/

https://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/data-and-statistics/employment-statistics.html

Wharton

https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/your-career/career-statistics.cfm

Kellogg

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/career_employer/employment_statistics.aspx

Chicago Booth

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/employmentreport/

Columbia

https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/recruiters/employmentreport

NYU Stern
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba/career/employment-statistics

Tuck

https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/careers/employment-statistics

Yale SOM

https://som.yale.edu/yale-som-connect/recruiting/employment-statistics

Michigan Ross

https://michiganross.umich.edu/our-community/recruiters

Duke Fuqua

https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/mba_recruiting/recruiting_duke/employment_statistics/

Cornell Johnson

https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Career-Management/Employment-Report-for-Two-Year-MBAs

UVA Darden

https://www.darden.virginia.edu/recruiters-companies/hire-an-mba/employment-reports/

By Paul Lanzillotti, Amerasia Consulting Group
OUR RANKING OF BUSINESS SCHOOL PROGRAMS BY PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES ENTERING THE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY IN 2014.
Today's blog post is a follow up to our Top MBA Programs in Finance ranking. It's also our continued attempt at ranking top MBA programs by industry and based on publicly available data.

UC Berkeley Haas comes out on top when it comes to sending graduates (as a percentage of all graduates in 2014) back into the technology industry. UCLA Anderson is second, but it's not even close. Hands down, Haas is the place to be if you're into technology and want to work for a related firm in the industry.


BUYER BEWARE
Now before you get too far into interpreting the numbers, a few words of caution. What we have done is an inaugural attempt at a numerically based ranking and its not perfect. It's based on our interpretation of the numbers put forth by top business schools.

• Let us explain. Most MBA career centers report employment numbers according to the categories that we use in our rankings. Some schools break "industry" categories into further sub-categories. Other programs - i.e. Michigan Ross - roll up their industry categories under more general headers like "manufacturing". So you could be a "marketing" professional but be within the manufacturing industry. To be forthright, it's a little confusing. (This is why we have decided to exclude Michigan Ross from some categories until we gather a little more insight into their self-reported numbers.)

None-the-less, we have tried to make sense of it all and to do this we did combine some categories in order to get an apples-to-apples comparison across schools. Clear as mud?
WHY WE USE EMPLOYMENT DATA TO RANK SCHOOLS
Our opinion is that recruiting (i.e. who's hiring) drives most programs "investment" decisions - in students, faculty, courses, experiential initiatives, alumni outreach, etc.  So to know to what a specific MBA program is really all about, you need to see the end result. In other words, what industries are hiring MBA graduates and from what schools?

We compiled this ranking based on information taken directly from the following MBA employment reports.

Haas https://haas.berkeley.edu/groups/careercenter/reports/14-15ReportSummary.pdf

UCLA Anderson https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/adm/cmc/2014%20PARKER%20CMC%20Employment%20Report%2002.10.15%20LR.pdf

Stanford GSB https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Stanford%20GSB%20Employment%20Report%202013-14.pdf

MIT Sloan https://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/Class_of_2014-intern_employment_report.pdf

HBS https://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/data-and-statistics/employment-statistics.html

Wharton https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/your-career/career-statistics.cfm

Kellogg https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/career_employer/employment_statistics.aspx

Chicago Booth https://www.chicagobooth.edu/employmentreport/

Columbia https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/recruiters/employmentreport

NYU Stern https://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba/career/employment-statistics

Tuck https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/careers/employment-statistics

Yale SOM https://som.yale.edu/yale-som-connect/recruiting/employment-statistics

Michigan Ross https://michiganross.umich.edu/our-community/recruiters

Duke Fuqua https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/mba_recruiting/recruiting_duke/employment_statistics/

Cornell Johnson https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Career-Management/Employment-Report-for-Two-Year-MBAs

UVA Darden https://www.darden.virginia.edu/recruiters-companies/hire-an-mba/employment-reports/
FINALLY, DOES THE WORLD REALLY NEED ANOTHER BUSINESS SCHOOL RANKING?
We think "yes". We've never felt completely comfortable with the rankings because (to our knowledge) the raw data that drives the US News and Businessweek rankings has never been fully disclosed. So we decided to start over and with the very numbers that the school's career centers are reporting via their respective employment reporting.

That being said, we welcome any constructive feedback you may have. Email us at MBA@amerasiaconsulting.com with comments or if you're looking for an expert admissions consultant to lead you through the application process.

The University of Michigan Ross School of Business has announced the following MBA application deadlines for the 2015-2016 admissions cycle.
Round 1
Application due: October 5, 2015

Decision released: December 18, 2015
Round 2
Application due: January 4, 2016

Decision released: March 18, 2016
Round 3
Application due: March 21, 2016

Decision released: May 13, 2016

All applications are due by 11:59 EST on the day of the deadline in order to be considered within that round. Michigan Ross also encourages international students apply in Round 1 or Round 2 because of visa requirements and to ensure consideration for scholarships.

For more information, please visit the Michigan Ross MBA admissions website.
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Alison Davis-Blake has announced she will resign as dean of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business when her five-year term ends in June 2016, according to an e-mail sent to Ross School students and staff Monday.

Davis-Blake, who is one of only nine female deans heading a top-50 business school in the United States, says she is hoping to take up a broader university role, such as provost or president, to focus on the problems and opportunities facing universities.

The dean counts numerous successes during her tenure at Ross, including launching a successful capital campaign that has already raised more than $213 million; hiring 25 percent of all current tenure-track faculty; and tripling the number of undergraduate students who have a global experience as part of their education.

Before her deanship at the Ross School began in 2011, Davis-Blake had served as dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota since 2006. Previously, she was a management professor and associate dean at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. Prior to that, she was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.

“Beyond the business school realm, there are significant challenges that face all universities, in both professional and liberal education,” she tells Michigan news outlet MLive. “I find myself eager to contribute solutions to these larger challenges during what will surely be a time of significant change in higher education.”

With more than a year left in her term, Davis-Blake has allowed time for a smooth transition as university Provost Martha Pollack and President Mark Schlissel begin to recruit for her replacement.
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The Michigan Ross School of Business plans to make its admit calls to successful Round 3 candidates today, but MBA Admissions Director Soojin Kwon says that the admissions committee’s work to shape the Class of 2017 is far from over.

In fact, Kwon explains in a recent blog post that at this point in the game, the team reviews the waitlist daily, and will make offers on a rolling basis as they determine how many spots are available and what backgrounds and goals Ross wants to add to the class.

Although there are always those very last-minute admit offers made in August, Kwon predicts the class will largely come together by  early June. Also, Michigan Ross will host an admitted student weekend in June for those Round 3 and waitlisted admits.

As the admissions committee prepares to gear up for the next application cycle, the director says that they are currently finalizing the Fall 2016 application, essay, recommender and interview questions and aims to post them next week, so stay tuned for that information.

For more on what is keeping the Michigan Ross admissions team busy in the coming weeks, read Kwon’s blog post, We’re Not “Done” Yet.
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My wife and I just received the call!! We are IN!!!!