Calling all Berkeley-Haas Fall 2009 Applicants

been quiet here lately... any invites?

kryzak, I think what happened with Haas is that, they admitted 250 students in R1 and all of them decided to matriculate

haha, well, that would be a record (100% yield) and a big problem for R2-4 people.

Anyone knows what's going on? are there sending interview invitations? Kryzak gives us information! :D

I'd like to know as well. For me its been radio silence from Haas, Columbia & NYU - so I'm assuming those are dings (If not it would be a nice suprise)

For those of you still waiting for invites--don't give up hope! I didn't get my R1 invite until 2.5 weeks before the deadline, so hold tight . . . my guess is we'll see a flurry next week!

Rosav thanks that's good to hear

If last year's trend holds, all the R2 interview invites should have went out around this Thursday(yesterday)/Friday(today).

https://the-b.org/~kenny/haas/

This year in R1, caligl (accepted) got her invite 1 week before SS. SS for R2 is on March 7. I think we still have hope. I really REALLY doubt that every R2 gmatclubbers would get denied of an interview.

I think what more likely happened is that given the volume increase and the small admissions office, Haas is a bit behind on the reviewing the R2 applicants. From what I hear, Haas review over the application more closely before the interview than most school, that's why the admit date is so close to the SS interview.

So don't give up man. I know this wait sucks, but good luck to everyone.

Yes, those in California seemed to be getting invites one week before the SS event; I seem to remember that when I made that timeline there. I imagine now they're just behind on reviewing applications. After all, it is just one year's worth of "trends" we're looking at.

Applications are also up this year and I don't think they increased the size of the admissions staff, so getting through all those extra apps is likely taking extra time. Don't give up!

Hey all,

Don't panic yet. Yes, Haas does read through the applications with at least TWO (sometimes more) readers before extending an invite, which is why the invites go out later and come at random times. This is definitely a good thing since you know you're in a pretty select group if you get an interview.

The volume has gone up, but not as much for R2.

California invites usually go out last because of the ease of arranging travel to get to SS, so don't be surprised if you get an SS interview a week before the day. Also, California applicants can be interviewed on campus, so some invites have gone out AFTER SS. So don't give up hope yet.

What else... Pretty much even if you don't get an interview, it doesn't mean you're dinged. You may get waitlisted and interview after the decision release deadline. I've met quite a few R1 W/L who are interviewing in the past few weeks. I'm guessing many should get off the waitlist after 3/18 (R2 deadline).

Hope that helps!

I have just got my invitation to Super Saturday! It's about time, since I was starting to lose hope.

congrats Hardestadt!

Congrats, now all the R2s can start getting nervous
I hope Haas can get all the invites out quickly.

I finally have received my interview invitation. Now the problem is that I don't find my username and password!!

Good luck to everyone, it seems that the invitations have started to go out.

Look for an email from "mbaadm@haas.berkeley.edu" with the subject "Your Berkeley Full-time MBA Login Account"

Good luck

congrats llest! hoping for more interviews!

Who's coming to Super Saturday?