Calling all Washington (Foster) Fall 2009 Applicants!

The Seattle Times had an interesting article today about recruiting for UW MBA and Computer Science students.

https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/b ... unt19.html

Two excerpts:

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1.) "Newly minted MBAs face a job market further complicated by the meltdown of the financial sector, typically a major consumer of business talent.

"Naturally, financial services is kind of in a shambles," said Paula Klempay, director of MBA Career Services at the UW Michael G. Foster School of Business.

The loss of Washington Mutual and Safeco has exacerbated the situation locally. But it's not nearly as big a blow as the collapse of major financial institutions has had on larger East Coast business schools, any of which might typically send several graduates to a firm like Bear Stearns, she said.

Dimmer prospects in finance have caused some MBAs to look at opportunities in other sectors, such as technology. Others are sticking it out."

2.) "Interning is important

Economic conditions also have elevated the importance of internships. More than 80 percent of MBA students are accepting full-time positions in the companies where they did internships, compared with 40 to 50 percent a year ago, said Klempay.

"Because those students are accepting, that means fewer positions came on campus in the fall for forecasted summer hiring," Klempay said. "So it's a little bit of a domino effect."

Intel, for example, offered high praise for UW MBAs but had only internships to offer during fall recruiting, Klempay said.

"That's where a lot of the companies are finding themselves," she said. "It's delightful for them to have these very high internship-conversion rates, and so the rest of the field is sorting itself out now."

Most of the companies signed up for a UW computer-science recruiting fair later this month are offering internships only. The department's fall recruiting event was oversubscribed, Lazowska said.

"Most companies realize that they need to continue to hire interns, even if they're not hiring permanent employees," he said. "Interns become permanent employees a year or two later; if you shut off the internship pipeline, you won't be able to hire when things return to normal."

Still on the waitlist here!
Has the deposit deadline for R2 passed? I was hoping there would be some movement when they sort out who will attend/who won't.
Anyone else on the waitlist? Any news since?

Here are the deposit deadlines:

October 15 applicants:
February 2, 2009

November 15 applicants:
April 1, 2009

January 15 applicants:
May 5, 2009

March 15 applicants:
June 19, 2009

Also the dates for the Admit weekends:

April 9-11, 2009
May 28-30, 2009

Thanks! Wow..that's some crazy deposit deadlines!
For R2 people who found out in January- they get 3 months to decide?! Foster sure is lenient!

Any international admitted students received the I20 forms?

I am an Intl Application from India(R1). I am still waiting!!

I asked and was told it would still take several more weeks till central office reviews my documents.............

I applied for R2 deadline and still in wait list. Got couple of admits from other universities, I planned to wait for one more week. Lately, I started wondering if American MBA is the right choice at this moment.

According the Foster's website R3's results are to be announced by this Friday. Good luck to R3 applicants!

Hi I got the mail from Foster at 4 pm PST - I got in!!!

But there is no information on the scholarship - did any of you admitted guys get any information on scholarship in the acceptance e-mail? Please let me know.

Thanks!

My scholarship email came a day later than the acceptance email (1/13 and 1/14).

Thanks Shotgun!

Also do you know how much is the enrolment deposit?

There is a $100 enrollment conformation that is applied towards your tuition. There is also a $425 deposit for the L.E.A.D. week thing. Total of $525 non-refundable.

Anyone heading to the April admit weekend?

Hey Shotgun - thanks for letting me know about the deposit.

Well yes I am attending admit weekend in April - I live in Seattle so its not much work for me. Are you planning to come?

Thanks!

Yea, I'll be there to. I'm also a Washington Resident. We'll see you next week.