Calling All Stanford Fall 2010 applicants!

For those that got into GSB and Wharton, are you guys/gals picking GSB over Wharton?

HOW DID I MISS THIS???

Congrats to all the admits. Commiserations to those who got dinged

Does anyone know Prof. Derrick Bolton's email address?

just my thoughts on the interview. i m an R1 ding. My interviewer absolutely loved me and even he was stunned when i didnt get thru. Point is, at Stanford interview hardly matters. so dont shoot yourself thinking that your interview did u in!!

For purposes of roll call, I'm a ding without interview.

Of course, the ding was the likely outcome (I'm not sure why I made my self believe that WL was an equally likely result - denial, again), but it is disappointing not to have gotten an interview. GSB has definitely got to be the toughest nut to crack. Makes the HBS outcome in a few days all that more crucial now

Congratulations to all who were admitted - you guys are rockstars. And my commiseration to those who didn't.

Thanks for all your help - this blog has been extremely helpful. Cheers.

Huh!...that is soothing as well as unnerving.

So in effect Stanford makes the decision before the interview....

First of all, congrats to everyone that got in!

Sadly, it's a ding for me... so Chicago it is!

Looks like gmatclub's waitlisted reapplicants got no love this year. The 10%+ increase in applications over last year's ridiculous numbers probably didn't help us marginal folks any.

Anyway, congrats again to the lucky few! Make the rest us proud!

Hello all,

Since I see a few thoughts about the interviews, I thought I would share my little experience. I do think that the interview does not weight much in the application, and that schools use it mostly to have a " reality check", but that the decision is almost made before hand.

Now about y Stanford interview. I was one of the very last ones to interview for R2 (10 days before decisions were released), so I did not post earlier. But now it may help R3 or next year applicants....That interview was different from what I expected, and what I had read about. No questions about tell me who you are, why MBA, etc,.... My interviewer started cold with " Why do you want to go to Stanford? "
He had obviously studied my resume thoroughly. Instead of asking the traditional " tell me about a time when you did not meet your objectives" , he asked " I see you did not go to the best engineering school in your country, how did you deal with this failure?" (which wasn't a failure for me, I am very happy with the school I attended....but had to make up something on the spot....)
He then moved on to more personal questions such as:
- " What is our favorite book? Why? What would I (the interviewer) learn that I could not learn anywhere else? Do you know any quotes? (he did know the book AND some quotes"
- Who is your favorite mexican artist ? (I am French but live in Mexico) Why?
- What is your favorite mexican band?

As most Stanford graduate I have met, he was VERY educated and had a LOT of culture about very diverse things. He also obviously took the time to personalize the questions. On my resume I stated that I am fluent in 4 languages, and he happened to be fluent in the exact same ones so we did 25% of the interview in each. Believe me it is a bit troubling to have to tell the stories you want to tell and have rehearsed in english in another language.

Overall, I got the feeling that he asked some of the mandatory questions- I think I remember he had to pick 3 or 4 from a list and then could ask anything he could see fit- just because he had to. But he was way more interested in me as a person, what I enjoy in life, what motivates me, and how I reacted to unexpected questions. We had a completely different background but he did find some small parts of my resume that we have in common, such as languages or music, and really grilled me on these. I don't think he was looking for a flaw, more for a way to get to know me on some common ground. But it was pretty unexpected and pretty destabilizing for me. Try to fit your " big leadership story" as an answer to " who is your favorite trumpet player and why?....."
At the end of the interview he repeated that his feedback did not weight much in the final decision and asked me to keep him informed of the decision. After I told him about the admission, he called me to ask if I had any questions and offered to put e in contact with some alumni from other MBAs in case I had a desicion to make (which I dont, Stanford has always felt like the best fit by far to me )

Hope this will help some of you in the future. Good luck!

Milie

Dear all,
With some delay due to lack of connectivity, my update for the roll-call:
Got the call last Tuesday. Had the most awesome Easter ever...!

Anybody in for R3? I'll be submitting my application tomorrow night so you can add me to the roll call. I started this whole MBA process really late, but at least Stanford is getting (what I think is) my best app. Even though it's a long shot, I knew I'd kick myself later if I didn't at least try...

CONGRATS RON on Stanford and every other school on the planet!!!!!!

you should go to HBS so that you give all of us waitlisters a shot!!!!!! (please??)

no no no! go to stanford so you can give us HBS waitlisters a shot! you don't want to deal with snow and humidity now do you?

Hey all, I'm a bit late to the game here but dinged with interview (interview was about 3 weeks before decision date).

To be honest, I think it had a lot to do with me having to defer, even thought the reason is about as legit as you can get. My theory, especially after reading many others posts in this thread and talking to those on the inside, is that Stanford works hard to engineer (ok maybe not the best term to use, but it is my background) the class to fit what they have determined is the ideal mold for them.

To be honest I was very disappointed, as Stanford/E-IPER seemed absolutely perfect for my goals and life plans. However this education is what you make of it, and I certainly know I am very fortunate to be able to study at HBS/HKS. In fact in the end I think I wound up at the right place for me, and I say this not just because I have been admitted, but because of the incredible show of support I have gotten from Dee Leopold herself both at my interview and on the phone after being admitted.

Oh, and Ron, join me at HBS (although you will graduate before I even start) so you can open up some of the very limited slots for these guys!!!

Congrats to all the future Cardinal out there!

Ding, no interview. Guess I'm staying in London.

i just booked my ticket for admit weekend (two weeks from now)....and not to be a social climber or anything , but itd be nice to walk into the room looking for a crew of people with one common nerd-like-obsession when i get there (gmatclub. cough.).

whos coming with me?! PM if you like.

i already know a few of you cant make it, but rest assured we'll give you the full rundown shortly after we recover.

in for round 3

Applied for a 3rd round. Any idea when Stanford invites for interview?