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

Dear Round 3 Applicants,

Those who have received their decisions, please take a minute a update your GMAT Club profile status. As per the following graph, no any interview invite reported on forum so far.

Spurred to action by Harvard Business School‘s MBA satisfaction survey published in February, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School came out with its own poll earlier this week and claims to beat out HBS by nearly 25%. The question asked of respondents in the original survey was: how likely they would be to recommend an HBS MBA to an interested and qualified friend or colleague. The results garnered HBS a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 41, on a par with Walgreens or Tracfone. The NPS at Wharton, meanwhile, is 51, right up there with Discover Card.

This scoring system, created by management consultants to measure customer loyalty, subtracts the share of students who were less enthusiastic about the program from those who would strongly recommend it to a friend. People who rate the MBA program 0-6 on a 10-point scale are the “detractors,” while those who give it a 9 or a 10 are considered promoters. Those in the middle are considered passives and therefore aren’t included in the score.

image credit: The Wharton Journal

At the time of the Harbus’s anonymous survey publication, 105 students had responded. Over 249 Wharton students filled out an anonymous survey link sent via email blast and Facebook two weeks ago.

According to an article in The Wharton Journal, Wharton’s NPS of 51 was comprised of 61.85% promoters and 10.84% detractors. In the Harbus survey, the MBA program’s NPS of 41 was comprised of 62% promoters and 22% detractors. In other words, the same percentage would recommend the program, but a greater number at HBS had serious gripes about it.

The Wharton article praises the increased satisfaction score with second-years, going from 49 to 53. There’s a conundrum though, in the fact that ‘the people at Wharton’ is simultaneously the top answer for what people like about Wharton, and for what people don’t like about Wharton.

Over at the Harbus, their survey results also indicate people seem to either love or dislike the same things: classmates, classroom learning, career opportunities, and program structure. The Harbus closes its article on a hopeful note, calling the survey “the beginning of an ongoing discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the MBA program.”

Meanwhile, The Wharton Journal says in their survey wrap-up that the administration is interested in reading the feedback, noting that Deputy Vice Dean Maryellen Lamb responded, “Given the data-driven culture of Wharton, I’m delighted to see our students express their school spirit and pride through a system like NPS.”

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Apparently, Wharton had emailed me 4 times to invite me to interview but the emails were going to my trash. They called me today because they noticed that I didn't open my email. I am so happy i could cry!!! Wharton is my dream school and I cannot wait to interview next week.

Is it easier to get in from the WL or as in R3? Assuming the same applicant?

I guess the number of applicants is around 1000 and the spots left around 60-80, so the odds are probably around the same as getting into Stanford by now.

Any thoughts?

Cheers
J

I have no idea! but I did hear that they interview 20% of applicants and of those interviewed, they accept 50% (don't know how true that is)

Sounds pretty accurate except those stats are usually for R1 / R2

Is it easier to get in from the WL or as in R3? Assuming the same applicant?

I guess the number of applicants is around 1000 and the spots left around 60-80, so the odds are probably around the same as getting into Stanford by now.

Any thoughts?

Cheers
J [/quote]


I have no idea! but I did hear that they interview 20% of applicants and of those interviewed, they accept 50% (don't know how true that is)[/quote]

Sounds pretty accurate except those stats are usually for R1 / R2[/quote]

Now you're making me nervous! any tips for the team based interview?

I have no idea! but I did hear that they interview 20% of applicants and of those interviewed, they accept 50% (don't know how true that is)[/quote]

Sounds pretty accurate except those stats are usually for R1 / R2[/quote]

Now you're making me nervous! any tips for the team based interview?[/quote]

I'd say just go there and be yourself. It really doesn't matter as long as your're not a douche. It also depends on other members of your team so you have less control about the outcome. I did great on my TBD but I was waitlasted nonetheless (All other members from my group were dinged) for some reason

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I finally got around to a book that’s been on my reading list for a while: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. The book examines how extroversion came to be so highly prized in Western culture and how this tendency may be causing harm to not only introverted individuals but to our society at large.


As I was reading the book—which I highly recommend for extroverts and introverts alike—I kept thinking of the many people I know who were accepted into top MBA programs. Some of these candidates fit the extrovert personality profile to a T: gregarious risk-takers who had no trouble expressing their ideas and selling themselves to the admissions committee. But a surprising number of these successful applicants were clearly introverts, individuals who needed time to think through their ideas before expressing them, who were naturally more reserved and regarded the prospect of a group interview with nothing short of dread.

Students in countless MBA programs will see the truth in this statement. So where does this leave those who are more inwardly focused and need time away from friends and colleagues to recharge their batteries? The good news is that introverts can thrive in extrovert-driven environments—they might just have to work differently to do so…

This article originally appeared on The Wharton Blog Network. Please follow the link to learn a few things for the introverted b-school student to keep in mind.

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Quick announcement: Wharton pre-MBA travel is $100 off through Friday via TripWeave. Thanks!

I don't know how you guys do it to not go crazy before 5/5. I can barely sleep and feel like I'm going crazy.

Hehe. It is the same (or, if possible, even worse) on the waitlist too, but not long to wait now.

Maybe time to check out the latest Wharton Follies video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB4U_aU2vO8 or last year's for nostalgia's sake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QttijaAdsI

And best of luck to everyone next week!

Any updates/news?

nothing.. We're going to have to wait until 5/5. Does anybody know if they'll be sending e-mails or calling people? Also, will they be sending e-mails or calling people throughout the day or all notices come out at the same time?

Looks like they called people in Rounds 1&2.

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Tomrrow is D-Day and I'm not nervous