Calling all Yale SOM Applicants (2016 Intake) Class of 2018!!

I did mail mba.admissions@yale.edu and did the trick I mentioned and I submitted also ? but still haven't got a reply from them !

I realized I can submit even with the error message, and the application proof has it too. Not sure if that means it's resolved.

the same thing happened to me (post-mba career error). as far as i could tell, it seemed to be about luck and just trying over and over again. i think after trying the 5th or 6th time or so (and this included logging back out and in, deleting the section and saving and then pasting the section back in, etc.), i gave up and did something else for 20-30 minutes. when i came back, it worked.

In. Here is to hoping the lower end of the 80% accepted GMAT range is enough!

Thanks a lot for this
All the best!

Any one else done with the video questions?

This happened to me too. I changed my career interests, clicked continue, went to review, and it was fine. So I changed them again to my actual career interests, continue, and went back to review again. That worked for me every time it happened (since I reviewed the application several times, it happened several times).

I already submitted but havent done the video questiones yet.

Good luck!

Submitted! Off to video essays now

Good luck to all who applied in Round 1!! Please do not forget to update your GMAT Club profile status once you submit the application.

On a separate note, second Yale adcom chat session is on Sept 24th in which Margie Adler, Associate Director of Admissions at Yale, will visit GMAT Club chat room to chat with applicants and answer their questions. Event details are below.


Brief introduction of Margie Adler: Margie is Associate Director of Admissions at the Yale School of Management. Margie graduated with a B.A. from Harvard University, completed the General Course program at the London School of Economics and Political Science and earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She practiced law in New York at the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton where she worked on domestic and international financial transactions with a focus on securities regulation and corporate governance. She later organized and founded a real estate investment company, before joining Yale School of Management in 2014. Margie is also a member of the Board of Directors of the ACLU of CT. Margie lived in London and Singapore, each for several years, and has traveled extensively throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Australia and the South Pacific as well as throughout the U.S.




Date: September 24, 2015
Time: 9 AM Pacific Time
Place: GMAT Club Chat Room

So save the event in your Google calendar and be in the chat room on 24th September with your questions.

Can anyone see the Round 2 applications for SOM? I've had to push back my application from R1 to R2, but I cannot open a new application. The only one I see is the "expired" R1.

does anyone know when the adcom will start sending invites for interview?
My app still says submitted

Same here... I think it must be a technical issue... Might as well give my essay some additional polish.

how to prepare for the video questions.... any known questions so far?

Hello!

As far as I know, you are very likely to get some of the following questions:

1. Why MBA? Why now? ST/LT goals...

2. Tell us about a time when you... showed leadership/faced an obstacle/designed a creative solution...

3. Sort of off-topic question: do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Why?

The link posted on this thread (mbamanual) gives you a good idea of the questions you will face. However, I would register on the link sent to you to do the video questions, then practice a bunch of times with the sample questions to get familiarized with the software and interface (they have a pool of 8-10 sample questions I think), and then get it done!

Make sure you practice timing as much as you can, since 1 minute will not be the usual length of your interview answers...

Hope it helps!

kheown

Anyone who has taken the video questions?

Hi, kheown.
Can I get the link you mentioned?

Thanks.

Sorry, the link wasn't on this thread, but on the Yale subforum instead...

This is the link I used: my-yale-som-interview-experience-202258.html

This is another link that apparently leads to a bunch of questions, but I never got to try it: all-yale-video-essay-questions-172287.html

Rgds,
kheown

Just did my video essay.
The question were

1. Why MBA now
2. Challenging situation at work and how did you resolve it. (I felt 1 min is too short for such a broad question)
3. Do you think increasing taxes on cigarettes and alcohol will make people consume less of them. Agree or Disagree. Why ?