MBA Program Deadlines For August 2012 entry Application Received By 12 noon Pacific Standard Time
MBA Round I* Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011 MBA Round II Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012
Decisions Released By Feb 6, 2012 (Round 1) and Apr 2, 2012 (Round 2)
* Reapplicants must submit their application by the Round I deadline. LGO reapplicants must submit their reapplication by the LGO deadline. **Decisions will be released early for some candidates who will be denied admission without an interview.
Prepare a cover letter (up to 500 words) seeking a place in the MIT Sloan MBA Program. Describe your accomplishments and include an example of how you had an impact on a group or organization. Your letter should conform to standard business correspondence and be addressed to Mr. Rod Garcia, Director of MBA Admissions.
This Year's Essays We are interested in learning more about you and how you work, think, and act. For each essay, please provide a brief overview of the situation followed by a detailed description of your response. Please limit the experiences you discuss to those which have occurred in the past three years.
In each of the essays please describe in detail what you thought, felt, said, and did.
• Essay 1: Please describe a time when you went beyond what was defined, expected, established, or popular. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
• Essay 2: Please describe a time when you convinced an individual or group to accept one of your ideas. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
• Essay 3: Please describe a time when you had to make a decision without having all the information you needed. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
Supplemental Information (Optional) You may use this section to address whatever else you want the Admissions Committee to know. (250 words or fewer, limited to one page)
Class Profile
Profile of MIT Sloan Class of 2012
Age (in years) Range of age 22-37 Mean age 27.65 Work experience (in years) Range of experience 0-12 Mean years of experience 4.92
GMAT scores Range of GMAT (middle 80%) 680-760 Mean GMAT 717 Gender Female 34% Male 66%
Citizenship U.S. citizens 50% U.S. permanent residents 8% Internationals 42% Citizenship Africa 2% Asia 27% Europe 11% North America 51% Oceania < 1% South America 8%
that being said, when I checked the MIT Website, the Essays listed are for "Fall 2011" entry, which I took to mean last year. Do you think they just didn't bother to change the year or will those Essays potentially change at some point?
Also, Has anyone had success starting an online application? I went to the login page, but despite mentioning a "create account" button, I don't see it.
Good Luck to all!
Hemantuec
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:03 pm
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I would like to know whether there is much difference between applying in Round I and applying in Round II? According to the MIT Sloan Website, they admit half in Round I and half in Round II. However, Round I has fewer candidates. Hence, applying in Round I should be better. But I want to know if the chance of being admitted is significantly different between two rounds?
Thank you very much.
reapplyN2011
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:38 am
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I would like to know whether there is much difference between applying in Round I and applying in Round II? According to the MIT Sloan Website, they admit half in Round I and half in Round II. However, Round I has fewer candidates. Hence, applying in Round I should be better. But I want to know if the chance of being admitted is significantly different between two rounds?
Thank you very much.
Theoretically, R1 v R2 should be about the same.
The difference in # of applications is arguably off-set by R1 tending to have a slightly higher percentage of highly qualified candidates.
Most people say that the difference between the two rounds is minimal, and to submit your application when it's ready.
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:44 pm
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I was able to create an account earlier for the 2012 application. I've been checking from time to time and I was only able to view the "create an account" button today in the online app link.
After browsing through the application form, the essays originally posted by str1der are the same as what I'm seeing right now. As such, can these be the 2012 essay questions already?
Thanks.
chromium73
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:31 am
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Went through the application instructions and the new essays have been posted...
• Essay 1: Please describe a time when you went beyond what was defined, expected, established, or popular. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
• Essay 2: Please describe a time when you convinced an individual or group to accept one of your ideas. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
• Essay 3: Please describe a time when you had to make a decision without having all the information you needed. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
karist
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Went through the application instructions and the new essays have been posted...
• Essay 1: Please describe a time when you went beyond what was defined, expected, established, or popular. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
• Essay 2: Please describe a time when you convinced an individual or group to accept one of your ideas. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
• Essay 3: Please describe a time when you had to make a decision without having all the information you needed. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
Thanks chromium73! Seems like all are the same except essay # 3. Overlooked that one.
If anyone has seen/has an access to the recommendation questions as well, appreciate if you post them in this thread also.
jko
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:34 am
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