Sloan 2013 (MIT) - Calling All Applicants

Congrats to everyone who was accepted today. Does anyone have an idea how many people were placed on the wait-list?

In previous years, the Adcom has said about 200 people are waitlisted but some people think that the AdCom might have a smaller waitlist this year after last year's situation with an oversubscribed class.

Congrats to everyone who got in today.

I am not sure anyone can say how many folks are on the waitlist. I can tell you roughly 450 people were admitted for 350 spots. If you assume a 66% yield (historically fairly accurate), then that means they will need to pull roughly 50 folks from the waitlist. Now, I have no clue how many they have already pulled from the R1 waitlist or whether that historical yield figure is accurate. Honestly, given how high the yield was last year, I bet Sloan used the waitlist very aggressively this year (so as not to have another oversubscribed class).

I was denied over a month ago for mba but received a message asking that I apply for the SCM, MSCM, or ZLOG and they would waive the fee and just to write an essay and gave me a different deadline than published on their site. Is this something alot of you received?

Yep. Received this today. Seems like an automated email.

a) Anyone got $$$ on your acceptance call?
b) If not do we get told as part of our welcome packets in the mail?

c) If not there, then do we always get told on a call similar to MBAover30?

d) I am sure that I read somewhere that scholarships (any other $$$ sources) are evaluated independently of our applications, but can anyone confirm? If so is there a deadline for when we will hear by?

He is the only adMIT I heard this happening to, honestly. Nobody mentioned to me that they got scholarship/fellowship money at adMIT weekend.

Yep. Received this today. Seems like an automated email.

Round 2 admits -- has anyone received the actual admit packet in the mail yet?

Besides everything else that was going on this week, how was adMIT weekend?

And so - after a month and a half of deliberation - I've decided to let go of my Sloan waitlist position, and accept a place a Tuck! I know this may have seemed a no-brainer to a lot of you, but I assure you it was not a quick'n'easy decision to make. I love both schools to bits, but as an international, there were eventually just more cons than pros in waiting to be accepted at Sloan.

I cannot begin to describe how uplifting the decision is, and how much clarity it has given me. There's much to still be done, but I'm ready for it - Fall couldn't arrive sooner!

It has been a pleasure hosting this thread over the past year, and I look forward to continue contributing in any way possible to this forum.
A small note to those who didn't make it this year - never lose hope. Sometimes its only a small facet of your overall profile that needs a little chiseling - get it done, and you will be through! Who knows - I may even see a bunch of you next year at Tuck!!

Cheers,
MBAWanderlust

PS - Seeing the 'M' against Tuck on my profile, and smiling to myself.