Sloan 2013 (MIT) - Calling All Applicants

Left it blank. My linked in profile is bare bones and it didn't make any sense to fill it specially for the application process, so I didn't put the address.

I don't think it hurts. I left it blank as well, but got invited for interview. I didn't include it because I didn't really have anything on my linkedin profile that I did not already have in my application.

does anyone know how is the interview with mit?
what kind of questions do they ask?

i was invited to interview last week.

best

I do think that this might be particularly pronounced at MIT, though (the fact that they don't care if you're recommenders were alums/if you have relationships to the school). All of the other schools I applied to asked where my parents went to school, and if I had other relatives/relations that were alums, but MIT didn't ask about parents and only had a brief optional line on the last page to ask if you knew anyone in the Sloan community. I know legacy status for b-school isn't the same as for undergrad at most places, but it seems like for MIT it really is a non-issue.

My recommender was also a Sloan alum, and it clearly made no difference.

I don't know if this is relevant for anyone else, but I found an article on legacy admissions at MIT (albeit this applies to undergrad admissions). It almost sounds like mentioning a connection--be it a parent, employer, etc--in your application could come back to bite you, so it might be an area to tread lightly:

"And I can tell you, from having sat on countless committees, that we simply don't care if your parents (or aunt, or grandfather, or third cousin) went to MIT. In fact, one of the things most likely to elicit a gigantic facepalm is when a student namedrops some incredibly attenuated connection because they think it is going to help them get into MIT."

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/ju ... -do-legacy

Sumbitted for R2

Nice !

I'm fairly certain other schools collect this information for internal demographic information only - I doubt it has any effect on your candidacy. Most people just drop names expecting admissions committee members to remember random alumni, which is just not going to happen. It ends up sounding silly and it has no bearing on how successful you will be.

Just submitted my application for round 2.
Had some troubles with the youtube video, but eventually all was solved

Good luck to us all.

Just submitted my app!

And thus the wait begins... or not, seeing as how I've got exactly a week to finish Kellogg and Michigan, and then a couple of days for Booth. Hello 2013!

Cheers,
MBAWanderlust

Ohhh god, I am very sorry to say this, but I thought this video fell into the type of things that in spanish are called "pena ajena" ... I could not watch for more than 10 secs.

Cheers for the brass balls it took to submit this though!

It's interesting that MIT is the only b-school I know of where they don't ask for your salary. I loved that.

The 324 number is for the entering class. Given Sloan's roughly 66% yield, that means they will probably accept around 530ish for the MBA program. MIT accepts an equal number from both rounds while round 2 gets twice as many applicants. So for round 2, the acceptance rate will be around 10%. Brutal.

Since they explicitly ask for it, I would assume that it is very important and have it filled out completely. Look at it as another opportunity to sell yourself to the adcom.

I stand corrected. Perhaps its just a nice to have.

Good Luck MBAWanderlust! As a fellow thread master, I am cheering for you!

I really loved this video; but I don't think it helped the application of the person who did it. It didn't really tell the adcom anything about the applicant that would make them choose this person over any of the other thousands who applied. While the video itself is charming, clever and very well done, it is also the equivalent of writing out the lyrics to the "All About the Benjamins" for your goals essay or showing up in a Statue of Liberty costume at your US citizenship exam. It shows where you want to be, but the fact that you've applied already shows that. Your video needs to focus on "why"---mostly,why should an adcom pic you.

Still, I give many props to whoever did this. Life is about risks, and this one was well executed.

mbaover30, that is great advice for R2 applicants - use the optional section to further emphasize why you deserve to be admitted, not just some entertaining or quirky fact. Looking back on my application, I think I made the same mistake as the original poster...since we're all in a sharing mood, I'll let you all be the judge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA1iko-lgqk