Sloan (MIT) Class of 2016 Calling all applicants

first, to fionaS, kostyan5, and dab: 'preciate the comments! would be an absolute pleasure to be your classmates.

second, after realizing our invite rate was much lower than last year's R1 (which i noted in my previous post), i decided to see what story some of the other classes/rounds told. using GMAT club roster downloads, here's what i found...
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___________Invited to Interview?______________________
Class-Round___Yes___No_______Applicants__% Interviewed
2014-R1_______28___97___________125_______22%____
2014-R2_______25___69____________94_______27%____
2015-R1_______56__144___________200_______28%____
2015-R2_______38__119___________157_______24%____
Col. Total _____147__429__________576_______26%____
__________________________________________________
2016-R1_______28__220___________248_______11%____

onward and upward, fellow hopefuls!

When you interview on campus, you will get a copy of the "MIT Sloan Student Photobook", it includes all students across all programs at Sloan. I analyzed the class of 2014 and class 2015 backgrounds and its quite amazing. The diversity in undergraduate institutions, past companies, countries. There is no company or school that sends over 10 students to Sloan (except MIT ugrad which sent about 15 to MIT Sloan). Pretty cool Just wanted to share.

I emailed the admissions office, and the woman who replied confirmed that Fri, Nov 8 was the last day for Round 1 Interview invitations. On Fri, Nov 15, we will either get dings or waitlist deferrals into Round 2.

I just got the call!!

Go to page 14 of this thread and see what happened in R1. I imagine this will be similar. A bunch of invites went out about 10am and one more was reported in the afternoon, although that one was probably a late post to a morning invite.

Got an invitation! The email came in at 1:17pm.

East Coast (Connecticut) working in Finance/Operations for a Private Equity firm

Hi there,

I was starting to lose hope... but I received an interview invite for the East Coast today around 1:50PM EST !

Please wish me luck! Good luck to everyone else out there...

Invited to interview in Cambridge at 3:11 CST! Ecstatic!!!

Posted from my mobile device

The chat invite and interview invite are mutually independent events. The reason that many of us have received the chat invite is because we've enrolled in one of the previous events - online or offline or we selected to receive updates from Sloan.


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Congrats to everyone who got Interview Invite and Good luck to other applicants!!!

If you haven't updated your GMAT Club profile status, Please do it.

It's the eleventh hour. For those in wait-state, the last few hours before receiving the result can be grueling and wrenching. But the reality is - some applicants may still be invited for an interview. And a number in all likelihood will have their status changed to deferred, rather than rejected. And for those not considered any longer by Sloan, it's best to keep in mind that there are lots of excellent schools, and there is still round 3 at a number of them. No one should let a particular school's admissions committee members have any lasting effect on their lives. Time to pick oneself up by the bootstraps and move forward!

Same thing here! Counting down the hours right now... I think I have no more fingers to cross.

Nicely executed, kingfalcon! A well-written essay can definitely add value, as you have proven.

Yup, we've heard Sloan Admissions say something similar too. It's another one of those cases where you gain so much from attending an event - it would be sorta nice if they were more forthcoming on the website about the importance of this puppy, but at the same time, knowing that schools share such guidance during their info sessions is certainly a strong motivation to attend them - they have strong ROI.

Presumably what Jamon is referring to is the fact that 2 years ago, MIT underestimated its yield (the percentage of people who would accept their offers of admission) and ended up significantly overenrolled. They handled it by offering people a guaranteed deferred admission along with a nice discount on tuition.

However, that has no impact on this year. We hadn't heard of any of this happening again this past season. The people who took the deferred admit package will be starting this Fall (2013); it has no impact on anyone who's applying now (to start next Fall, 2014).

If there's other info that we're missing please fill us in, too!
EssaySnark

PS: Most schools by policy do not ever grant deferred admission; this was a major exception since it was being offered by the school to fix an 'oops' on their part - they didn't realize how popular they'd become! they've since adjusted their practices, don't think that situation will repeat.

To add on to #1 from the above post, I think they don't care about your fifth extra curricular that you've spent one hour on in the past three years, but still put on the list. If you have a VALUABLE community experience, for example, then the essays provide an excellent place to discuss that. I am using #1 to do that.

My thoughts are that if your extras are strong enough to wish that they put them in the application, they should be also be strong enough to merit mention in an essay. Both essay questions lend themselves to those. Moreover, the optional essay about whatever you want certainly does the same.

That's the way I did it last year and the way I'm doing it this year. Whether that's the best way, I don't know. But it worked fine for me. When I was waitlisted last year, my waitlist manager said she really liked my video, so I know it works

I don't even...



Yes, you can be accepted because you differentiated yourself through the optional essay.

Yes, you can increase your admission chances by properly conveying a hobby you enjoy.

Obviously, it is not a guarantee.