Stanford GSB 2013 - Calling all Applicants

I promise there is not. The admissions committee has said it a million times: there is no order to the application reads. Even if they read them alphabetically, sometimes they put an application to the side and come back to it once they've read more submissions. So even if there was an order, it's disrupted by their jumping back and forth to revisit applicants they had on the margin.

International intake happen in Round 1 and Round 2. And with no offense, most applicants to the GSB are self-selected as having unique profiles. And applying with your wife would not help either, because you are going to take two spots out of an already extremely limited intake. R3 intake happens domestically also for visa reasons. You will not have enough time to settle down everything. So instead of wasting your chance on a R3 this year, think about R1 for the next year--if you are really serious about GSB. Because if you failed this year in R3 and apply for R1 the next admission cycle, they will treat your application as a reapplication. They won't care which round you didn't it, and that won't help you. So, think carefully before you make that application, and don't spoil your chance on a R3 app.

Wow... looking at last year's thread was not encouraging... looks like they had few r2 invites... and they kept rolling out slowly until March 7th or so... In speaking with admissions, I was told most invitations will be sent by Mar 13th which is consistent... I guess this won't be as active a thread as some of the other top schools... Best of luck to everyone and maybe ease up on checking in on this one in particular... We've got a month before making a real yes/no judgment call.

Columbia gets my deposit money until then... (due next week)

I think the original responder was just saying that ueber-competitive profiles are, by definition, very rare, so think extra-hard about applying in Round 3. That sounds like a pretty fair response to a question that asked for an opinion.

How did your interview go Cerasi? Any questions you weren't expecting?

Is Stanford even sending the invite?? I dont see beside handfull of people declaring they got the invite. What is happening- either people are not reporting or Stanford is not sending it. So people what it is ? Any guesses?

congrats! did you get it through email?

Yep! Email came at 4:07 CST today!

Congrats!

Also, random, but I noticed that you and I are in exactly the same boat regarding both the schools we've applied to and the decisions we've gotten so far... Weird! Anyhow, good luck!

So funny - clearly HBS is missing out on both of us What's your background/geography? I'm at an MBB in the Midwest.

Best of luck to you, too!

Congrats! This is fantastic news! Best of luck to your interviews!

And hope the rest of us waiting also get some good news soon...

Haha, definitely! I'm in the Midwest also, and I work in public sector consulting.

I'll think again the common belief that GSB steal a large portion of HBS admit...So it is possible they really have different eyes for candidates?

Alright, this made me wonder... Apparently, they are looking for different things in some cases. But here are the numbers, according to poetsandquants (I added the "not enrolled" line")

Stanford
Applicants: 7,204
Accepted: 488
% Accepted: 6.8%
Enrolled: 389
Not enrolled: 99
Yield: 79.7%

Harvard
Applicants: 9,524
Accepted: 1,071
% Accepted: 11.2%
Enrolled: 903
Not enrolled: 168
Yield: 84.3%

Stanford's not going to steal a huge portion of anything, because it's just too small, but assuming that all 168 of the people that turned down HBS went to Stanford, that would be around 19% of HBS's admits.

However, what's perhaps more interesting is that both schools together got a total of 267 not-enrolleds. Assuming that all refusals to one of these schools was to go to the other one (not true, of course, but as a very rough estimate), that would mean that only 267 people got into both schools--which would be 55% of Stanford's admits and 25% of HBS's. So a lot more Stanford admits would have been accepted at HBS than vice versa... but 45% still wouldn't have. (Unless I've done something crazy with my math here.) Food for thought?

ETA: This of course has very little bearing on anyone's chances of getting into both if they apply to both, since the people who apply to one definitely don't always apply to the other. Just talking about how much overlap there would be at the end of the day.

You are awesome!

I'll think again the common belief that GSB steal a large portion of HBS admit...So it is possible they really have different eyes for candidates?[/quote]

Just looking at my friends around me, it does appear that way.... Most people I know got accepted/ interviewed by Harvard but did not even get an invite from Stanford...

There is some overlap but not as much as people think.