Wharton 2013 - Calling All Applicants

1. I think it's fine to list your awards twice then, though it might be helpful to preview your app as a PDF. The layout/reasoning for how they ask their questions might become clearer then.

2. If you're listing your activities as after college, I don't think you should list them again as during college. Do you have other college activities you could add there?

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Anyone has the recommendation letter questions?

Did anyone get an email from the Admissions Office titled "Thank You for Participating in the Team-Based Discussion"? I got one at 4 PM ET.

It also contains some information about the financial aid. I wonder whether this is a positive sign...

i believe everyone gets this email a certain # of days after their interview.

But I do know someone who got the email 3-4 days after interview while I had been waiting for 2 weeks to get it. So maybe there is some certain sequences that admins sending out emails.

Thanks:)

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wow very nice building!!!

Did anyone else get that email about financing options today? I thought that was a bit strange to send out prior to any decisions actually being made.

Nothing here.

I think everyone who interviews gets that email a few days after it's complete. Who knows, though.

I got it a few days ago. Apparently, this is common practice for the Wharton adcom.

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Hi all,

for those who had their TBD and one-to-one interviews in London - can you share/PM to me the name of the interviewer please?
I have to contact her for an administrative stuff and it's difficult to find it out...

thanks a lot
MMF

Hello, I would really appreciate the expert/peer opinion on this:

I am applying to Booth and Wharton in R2 - both require 2 recommendations. I am an entrepreneur in a brick and mortar business with a total 10 years of work experience, the last 5 of which were spent starting and growing my business successfully. Prior to that, I worked as an IT management consultant with a well-known firm.

I have the option of choosing 1) My Auditor/Financial adviser/mentor from my current business, 2) A senior customer representative from my current business or 3) My Practice partner from my previous consulting job as my recommenders. I am planning to choose the first 2, but that makes my application pretty uni-dimensional as my essays also focus on my business venture. My practice partner from consulting can bring a different perspective on my managerial/leadership skills (examples of my leading teams internationally across different countries). On the other hand, if I choose the partner from my previous job, it makes the recommendation content 5 years old. That makes the recommendation's current relevance questionable.

So, I am pondering over whom to choose as my recommenders. Would be grateful for your inputs.

Thanks.

Wharton is hosting Coffee Chats around the world this winter. Meet some current students and mingle with other applicants & R1 acceptees.

For more information and to register:
https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admiss ... events.cfm

Just wondering if anyone has a sense of what % of applicants were invited for interviews in R1 under the new interview format? Also, any sense of what % of interviewees actually make it in?

I want it to be the 20th already!