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Schools:UCLA Anderson '12
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Location: NYC
Concentration: Finance
Schools:Harvard (R2 - Waiting), Stanford (R2 - See Wharton), Wharton (R2 - Bitchslapped)
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Last visit: 30 Sep 2011
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Affiliations: CFA L3 Candidate, Grad w/ Highest Honors
Location: USA
Concentration: Investment Management
Schools:Chicago Booth R2 (WL), Wharton R2 w/ int, Kellogg R2 w/ int
GMAT 2: 680  Q44  V38
GPA: 3.877
WE 1: Global Operations (Futures & Portfolio Financing) - Hedge Fund ($10bn+ Multi-Strat)
WE 2: Investment Analyst (Credit strategies) - Fund of Hedge Fund ($10bn+ Multi-Strat)
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Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : Investment Management
GMAT: 680 (Q: 44, V38)
GPA: 3.9/4.0 Majored in Finance @ a mid tier private university (Graduated Highest Honors)
Work experience(WE): 2yrs Global Operations (Futures & Portfolio Financing) at a Hedge Fund ($10bn+ Multi-Strat); 3 yrs Investment Analyst (Credit strategies) at a European Fund of Hedge Fund ($10bn+ Multi-Strat)
Nationality: American (lived in Eastern Europe for 5 years b/c of my fathers work)
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Extra-curriculars/community: Candidate for CFA Level 3 exam; Mentor/Project Leader/Committee Leader within several University Alumni Associations; Committee Member through a Romanian cultural society; Active member in Kiva and Coalition to Save Darfur.

Schools applied to:

Chicago Booth: Round 2
Status: ACCEPTED

Wharton: Round 2
Status: Invited to Interview....than DING

Kellogg: Round 2
Status: DING
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Joined: 21 Jan 2010
Last visit: 17 May 2010
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Concentration: General
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Program: FT MBA
Area of interest in MBA : GM, Strategy, Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 770 49Q 47V 6AWA.
GPA: 3.45, local university, BSc. Engineering, Minor in Entrepreneurship
Work experience(WE): 5 years at a major defense contractor
Nationality: Canadian
Age: 28
Gender: M
Extra-curriculars/community: Teach autistic kids to ski, big brother, golfing, climbing, web-site (https://www.RenoRaters.com)...

Schools applied to:

HBS: Round 2
Status: Submitted Jan 17, 2010

Sloan: Round 2
Status: Denied w/o interview (March 5)

Kellogg JD/MBA 2013: Round 2
Status: Submitted Jan 12, 2010, Interviewed Dec 27, 2009

Haas: Round 3
Status: Submitting Feb 1, 2010
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Last visit: 17 Jun 2013
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Program: MBA(FT)
Area of interest in MBA : Private Equity
GMAT: 760 (Q51/V41, 4.5)
GPA: 3.0/4.0, BBA, Top university in China
Work experience(WE): 8 yrs in big four accounting firm, 6 yr auditing + 2 yr M&A consulting.
Nationality: Chinese
Age: 30
Gender: Male

Schools applied to:

Wharton: Round 2
Status: Complete

Chicago Booth: Round 2
Status: Complete

Columbia: Round 2
Status: Under Review

Tuck: Round 2
Status: Interview Invited

Yale: Round 2
Status: Complete
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Last visit: 12 Mar 2012
Posts: 32
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Concentration: Entrepreneurship
Schools:Stanford, Haas, UCLA, Darden, Booth!!, Kellogg, UW, UT-Austin, USC, UCI
 Q50  V38
GPA: 3.75
WE 1: 4 Years Airline Pilot
WE 2: 1 Year International Jet Instructor (Uruguay)
WE 3: 1 Year Startup Flight School
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Program: FT MBA
Area of interest in MBA: Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 730 (50Q, 38V 5.0AWA)
GPA: 3.75 BS: Aeronautical Science/Flight Education, Top Civilian Flight School
Work experience(WE): 4 years Airline Pilot
1 year International Jet Instructor (Montevideo, Uruguay) -Amazing job!
1 year starting and growing a small flight school in San Francisco
Nationality: US
Age: 28
Gender: M
Extra-curriculars/community: Rock and Roll (perform on piano/drums often), sing/rap in a comedy hip-hop group, competitive distance runner in various running clubs, and volunteer for a Uruguayan textile exchange company.

Schools applied to:

Stanford: R1
Status: Denied w/o interview

UC-Berkeley: R1
Status: Denied w/o interview

UCLA: R1
Status: Admitted

Kellogg: R1
Status: Waitlist

Chicago Booth: R1
Status: Waitlisted R2: Admitted R3: +$50K Fellowship--Matriculating

UW Foster: R1
Status: Admitted

USC Marshall: R1
Status: Admitted +$49K

UT-Austin: R1
Status: Admitted +$42K

Darden: R1
Status: Admitted

UC-Irvine: R1
Status: Admitted +$40K
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Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Last visit: 09 May 2016
Posts: 144
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Location: Berkeley, CA
Concentration: Technology
Schools:Berkeley-Haas MBA
WE 1: Investment Management (fund of funds)
WE 2: Private Equity ($2bn generalist fund)
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Program: FT MBA
Area of interest in MBA: Consulting, Technology
GMAT: 710 (49Q, 38V 4.5AWA)
GPA: 3.6, BS Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Top #3 engineering school
Work experience(WE): 2.5 years in fund of funds then 2 years in private equity
Nationality: Indian
Age: 26
Gender: M
Extra-curriculars/community: Board member of local Special Olympics organization, Founded a start-up recently (after work hours project)

Schools applied to:

Kellogg: R1
Status: Accepted

UC-Berkeley Haas: R1
Status: Accepted

London Business School: R1
Status: Accepted

Sloan: R1
Status: Denied w/o interview

Wharton: R1
Status: Denied w/o interview
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Joined: 28 Nov 2009
Last visit: 08 Sep 2011
Posts: 4
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Concentration: Social Entrepreneurship / Sustainable Development
Schools:Oxford (R2), Brandeis (submitted), Duke (R3), Notre Dame (R3)
 Q42  V44
GPA: 3.1
WE 1: IT project management and system design/development
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Program: MBA (FT)
Area of interest in MBA: Entrepreneurship / Social Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 700 (42Q / 44V / 6 AWA)
GPA: Interdisciplinary studies, GPA 3.1, big state uni
Work experience(WE): 14 years IT / project mgt / systems design & development
Nationality: US
Age: 34@matric
Gender: F
Extra-curriculars/community: Various, mostly education focused

Schools applied to:
Oxford (R2)
Status: Ding w/out interview

Brandeis (Heller)
Status: Admit with $$ - Matriculating

edited - did not apply to other schools, Brandeis was my 2nd choice
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Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : VC, Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 640
GPA: 3.8 Finance, HBCU
Work experience(WE): 6 years I-banking + PE, 2 years non-profit & media startup
Nationality: Black
Age: 30 at mat
Gender: F

Schools applied to:

Stanford: Round 2
Status: Submitted

HBS: Round 2
Status: Submitted

Haas: Round 4
Status: In progress

Wharton: Round 3
Status: in progress
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Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : Finance / Strategy
GMAT: 700 (47Q, 40V, 5.0AWA)
GPA: 3.1 Electrical Engineering, Top US Engineering School
Work experience(WE): 8 years. (2.5 YRS Telecommunication Engineering, 4.0 years Energy Engineering, 1.5 years Energy Operations Management). Worked/Lived extensively in North America, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Misc: Very good recommendations, Decent essays, Average E.C. in University, little afterward.
Ethnicity: Middle Eastern Mix
Age: 31 at mat.
Gender: M

Schools applied to:

Marshall: R2. ADMITTED.
Stern: R2. Wait-LIST
HBS: R2. DING.
Haas: R3. Under Review.
Olin: R3. WITHDRAWN APPLICATION.
Jones: R3. ADMITTED W/ $$.
LBS: R3. DING.
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Program: MBA Full-Time
Area of interest in MBA : Marketing / Brand Planning & Strategy
GMAT: 720, 6.0 AWA
GPA: 3.54 top liberal arts college
Work experience (WE): 3.5 years in advertising
Ethnicity: Asian/White mix (U.S)
Age: 25
Gender: F
ECs: volunteer work w/ independent film festival, LGBT soccer league board, newspaper editor/varsity athlete in college

Schools applied to:

USC Marshall - Admitted w/ fellowship :)
UW Foster - Admitted w/ scholarship
UC Irvine - Admitted w/ fellowship
Oregon - Admitted w/ scholarship
UCLA - applied R2 - interviewed
Haas - applied R2 - dinged w/out interview
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Last visit: 24 Oct 2011
Posts: 97
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Location: Hanover, NH
Concentration: MC, Entrepreneurship, GM
Schools:Tuck class of 2012
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WE 1: 2 years market development (public)
WE 2: 5 years corporate finance (private)
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Program: MBA Full-Time
Area of interest in MBA: Strategy, General Management, Ethics
GMAT: 760, 4.5 AWA
GPA: not too bad, foreign language major in a French university. 3 master's degrees (yes you read well, I do hold 3 master's degrees) from French universities/schools
Work experience (WE): 2 years in market development (public), 5 years in corporate finance (private). Lot of leadership experience
Nationality: French
Age: 33 at mat. :oops:
Gender: M
ECs: President of several clubs during UG and after, some community work and hobbies. Lot of international experience

Schools applied to:

Tuck (R1)
Status: Admitted with $ and matriculating

Wharton (R2)
Status: Ding with interview

Kellogg (R2)
Status: Ding with interview

Chicago Booth (R2)
Status: Ding with interview

MIT (R2):
Status: Ding w/o interview
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Last visit: 10 May 2010
Posts: 27
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Concentration: General Management, Marketing
Schools:Kellogg (R2 Admit), Tuck (R1 Ding), Booth (R2 Ding), Wharton (R2 Interviewed) , HBS (R2), Stanford (R2), Yale SOM (R3 withdrew), Tepper (R3 withdrew)
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GPA: 3.89
WE 1: 5.5 yrs engineering
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Program: Full-Time MBA
Area of Interest: Marketing, General Management
GMAT: 770 ( 50Q, 45V, 5.0 AWA )
GPA: 3.89 engineering from a small private "unknown" university in U.S.
WE: 5.5 yrs total, software engineering for 2 large multinational corporations; 1 yr mgmt experience
Grad School: M.S. in Computer Engineering, 3.50 GPA from a top 5 U.S. engineering program
Age: 29
Gender: M
Nationality/Ethnicity: American, Caucasian
UG ECs: Tutoring, leadership position in fraternity, intramural sports, some charity work
Post-grad ECs: Charity work for 2 orgs, event coordinator for 1 org, regularly active in casual team sports

Schools applied to:

Tuck: R1
Status: Ding

HBS: R2
Status: Submitted and under review

Wharton: R2
Status: Ding with interview

Stanford: R2
Status: Complete and under review

Kellogg: R2
Status: Admitted

Booth: R2
Status: Ding w/o interview

Yale SOM: R3
Status: Withdrawn

Tepper: R3
Status: Withdrawn
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Last visit: 04 Jan 2013
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Program: MBA FT
Concentration: Finance
GMAT: 730 (Q49 V40 AWA5.5)
Location: International
GPA: 3.4
WE: 9 - finance
Gender: F

Round 2:
NYU - Submitted, interviewed, Admitted
Chicago - submitted, interviewed, waitlisted
Wharton - Submitted, ding w interview
HBS - Submitted, ding w/out interview
Stanford - Submitted, ding w/out interview
Columbia - Submitted, ding w/out interview


Round 3:
LBS - Submitted, Admitted
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Concentration: International business, pharmaceutical, bio-tech
Schools:Cambridge/Judge '11
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Program: MBA
Area of interest: bio-tech / pharma / innovation / ventures
GMAT: 640
Location: Finland
WE: 2 years misc. corporate + 8 years biomedical research
Age: 29
Gender: F

Schools applied:
Hult (R1)
Admitted + $

Katz (R2)
Admitted + $$

JBS/Cambridge (R2)
Admitted - attending

SBS/Oxford (R2)
Admitted
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Merrianne
Joined: 25 Aug 2009
Last visit: 08 May 2012
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Schools:USC Marshall, Stanford, UCLA Anderson
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Program: MBA - FT
Area of interest: Social Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 760 (89%Q/99%V/AWA: 6)
GPA: 3.7 double major - BS in Finance/ BA in Comparative Literature, Top 20 University
WE: 3 yrs - Finance- Asset Management/Brokerage
Age: 24
Gender: F
Nationality/Ethnicity: American, Caucasian


Schools applied:
Stanford (R2)
Submitted, Waiting

UCLA Anderson (R2)
Interview Offer

USC Marshall (R2)
Submitted, Waiting
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Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA: GM
GMAT: 770
GPA: good average
WE: 6 years in IT
Nationality: Eastern European
Age: 27
Gender: M
EC: solid

Schools applied to:

LBS: Round 2
Status: Denied with interview

Chicago: Round 2
Status: Denied with interview

NYU: Round 2
Status: Waitlisted without interview

MIT: Round 2
Status: Denied without interview

HBS: Round 2
Status: Denied without interview
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Last visit: 16 Mar 2014
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Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA: General Management
GMAT: 730
GPA: BS Econ
Work experience(WE): 2y start-up, 3y industry
Nationality: International
Age: 27
Gender: M
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Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : NFP
GMAT: 690, Q47/V38
GPA: 3.3, Journalism, top 30 private university
Work experience(WE): 4.5 Years in banking for NFP's
Nationality: US
Age: 27 at mat
Gender: F


Schools applied to:

School 1 Kellogg R2
Status: Submitted

School 2 Sloan R2
Status: Submitted

School 2 HBS R2
Status: Submitted
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