Bad Attitude

Is this whole thing pretty phony and hooky...absolutely! But it seems to me that it representative of most job interviews.....Bob, tell me about a time when you solved a probelm,, hahaha.. no different, just a big stupid game that must be played to achieve the end goal.. but it becomes really painful to go through it no doubt.

When I started this whole process my father gave me one piece of advice that has rang true throughout it, "Sometimes you have to fake it to make it."

Best thread ever!

We want to add diversification to the class - We want everyone all around the world to submit their apps, so we can earn more money.

Obviously everyone who appears for the GMAT and applies to B schools is a masochist. More so for international applicants. Why would they do it otherwise

OK I meant "many" there.

One of the top business schools hired its own student to get the %employed after graduation move up I so want to sit in an ethics class at that school.

Awesome thread!
I was ROFLing my way through. Each post here deserves a Booker! :D

I am sure there must be some collges to give interview invite to people who are otherwise deadmeat and then ding them so they will reapply again and many with siilar profiles would apply thereby generating hype and good figures(selectivity etc)

BUMP!

Browsing through some old posts to let off some steam and found this gem. Look for batchgmat's question to an ad-com. That was frigging awesome.

Fricking crazy!

I certainly can relate to this thread. I am getting burned out. Only my stubborn determination keeps driving me along.

Wow ...excellent thread to bring up now.
There ain't a better way to vent this out ... I just hope the results are sweet enough to neutralise this bitterness ...
Until then, I'll fool myself that I'm not bitter to keep myself going !

These adcom goons probably all have HR backgrounds...

I think Montauk, that retard even says so in his book.

Well, that's like saying someone got a 770 after studying for 2 weeks.... e-stats.

You could also say that the reverse is true. I'm not saying you in particular, but there are always people who say that they did this amount of work and exaggerate how hard they worked.

I also talked to another person who said that they applied to 7 schools. When I probed further, I found out that he applied to 4 schools in R1 and was working on and planning on applying to the other 3 schools in R2. This is very different than saying that you applied to 7 in R1.

Nice discussion.

Sometimes I wish applying to grad school was as simple as it is back home - no essays, no interviews, no resumes, nothing - just a raw coefficient made up of grades from exams that are offered ONCE a year at the institution. Every applicant is just a number rounded to the nearest thousandth :)

I think there are definitely plenty of people who can nail a high GMAT with minimal effort. If you are not too far out of college from an math heavy major that also have strong verbal skills and work in a quant heavy jobs a 700+ should be pretty easy. However, a person who could put solid essays together in a short period of time would be extremely rare. Just the research that you need to include the right elements (clubs, classes, majors, facilities, and the specifics of the school) with the correct name since every school calls stuff different things, takes a ton of time.

Then getting 3-6 essays to work well together...thats incredibly tough. Now doing that for 3 schools in a short time is bordering on impossible, especially if those are going to be great applications.

I for one, really hate the essays.