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15 Feb 2014, 12:55
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Another option, not mentioned so far, is to stay near the airport (since you're arriving late that night). Depends whether you feel like trekking from the airport into town when you land or when you wake up, but the prices near O'Hare are likely to be lower than downtown. Then you can take a cab or the Blue Line into the loop in the morning & get to campus as others have described. Staying near the airport also allows the possibility of renting a car in the morning & driving all the way to Hyde Park from the airport, which would be a fine way to do it if you find a good rental price. But otherwise, I'll reiterate that you don't need a car unless you want to do a LOT of exploring of the city. The campus is walkable (even in the cold) and afterwards you can head back to the loop and get around via taxi/bus/El-train to see some of the central city.
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15 Feb 2014, 15:06
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Hi - I was invited to interview and am trying to decide if I should interview on campus or in my home city (Boston/NYC). In the invite it says "While we encourage everyone to interview on campus, as it is an additional opportunity to experience the Chicago Booth culture and discover your #WhyBooth reason, we certainly understand that this is not always possible." This makes it seem like they DO prefer you to interview on campus, and might hold it against you if you interview with an alum off-campus. However, on their admissions page general info, they say they don't care where you interview.
Anyone have recommendations/insights on if making the trek to Chicago will improve my application, and if not going will hurt it? The weather is awful so I also don't want to stress about flight cancellations. I'd prefer to just interview at home.
Thanks!!
Anyone have recommendations/insights on if making the trek to Chicago will improve my application, and if not going will hurt it? The weather is awful so I also don't want to stress about flight cancellations. I'd prefer to just interview at home.
Thanks!!
15 Feb 2014, 17:43
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I struggled with the same question and opted for an off-campus alumni interview. I decided that they can't hold it against you because otherwise their process would be flawed. I recognize that there's the worry of "Oh gosh, I don't want to screw up my chances at Booth by not going," but I really don't believe that is the case. I think that they would say "We encourage everyone to interview on campus, and we will grant waivers to allow off-campus interviews if you are an international applicant or have other extenuating circumstances." But they don't do that, and they have a robust network of alumni in different places just for this purpose.
Here's another thing I used to make my decision-- this whole application process is quite expensive, and I opted for an off-campus interview because if I am deciding between Booth and another school (if I'm so lucky!), I want to use my limited funds to travel to admitted-students weekends and get a feel for who my classmates might be. That helped me feel okay about the decision.
The other way to handle it is to be over-prepared during your off-campus interview to address questions about "Why Booth?" with lots of specifics. I'm going to be sure to do that and will just hope for the best. I think you can rest easy with whatever decision makes sense for you. Also, to assuage your concerns, I think you have to recognize that if you're a great applicant, whether you interview on or off-campus is less important than whether you have a great interview and have presented yourself well as a whole.
However, I'm curious what others think of this matter.
Should we be mailing them?
