This thread is for the Booth 2011 Application Year, meaning applicants that are starting School in the Fall of 2011. Please direct all of your questions for this year into the 2012 thread calling-all-2012-chicago-booth-fall-applicants-116701.html If you are a current student/admit, please consider visiting the thread for Admitted Students admitted-to-chicago-booth-class-of-2013-full-time-mba-thread-107432.html At Chicago Booth, you get more than just a world-class education. You become part of a global business force. Please use the following form to add your stats to the spreadsheet: Form link Edit Link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Av3d03301eNIdFozSUpyT2lUQzN0TG41MTFDWG83eHc&hl=en#gid=0 Spreadsheet 0Av3d03301eNIdFozSUpyT2lUQzN0TG41MTFDWG83eHc GMAT CLUB STATS Round 1 Deadline: October 13, 2010 Notification: December 15, 2010 Round 2 Deadline: January 5, 2011 Notification: March 16, 2011 Round 3 Deadline: April 13, 2011 Notification: May 18, 2011 Evening/Weekend MBA Deadlines: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/parttime/a ... #deadlines SCHOOL INFO Excerpts from Admissions Chat Events Application Review Process At minimum three people will review an application. We do not review applications in groups but the reader will have access to the previous readers' reviews. Our office hires students to serve as Admissions Fellows. These students will review the files(and conduct our on campus interviews.) Once the Fellows complete their review an admissions officer reviews and will make a recommendation. At this time a candidate is invited to interview or recommended for denial. If denial the Associate Dean will review the file. If invited to interview, after the interview takes place, the file is reviewed again by an admissions officer. A recommendation is made and ultimately the Associate Dean makes the final decision. We do not compare students between rounds; we only evaluate applications based on each round. The chances of being admitted are very similar from one round to the next. Interview As for interviews, Interviewers will NOT have access to your applications. We conduct interviews either on campus by admissions fellows or off campus by alumni. All applicants have the option of coming to campus or interviewing with a local alumni. Academics The Booth MBA is based on a discipline based approach to business education, with finance being at the cornerstone. Chicago Booth boasts a legendary finance curriculum, covering both corporate finance and investments. In addition, our long-standing relationships and success in recruiting with the biggest investment organizations in the world. General Guest: what are the top features booth is looking for in an mba candidate and how can i improve my chances of admission Kurt: The best way to be successful in this process is to really know your story. Where have you been? What skill and experiences have fostered over time? How do these things prepare you for an MBA, and a career post MBA? And finally, how does a specific program i.e. Booth bridge the gap effectively between where you are and where you want to be. Think through this effectively and convey this story utilizing all the aspects provided in the application will give you your best chance of success. To be candid we expect that students applying to a top school are smart, engaged and demonstrate signs for leadership potential. With those things being staples it is at the margins where you can most directly impact your outcome. And your story and fit is what lives in the margins. Neel the overwhelming majority of our students in the FT program are looking to make a career change. To do so you have to think through what you know about the desired industry, what skill and experiences do they covet and what do you bring to the table. In most cases once you do this exercise you will realize where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and at Chicago because of our flexibility and commitment to analytics you will have every opportunity to round out your necessary skill sets and go after the role you desire. Essays 1. The Admissions Committee is interested in learning more about you on both a personal and professional level. Please answer the following (maximum of 300 words for each section): a. Why are you pursuing a full-time MBA at this point in your life? b. Define your short and long term career goals post MBA. c. What is it about Chicago Booth that is going to help you reach your goals? d. REAPPLICANTS ONLY: Upon reflection, how has your thinking regarding your future, Chicago Booth, and/or getting an MBA changed since the time of your last application? These short essays will require you to know yourself. You will need to understand where you have been and where you are going. Before you begin drafting the responses to these essays, take some time for self-reflection. Why do you want to return to school? Why is the MBA the right degree for you? We know that many of you will use your MBA experience to help you figure out what kind of job to pursue next. Even though your future career plans may not be clear at this time, you should still be able to discuss your goals and how they relate to obtaining an MBA. For our reapplicants, question 1d is where you can tell us what, if anything, has changed since the time of your last application. What has occurred in your life or career that has either reinforced or changed your goals? What lessons have you learned or how have you grown since you last applied to Chicago Booth? 2. Chicago Booth is a place that challenges its students to stretch and take risks that they might not take elsewhere. Tell us about a time when you took a risk and what you learned from that experience (maximum of 750 words). You’re probably wondering, “What kind of risk do you want me to discuss?” To be honest, we’re not looking for one kind of risk in particular. It can be a risk related to your professional, academic or personal life. It can be a risk that resulted in either a positive or negative outcome. We want to hear about a time when you challenged yourself and what you learned from that experience. How has that experience influenced your future actions? 3. At Chicago Booth, we teach you HOW to think rather than what to think. With this in mind, we have provided you with “blank pages” in our application. Knowing that there is not a right or even a preferred answer allows you to demonstrate to the committee your ability to navigate ambiguity and provide information that you believe will support your candidacy for Chicago Booth. Earlier this year, there was some discussion as to whether we would continue using the presentation as part of our evaluation process. With the presentation proving to be such an important tool in helping us determine who is a good fit for Chicago Booth, we decided it was necessary to include in our 2011 application. However, this year, we are giving applicants even greater freedom to decide what information they want to convey in the presentation. Since we’re providing you with “blank pages,” what you decide to address in your presentation is up to you. Look at the other aspects of your application. Are there messages or activities that you have not yet been able to communicate to the committee? If so, then the presentation will be an opportunity for you to provide us with this type of information. After reviewing your presentation, we want to have a better understanding of who you are and how you think. Also, please remember that it is the content – not the design – that should be the focus of the presentation. We understand that not everyone is a design guru. So, whether it’s through photos, images, graphs, or just words, the goal is to communicate your messages as effectively as possible.

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Add me to the huge waitlist...

A question for current students: Do you know when waitlisted applications are looked at again? Is it immediately after the R2 deadline (Jan 5) or is it after the mid-decision date (Feb 16)? Are we only considered once R2 candidates have been invited to interview (since all waitlisters have been interviewed)? I am trying to have something specific prepared online and I am wondering how quickly my app will be looked at again... Thanks for your help.

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Noob question : Considering the zillion waitlists, is there any hope for R2 applicants? Thanks.

You'll certainly be considered before the waitlists. In my opinion.

My guess would be that R2 would be considered alongside R1 waitlists. I wouldn't expect the adcom to favor one group over the other.

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Waitlisted! in India

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Please add me to the admit list. Received phone call at 11am CST on Tuesday. US Citizen living in Asia. Thanks.

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Been away from my desk for a couple days, but received a phone call yesterday afternoon to welcome me to Booth's MBA class of 2013. Congrats to the admits, and good luck to anyone disappointed with their decision today. Keep your head up, keep grinding, and you'll make it happen.

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Add me to the waitlist

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Long time lurker here. Missed the call from the adcom member... I am traveling outside the country and was in a meeting when they called. They left a voicemail saying they have some "good news" to share. Will call them tomorrow. I was waiting all day for the call but ended up missing it. The wait was one of the most excruciating experiences I have had in a long time.

I was really nervous most of the day but kept calming myself by thinking "everything happens for a reason". Please don't lose hope. Good luck.

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another WL...indian pool...

guess i'll just hibernate for a couple of months now :D

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Waitlisted from India :cry:

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Noob question : Considering the zillion waitlists, is there any hope for R2 applicants? Thanks.

You'll certainly be considered before the waitlists. In my opinion.

I'd say it's probably a level playing field. I don't know why admissions would give preference to someone just because they applied on a different date. I think we waitlisters are essentially just R2 applicants at this point.

So what happens if you are waitlist candidate who doesn't make the cut in R2? Does that mean that you get dinged or do you just remain on the waitlist?

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[/quote]

So what happens if you are waitlist candidate who doesn't make the cut in R2? Does that mean that you get dinged or do you just remain on the waitlist?[/quote]

In my opinion, it means that you get dinged. This is mentioned in the waitlist letter with the following sentence.

While we hope to enroll as many waitlist candidates as we can at that point, the possibility does exist that some students will continue to be on the waitlist into the next application round.

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anyone based in delhi going to the booth leadership series lecture tomm??

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A couple of quick clarifying points for your WL:

* You are considered alongside other applicants in each round.
* You can be admitted, denied or remain on the waitlist through R2, R3 and into the summer.
* If you are WL and DO NOT INTEND to go to Booth (e.g. you got your admit to some other school "up north") take yourself off the list and give someone else a chance at their dream. Don't be an ass and try to collect as many admits as possible. No one will ever care and you won't either in about six months.

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Thank you rhyme. Can you please clarify whether Booth expects us to send in additional material or not? The waitlist letter isn't very clear on the matter. It states that the additional material is "welcomed", but doesn't sound necessary. Do you know anyone who got in without sending any new material?

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I combed through last year's thread for some answers - looks like you can really do either. Someone got in by sending in an additional reco and lots of updates, and someone got in by doing absolutely nothing. My best advice would be to send in a reminder within the next few weeks and keep them updated once or twice before the R2 decision date.

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admission denied.

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Question for the admits, when do you have to submit your deposit and accept your admisison offer by?

Booth has a weird 2 deposit process. The first deposit of $1,000 is due with your acceptance on 2/25 and a second $1,000 deposit is due by 6/3.

This really puts me in a bind. I really like Chicago and they offered me a significant amount of money but the HBS admit weekend is 2/24-25. Pretty much that means I need to make a call on Chicago before even getting a chance to meet potential classmates at HBS. Kellogg's acceptance deadline is in early March which seems much more reasonable.

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Question for the admits, when do you have to submit your deposit and accept your admisison offer by?

Well, I guess you could submit the $1000 deposit and go to the HBS admit weekend. If you decide to go to Harvard, you'll be out of $1k, but in the long run that's probably not that big of a deal.