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. 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money9111

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19 Jan 2011, 10:28

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The anxiety is definitely getting the better of me. I just noticed that things have slightly changed under the interview tab for me. Previously, I could see instructions for applicants to all of Booth’s MBA program e.g. If you’re a PT applicant then….etc. Now just the FT MBA applicant instructions are showing up! This is probably an absolutely meaningless observation but just goes on to show what happens if you hit the refresh button every 30 seconds for a straight hour! :D

HAHAHA that's probably how I'm going to be in a month or so... refresh refresh refresh

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19 Jan 2011, 10:30

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HAHAHA that's probably how I'm going to be in a month or so... refresh refresh refresh

That's their way of messing with your head!

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19 Jan 2011, 10:34

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Oh definitely. I would love to be in the admissions office. I would be like "hey... let's change the order around of the menu bar at 12:01... then change it back at 12:31." "let's change the background color to green and then change it to red" applicants would hate me

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19 Jan 2011, 10:41

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HAHAHA that's probably how I'm going to be in a month or so... refresh refresh refresh

That's their way of messing with your head!

For their own entertainment, Admissions offices should keep track of the number of times each candidate checks his/her status. I'm not saying they should make decisions based on it, but it would be fun keep track of the people who refresh most often, and maybe place bets on what the highest number of status page checks will be and who will check the most. As decision day approaches and the stats are updated real-time on a webpage, it would be like watching election results!

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19 Jan 2011, 11:12

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Guys having gone through the whole process a couple of months ago, there's only one time of day you should be anxious: 9:05AM CST. After that, RELAX.

The absolute WORST thing you can do for your mental sanity is falling into the obsessive refresh. Easier said than done I know, but give the hands-off approach an honest try.

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19 Jan 2011, 11:15

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A general question, do they release interview invites everyday? Is it only certain days of the week? Do they come only on specific dates in bunches? Just curious so that every 9:05 AM CST isn't painstaking for the next month (obviously weekends won't be an issue).

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19 Jan 2011, 11:25

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That could be a diabolical way to increase yield. "Jimmy over here refreshed 40,000 times last month, while Mary only checked her status once -- clearly Jimmy really wants to come here versus Mary." Of course if it were revealed that this was a metric they used, it would create the terrible situation of people refreshing just to boost their stats (probably culminating with applicants hiring people to refresh for them full time, a la WoW gold farmers).

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19 Jan 2011, 11:32

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I think I see a new industry forming...

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19 Jan 2011, 11:45

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19 Jan 2011, 12:05

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Did you go to the Booth Live day on November 12th by any chance? If so, I may have met you. I met a guy from Brazil and we talked a lot. I think he applied to the same schools and also had a 740 on the GMAT.

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19 Jan 2011, 12:07

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For anyone wondering about when apps went complete, mine went complete on 1/6 (applied 1/3) and I got an interview invite this morning.

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19 Jan 2011, 12:10

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For anyone wondering about when apps went complete, mine went complete on 1/6 (applied 1/3) and I got an interview invite this morning.

Kind of gives me some hope ! mine went complete on 1/8.

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19 Jan 2011, 12:19

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I got mine in on the R2 deadline and I guess it went complete on 1/15, at least thats when I got an email about the change. No invite so far, but I'm still thinking posititve!

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Also keep in mind that the complete date is just when they verified your app was complete. They probably print them in piles and then distribute to different people to read them.

I would bet that not all of the ones that are "complete" have even been read yet.

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For anyone wondering about when apps went complete, mine went complete on 1/6 (applied 1/3) and I got an interview invite this morning.

Kind of gives me some hope ! mine went complete on 1/8.

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19 Jan 2011, 12:24

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I submitted on 1/5 and my status is still "Submitted" and hasn't change to "Complete" or "Received". Anyone else? I know one of my recommenders did submit past the deadline, although it was still submitted on 1/5.

I did contact admissions via e-mail as instructed in the Round 2 Information e-mail. No response yet...

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19 Jan 2011, 12:30

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Scroll through the pg 81-83, there are other candidates in this situation. I think Booth has asked them to wait on.

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19 Jan 2011, 13:20

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All I can say they released both dings and invites at 9:05AM CST for R1 throughout the specified period. If the same thing happens during the first few days of the R2 interview notification window, I think it's safe to say they'll do so for the rest of the month.

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19 Jan 2011, 13:25

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dalillama

Nope. Sorry. :-D

I actually didn't go to any Booth events except for the admitted student happy hour they had in São Paulo at the end of December.

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19 Jan 2011, 14:03

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Nope. Sorry. :-D

I actually didn't go to any Booth events except for the admitted student happy hour they had in São Paulo at the end of December.

Hi dalailama, seems like you have an admit from Kellogg and Booth with $$. Have you decided between the 2 ? If I end up in the same situation that question is pretty much going to be looming over my head too. Obv, I am not expecting the $$ in my case. Thanks.