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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09 Feb 2011, 08:32

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holywater

Mine went complete on Jan. 21.
Still waiting for interview invite. It's been almost three weeks...Anxiety piling up...

just received the invite a couple of minutes ago...out of my expectations...

So for those who are still waiting, just DO NOT lose hope. 3 weeks or 4 weeks are not much different IMO. Just keep hope until Feb. 16.

Can you share your profile please?

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09 Feb 2011, 09:00

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Got invite! Very shocked as I have already given up... Best of luck to everyone still waiting

Don't give up till Feb 16!!

Submitted: 1/5
Completed: 1/20
Invite: 2/9 9:05am CST

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Got an invite this morning at 10:05 ET - was not expecting this at all. Just another data point, but please don't lose hope folks. I know that reading these boards induces and incredible amount of anxiety - just be confident that you put forth the best application you possibly could. It will all work out.

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Submitted: 1/4
Complete: 1/28
Invited: 2/9

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Booth interviews ~50%and I dont have an invite. Reapplicants - any luck? There was one in this thread ????

I'm a reapp; and, I haven't heard anything. I wonder if the review process for reapplicants is significantly different from first-time applicant. At least, that's what I am telling myself. I went complete on the 14th and have not heard anything. Getting dinged two years in a row would be a quite deflating.

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09 Feb 2011, 09:47

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Mine went complete on Jan. 21.
Still waiting for interview invite. It's been almost three weeks...Anxiety piling up...

Congrats!!

I went complete on 21 Jan too. Haven't heard anything yet.. doesn't look too good.

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09 Feb 2011, 10:19

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For me, under "Interview Schedule" section, my status is still "In Progress".

Is this normal?

I had my interview on Saturday (2/5). My status is strange - it says

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Does that mean they have submitted the report or not?

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09 Feb 2011, 12:14

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I got a question about setting up the interview. When I searched for an interviewer, there was a box where I can send my interviewer a note. I wrote a short note to propose a time and place, and my interviewer havent gotten back to me yet after 2 days. Should I follow up by writing an email to my interviewer? Not sure whether she got my note or not.

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Congratulations to all who have received R2 interview invites and best wishes to my fellow R1 waitlisters.

Now that we are one week away from the Feb 16 waitlist "update date", has anyone learned anything new about what we can expect? It seems the speculation up until this point has mostly been negative (ie only dings will be released to some candidates, but no admits).

On my end, I spoke to a friend who is on the student adcom; they stressed several times that they are not involved in the waitlist process so they don't have direct knowledge, but said that they would be surprised if there were dings this early on in the process. Essentially, their thought process was that it costs Booth very little or nothing to maintain the WL, so kicking people off now would only limit their potential options later.

Any thoughts?

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09 Feb 2011, 13:29

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That box is there for a note when you confirm an interview that is already scheduled. You should email the alum directly to set up the time and place.

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09 Feb 2011, 13:51

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I'm one my way to the interview...wish me luck!!

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09 Feb 2011, 14:03

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They made it sound like their motivation is to provide the courtesy to the people on the waitlist with a decision a month sooner than they normally would hear back. I don't think it has anything to do with costs, I think they oversubscribed the waitlist by either admitting too few than they normally would or waitlisting more borderline people they otherwise would have rejected. After being able to review the R2 candidates for a month now, they can probably gauge the number of potential applicants they plan to admit and thereby adjust it accordingly. What I think it means is that a R2 candidate probably "replaces" a similar quality candidate on the waitlist, thereby resulting in a rejection decision on February 16th for that waitlist candidate. Because I'm assuming that their main goal is to fill R2 spots with R2 candidates, I just think it would be weird to admit a waitlist candidate without admitting an R2 candidate because theoretically that would imply that that waitlist candidate is better and more deserving than any R2 candidate. For that reason, I think Feb 16 will only be denials for waitlisters. I do hope I'm wrong though because an admit then would be awesome.

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09 Feb 2011, 15:30

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I agree with most of this, but I don't think R2 vs. R1 waitlist plays into the decision. For two similar applicants, adcoms see both as simply applicants and have no reason to use R2 vs. R1 waitlist as a tiebreaker.

Also, I agree that courtesy is the major factor, but costs could play a role. Having a really large waitlist means managing a larger list of people and needing more staff time processing updates and communications from them. Maybe it's not significant, but there are definitely costs to keeping a very large waitlist.

I also think that Feb 16 will be likely be all denials, and then waitlist admits will come at the same time as the R2 admits. Whether the decision comes in February or March, I'm hoping to see lots of you make it in off the waitlist!

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Currently in limbo between interview and decision. The wait is killer.

Met up with a Booth alumni to chat tonight, and the alumni suggested something interesting. Knowing that Booth is my #1 choice, he suggested that I reach out to adcom, either via direct email or via an addendum to my app, and explicitly state that "if admitted, I would 100% accept". He reasoned that (a) it shows a high level of interest from the candidate and (b) it incentivizes the school since the metric "percentage of admitted students who accept the offer" is factored into those all-important business school rankings (e.g. US News rankings and Businessweek rankings). Elite business schools want to admit people they know will accept the offer; it helps in the long-run towards upping their rank in those ultra-important rankings list.

Any thoughts?

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seems way too aggressive to me but alum may know better

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kleinster,

The alum makes a point but if I were in your place (as I have been as a R1 applicant), I wouldn't do it. However, I have conveyed to the Ad Com that, if admitted I would certainly accept, now that I am on the WL. My view is that you should leave it be for now. I am sure you have done your best and stand a good chance at being admitted.

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I agree with your theory, Atsushi though I will say that this whole courtesy thing is pretty silly because clearly they have WL way too many people in R1 and they're just getting rid of some of the borderline ones. True regard for the applicant would be to have a reasonable WL comprising only applicants who genuinely stand a chance and reject the others before the R2 deadlines.

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Any idea as to wat %age of WLed candidates have been admitted in the past 2 years ?? i believe the %age wud be very low given Booth's surge in most of the rankings...

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I got my interview invite a few days ago. Does any of you know, or can give a qualified guess, how high percentage of all interview invitees actually get an offer?

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I got my interview invite a few days ago. Does any of you know, or can give a qualified guess, how high percentage of all interview invitees actually get an offer?

Booth gets, on average 5500 applicants. They have a class of 550. They interview 50% of the applicant pool so that's 2750 interviewed candidate of which 550 are eventually selected. That means you have a 20% chance of making it to the class if you are called for an interview. So from pre-interview to post-interview, your chances change from 10% to 20%. No biggie.

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10 Feb 2011, 06:14

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Good point. It's probably less to show courtesy and more because they oversubscribed the R1 waitlist, but good on them to release the excess capacity in February rather than in March.