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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From what I've seen I think Booth gets around 4,000 applications, not 5,500. If someone can point me to a site that shows 5,500 I'd be curious to see that.

Well, a current student told me the average is about 5000 (last year's BW figure is 4400). I made it 5500 for ease in calculation.

But I did not consider yield. My mistakes. That certainly ups chances to about 30-35%.

Just look at the US News rankings table....they quote an acceptance rate of 24.8% (you have to have the premium edition for this). If they interview about 50% of the applicants and accept 25%, then we can infer the probability of admission, given an interview is conducted, is close to 50% (including wait-list conversions).

Real statistics from US news premium edition:

Full-time applicants:3843
Accepted:954
Enrolled:592

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10 Feb 2011, 10:04

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I've followed the boards quite a bit but to keep my anxiety down, I haven't posted until now. Received my interview invite today 2.10.11. App was complete on 1.21.11. Was also starting to give up hope, the process is definitely random, hang in there guys!

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10 Feb 2011, 12:04

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Invited to interview 31 Jan, emailed alumni 4 Feb, no response from alum as of 10 Feb. Just emailed the admissions office asking for help.

Anyone else experiencing this? Having to email the alumni outside the application system seems like a really odd implementation to me.

Interviewing in London if that makes a difference.

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Had a speedy response from the interview co-ordinator, so resolution is looking good.

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10 Feb 2011, 14:10

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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.

Agreed - I wouldn't reach out to the adcom to tell them that at this point. What you should have done, and what I tried to do, is make it obvious in your essays that Booth was your top choice. I think I actually said this towards the end of essay #1:

"As my top choice for business school, Booth is the ideal place for me to acquire the...."

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Real statistics from US news premium edition:

Full-time applicants:3843
Accepted:954
Enrolled:592

What is the difference between the people accepted and enrolled? Is it the waitlists?

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People who take other offers over Booth

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I'm confused. If they accept 900 guys but only enroll about 600, then you mean that there are 300 vacancies not filled? it doesn't make sense :S

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10 Feb 2011, 15:12

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I assume they make more offers than there are places

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10 Feb 2011, 15:16

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Every school accepts more people than the expected/targeted class size. If the yield at Booth is about 70%, then to get a class size of 600, you would expect to accept 900 (obviously 300 will decline to attend).

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10 Feb 2011, 16:31

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What if they more people decide to matriculate than predicted. Do they increase the class size? ( say 700 of the 900 accepted candidates decide to matriculate--do they increase the class size from 600 to 700? ) I think they accept no more than their class size, in case people decide not to matriculate they admit the W/L candidates.

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10 Feb 2011, 16:51

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They will increase the class size a bit if they need to, but that's why they have the waitlist - to make sure they get the right amount of people. If 100% of people accepted their offers, no one from the waitlist would be accepted. When spots open up, they let people in off the waitlist.

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10 Feb 2011, 18:40

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We know 100 % wouldn't normally matriculate! My point was what if for a class of 600 they accepted 900 candidates out of which 700 decided to matriculate--then what will they do? Agreed W/L'ers do get invited--provided fewer than 600 would matriculate, but that is not guaranteed. I am talking about the other end of the spectrum.

I bet they have a distribution based on past trends that they use to calculate the safety margin.

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10 Feb 2011, 19:29

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I am a re-applicant.

Any re-applicants got interview invites?

I heard re-applicant process takes longer because Adcom reviews new application along with previous one.

Is this true???

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10 Feb 2011, 19:57

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I don't want to get too bogged down in this discussion, but if they only have 600 spots, they probably wouldn't accept 900 people right off the bat. They would probably accept 650 to 700 so that even if they had an unusually high yield, they wouldn't go over the limit. That's why the amount of waitlisters is so high. They accept a relatively conservative number up front and plan on using the waitlist to let in the right amount. Also keep in mind that there are 3 rounds, and they pretty much only take people in the 3rd round if they are awesome and have the spots.

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I have no invite yet. My last application was horrible. If they read it, they will reject me this year too. But I improved or I thought so this application a bit.

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I have no invite yet. My last application was horrible. If they read it, they will reject me this year too. But I improved or I thought so this application a bit.

I am re-applicant too and have no invite yet. I received an interview invite last year. Hopefully Adcom takes more time to review re-applicants' applications.

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10 Feb 2011, 21:24

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Just received an invite to interview today after submitting my app on 1/5...so it is definitely random.

Good luck to those still waiting!

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I am re-applicant too and have no invite yet. I received an interview invite last year. Hopefully Adcom takes more time to review re-applicants' applications.

I'm sure they do. The one friend I have at Booth is a first year who was waitlisted her first year and got in the 2nd time. She loves it, by the way.