Calling All 2011 Booth Applicants!!

A close look at Booth's application review process...

https://poetsandquants.com/2011/02/14/wh ... ago-booth/

Excerpts:

First on R1:..."Applicants accepted in Booth’s first round, which had a deadline of Oct. 13th, have until Feb. 25 to tell the school they plan to enroll in the fall and send a deposit against their tuition. “We are running way ahead in terms of deposits,” says Stacey Kole, deputy dean of the full-time MBA program. “We are up over 40% on where we were last year. And we’ve had the largest number of attendees ever for our Admit Weekend program which kicked off on Friday.”"

"It’s a first in, first out (FIFO) process, so the first apps to arrive are the first to be reviewed."

6 seperate parts are graded - Test scores, Quality of academics, work ex, EC, Essays, Recos

The first reader (2nd year student) provides an overall score for the application as well as a “Fit to Booth” score.

"An applicant’s entire file then goes to one of six associate directors of admission for a second review. Typically, the students will spend one and one-half hour to two hours on each application. Admissions officials may give the typical application another half hour or so."

"Interviewers grade the candidates on the same one to six scale. Once the interview report comes in, the file is then given to another admissions director who has not yet seen it. That person does an assessment of the entire file, deciding whether to admit, deny, or put the decision to a committee of the six admissions directors and Ahlm"

"All admit and deny recommendations go to Ahlm,senior director of admissions, for final decisions. It’s rare for him to override a recommendation, but every year there are several cases where he may turn a deny into an admit or an admit into a deny"