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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mainhoon

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16 Feb 2011, 10:21

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@vicksikand - Are you serious? is there any criteria that is left out from below. This is a generic response..

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"Applicants are evaluated on several criteria, including academic preparedness, professional achievements, communication skills, extracurricular/community involvement, leadership, self-awareness, understanding the value of the MBA experience, and fit"

This in an excerpt from the ding letter--for those of you, who got dinged and are looking for feedback-- these few lines provide a good pointer on how to position ourselves through our application.

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16 Feb 2011, 10:25

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So no waitlisters have been rejected? That's odd.

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that is odd...

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16 Feb 2011, 11:05

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I called the admissions office and they said they do not give application feedback for those who have been dinged.

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16 Feb 2011, 11:07

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Another waitlister who's still waitlisted.

I wonder what 'scores' we got, based on the P&Q. Perhaps they had a raw score that is 'admissible' but the first x slots (slots they were willing to fill up during R1) were filled up by folks with scores much stronger than ours, though we're still admissible. So they got it first.

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16 Feb 2011, 11:10

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first ding and it's depressing.... time to move on. I wonder if applying R1 would have made a difference.

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16 Feb 2011, 11:15

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@vicksikand - Are you serious? is there any criteria that is left out from below. This is a generic response..

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Dude...I never said this ding email has been tailored for me. These are just guidelines we need to address in our essays.

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All I meant was that there is nothing in that email that adds any value to tailoring the application. Everything that any bschool looks for is there.. In fact judging by the number of parameters mentioned I almost feel that they took pains to make sure they covered all aspects and did not single out any one item.. These generic letters are useless.

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16 Feb 2011, 12:19

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Any R1 WL candidates hear anything? It's awfully strange that they haven't gotten back to anyone given their announcement.

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16 Feb 2011, 12:55

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Any R1 WL called the school to ask what's up?

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16 Feb 2011, 15:44

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R1 WL here. I don't think anyone of us got the "closure" today. Could it be tomorrow?

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16 Feb 2011, 15:47

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R1 WL here. I don't think anyone of us got the "closure" today. Could it be tomorrow?

RI WL here too. Rather puzzled about this. Not sure why they would announce a Feb 16th update, and not release any decisions...

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I emailed the Admissions department on this...No response.

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16 Feb 2011, 16:00

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I was wait listed in R1. My friend called admissions and they told him that they did sent updates to some R1 waitlist candidates. In case you did not receive any update, you continue to be on wait list

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16 Feb 2011, 16:06

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snrath

ah, by some, they literally mean some

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16 Feb 2011, 16:08

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Any word on whether denials/admits were released?

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16 Feb 2011, 16:32

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Going off of earlycareerMBA's analysis and finding that there are fewer R1 WLers this year than R1 WLers last year, one might conclude that Booth WL'ed applicants whom adcom really intend on admitting (i.e. fewer just-in-case profiles) which may explain why not many R1 WLers heard back today.

Anyway, looks like the big day is now 3/16th... g'luck everyone!

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16 Feb 2011, 16:36

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May I ask what´s your source on this year´s WL having less people than last year´s?

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May I ask what´s your source on this year´s WL having less people than last year´s?

I was just going off of earlycareerMBA's analysis, not sure if you caught that on pg67... I should point out that I was just referring to %ages based off of GCers rather than the universe of applicants.

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To my fellow Round 1 waitlisters:

We seem to be in pretty good shape. The waitlist % is lower this year (at least among GMAT clubbers) while the other stats have held fairly steady. Of the 20 waitlisters from Round 1 last year, 9 were accepted in March on the Round 2 decision date (1 with money) and 1 was accepted in May. Only 1 waitlist ding was reported and that was in March. 2 of the 20 reported withdraws before the R2 decision date, 2 were waitlisted through the summer, and 5 did not report after the original december waitlisting.