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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I tend to think that this mid-decision deadline meant only one thing for the waitlisters: if you haven't sent any new information, nor indicated that you wish to remain on the waitlist, you got dropped off. Someone who comes on here to check if any other waitlister got dropped off probably cares enough to send in a note to Chicago. Others probably either got into another school and don't care or don't post on the forums.

I do like the analysis though, especially since all the other indicators from last year to this year are pretty much the same, except the percentage of waitlisted candidates. I would love to see 50-60% of the GMATClub waitlist group to get in.

Best of luck to everyone else, most of us have only one month left until some sort of closure.

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Updated on: 16 Feb 2011, 22:47

Originally posted by jerrykid on 16 Feb 2011, 21:33.
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Did everyone get the update at the usual 10 ~ 10:05 AM EST?

yep, 10:07 AM EST

Mine is exactly at 10:05 EST.

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16 Feb 2011, 21:40

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Got the invite today!

Trying to set up an off-campus interview. Anyone else having problems with the system? Thanks!

I searched for an interviewer in Singapore, but no result was returned. I may have put in the wrong postal code for Singapore. Later on, I knew that slots in Singapore have all been filled up. I wished that I had received the invite earlier

. But ofcourse it's really better late than never.

Application for a visa to Hong Kong really adds complication to the interview process. I am not going to have my visa by next Wednesday and thus, do the interview on Thursday, Feb 24th.

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17 Feb 2011, 03:14

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jerrykid, good luck with your trip to Hong Kong. Like you said, better late than never:) I am interviewing myself in Singapore this coming Saturday. I'm a little surprised that they cannot ask more people to do an interview for you in Singapore, considering they have a campus here...

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Soviet-style censorship on GMATclub board

Be advised that you are not getting the whole picture of the application process, and critical information is withheld from you.

My informed opinion on Booth tread was deleted without a trace, like some vanishing komissar on Stalin's photos, by a self-appointed supreme judge and executioner who doesn't even bother answering requests for clarification. This sickening panicky behavior shows the real respect that the founders of this board have for the community on whose back they make their advertising money.

I know that this post probably will not last a minute before it is deleted again (so much for the "freedom of speech" and "ethics" of the future leaders), but take a notice: see today's article on WSJ "Chicago Population Sinks to 1920 Level".

Those of you preparing to study in Chicago should know that they will be passively supporting one of the most corrupted city governments in the history of the US (research Daley pere et fils, Blago trial) - a fact that doesn't seem to bother their esteemed freedom-loving professors also.

Hilarious...absolutely hilarious..nazis are back...

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Nobody reading this thread cares about your paranoid soapboxing.

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17 Feb 2011, 08:05

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Learn to speak for yourself.

Don't try to inflate your own importance by presenting your little tiny servile opinion as coming from some group of other frightened .$$ smoochers.

Even if auto-inflating and self-promoting is a required trait for a successful MBA candidate.

I'm speaking for myself : "Go get therapy!" ... i for one have got no patience for this loser-talk... Mods, get your act together....

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Don't feed the troll, folks.

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I believe that Booth R1 waitlisters will start hearing final decisions after Feb 24. That's the deposit deadline for R1 accepted students (those accepted back in Dec), so that's when the school finds out who's accepting their R1 offers.

I was at admitted students weekend at Booth this past weekend, and they announced that they've had a record response already to their offers (i.e., higher yield than past years)...

The good news is, I decided that Booth is a great school but it's not for me. So there's at least one spot that will open up shortly...

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Mods, get your act together....

The guy got banned and came back under a new IP. Then re-banned when that was discovered. Not sure what else you would have us do.

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17 Feb 2011, 09:36

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MAN, this is priceless!!!!!!

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Hi,

I got an invite on Feb 15. I am from India. Sent a mail to adcom 4 times. No reply. Pls help.

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Who did you email? Anna Veszilits, the alumni interview co-ordinator helped me out when I had an issue. Can PM you her phone number if you want.

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Who did you email? Anna Veszilits, the alumni interview co-ordinator helped me out when I had an issue. Can PM you her phone number if you want.

I emailed [email protected]. Pls pm me her no. Thanks man.

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I'll be visiting campus on 2/21. Will anyone else be there that day?

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Did anyone have a bad interview with Booth? Mine was horrible...We ended up talking about my job for most of the time and I felt that I was convincing the person to invest in my firm instead of advertising myself for the school. So strange...and at the end he kept looking at his watch and at the clock which i though was completely inappropriate...

Did anyone have similar experiences?

Thx,

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Read back to my earlier post (a couple of pages back I think). Fairly similar experience...

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...and at the end he kept looking at his watch and at the clock which i though was completely inappropriate...

Did anyone have similar experiences?

Thx,

I believe the alumni interviewers have firm instructions not to exceed 30 mins for the interview and 15 mins for the Q&A thereafter. Maybe he was just trying to follow the guideline.

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...and at the end he kept looking at his watch and at the clock which i though was completely inappropriate...

Did anyone have similar experiences?

Thx,

I believe the alumni interviewers have firm instructions not to exceed 30 mins for the interview and 15 mins for the Q&A thereafter. Maybe he was just trying to follow the guideline.

They don't. The guy was just a little rude. It happens.