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. 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I'm curious to hear when everyone received their invite to interview and if there's any correlation to what time of day people are getting their admit calls. (Coincidentally enough, I received an interview invite on the last day Booth sent them out, and am trying to justify why I haven't heard from them yet ) I think you're onto something. I received it 2/16 I think, pretty late. No call. Totally possible. I too received invite to interview on last day Booth sent them out... and have not heard yet. Keeping the hope alive though. me too... but doubt there is any correlation well... looks like there is a slight correlation

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Updated on: 15 Mar 2011, 10:35

Originally posted by hkg83 on 15 Mar 2011, 10:35.
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I'm curious to hear when everyone received their invite to interview and if there's any correlation to what time of day people are getting their admit calls.

(Coincidentally enough, I received an interview invite on the last day Booth sent them out, and am trying to justify why I haven't heard from them yet :-D

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I think you're onto something. I received it 2/16 I think, pretty late. No call.

Totally possible. I too received invite to interview on last day Booth sent them out... and have not heard yet. Keeping the hope alive though.

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I think you're onto something. I received it 2/16 I think, pretty late. No call.

Totally possible. I too receive invite to interview on last day Booth sent them out... and have not heard yet. Keeping the hope alive though.

Same here...

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Are all calls to asia done? Any chance of getting an email?

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I think you're onto something. I received it 2/16 I think, pretty late. No call.

Totally possible. I too received invite to interview on last day Booth sent them out... and have not heard yet. Keeping the hope alive though.

me too... but doubt there is any correlation

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Is it time to start panic yet

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I think you're onto something. I received it 2/16 I think, pretty late. No call.

Totally possible. I too received invite to interview on last day Booth sent them out... and have not heard yet. Keeping the hope alive though.

me too... but doubt there is any correlation

well... looks like there is a slight correlation

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Even I received my interview invite on the last day & nothing here ...

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In with $$$

female/cali/680/3yrs WE/got the email on Friday

Super excited!!!

Good luck and congrats to all

Congrats! That's amazing. Just curious - does $$$ mean $20K or more, or $100K or more? Just wondering how people define the number of dollar signs as I see them other places too.

I'm going by something I read a looong time ago (and to this day I can't find that post again), which I think was something akin to $ being 20-30K, $$ being 40-50K and $$$ being 60K+.

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me too... but doubt there is any correlation

I agree, there likely isn't any correlation. But, there haven't been any new theories in the last five minutes. So, I thought I would mention my timeline in R1:
- I received an interview invite on the very last day that invites were sent
- I was one of the last admits to receive a call (5:18 pm EST)

Coincidence?

(Please take take note of the sarcastic nature of my message above. I don't think there is any correlation!)

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In with $$$

female/cali/680/3yrs WE/got the email on Friday

Super excited!!!

Good luck and congrats to all

Congrats! That's amazing. Just curious - does $$$ mean $20K or more, or $100K or more? Just wondering how people define the number of dollar signs as I see them other places too.

I'm going by something I read a looong time ago (and to this day I can't find that post again), which I think was something akin to $ being 20-30K, $$ being 40-50K and $$$ being 60K+.

wow, nice! cummulative for the two years, correct?

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me too... but doubt there is any correlation

I received my invite on Jan 22... haven't heard anything yet. Prob a bad sign.

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Congrats! That's amazing. Just curious - does $$$ mean $20K or more, or $100K or more? Just wondering how people define the number of dollar signs as I see them other places too.

I'm going by something I read a looong time ago (and to this day I can't find that post again), which I think was something akin to $ being 20-30K, $$ being 40-50K and $$$ being 60K+.

wow, nice! cummulative for the two years, correct?

Yup. So 30K per year, 60K total, therefore "$$$"

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is all hope lost for Indian candidates, given that we are close to midnight?
also my application status still shows as invite to interview, is that true for anyone else as well?

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Just got the call - IN!!!!!! A little $$ also.

Cali, female, fashion retail marketing, 710, 3.8, no email last week

It's my first admit - beyond thrilled!

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me too... but doubt there is any correlation

I received my invite on Jan 22... haven't heard anything yet. Prob a bad sign.

I highly doubt it.

The only trend I would begin to humor is alphabetical order/reverse alphabetical order and argue over whether they are doing it by first or last name. When you are given a list of names, I do not see why you would order the list any other way.

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You think its about over for East Coast?

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Just got the call - IN!!!!!! A little $$ also.

Cali, female, fashion retail marketing, 710, 3.8, no email last week

It's my first admit - beyond thrilled!

Congrats!!

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any waitlisters get called? it's looking pretty bleak for us

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You think its about over for East Coast?

Nothing is over till 5pm CT/6pm ET

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dalillama, I am curious to know from your perspective how strong the Booth brand and network are in Brazil. I am not Brazilian, but have been working in Brazil and want to return there after graduation. Thanks.