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 didn't set a deadline.

Interesting .. I guess then there's another round of dings coming. Brace yourselves

honestly the possibility of anyone getting thru at this time is negligible... so we all know what our fate is heart-of-heart. It's hope that we were banking on for a very long time and this was inevitable sooner or later!

Stay positive!

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14 Jul 2011, 13:24

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Has anyone heard anything recently?

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I had submitted July 14th as my deadline. On Monday, I reassessed and wrote another letter reaffirming my interest in Booth. I had hoped to hear something (good or bad) today, but received absolutely nothing. I ended up calling admissions and was told that there were no status updates and that if I hadn't heard anything they were just going to take me off the waitlist on the day I had stated, unless I decided to extend. I'm hoping that next week's Wharton decisions cause some movement, so I wrote back (and called to confirm) that I would like to stay on the waitlist. Does anyone have any other information?

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19 Jul 2011, 07:36

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Aaaaaand following the Wharton slaughter yesterday the time of our apocalypse is fast approaching...

LBS is also due to revert to waitlisted candidates this Thursday (21st of July).

I would imagine there will be some sort of communication following these events either later this week or during next week. In last year's blog I see they had sent another e-mail on the 21st of July asking whether candidates wished to remain on the wailist. The only thing is that compared to last year there have been no large scale ding/admit waves since May. Unless attrition has reduced the waitlist significantly over this period this should happen at some point

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21 Jul 2011, 08:47

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Dinged ....international..Indian IT guy...

It hurts so so bad...

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21 Jul 2011, 09:54

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Dinged ....international..Indian IT guy...

It hurts so so bad...

ditto! just a gal, not guy, only difference!!!! I had given Aug 31st as my deadline, wondering why I was prematurely dinged, maybe cos I belong to a oversubscribed group of Indian Enggineers working in IT!!!

Honestly the only regret - I deserved a better email than the regular your application status has changed email for having been so patient for several months and for having sincerely stayed involved by sending updates all along!

Good luck to you all!

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I'm sorry to hear that guys, were they 9am CT emails again?

It strikes me as bizarre how they are trickling out the dings. It seems like there are still quite a few of us left on the WL with very little hope of admission at this point so I can't imagine it makes a huge difference to ding a small handful of people each week. Either they know they don't need much of a waitlist at this point so they could ding nearly everyone or if they are still unsure they could just leave everyone on as they don't lose anything by keeping people on. I guess it's better this way because if they're 100% sure they won't need me I'd rather know right away than wait for an arbitrary date like some other schools are doing.

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21 Jul 2011, 22:12

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Dinged ....international..Indian IT guy...

It hurts so so bad...

Sorry to hear that CalvinNHobbes and Jerseygirl2011. I feel your pain. I think it's only a matter of time until most of the others on the WL are also released.

@Jerseygirl2011 - Don't want to be preachy but don't let this experience go waste. You and all of us on the WL were reallyyy close to getting in. So take that positively and prepare an even better app and apply in R1. That's what I've started working on. And believe me once you convince yourself that you missed out just because it's a numbers game in the end and that your application was lacking a tiny-winy bit, it is much easier to start back in the spirit we all did last year. You are really close. Don't give up now!! Like my friend (Booth alum BTW) likes to put it - "difference between success and failure many times is continuing the last mile. exhausted as your may be, don't quit it..yet"

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22 Jul 2011, 06:43

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Dinged ....international..Indian IT guy...

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@pkatmi: ofcourse not! not letting any of this going to waste. Thanks for your morale boosters

I am taking my talents to Tepper this year, don't have the patience to wait another year and not sure if any program is worth that kind of wait considering that I turn 30 next year. Which means they give me a hard time for being old!

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23 Jul 2011, 05:37

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@pkatmi: ofcourse not! not letting any of this going to waste. Thanks for your morale boosters

Ahh .. I din't know you already had a pretty sweet option lined up .. so it's all good I guess .. Have fun at Tepper!

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@pkatmi: ofcourse not! not letting any of this going to waste. Thanks for your morale boosters

Ahh .. I din't know you already had a pretty sweet option lined up .. so it's all good I guess .. Have fun at Tepper!

Thanks pkatmi! Good luck with the application to you! please keep me posted!

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No action on the WL front this week? People still hanging on or has anyone withdrawn yet?

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29 Jul 2011, 09:47

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Still hanging around...Found this site a couple weeks ago, but it sounds like there are still quite a few doing the same. I wonder how many they've kept on at this point.

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29 Jul 2011, 14:08

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Long time lurker, long time waitlister (R1). Also surprised that we haven't heard anything. Anyone want to volunteer to place a call?

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No news for anyone? I told them this friday was the day I needed to know by. It looks like I'll be getting a ding soon.

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Another quiet week? I wonder how many are still waiting around.

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Another quiet week? I wonder how many are still waiting around.

Quite a few it looks like. It's really late in the game now. The last activity in last years thread happened on july 26th. We're already way past that. Would have expected at least some sort of updates this week.

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To be honest, I haven't been impressed with their communication. The last I heard from Booth was on June 6th and they said they would keep us updated over the next several weeks. I've heard nothing at all since. I just tried to check my application status on the website and it's not even possible to log in anymore from what I can tell. I get it, I'm not getting in, but I expected better communication.

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Agreed. Any sort of even status update would be great. I think what puzzles me is just how many people it sounds like are still on the waitlist. Either way, it's definitely time to start thinking about next year. I got this application going way too late in the Spring.

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Ditto on all that. They had been pretty good about providing updates up until the last one in June, so their silence has been a (disappointing) surprise.

It seems like there are quite a few of us still on the waitlist. I wonder under what set of circumstances they envision having to happen before anyone gets off the waitlist at this point- mass SEC indictment, plane crash, the rapture? Honestly I think that they forgot us.