Tepper 2012 - Calling All Applicants

Application sent via Consortium: 11/18
Application received: 11/23
Interview invite: 11/23
Interview: 11/30

I visited Tepper for their 3-day Diversity Weekend back in October, which was awessssssssssssome.

Rest of my background is pretty inline with Tepper. I did software engineering for 3 years with a Fortune 100 telecom, and I've been doing more tech, project management, and operations-based managerial accounting with a private manufacturing company that is a key packaging vendor for ConAgra foods, which is the #1 food manufacturer in North America.

Almost finished with a masters in accounting to sit for CPA and CMA examinations this Spring. Won a Fortune 500 case competition this summer. Pretty much won every scholarship and award there is to win at my graduate school.

Super interested in social impact. I started an urban education organization that puts college students into local K-12 schools here in my city's urban core. This semester we're partnering with 3 different schools, including KIPP which is the top "brand" in charter schools, and we've connected about 65 college students with 200 low-income, minority students. Post-MBA, I'm interested in charter school hyper-growth and emerging tech-education tools like Khan Academy. Also, looking at doing a dual-degree in public policy at the Heinz School.

Hahaha, yep yep yep yep -- done the exact same calculations and figured if you got an interview request from them, you're at a 50% chance. Then I start thinking, oh well, my GMAT would be at the 90th percentile, and I visited during Diversity Weekend, and I'm tech/ops, and that's gotta start increasing my chances beyond a stock 50%.

I've also looked at past years' GMATClub threads, and it seems like almost everyone on here gets in. So hopefully that trend will continue lol.

@method- hey, you've gt a stellar profile! i will be surprised if u dnt get in! which all other schools did u apply to..?

Oh, thanks man! Just the schools on my profile: Tepper + Ross, Fuqua, and Olin. I'm also considering a job offer in corporate innovation doing internal startup, VC-portfolio-like work, but waiting to see what shakes out next week. Pretty sure I'm getting dinged from Olin, not sure what went wrong there, but it's been 30 days with not so much as an application confirmation when everyone else is getting lightning quick turnarounds.

What's your profile and how's your app cycle going so far?

@method...Hey, here is my profile..
M/ Indian/29/GMAT 700-Q49,V37/ WE-7.5 yrs- Automotive/CPG Industries..current managing south asia supply chain role in an intl CPG firm/ Top 5% in graduation class/ Decent ECs and Sports both..

I am a R-1 Applicant to Tepper, ross, kellogg, insead ..Got dings from Kellogg/ Insead. No Interview calls from either of tepper/ ross. Back-up choices are Top indian colleges, where i've been admitted already , but will prefer to get into any good insti in the US.

In terms of career goals ..I want to get into Consulting roles after having worked with Manufacturing sector for a long time now. hope studying mba will surely help make that transition easy..!

Atb for all upcoming results man..!

Cheers..!!

Hi Asrider,

May I ask which top Indian colleges are your back up?

Thanks

Sure..im in for 1Y programs @IIMB and IIMC. Applied to ISB in R-2. Which all colleges have u applied to?

Good luck everyone! I'll check the board in between finals.

What's with your comment? Doesn't anyone evaluate their chances with a school by incorporating GPA/GMAT and work experience, and then factoring in school trips and an interview invite as positive signals?

so are they going to call tommorow>?

Hey, you too! That's awesome that you've already got some good results from the schools in India.

I was looking at last year's thread and those decisions went out on a Monday afternoon, so I'm thinking we'll probably have to wait until Monday also.

Here's...um....something for y'all. It's a bit odd, but so is CMU:

https://www.cmu.edu/ua/email/general/2011-ecard.html#

Inside CMU Tepper's Admissions Office - What happens when you click that "submit" button?

James Frick, MBA director of admissions CMU Tepper - At CMU Tepper, we have an oustanding support staff, and it is going to take control as soon as applicants click that “submit” button. It will coordinate the applications, get it organized and ensure that all of the required and supplemental information is in. The team does a great job of being in touch with the applicants and in general we are very proactive and thoughtful about reaching out and saying, “Here is your status, and here’s what we need from your side.” Many a time the message is just to say that it’s hard to read a transcript that you’ve uploaded at the time of submission, can you send another copy?


Once it is verified that an application is complete, it goes to our reviewers for reading. All of the admissions reviewers are part of the professional admissions team, made up of myself and my colleagues. All the applications are read a minimum of two times and usually three or four.... read more

haha weird? Have you seen the robot from the video on campus yet?

Good luck everyone!

guys, really a big issue- maybe R1 guys can help. The essay instruction is "12 point font double spaced". I just worked few weeks on the essays and just when I was feeling good about them I realized that I had used font 9. When I changed it to font 12 my 2 page essay became a four page essay !!!

I really don't wanna cut back so much on the data entered. Any comments ? Can we use at least 10-11 font or 1.5 spacing ?Or a special font maybe which takes lesser space.