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Just scheduled my interview on 28th nov 2011. International applicant. Fingers crossed!
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Hi current students, would you please share something about the basecamp?

What would you like to know? Broadly, BaseCamp was like a complete semester prepping us for business school. It was focused academically with programs like the QSRP (math refresher) and professionally, with lots of alumni panels and career preparation. If I had to share just one thing it would be that I was completely prepared on day one of classes, and I also felt very confident going into my first internship interview.

If you have any questions about a specific part of BaseCamp, let me know.
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What would you like to know? Broadly, BaseCamp was like a complete semester prepping us for business school. It was focused academically with programs like the QSRP (math refresher) and professionally, with lots of alumni panels and career preparation. If I had to share just one thing it would be that I was completely prepared on day one of classes, and I also felt very confident going into my first internship interview.

If you have any questions about a specific part of BaseCamp, let me know.

Thanks a lot!

I want to know more about the school and was just curious why you need a month to do the base camp. I searched on net and haven't got a lot of information although I saw some pictures posted on net.
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I am looking at Tepper as a R2 application depending how my R1 schools go. I will have the application ready to go but if I hear back and am accepted by any of my R1 schools I wont bother. I definitely will go if I have to apply and get accepted, its a great school for my desired field.

Made a visit out to Tepper and I skipped the interview since it was the first time for me to be at Pittsburgh and had a joyous time. Good luck to all who applied in the first round!

edit: currently I'm the 35th on here, hopefully that number will increase
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Submitted R2... I got my interview done before the application when I visited the campus last month.. Nothing to do but wait till March I guess... Or do they give out decisions as and when they make them? Does anyone know?
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Do you get an interview intive after your status turns to "under review" or before that?
I am an international, submitted on R1. My status turned to "under review" today. Does it mean, they might send an interview invite in the future?

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Do you get an interview intive after your status turns to "under review" or before that?
I am an international, submitted on R1. My status turned to "under review" today. Does it mean, they might send an interview invite in the future?

Thank you.

Hi Blue Robin, Unfortunately I wasn't checking the application site regularly when I got the interview invite email. It's all scheduled via phone or email, so there is no need to go back to the site. However, I don't think my status on the site had changed at that time (others, please chime in!). I just looked now, and it is changed to Stage 2: Application Complete pending Interview. Best of luck!!!
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Submitted R2... I got my interview done before the application when I visited the campus last month.. Nothing to do but wait till March I guess... Or do they give out decisions as and when they make them? Does anyone know?

Tepper is one of the schools that sends out all acceptances/waitlists/rejections on the same day at the same time (which is soooo much nicer than sitting around waiting for a phone call). For round one, the decisions are scheduled to be released on December 19 (see the link below). If it is anything like last year, they will be sent out via e-mail sometime in the afternoon EST. Good luck everyone!

https://tepper.cmu.edu/mba/admissions/ap ... index.aspx
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Hey everyone, some pretty big news regarding Tepper for those entering next year:

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 51148.html

Sorry for the delay in posting.
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Hi guys, just wanted to request people who are already done with their interviews to post their experiences :) It will be really helpful for others like me who have not given their interviews till now.
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I visited the campus last month and requested for an interview. It was a very typical MBA interview. The typical questions of Tell me about yourself. Why MBA now?Why Tepper? What you can bring to the community?

It was like a conversation with each answer leading to the next question. It was very casual. Let me now if you want to know something specific. I will try and answer.
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I visited the campus last month and requested for an interview. It was a very typical MBA interview. The typical questions of Tell me about yourself. Why MBA now?Why Tepper? What you can bring to the community?

It was like a conversation with each answer leading to the next question. It was very casual. Let me now if you want to know something specific. I will try and answer.

Thanks for the reply :) Did you get cross questioned on any of your responses? And how was the overall experience? Were there any unusual question?
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The overall experience was good. But I am not sure how to judge the interview. As they were all general questions asked to everybody, I couldn't tell if it went well or not. She was smiling and seemed quite happy with my responses if that means anything.
And yes she did ask me for details when I answered something. I talked about a community service activity for leadership experience and she asked me some details. I also had a few things on my resume that she asked about.
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@redevil: I have pm'ed you some more doubts :) Thanks for your post
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Hi guys, just wanted to request people who are already done with their interviews to post their experiences :) It will be really helpful for others like me who have not given their interviews till now.

I interviewed early this month. See my post in the thread

calling-all-2012-carnegie-mellon-tepper-2012-applicants-116102-60.html#p996061
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Hi guys ..im frm india.!!
Can you guys share your app status..! mine is coming as below..
Stage 3: Credentials Received - Appication Under Review by the Admissions Committee

i havnt been interviewed as yet..how do they take off-campus interviews in india??
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