Columbia 2012 Applicants' Discussion Thread New! Columbia GSB Admissions Team Answers Questions on GMAT Club https://images.forbes.com/media/lists/95/2009/columbia-business-school.jpg Also, please see: Columbia GSB MBA Guide Columbia Applicant Summary (Real Time) Quick Glance: GMAT Club vs. Latest Intake (Class of 2013) Application Tracker Feed Detailed Applicant List: Add Yourself to This List (add Columbia GSB to your profile) GMAT Club's Real-time Admissions Statistics Add Your Profile to This List 2012 Roll Call (J-Term) Until the main roll call window hasn't added J Termers, I will manually update this. Please ping me to update your name and status here Even9net Tiggy - Accepted - 28th July, 2011 Submitted: 6/19, Review: , Invited to Interview: 7/12 Nimabi - Submitted: , Review: 6/1, Invited to Interview: 7/7 Miambaprosp - Accepted - 28th July, 2011 Submitted: 5/21, Review: 6/2 , Invited to Interview: 7/7 and Interviewed: 7/17 Mmbma - Submitted: 6/15, Review: , Invited to Interview: 7/20 Wishnuv - Submitted: 6/28, Review: , Invited to Interview: 7/19 NYYankees (R) - Submitted: 7/15, Review: 7/18, Invited to Interview: 7/28 (R) - Reapplicant Application Deadlines August 2012 Entry Early Decision: October 5, 2011 Merit Fellowship Consideration: January 4, 2012 Regular Decision: April 11, 2012 January 2012 Entry October 5, 2011 Essay Questions Applicants must complete one short answer question and three essays. Short Answer Question What is your post-MBA professional goal? (200 characters maximum) Essay 1 Considering your post-MBA and long term professional goals, why are you pursuing an MBA at this point in your career? Additionally, why is Columbia Business School a good fit for you? (750 words maximum) Essay 2 Describe a life experience that has shaped you. The goal of this essay is to get a sense of who you are, rather than what you have achieved professionally. (500 words maximum) Essay 3 For the third essay, please choose one of the following three options: Option A The annual A. Lorne Weil Outrageous Business Plan Competition is a student initiative managed and run by the Columbia Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO). The competition encourages Columbia MBA students to explore creative, entrepreneurial ideas that are sufficiently ambitious in scope and scale to be considered “outrageous.” Students explore these ideas while learning firsthand what goes into the development and presentation of a solid business proposal. Develop your own outrageous business idea. In essay form, compose your elevator pitch. (250 words maximum) Option B Columbia deeply values its vibrant student community, the building of which begins at orientation when admitted students are assigned to clusters of 65 to 70 fellow students who take most of the first-year core classes together. During the first weeks of school, each cluster selects a cluster chair. Further strengthening the student community are the more than 100 active student organizations at Columbia Business School, ranging from cultural to professional to community service–oriented. Leadership positions within clusters and clubs offer hands-on management and networking opportunities for students as they interact with fellow students, administrators, faculty members, alumni, and practitioners. You are running for either cluster chair or a club leadership position of your choosing. Compose your campaign speech. (250 words maximum) Option C Founded nearly three decades ago, the Executives in Residence Program at Columbia Business School integrates senior executives into the life of the School. Current executives in residence include more than a dozen experts in areas ranging from media and investment banking to private equity and management. A hallmark of the program is one-on-one counseling sessions in which executives advise students about their prospective career choices. Select one of the current executives in residence with whom you would like to meet during your time at Columbia. Explain your selection and tell us how you would best utilize your half hour one-on-one session. (250 words maximum) CLASS PROFILE (Official Figures) MBA Student Profile — Class Entering 2011 (January and August) Applications Received 6692 Applicants Accepted 1062 Acceptance Rate 16% Class Size 751, divided into 11 clusters GMAT Scores (middle 80%) 680–760 Undergraduate GPA (middle 80%) 3.1–3.8 Work Experience (middle 80%) 3–7 years At Least One Year of Work Experience 100% Average age 28 Women 35% International Citizens 38% - 48% of the incoming class came with a background in Financial Services (28%) and Consulting (20%); Lowest percentages from Non Profit (4%), Manufacturing (3%) and Energy (2%) - Highest percentage of incoming students, by undergrad major, is from Social Sciences (35%) followed by Business (26%) External review of the Columbia Business School https://poetsandquants.com/2010/12/09/columbia-business-school/ Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQzdr1MFVFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cD2mv8-_xA Admitted Students can join the facebook page set-up. https://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/gr ... 096381155/

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bonnierong2010

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01 Dec 2011, 20:06

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10.5 Submit
10.13 Under Review
12.1 Invited to interview

I'm so thrilled! Hope the interview will lead to the best result!

Good luck to everyone that is still waiting. Keep your faith!!!

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Congrats and good luck for the interview.

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How Columbia communicates an admission? Is it always a call or may be made through an email?

Thanks!

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official ding today. good luck everyone still in the running.

So sorry to hear the bad news. Best of luck in R2!

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Question for the deferred ED candidates...did most of you submit on / close to the Oct 5th deadline?

I'm wondering if there's a correlation here. Do you think deferrals are made because the adcom has to start assessing the accumulating RD candidates or if its because they want to benchmark ED against RD candidates?

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I don't think it has anything to do with the timing of submission. They probably want to see the yield from ED admits (ideally 100% but not necessarily) and compare the deferred applicants to RD pool. My take on this is deferred applicants are good overall but there must be something in their application or background that the adcom is not completely convinced or satisfied about. i.e. gmat or gpa below average, mediocre performance at work, etc.

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haven't seen an admission for quite a few days...what happened?

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jwl

I think they probably screen for GMAT, GPA, etc. prior to the interview. So let's just hope for those of us waiting that it's more about assembling the right 'composition' for the Class of 2014 =)

Happyface, are you going to the Women Connect event this weekend?

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Are there any other ED applicants still waiting for a decision? I interviewed almost 3 weeks ago, application went complete, but I have yet to hear anything... Just wondering as it seems they've started reviewing regular decision?
Thanks for the help!

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ED applicant awaiting decision (interview complete), too.

Good luck!

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cbs14

went complete on wednesday, ED applicant too....hope the good will come soon.

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cbs14

Me too. My status went interview complete on November 13rd, but have not heard anything new since then.

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ED applicant, went complete on monday... waiting

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Regular Decision here:

Submitted: 11/19
Under Review: didn't receive an e-mail, but just realized it went under review today after logging in. Possibly 12/1 or 12/2.

Did everybody receive a notification about their status changes?

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Didn't get an e-mail. I'm beginning to think it was an automated system change when December 1st rolled around and who knows if its actually under review.

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Regular Decision application went under review yesterday. I submitted 10/05. Looks like it might have been an automated system that changed everyone's status...

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apoko

Regular Decision application went under review yesterday. I submitted 10/05. Looks like it might have been an automated system that changed everyone's status...

Mine's the same. I just checked and I see it went under review.

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I submitted RD on 10/05 and am under review. You submitted 11/19 and are also under review. Pretty sure that means they put all Regular Decision applicants 'under review' on the system, but are going through the pile as we speak, hopefully in the order that they received them

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heytherela

haven't seen an admission for quite a few days...what happened?

This has not been a good week for members of this forum, I don't think I saw even a single acceptance report. Hope the next week brings some good news.