Columbia Business School - Class of 2013 Application Year https://www.totalgadha.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/columbia-business-school.png For Roll Call, see the following spreadsheet. Please use the following form to add your stats to the spreadsheet. Add your name to the list here Spreadsheet 0Ak2vFwPQcf2zdHhjcXN2bjk2MUZ4ZW1pYVJCTFU5NEE Add your name to the list here Prior Years Application Thread CBS F'10 thread: calling-all-2010-cbs-applicants-merged-78610.html CBS F'09 thread: calling-all-columbia-applicants-for-63151.html#p460533

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I already started to my essays.

I would complete everything by the end of this month.

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22 Sep 2010, 07:51

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Obvious question: how far are you?

are you done with all the application components?
essay, transcripts etc

Haven't started the essays? probably best to wait, what about round 2 of this year though?

If your a REALLY good writer and you have all the components (GMAT and Transcripts) then you could theoretically finish it off.

I hate that I am using this as an example but Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky 1 over the weekend and won an oscar!
Can you believe Sly has an Oscar? and for writing too! I mean come on!

Hey guys,

I'm in the final stages of completing my ED application. I was reading the app, and it doens't appear that you have to have your UG institution actually send the transcript to Columbia. I have the official doc, but I just scanned it and uploaded as a PDF. I don't need to contact my college, right?

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22 Sep 2010, 08:13

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Not at the application stage. If you get accepted & matriculate you'll have to provide a sealed official transcript.

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Was just invited for a second interview with an admissions officer ON CAMPUS. Good? Bad? Neither?

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Updated on: 22 Sep 2010, 13:13

Originally posted by brainhurt on 22 Sep 2010, 12:48.
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Was just invited for a second interview with an admissions officer ON CAMPUS. Good? Bad? Neither?

Definitely not bad. Certainly intriguing.

At a minimum you know a decision is close... I think everyone who has had an interview with the adcom has received a decision very soon after (and mostly positive!).

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Hi Guys,

I applied for the J-Term on 08/16 and still haven’t heard anything. Someone in the same situation???? This situation is hard as hell !!!!!!! You begin to think about 1000 things that you could have done better and assume that you may not even get interviewed because of them.
Someone who applied before me heard anything???????

brz

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Greetings all, thanks for a very enlightening thread, helps ease the waiting pain.

Can any of the accepted candidates shed some light on the Columbia facebook group?
I wanted to get an idea of how many have been accepted so far so I checked the Columbia MBA 2012 group
on FB. It has 619 members.....seeing as the ED and J-term deadline hasn't even passed yet, I find this highly unlikely. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to how/why this may be?

(J-term,30,3.1,720,8yrs,Engineering,IB,IB(Energy),08/30/10, for the spreadsheet)

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Probably because that's the class of 2012, not 2013.

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Ah yes, was thinking along the J-term 2012 horizon.
THx. :-D

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22 Sep 2010, 13:39

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Not sure how many other candidates were admitted, but I know so far that there are 4-5 admitted from the spreadsheet.

Don't know how helpful searching on fbook will be besides spinning your wheels.

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Good to see some J-termers. I applied 9/5
GMAT: 720, 5 years work exp in HFs, 3.1

Havent heard any movement from anyone recently. You would figure they would be getting closer to some decisions sooner rather than later as we are already close to Q4

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I know it's mostly J-term and ED applicants reading this forum right now, but I figured I would post what happens when you submit a RD app. I submitted on 9/12 and my app went under review on 9/15. Today it changed to: "Your Regular Decision application will be placed under review in December 2010."

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I just submitted my regular decision app yesterday, 9/21 and it was changed pretty immediately to "Your application is now being printed and prepared for review."

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Can anyone share some interview experiences? I finally got an invitation after waiting for exactly 4 weeks!

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I had my interview a week ago today. My biggest pieces of advice:

1. know genuinely why you want an MBA, why now, and why CBS would be perfect for you. Don't rehearse a scripted response.

2. secondly, do a ton of research and besides asking the usual "how was your CBS experience" question, ask something unique. I asked about starting a new master class for instance and what my interviewer's (she was adcom) favorite follies skit was.

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Thanks, SaMoCu - I often hear that the interviewers go through the standard questions as a formality and that much of the time is spent on general conversation. Is this the case? Kind of makes me wonder if the interviews report more from their impression of the candidate than the details of the candidate's experience...

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I'm sure the interviewers have a list of standard questions that they may ask you. At the same time, it doesn't prevent them from asking anything outside the box. Since my interview wasn't with an alum, I'd have to defer to others whose interviews were.

Whenever there's room for a conversation piece, take advantage of it.

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I just submitted my regular decision app yesterday, 9/21 and it was changed pretty immediately to "Your application is now being printed and prepared for review."

That was my status for a few hours before it went to "Your application is under review."

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Can anyone who has had a "second" interview with the admissions office please PM me? I have one tomorrow and would appreciate any insight into how I should prepare.