Calling All CBS 2011 Applicants!!

I'm still waiting. Went Under review on the 26th. Its been a while and not a peep out of CBS.

NYU WL, CBS - Wait, Chicago Interview, HBS Ding, Wharton DING.

I dont' have much to look forward to i suppose!

I went under review on the 31st. I wouldnt worry too much, it looks like they will get to us within the next week or two.

This waiting period is extremely intense! My app went under review on the 1/21 and I haven't heard from CBS. Seeing that my profile is not stellar compared to all of you who have gotten dings recently...I'm slowly losing hope!

Ding w/out interview.
1/5 submission

760 GMAT
6 years Management experience
3.4 gpa

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Agreed - and I'm not even expecting to hear for another 2 weeks or so.

Sorry to hear that, upright citizen! Best of luck with your other applications.

For those of us who went under review between 1/18-1/24, did ANYONE got invited? I don't believe i have seen one yet.

Yeah I went under review on 1/18 and just had my interview. But I think there are a lot of people who went under review around the same time who have been dinged so I'd take it as good news if you haven't heard anything yet!

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thx, sratzi, do you mind sharing the date of your interview invitation?

No problem, I had posted a few days ago but that's a couple pages back now Got my interview invite on 2/16. Now waiting for my status to go interview complete.

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Applied 1/5
Under Review 1/18
Still waiting

Does CBS go through a process where there are 2 reviewers and if one likes it and one doesn't it goes to a third person to review? That can be the only reason I can think of that it is taking so long.
It probably also explains why a few have been interviewed and few have been dinged. For the one's in status quo - Is ours being reviewed by a third person? Purely speculative, as I am not aware of CBS' review process - but this is something other top univ's do.

Either that, or they are just trying to get a picture of the already filled class and looking to plug gaps to even out their stats! As an engineer this randomness w/ dates is killing me.

Just my random 2 cents.

I went under review on Jan 13th and haven't heard a peep. Dying to know what's going on. Especially with all the really strong profiles getting dinged. It's a little unreal. After I submitted on Jan 5th, I read that Columbia's RD is like other schools' round 3, especially for those submitting in January. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but I'm definitely starting to think it's true.

Can you clarify what you mean by "especially for those submitting in January."? Do you think if someone submitted in January after 1/5, it could be more difficult than for someone who submits in February? If so, why?

He's not saying that. He's saying that people who submit after and including january face a bit of an uphill battle.

What I've read is that 3 different people read your application before a decision is made, with one person reading at a time. Any one of those three people could extend the offer to interview.

Exactly. I'm not even sure Jan 1st - 4th help all that much, I think you have to submit pretty early in RD for it to feel like another school's round 2. This is all speculation though.

Yeah - it's frustrating but I think you're probably right. Oh well, at least my expectations seem to be reasonably pessimistic. Hopefully that will make any bad news easier to take.