Calling all Chicago-Booth Applicants (2016 Intake) Class of 2018!!

no update so far, what's wrong ?

I second that. Also, do not forget, everyone applying to these top programs is pretty good when focusing on numbers only; what makes a difference now is those essays, your experience and leadership roles both professionally, but especially in the community. Anyone with enough time, can have perfect scores, and schools are aware of that. I your life is focused on scoring high, while not caring about real issues of real life, well, these top programs will not show any interest in you.
As they often say, they are looking for game changers, not just people who can solve equations and make a lot of money for themselves

dinged here. its tough to swallow especially since I got dinged from 5 of 5 schools that I applied. Not a single one extended an invitation to interview. Is something systematically wrong with my profile or application?

Ding...

I agree that the subjective parts of the app make a difference. However, I think you're taking my point to the extreme and thinking in a way that admissions WANTS you to think matters (i.e. Caring about "real issues.") In reality, they reserve slots for general buckets, and you're competing against a micro-cohort of similar applicants based on scores and prestige, who are assumed to get the checkboxes for leadership and community.

Good luck!

Looking at all the analysis above, hope spray n pray works..
Fingers crossed..

Hello nice people, congrats to the ones with the R2 interviews.

I am in a dilemma I wanted some suggestions on. I got my Booth R2 interview invite. Still they have not gotten back to me with the interviewer name (I come from Bangladesh). And the final decisions for R2 will be out by 17th March.

On the other hand, I have gotten a Deans Tuition scholarship (full ride) from Olin in R2. I am to accept the offer by 4th March. So, I dont really know if I should be accepting the offer and later on reject it if Booth makes me an offer I can not refuse (:P).
N:B: I do not want to sound rude or give a bad vibe about students from Bangladesh in general.

Regards,
JW

Hey hwu! Congratulations on the Wharton admit! I'm curious - how do you feel on Wharton v. Booth?

You wont know about your final Booth's decision till 17th March anyhow. So the best case forward will be for you to pay the deposit and secure your spot at Olin. Lets say you do get in to Booth on March 17th, you will get to lose the deposit that you submitted at Olin (full ride aside). If you think that loans will be a big burden for you, then Olin's full ride will be difficult to be matched but Booth's prestige is right up there with the top schools. Booth will give an excellent exposure to whatever field you want to pursue. Olin is a good school but unfortunately it does not come close to Booth's reputation.

Booth has given some aid to R1 admits but how much will be a decision for March 16th for you. So, if you are fine without Booth's admit without aid (worst case scenario), then I would say pay the deposit at Olin to secure your spot.

Agree with this. I come from the overly represented Indian male engineers pool and most of us have great GPAs , excellent GMAT scores etc. So lets say they have 50 slots for this pool and admissions found excellent applications in R1 and admitted 30 in this pool/bucket. So for R2 and R3, obviously you will be competing against people with similar profiles and for lesser slots. The numbers get stacked against you. It is not just the application materials or GPAs and GMATs, the admission committee also needs to select a 'diverse' class for the obvious reasons. Herein comes the 'personal' bias as mentioned by another poster above. You can not or should not rule this element out. I have seen 1 applicant who applied to 7 top 10 schools and got dinged without interview at all but got admitted to HBS. Entire application process is a combination of many different aspects out of which some are in your control while others are not.

If you did get an interview, good luck with your interview and final decision. If not, move on and work on another application or in my case matriculate at Kellogg

With the completion of R2 interview invitations, refer below for the timeline for interview invites.

I was in your shoes last year! Granted, I haven't gotten IN anywhere yet, so I'm not exactly a success story, but there is hope for reapplicants. I wasn't able to beat my 700 and still have a low GPA, so the luck this year is all in how I presented myself. Again, I haven't gotten in anywhere yet, but I'm doing incrementally better than last year and I only need one to like me!

PM me if you'd like reapplicant tips. Trust me, I know it's hard not to take it to heart, but you've got to believe in yourself and keep going if you know this is what you want. But first, I would suggest taking 1-2 months to completely forget about the process and take a breather before thinking about R1

Got an invite on the 28! Didnt have a chance to post as i came down with a bad case of flu.
Canadian, 99% gmat,cfa, IM experience.
so happy i got the invite, went to Chicago twice this year, including a campus visit, love the city, the school, the people, so excited! Got an outright ding at cbs - whatever, cant aford manhattan anyway.

If the timeline above with the number of invites are to be believed, there were significantly less invites in R2 (47 invites) than R1 (76 invites). Is this because not all the invitees have updated their profiles here or did Booth decide to fill the majority of their 2018 class from R1? Considering historically most applicants are in R2, this would be an odd thing. Maybe we're seeing a shift of more applicants deciding to apply in R1 to have a better chance. It'd be interesting to see the statistics on applicant behavior this cycle.

FROM The Booth Experience: Ski Trip 2015: Fun On and Off the Slopes

The Booth annual ski trip is arguably the biggest Booth trip of the year, and the trip to Aspen this past December was no exception. Check out what 400 Boothies were up to for a week with the awesome video recap below, and some off the slopes pictures after the jump.

It could very well be that Booth already filled a few slots in R1 itself based on 'diversity/bucketing'. But it could very well be that people on GMATCLUB have not updated their profiles. Based on last year's division, % of people getting invites was relatively similar. So it all depends on whether Booth went aggressive this time around with the invites. No one would know the real reason unless you work with the adcoms.

Does anyone know what percentage of those interviewed are accepted?

Just had my off-campus interview on Friday. I thought it went well. It was a very conversational interview. Some questions I remember:

Tell me about yourself/take me through your resume
How would your friends describe you?
Tell me about a significant leadership experience you've had.
Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone in a group setting.
Why Booth?
Why now?
Why the industry I'm in now
What do you think you add to the class at Booth?

After my interview, I think Booth is one of my top choices if not number one. Good luck to everyone.