Calling all Columbia Applicants 2024 - 2025 (Aug Intake) : Columbia

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Welcome 2024-2025 Columbia Applicants Class of 2027 Welcome, all Columbia class of 2027 hopefuls. Let's use this platform to know each other, exchange ideas, and discuss app strategies? Who all are applying? Let us know by commenting below. Follow the thread and bookmark this post. Join Columbia chat Add to my Schools Columbia Application Walkthrough Columbia Data Point / School Columbia US News Ranking 11 Applicants 5,643 Accepted 1,109 Enrolled (Sept) 629 Acceptance 20% Yield Rate 57% GPA 3.6 Average WE 64 % GMAT 55% Average GMAT 732 Median GMAT 740 GMAT Domestic NA GMAT International NA % GRE 26% Average GRE Q 161 Average GRE V 161 Employed at Graduation 77% Employed 3 Months 92% Average Salary $162,099 Average Bonus $39,027 Salary and Bonus $194,363 Application Deadlines: January 2025 Entry Application Deadline- Round Application Deadline Interview Decisions Released Final Decisions Released Round 1 By June 18, 2024 at 12:00pm (ET) Rolling Ongoing, and no later than August 15 Round 2 By August 15, 2024 at 12:00pm (ET) Rolling Ongoing, and no later than October 15 August 2025 Entry Application Deadlines- Round Application Deadline Interview Decisions Released Final Decisions Released Round 1 September 10, 2024 at 12:00pm (ET) By November 15 By December 20 Round 2 January 7, 2025 at 12:00pm (ET) By February 20 By March 26 Round 3 April 1, 2025 at 12:00pm (ET) By May 1 By May 15 Essays: Essay 1: Through your resume and recommendation, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next three to five years and what is your long-term dream job? (500 words) Essay 2: The Phillips Pathway for Inclusive Leadership (PPIL) is a co-curricular program designed to provide students with the skills and strategies needed to develop as inclusive leaders. Through various resources and programming, students explore and reflect on the following five inclusive leadership skills: Mitigating Bias and Prejudice; Managing Intercultural Dialogue; Addressing Systemic Inequity; Understanding Identity and Perspective Taking; and Creating an Inclusive Environment. Describe a time or situation when you had the need to utilize one of these five skills, and tell us the actions you took and the outcome. (250 words) Essay 3: We believe Columbia Business School is a special place with a collaborative learning environment in which students feel a sense of belonging, agency, and partnership--academically, culturally, and professionally. How would you co-create your optimal MBA experience at CBS? Please be specific. (250 words) Optional Essay: If you wish to provide further information or additional context around your application to the Admissions Committee, please upload a brief explanation of any areas of concern in your academic record or personal history. This does not need to be a formal essay. You may submit bullet points. (Maximum 500 Words) Deferred Enrollment Program: Deferred Enrollment candidates will answer two short essay questions instead of the essays listed above. Questions for the 2025 application cycle to be announced. View the full Columbia CBS Class Profile --> https://academics.business.columbia.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile

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01 Oct 2024, 22:10

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Am I in the wrong chat? I’m surprised that it is only showing 57 people

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Am I in the wrong chat? I’m surprised that it is only showing 57 people

You’re good, this is a new group. Earlier people just used the j term group

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Is there some other group for CBS MBA 2027 applicants?

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Does CBS send all R1 invites in one day?

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No they are released on a rolling basis

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Does CBS send all R1 invites in one day?

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Does CBS send all R1 invites in one day?

It looks like last year they were sent in a couple of different days.

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I see... I'm from BR and haven't seen anyone from LATAM receiving invites yet

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Does CBS send all R1 invites in one day?

It looks like last year they were sent in a couple of different days.

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seems like a lot of people are receiving interview invites today from CBS accordingly to the livewire. Do they send out the invite on a weekely basis or daily basis?

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seems like a lot of people are receiving interview invites today from CBS accordingly to the livewire. Do they send out the invite on a weekely basis or daily basis?

Looking at the Clearadmit posts from last year, it was maybe like 3 consecutive days in mid October that they sent interview invites. The decisions that came a few weeks later seems to be mostly defers to R2 or rejections.

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Any idea, how many invites they send in R-1?

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any more updates? Anyone here who recieved the invite?

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Received invite

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Received invite

When did you receive?

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congratulations. Can you help with your stats?

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Thanks. GMAT 750(old ver. IR was only 2) / GRE 332 . I took both

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Great did u receive email or u directly checked on portal? Also wat time did you receive the invite?

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