sT470s wrote:
Kind of stumbled upon this forum late in the game. Just wanted to say Hello!
I applied to 6 schools and have been invited to McDonough, Darden, Haas (listed in order of interview invite). Have not heard from Johnson, Stern, or Tuck.
I've also applied to Fuqua, even though they're not a member school (invited here as well).
I had a random question that hopefully others can shed light on: Is it possible for your #1 school to grant you admission into their MBA program BUT NOT the Consortium Fellowship?
Good luck to everyone!
Yeah, I was actually described several scenarios that could happen in general:
1) You get admitted but no CGSM membership. From what I heard this is very rare but possible if something in your profile or membership essay was not good.
2) You get admitted but only CGSM membership, no fellowship. This gives you access to all the Consortium benefits including alumni and OP, just without any grants. The school you picked #1 still can still give you funds on their own (for instance give you 25% scholarship). But it also allows the next schools to give you fellowship, partial or full.
3) You get admitted but only a partial fellowship. This allows the next school to give you a full fellowship and your choice of school. Another school can give you the full fellowship if they so choose.
Once a school gives you a full fellowship it's game over. No one else can play since you were drafted. You can still be selected to their school, but no Consortium.
So here's a hypothetical scenario:
Schools:
1) Tuck - Admit, no scholarship. Consortium OK
2) Yale - Rejected
3) Ross - Admit, partial fellowship
4) Haas - Admit, no fellowship (15% scholarship).
5) USC - Admit, full fellowship
6) Foster - Admit (full ride)
So you can choose #3 or 5 and still get Consortium. Picking #1 gets you nothing but you would have gotten Consortium membership IF no other schools gave you a fellowship. But you did as you'll see... Pick 3 and you get some partial scholarship. Pick 4 and you also get some scholarship but no Consortium (since someone already picked you for some funds). Pick 6 gets you also a full ride but you won't get Consortium since you were already offered the full fellowship. How much membership is worth it to you is up to interpretation and choosing between school 5 and 6.
I think this is how it works, but I could be wrong...this is just from what I interpreted.
Note: If you get a scenario like this you're one lucky SOB lol. I'm just throwing together an unlikely scenario to demonstrate the rules of the game.
It's an interesting game, to say the least. The whole admissions process is a weird game, so it makes sense that the Consortium has it's own interesting rules.