Welcome all Consortium folks! Come forward, introduce yourself to fellow applicants, share your post MBA aspirations and motivations for MBA. I am sure a fruitful exchange of ideas and positive dialogue with co-applicants will help everyone immensely in your own apps.

If there are any reapplicants or current students, we'd love to know the last year's application experience!

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I am curious about how Consortium applicants are judged vs regular applicants. Does anyone have any insight into that?
Like if you are a weaker applicant, does applying through Consortium help you or hurt you?

teamryan15 I don't have an answer for you however there is a bit of time left and I'm a little concerned about how you are in haste to give your packet to your recommender...my question is have you fully thought through specific anecdotes you would like them to discuss and have you outlined those for them? Anecdotes where they have work with you and observed you model the qualities that business schools are seeking? There's always going to be a question about how you stand out from your peers and an example of handling constructive criticism this is virtually guaranteed so I think it would be best to apply your energies on really sifting through the best examples of this that would showcase your most unique qualities. And draft an outline for your recommender which of course they can go a different way.... but I think you're going to have a greater chance of success by guiding them... this has been my experience. When the application is open you can set up a dummy which isn't great but you do what you got to do.

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Best wishes to this year's Consortium applicants. I will be attending a MAPS event to learn more about the program, and fellowship opportunities.

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone has figured out about the deposits for first round applicants. As much as I'd love to apply first round to increase my odds of admittance I know I can't afford any institution without the fellowship unfortunately. This has led me to likely apply to the second round so that I can hopefully have a fellowship in hand before having to pay a deposit.

For the deposit, how does that work if we do receive a fellowship? Do we need to fund it in either case? I appreciate any insight people have to offer!

Is it recommended that our recommendors answer the 4th question? (Question 4: Please make any additional comments which you think will help in assessing the candidacy of the applicant.)

I believe OP is required. They will cover all costs to attend.

The only exception is if you elect to go enroll in a non-consortium school, after being accepted as a member to a consortium school. If you still wish to attend OP, you would have to pay all fees to The Consortium.

Yes! It is becoming very real. One week to go. Best of luck!
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Is the app due 10/15 at 11:59P EST? wondering that time zone

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Just got the "Your application has been released to member schools" email. Anyone have a sense of when interview notifications will start going out? (I saw Yale mentioned within 5 weeks on their portal, while other schools in last year's Consortium thread were super fast...)