Calling All Duke (Fuqua) 2011 Applicants

I would suggest that you may have misunderstood the point and tone of my post, though I could be wrong. Also, I'm sorry that you find the psychoanalytical approach BS, though I respect your right to your opinion. I hope you are able to take it easy, let this slide, and get a beer of your own.

When I was applying to schools, I didn’t quite understand the concept of Team Fuqua. Now, I’m beginning to grasp it more and more. To help illustrate what it means to me, I’m going to take you through this situation which happened to me a few minutes ago.

I received an e-mail from a network contact about an upcoming networking event in sustainability.
The first thought that goes through my mind, “who else maybe interested in attending the event? Let me pass on the e-mail.”

While this type of behavior is not true of everyone at Fuqua, it’s certainly true for a large portion. I have found out many networking/recruiting events through classmates. In general, people here are looking to enlarge the pie for everyone, and build a better Fuqua brand. The spirit is contagious.

Well hello again Bakfed. Welcome to the Fuqua thread. I hope we both have more luck than on the Ross one. As for your question, the simple answer is you cannot exceed the 2 pages. As long as you answer their questions to the best of your ability and as completely as you feel necessary, you are fine, even if it's on the shorter side. I noticed on previous years' threads that some that were admitted didn't push the limits and had some similar questions. I guess they really are grading you on what you say, and not how long it took you to say it (I remember some college courses that were the opposite!). Good luck to both of us. I'm just glad you are applying in a different round so now I know I won't have to compete in this round with you!

Hi Vince and Bakfed,

You have been both great sports over at the Ross thread. Good luck with Fuqua, you showed community spirit and most Bschools would be fortunate to have you in their classes. I really hope that Fuqua will show your applications some appreciation.

According to Fuqua's website, the application's instructions, as well as multiple places on this thread and website, the invites for Round 1 should start coming out on December 17th.

Roll Call Updated


Week of truth for our EA applicants.... I hope to see at least 9~10 admits out of our 22 applicants...Come on Fuqua be nice to the Clubbers...

Yes, but if this forum is an indicator (representative sample of all EA apps) of the EA application volume then EA apps may be up more than 150%. Last year's thread only has 9 EA applicants and this year's has 24.

Might be evidence of an increasing interest in Fuqua and an attestation to the program's heretofore underrated strength - seems plausible.

Hit the 30 mark for the EA folks

Roll Call Updated

ACCEPTED!

My goal was only to give my stats to help out, I wasn't trying to rub it in. I'm sorry.


White Male
720
3.33 from a top tier school in NC
4 yrs work exp in corp acctg
heavy volunteering post grad.

No, I have been using this site as a resource, so I wanted to provide my stats to help others. Did you apply EA?

Dude, lighten up. Your post is unwarranted and unnecessarily hostile.

I would actually agree with not wanting 1-time posters who only post once they find out they're accepted, and don't post their information. It does not in any way contribute to the discussion, and also distorts the statistics for % admitted applicants.

Well the EA round applicants got the IV calls a day earlier around 11:30PM(based on the first call reported on this forum).... no mails were sent out though the update was available on the website.....

so im guessing R1 applicants would get to know starting 16th.....

cant wait for R1 decision

Having just registered, I can tell you that there are more classes that I want to take than I'll probably have time for. I think there are a couple of things that you need to consider:
1) If you are going into marketing, you will not just be taking marketing classes. For example, even for marketing, there are other accounting and finance electives that you probably should take. This is on top of classes like negotiations and many of the management courses that are must takes as well.
2) The great majority of what you learn will be learned on the job, the classes are just to give you the fundamentals so that you can talk the same language, so to speak.