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I had applied in round 1 and just received a mail that my application is incomplete.They need my degree certificate also. I am not sure where to submit it from though? Is there a way I have to submit it in my application or mail it to some admissions id? From the SISS portal , i am not able to submit anywhere :( Since a couple of you have previously submitted missing docs already, I was wondering if you could help. Thanks :)
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Hi dude, same thing happened here. You need to reply that email with scanned copy of your degree cert. It will be fine after 2-3 days. No need to worry. :lol:
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I had applied in round 1 and just received a mail that my application is incomplete.They need my degree certificate also. I am not sure where to submit it from though? Is there a way I have to submit it in my application or mail it to some admissions id? From the SISS portal , i am not able to submit anywhere :( Since a couple of you have previously submitted missing docs already, I was wondering if you could help. Thanks :)


Hi dude, same thing happened here. You need to reply that email with scanned copy of your degree cert. It will be fine after 2-3 days. No need to worry. :lol:
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I got the same email asking for BS degree. Exact comment ". An official copy of your degree certificate or diploma from xxx is required." Deadline is to submit by 10-Nov, if not my app will considered in R2.

I am not sure what to provide since I uploaded 'official' certificate. I will call tomorrow to get clarity.
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I had applied in round 1 and just received a mail that my application is incomplete.They need my degree certificate also. I am not sure where to submit it from though? Is there a way I have to submit it in my application or mail it to some admissions id? From the SISS portal , i am not able to submit anywhere :( Since a couple of you have previously submitted missing docs already, I was wondering if you could help. Thanks :)


Hi dude, same thing happened here. You need to reply that email with scanned copy of your degree cert. It will be fine after 2-3 days. No need to worry. :lol:
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Hey sky65536: Thanks. I just saw they had mentioned in one corner to send it to that email id itself :) . Mailed them the copy. Hopefully its okay :)
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I had applied in round 1 and just received a mail that my application is incomplete.They need my degree certificate also. I am not sure where to submit it from though? Is there a way I have to submit it in my application or mail it to some admissions id? From the SISS portal , i am not able to submit anywhere :( Since a couple of you have previously submitted missing docs already, I was wondering if you could help. Thanks :)


Hi dude, same thing happened here. You need to reply that email with scanned copy of your degree cert. It will be fine after 2-3 days. No need to worry. :lol:


Hey sky65536: Thanks. I just saw they had mentioned in one corner to send it to that email id itself :) . Mailed them the copy. Hopefully its okay :)
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Coool... It will be fine. It was exactly what happened to me before :) Wheeee... Now comes the waiting period.... It is LOOOOOooonggg...
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I had applied in round 1 and just received a mail that my application is incomplete.They need my degree certificate also. I am not sure where to submit it from though? Is there a way I have to submit it in my application or mail it to some admissions id? From the SISS portal , i am not able to submit anywhere :( Since a couple of you have previously submitted missing docs already, I was wondering if you could help. Thanks :)


Hi dude, same thing happened here. You need to reply that email with scanned copy of your degree cert. It will be fine after 2-3 days. No need to worry. :lol:


Hey sky65536: Thanks. I just saw they had mentioned in one corner to send it to that email id itself :) . Mailed them the copy. Hopefully its okay :)
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i just got a response via email saying my application is complete. I provided a scanned copy.
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Hey guys, any idea when the interview invites go out for Fuqua Round 1 applicants ?
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I just found that Fuqua listed the interview decision date on their website. Should've checked earlier. Thank you for answering my stupid query neo656. :)
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I am not sure what the SISS portal is. I did not get an email to set-up my account on the portal. Is this normal?
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I am not sure what the SISS portal is. I did not get an email to set-up my account on the portal. Is this normal?
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Try to use your application email address to log in the following website. https://applicants.siss.duke.edu
If you are a reapplicant, use your last year's email address.
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FROM Fuqua Current Student Blogs: The Growth of Latin American Recruiting
Through the economic growth experienced in the last decade, Latin America has seen an increase in demand for MBAs, and U.S. schools are the main target for applicants. Students from the region have been an important part of the community at Fuqua prior to that growth, but recently our numbers have grown to around 40 or 50 students per class. In line with the employment needs of these students, an increasing number of companies have started to offer internships and full-time positions in the region, making it a great alternative for MBA students from Latin America or anywhere else.

Opportunities include those found through on-campus recruiting, job postings facilitated by the Career Management Center (CMC) and off-campus alternatives. The industries that have recently recruited at Fuqua for positions in Latin America include: consulting firms (McKinsey, AT Kearney, BCG, Bain and Virtus Partners), airline and travel (Latam Airlines and Despegar.com), retail (Falabella, Cencosud and Walmart), banking (Banco Itaú, BTG Pactual and Credicorp Capital) and others (AB-Inbev and CMPC).

This past summer there were more Fuqua students interning in Latin American than in any previous year. Alan Levy, cabinet member of the Latin American Student Association (LASA) explains: “Latin American companies are becoming an active player in recruiting at Fuqua. In 2014 we saw a 50% increase in students interning in the region, from 13 to 19. Countries include Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Peru.”


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Year by year, Fuqua is building new partnerships in response to the increasing interest of Latin American companies. Eduardo Prada, also from LASA, says: “as students with local contacts, we help the CMC to identify firms that would be interested in starting to recruit in our school. We like to be involved and to continue developing our network abroad, while reinforcing Fuqua’s vision to be a student-focused school.”

U.S.-based companies have also started to take a close look at Latin American MBA students while they expand their operations to the region. Companies such as Google, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark and Schlumberger hire at Fuqua, providing an interesting option for those who want to pursue a career in a multinational firm. This trend will probably intensify as companies consolidate their position in Latin America.

This year’s recruiting season is in full effect at Fuqua. Latin America promises to again be a very active region for internship and full-time opportunities!
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FROM Fuqua Current Student Blogs: Experiential Learning Starts Immediately
In developing ‘leaders of consequence,’ Fuqua not only relies on its world class curriculum, but also depends on extensive experiential learning.

As part of our C-LEAD (Consequential Leadership) course in our first term, we were all taken to Triangle Training Center to overcome various challenges with the help of other team members. Part of the program was to climb a 60-foot wall. During my turn, I had climbed less than three feet, when I looked up the wall and realized the long way to go. I was so discouraged by the high goal that I decided to surrender without finishing the task.

But before doing so, I closed my eyes and thought for a few seconds. A recent lesson from our leadership class came across my mind. The lesson was about how setting high goals in business settings might make the very first steps towards achieving the goal look overly difficult. As a solution, the course suggested that high goals be divided into small sub-goals in order to make them look achievable and less aversive.


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When I opened my eyes, I was determined to continue the challenge, but started thinking about the next three steps only, and not the ultimate goal. I was not frightened by the high goal anymore. I continued my climb the same way by focusing on sub-goals and eventually found myself at the top of the wall.

I am confident that the leadership lesson would not have stuck in my mind as well if it were not for such a great experiential challenge. Fuqua offers a great combination of extracurricular activities that complement in-class learning. This hybrid gives students hands-on experience in applying classroom lessons to real-life applications. According to Dean Russ Morgan, “a large part of the transformational experience at Fuqua relates to students enhancing their abilities to act as Leaders of Consequence,” and in order to act as such, students should be able to apply principles and frameworks taught in class. Fuqua has put together the opportunities required for students to do this, thereby instilling these skills and enhancing their personal growth.
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Fuqua is #1 in the new annual BW ranking.
https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/
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Fuqua is #1 in the new annual BW ranking.
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I saw the news today. That's awesome! I guess everyone's going insane over at Fuqua. I only remembered dean boulding 6 months back when he was explaining the school's goal of being #1 and nothing short of that. That's a job well done
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As much as I love to see Fuqua at the top spot, I think w/o H/S at the top 5 spot illegitimate the new BW rankings. I always liked BW ranking because it takes the qualitative into consideration, whereas USNews is very quantitative. I also think USNews “tamper” with the algorithm so that the same top schools always land on top to legitimize their ranking.

As someone who has been out of school, and seeing how people from different school’s career progressed, I believe school ranking is only a reference point. When it comes down to career performance, the factor that matters the most is the individual. Sure, your likelihood of “success” is higher with higher ranked schools. But that success may be more attributed to the individual than the school
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As much as I love to see Fuqua at the top spot, I think w/o H/S at the top 5 spot illegitimate the new BW rankings. I always liked BW ranking because it takes the qualitative into consideration, whereas USNews is very quantitative. I also think USNews “tamper” with the algorithm so that the same top schools always land on top to legitimize their ranking.

As someone who has been out of school, and seeing how people from different school’s career progressed, I believe school ranking is only a reference point. When it comes down to career performance, the factor that matters the most is the individual. Sure, your likelihood of “success” is higher with higher ranked schools. But that success may be more attributed to the individual than the school
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Let me try to understand this again. Just because HBS isn't in top 5 (correction for the quoted text, S is #4 and W is #2); because MIT is #14; because Kelley, Smith and Goizuetta are all ranked higher than Haas, Darden and Stern; and because for a majority of the schools the data is either not visible (talking about avg GMAT / GPA, cost of education etc.) or doesn't make sense, you're implying that BW might have screwed up in the latest ranking? :shock:
God! and I thought I was the only one. :)

Also, several schools made enormous jumps (up and down). CBS jumped from #13 to #5 (no wonder, though), Yale #21 to #6 (15 places! really?), Rice from #34 to #25, Stern from #16 to #22 (what?), UC-Irvine from #43 to #31, Simon from #50 to #38, U.Buffalo from #57 to #39, Mays from #26 to #42 and Madison from #33 to #44. (I didn't count beyond current #50) Even Economist ranking wasn't that screwed up to show such large number of jumps.

I agree with your remark that BW is quant based and that's why more reliable, but really think that both Economist and BW should get their acts straight. Incorrect weightages can create havoc in the rankings and obviously impact their reliability.
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Bottom line, there are a lot of really great schools in this country. Duke being number one is simply a testament to the fact that it is an awesome school, and this is something that all associated with the school should be proud of. In the end, Fuqua is the exact same school today that it was when US News said it was the fourteenth best school in the country earlier this year. The same can be said for Harvard, Stanford, etc... Even if the rankings are inconsistent, you have to be doing something right to be ranked #1.
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Bottom line, there are a lot of really great schools in this country. Duke being number one is simply a testament to the fact that it is an awesome school, and this is something that all associated with the school should be proud of. In the end, Fuqua is the exact same school today that it was when US News said it was the fourteenth best school in the country earlier this year. The same can be said for Harvard, Stanford, etc... Even if the rankings are inconsistent, you have to be doing something right to be ranked #1.
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You got a point, but personally I'd have preferred Duke being ranked #1 by a ranking which had some higher level of reliability.
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Let me try to understand this again. Just because HBS isn't in top 5 (correction for the quoted text, S is #4 and W is #2); because MIT is #14; because Kelley, Smith and Goizuetta are all ranked higher than Haas, Darden and Stern; and because for a majority of the schools the data is either not visible (talking about avg GMAT / GPA, cost of education etc.) or doesn't make sense, you're implying that BW might have screwed up in the latest ranking? :shock:
God! and I thought I was the only one. :)

Also, several schools made enormous jumps (up and down). CBS jumped from #13 to #5 (no wonder, though), Yale #21 to #6 (15 places! really?), Rice from #34 to #25, Stern from #16 to #22 (what?), UC-Irvine from #43 to #31, Simon from #50 to #38, U.Buffalo from #57 to #39, Mays from #26 to #42 and Madison from #33 to #44. (I didn't count beyond current #50) Even Economist ranking wasn't that screwed up to show such large number of jumps.

I agree with your remark that BW is quant based and that's why more reliable, but really think that both Economist and BW should get their acts straight. Incorrect weightages can create havoc in the rankings and obviously impact their reliability.
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The fact that schools move around so much in BW is a result of the fact that the scoring clusters the schools so close, that small changes in results can sway the rankings. In another word, instead of the linear appearance of 1, 2, 3 ranking, the schools are more grouped like 1, 1.01, 1.04, 1.045, 1.05, 2.02, 2.021... The usefulness of the ranking is to see the clustering within the rankings, since those schools are likely to have similar performance.

One thing I do like about BW is that it doesn’t tamper with the survey “noise”. Whereas I strongly believe USNews does. For example, for law school ranking, the same 14 schools are ALWAYS ranked in the top 14. It is hard for me to imagine that a #15 school (UT, UCLA, Vandy) has NEVER outperformed a #14 (Cornell, Georgetown) school in the history of USNews ranking. There have been many law school scandals, changes in regional economic prominence since the inception of USNews ranking. NEVER once is hard to imagine. Underdogs can get lucky once or twice, just look at all the Cinderella teams in March Madness.

For me, BW is like a startup. It’s trying to reflect the changing business school climate. USNews is like IBM, staying the conservative course -- “no one ever got fired for buying IBM.”
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Bottom line, there are a lot of really great schools in this country. Duke being number one is simply a testament to the fact that it is an awesome school, and this is something that all associated with the school should be proud of. In the end, Fuqua is the exact same school today that it was when US News said it was the fourteenth best school in the country earlier this year. The same can be said for Harvard, Stanford, etc... Even if the rankings are inconsistent, you have to be doing something right to be ranked #1.
You got a point, but personally I'd have preferred Duke being ranked #1 by a ranking which had some higher level of reliability.
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If you are accepted at both Harvard and Duke, where would you go? More importantly, if a recruiter had a choice between two candidates with same abilities but one from Harvard and the other from Duke, who would s/he accept? I believe answer to these questions would help judge the rankings better.
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