Calling All Fall 2010 Yale SOM Applicants

1) I answered this already during R1. They rarely ever reply back to your "Thank You" email. Thing is, once they reply to your email, applicants tend to constantly reply back with random questions and etc. As a result, interviewers don't respond to your standard "Thank You" email. This applies for job interviews as well.

2) Just because the status webpage on your online application doesn't say something like "application is under review" or etc, it doesn't mean your application is NOT under review. Same thing for GMAt or TOEFL scores.

That status page does not reflect REAL TIME status of your application status. (This isn't like stock market quote where things are updated constantly) Pretty much all the business schools update that status page long after "events" take place. This is because admissions office CAN NOT and DOES NOT have resources to provide real time update of your application status. Chances are, all is good with your application even though the status page doesn't reflect that. (as long as you sent in everything, on your part)

Anxieties like this creep up every year. But I have never heard of YSOM losing/delaying applications (in shuffle or in transition) because they couldn't find GMAT or TOEFL score. As long as you sent it in, it should be all good.

Only schools with rolling deadline work that way (low tier schools). Just because one gets interviewed first, it doesn't mean that he/she has better chance of getting an admit.

Adcom is gonna send out interview invites to all the qualified applicants that they want to interview.

Until they have better picture of the number of commitment (yield) from R1 admits, adcom is going to interview all the qualified applicants. Then out of those "interviewed" pool, they will admit people based on their latest yield projection.

In recent years, more people committed to YSOM than projected class size. In some years, they sent out an email for "volunteers" and asked him/her to enroll the following year.

Just got the admissions newsletter with an article about 'What happens inside the admissions process. One thing that stood out - About 35% of our applicant pool is interviewed

Now that is a pretty big number. There also was a mention that they have sent out a 'few' invites so far. And, that they expect to send many more.
We have extended a small number of our invitations for the second round, but more will be sent in the coming weeks

And, all round two applicants will hear from them by April 2, 2010. I think this will keep my anxiety down for a few days.

https://mba.yale.edu/news_events/CMS/Articles/7074.shtml

Does Yale encourage update letters or additional letters of rec that discuss a current undertaking? I want to add it to my file. A lot has changed in the last couple of weeks...

hey,

a little new to the gmatclub. add me in for R2. received my invite to interview today

YSOM doesn't "encourage" it (per say) but for any bschool that you are applying to if there is a significant change to your application, you should call the admissions office and let them know. Do this for ALL SCHOOLS. (This isn't YSOM specific answer)

Congrats

hi, new to the forum and in for round 2. please add, thank you.

just got my R2 interview invite today!

This is something of a late update, but I received an invite to interview a week after applying, and will be having an on-campus interview on the fourth. Best of luck to everyone!

Applied in R2.
Received invite today. These guys are working Saturdays

The whole application to Yale SOM has been a really pleasant one for me - from the way they let you know on the website when they receive materials to the friendliness of the interviewers.

Please count me in for R2! Submitted 1/7 & received interview invite on 1/19. Interview scheduled for 2/9. Best of luck to everyone!

ROLL CALL PG

Let us know how the interview went.. and some details.. Good Luck!

Congrats to all w/ good news.

Starting to get rather worried about my lack of an SOM interview invite. Anyone else?