https://kelley.iu.edu/mba/images/consortiumLogo.gif Note: Application for Fall 2011 is now live! Q: What is the Consortium? A: The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management is the country’s preeminent organization for promoting diversity and inclusion in American business. Through an annual competition, The Consortium awards merit-based, full-tuition fellowships to America’s best and brightest candidates. In conjunction with our member schools, sponsoring companies, and our elite group of MBA students and alumni, The Consortium has built a forty year legacy of fostering inclusion and changing the ethnic and cultural face of American business. Q: How does the application process for the Consortium differ from a regular school application? A: Common Application - One application allows you to apply to up to six Consortium schools. (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill requires that all applicants submit both The Consortium application and the UNC application) Tiered Application Fee - Using The Consortium common application significantly reduces your application fee costs. You may apply to up to two member schools for $150, three schools for $200, four schools for $240, five for $275, and six for $300 (source: Official Consortium website ) Essays - There are 2 common essays as part of the Consortium application. Additionally, each member school you are applying to requires at least 1 separate, school specific essay. Interviews - There is 1 common Consortium interview that you must schedule with either a Consortium Alum or a representative at a Consortium School. Note that the interview does not necessarily have to take place at a school you are applying to. Afterward, individual schools may or may not require an additional school specific interview. Q: Can I apply even if I am not an under-represented minority? A: The Consortium seeks applicants who align themselves with its mission . Being a minority is not a prerequisite as long as the applicant has demonstrated a commitment to the Consortium's mission in his or her life. Official site : https://www.cgsm.org 2010-2011 Deadlines : R1: November 15 2010 R2: January 5 2011 Member Schools : University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business (newly added school) University of California-Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management (newly added school) Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Cornell University, The Johnson School Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business Emory University, Goizueta Business School Indiana University-Bloomington, Kelley School of Business University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Stephen M. Ross School of Business New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business University of Virginia, Darden School of Business Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business Yale University, Yale School of Management Related threads/links: 2010 thread: calling-all-fall-2010-consortium-applicants-merged-87799.html any-consortium-applicants-56951.html Transcript of Consortium chat with CGSM and school adcoms: https://www.accepted.com/chat/transcrip ... rtium.aspx --- I know it's a bit early in the game, but hopefully people can find out about this program early on and decide if it's right for them. As you can see from last year's thread, there were quite a few Consortium admits (and a good number of fellowship recipients as well), so feel free to post any questions if you're thinking of applying this fall Member Schools: University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business Applicants: money9111 uzzy12 DCtoMBA lagomez carlito1017 SouthernBelle54 Jaguar363 co2013MBA ohhthatjenny University of California-Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management Applicants: progressiongirl DCtoMBA Howedoin co2013MBA Cooper52 VLM ohhthatjenny Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Applicants: DexterStJacques kegewe mba0Rbust co2013MBA numbnutz dapeople3 ohhthatjenny Cornell University, The Johnson School Applicants: money9111 progressiongirl lagomez kegewe mba0Rbust greentea Jaguar363 numbnutz VLM chireapplicant ohhthatjenny Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business Applicants: money9111 vannbj DCtoMBA carlito1017 shewhomustnotbenamed VictoryMBA DexterStJacques edemlaw kegewe mba0Rbust Jaguar363 mohater thacharter carpediem0008 chireapplicant KD2010 Emory University, Goizueta Business School Applicants: kn2130 Emmie1988 SouthernBelle54 mba0Rbust dapeople3 BusyBee404 Indiana University-Bloomington, Kelley School of Business Applicants: edemlaw greentea BusyBee404 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Stephen M. Ross School of Business Applicants: money9111 DCtoMBA shewhomustnotbenamed gotchocolate loloswims kegewe mohater Howedoin BusyBee404 countdracula numbnutz mbaboundVA BusyBee404 New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business Applicants: money9111 progressiongirl kn2130 lagomez DCtoMBA shewhomustnotbenamed gotchocolate VictoryMBA kegewe greentea chcarvajal ghinderbelle ohhthatjenny Blueskadoobob cauxion mbaboundVA VLM KD2010 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School Applicants: SouthernBelle54 University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business Applicants: progressiongirl Howedoin sexonthebeach150 co2013MBA The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business Applicants: carlito1017 Emmie1988 gotchocolate loloswims co2013MBA Bballer84 BusyBee404 KD2010 University of Virginia, Darden School of Business Applicants: uzzy12 kn2130 vannbj gotchocolate DexterStJacques edemlaw kegewe greentea Jaguar363 mohater numbnutz dapeople3 KD2010 Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School Applicants: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business Applicants: co2013MBA Yale University, Yale School of Management Applicants: money9111 kn2130 DCtoMBA lagomez shewhomustnotbenamed VictoryMBA SouthernBelle54 greentea Jaguar363 ghinderbelle cauxion VLM BusyBee404 KD2010 ohhthatjenny ---

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I'm not certain how strict this deadline is, but thought it might be helpful for those waiting on nyu. I think that consortium applicants are supposed to interview for nyu by feb 28.

Where did you get this info?

In my interview invite from nyu and I saw a few people confirm it on this forum. Here is some good news though, I applied round 1. So it's possible this deadline only applies to r1 consortium.

I got the same thing in my invite for Rd 2.

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As I said before on this forum, the ranking system provides valuable information to the adcom and lets them protect their yields, which is an important element of their own rankings for their program. Put yourself in their shoes. You must understand their mission and their job. If I were an adcom member, and I saw two consortium applicants, all else equal, I'm going with the one who ranked me #1 as opposed to the one who ranked me #2 and who didn't get in to his top choice and chose me as plan B. With my rejection letter, I'll tell that applicant " ____ you, I'll show you who's number two!" That's why the best strategy is to take a hard look at your credentials and application profile and apply to the school where you think you have a decent shot at being accepted. Remember, for consortium applicants, there's more at stake than just admission. There's $100K on the line. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather go to a school ranked between #10 and 20 for free, than take out a $160K loan for H,W,S. The job opportunities are the same. And when you start comparing schools in the aforementioned bracket, the differences are truly negligible and insignificant. So to make a mistake applying to Tuck or Hass, when you know the chances are a bit lower, you are taking an unnecessary and imprudent risk that does not help you with your overall goal of launching a great career with the least amount of debt possible. The consortium people say to not try to game the system, but that's exactly what you need to do in so many words.
Trust me on this one, I speak from experience.

wow. you just articulated my ENTIRE strategy. I thought I was the only one looking at it that way. That debt is scary! :evil:

I will add that during my research, I combed employment profiles and spoke to faculty members at my schools about the companies recruiting on campus, and the industry I want to be in. The schools that I applied to may be lower ranked (10-20) according to the popular rankings but had amazing relationships with my target companies, some of them better relationships for the industry that Im looking to get into than the top 10 because of their location, long term partnerships, and alumni working as Directors and CEOs. every school in the Consortium is amazing actually when you think of it, are they all top 25?

Also I bet we have a lot of people on this fourm with amazing GMATs and GPA's that didnt have to worry about strategy and I wish I were you! Ya'll could apply wherever you want and get FS! I'm looking at you kn1230...jk jk. :-D

Good luck to everyone this week though! I'm getting scared.

and addicted to these smiley faces in an unhealthy way.

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I have to disagree with some of your points.

1. Put yourself in their shoes

Only if they use disinfectant

2. take out a $160K loan for H,W,S.

As I said before you should say HSW because some S people might get offended for putting them after W

3. job opportunities are the same

That's so no true. If I go to Harvard I have a better chance of landing a job in a minimum security prison along with some of my fellow classmates after being convicted of insider trading

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lol @ lagomez's sarcasm

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I do agree with the poster's comments. Just being sarcastic because I expect dings across the board this year.

No worries though.

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I do agree with the poster's comments. Just being sarcastic because I expect dings across the board this year.

No worries though.

No lagomez! Say it ain't so. You truly are hysterical. I'm hoping we end up in the same program. I don't think I would stop laughing for the entire 2 years.

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I do agree with the poster's comments. Just being sarcastic because I expect dings across the board this year.

No worries though.

No lagomez! Say it ain't so. You truly are hysterical. I'm hoping we end up in the same program. I don't think I would stop laughing for the entire 2 years.

Thanks. I appreciate it. Maybe I should just show up to NYU Diversity Day on the 25th even though I wasn't invited. Would that be awkward?

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I have a funny feeling I'm going to be dinged across the board as well. I guess it begins in 4 days.

@lagomez One of two things could happen. 1) Security is called, and you're lead out among the gasps and stares of the prospective students. 2) You have one of those movie moments where one person starts clapping (slowly) and then it starts to spread across the crowd until the clapping builds into a rapturous applause. Whereby this point the dean comes out and hands you an a letter of acceptance, you jump into the air with a fist raised, the scene freezes, 80's music starts...etc.

I say go for it.

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haha. yea do it! I'll clap for you.

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Ha haha..point #2 is hysterical

I hear NYU gives tee shirts at this thing. I was thinking point #3 would be everyone handing in their shirt, one by one, to the dean, and saying "this is for lagomez..I want lagomez to dress in my place"

Eventually I get accepted and everyone carries me on their shoulders when we all leave the diversity day. I'll be the first and last person to be carried out.

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hahaha lagomez, you are hilarious!

That said, if you need a partner in crime to crash diversity day, I'm sooo in!

I take the gmats march 1st, day of the fellowship call. I plan on faxing scores to NYU the day of, if I don't hand deliver it in hopes of an impromptu interview. So my chances at getting that free t-shirt are slim

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for me, I think its gonna be T-SHIRT TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!
lagomez, you are the funniest soul I've encountered on this forum...

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Let's do it..let's meet in Greenwich Village over yonder

I can see how it plays out:

lagomez: Sons of The Consortium, I am lagomez.

all the applicants well then say: lagomez is 7 feet tall.

lagomez: Yes, I've heard. sends in applications by the hundreds, and if the admission committees were here he'd consume them with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. I AM lagomez. And I see a whole army of my fellow applicants here in defiance of the diversity day. You have come to fight as free applicants, and free applicants you are. What would you do without a fellowship? Will you fight?

other applicants: Fight? Against that? No, we will run; and we will apply somewhere else.

lagomez: Aye, fight and you may accepted. Run and you'll live -- at least a while before another ding. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance to get into your favorite Consortium school, just one chance to come back here and tell our future Consortium applicants that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our application fees!!!

lagomez and applicants: Alba gu bra! (Consortium forever!)

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Guys.. All of the schools WANT to be listed as number one. That makes sense right? But the truth of the matter is thatthe schools know who they want. If you get into a school and you ranked them 1st but don't support the consortium mission then maybe someone who does support the mission and ranked said school second will get the fellowship. All you/we can do is just trust that when each of us made our rankings that we were ok with our reasonings for placing a school on the list where we did.

We can all go back now that we've seen how admissions have started to play out and say "oh I wish I ranked X school higher". Try to refrain from doing that! We are all amazing and will be billionaires so in the long run it's pennies! ;-)

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Sorry, but I have to add something to this thought. Supporting the mission is important, but remember that close to 70% of admitted students get the fellowship, and not all of the 30% are declined because of their perceived lack of mission support. Some schools just don't give out as many fellowships. I've asked about this and I think that the big deal here is getting admitted. No school will admit you on the basis of your mission support essay, if you have an otherwise weak application, but I think the reverse is possible. So I wouldn't rest my head on the hopes that you are getting into your number 2 school, with FS, in anticipation that your mission support is so much stronger than a weaker-mission/stronger-overall applicant who ranked the same school #1.

Hey, where are you getting your "70/30" facts?

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Hey, where are you getting your "70/30" facts?

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its a generally accepted statistical trend. The Consortium people will tell you if you call them. Its more like 68% or so. I think it was also stated in one of the chats on accepted.com. I'm not just making up the numbers because I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

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Lol ... Thx.

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@lagomez - you should have used your real name on here so that any adcom members perusing the site would see how funny you are and know that people would want you in their classes. You'll be fine and you will get in somewhere... all NYU invites have not gone out yet but dings have... so if you have not been Dinged then keep hope alive ::puts fist up:: or is that black power? nm nix that...

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LaGomez,
When you are accepted and matriculate, make sure you read over all of your posts on this forum before class discussion, because if you happen to recycle any of your material in class and we remember it, someone is going to jump up out of their seat and say, "It's him, it's LaGomez" agggghhhhhhhhh!!!

Then we will run over and give you a hug and ask for your autograph..

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Then we will run over and give you a hug and ask for your autograph..

or her!

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Not sure if anyone else heard this, but I literally just spoke to one assistant admissions director at Tuck and they said that the Consortium requires that ALL schools make decisions about fellowships before 3/1. Which I am assuming means that the schools that require you to do a interview in addition to the Consortium interview have already sent out all of their interview invites, seeing as though 3/1 is next Tuesday.