https://kelley.iu.edu/mba/images/consortiumLogo.gif 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) 2011-2012 Deadlines: R1: November 15, 2011 R2: January 5th, 2012 Related threads/links: 2011 thread: https://gmatclub.com/forum/calling-all-fall-2011-consortium-applicants-95473.html 2010 thread: https://gmatclub.com/forum/calling-all-fall-2010-consortium-applicants-merged-87799.html 2009 thread: https://gmatclub.com/forum/any-consortium-applicants-56951.html Real Time Roll Call for Consortium (separate from other discussions) Add Yourself to the Consortium Applicant List - Update Your Profile Real Time Stats for Each School Add Yourself to the Consortium Applicant List - Update Your Profile Member Schools: University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business University of California-Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management 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 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 - New for 2011 - 2012 Consortium interviews are NO LONGER required. Check with your Consortium school for their interview policy. 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 School 'Interview Captains': Please feel free to Private Message any Forum Members below for advice on interviews. If you've completed your interview and you wanted to be added as a resource, simply PM TheSenator or post on the Board to be added. Anderson - btsl84 Darden - JacksonCinco, TheSenator Goizueta - suchdaddy Haas - TheSenator Johnson - btsl84, mixedin86, TheSenator, encoredazzle31 Kelley - mixedin86, gablaze23, encoredazzle31 Kenan-Flager - Marshall - mixedin86 McCombs - btsl84 Olin - Rochester - BEnergy Ross - arzad Stern - Tepper - iamvolitant, mixedin86 Tuck - JacksonCinco, btsl84, TheSenator Wisconsin - Yale - JacksonCinco, TheSenator

grrrr not what I wanted to hear because I ranked McCombs 3rd and never got around to visiting Austin (did a skype interview). I was going back and forth on whether to put them 2nd or 3rd for weeks too guess I'll just have to see exactly how sensitive they are when admission's decisions are released next week. At least my interview seemed to go really well.

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MIXEDin86

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Guys, I have a question. I have never visited McCombs, and I was invited to interview. Do you think I could schedule my interview with an alumni in my city and still be seriously considered for admission???

Texas said that they are sensitive to rankings. They prefer to be 1 or 2 (told us this at diversity weekend) so if you ranked them there it prob won't matter. If you ranked them pretty low, they may consider the fact that you never visited.

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grrrr not what I wanted to hear because I ranked McCombs 3rd and never got around to visiting Austin (did a skype interview). I was going back and forth on whether to put them 2nd or 3rd for weeks too :cry:

guess I'll just have to see exactly how sensitive they are when admission's decisions are released next week. At least my interview seemed to go really well.

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guess I'll just have to see exactly how sensitive they are when admission's decisions are released next week. At least my interview seemed to go really well.

Admissions may not be as big of an issue, but it may affect the fellowship opportunity with them. I went back and forth also and ended up ranking them 3rd. They told our group that enough people ranked them first that they did not give fellowships to anyone who ranked them less than second often.

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Whether that point was exaggerated by Texas or not, I'm not sure.

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I'm very curious to see where everyone gets their Consortium fellowship (assuming and hoping we all do get one of course :-D

) in light of the rankings and prior scholarship info.

For example, I've got a significant scholarship from Tepper, my #2. And Olin, which is my #3, gave me no money, despite its reputation for giving out lots of scholarship money. Has Tepper already given me the best they will? Is Olin waiting for the draft, or did I really strike out?

With all the data points we have this year, this may be our best chance yet to find some patterns in all of this.

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Haas is just toying w/ me!!

I open my email after seeing the mail logo on my phone,..and I see I have an email from Haas,..I'm about to shed tears of joy when I realize it's just an informational email about the Toigo Pre MBA finance event. Talk about a gut punch.

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ha, yup, we all got that vicious e-mail, next e-mail from them I expect to get is a ding so I can get some RED up on my page. Those reds? It's like Maine... we should get lobster...

Please excuse the Tosh reference.

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Thanks for the input. I ranked them No.4. The problem is that I can't miss so many days at work and the tickets from Miami are crazy expensive. I have visited Cornell and Ross for interviews, and I will travel to UNC at the end of the month. I will make a decision later today.

First off...shout out to the 305!!

I don't know what ur financial situation is, but I don't think u should let a couple hundred dollars stand in the way of making the best impression that you can. In the long run we're talking about 100k in free money. Personally I've had to take a vacation week to knock out 4 interviews back to back, and I'm flying from Florida to the North east. I don't know if that will translate into a bunch of admits, but I won't let "lack of interest" be the reason that I don't get in.

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Hey - Where's TheSenator been?!

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Hey - Where's TheSenator been?!

Senator said, "screw you non-interviewed non-accepted pesants... I'm off to my richest in a land flowing of scholarships and honey..." followed by fiendish Dr. Evil laugh... Muah ha ha haaaaa!

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Hey - Where's TheSenator been?!

Lol...does anyone know if he got in at Tuck?

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That's what I'm wondering! Hope he did.

Hope he didn't celebrate TOO hard and disappear.

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For Haas, I'm gonna do an off-campus. I've visited the school before and since I'm an east coaster it is a bit far for me.

Yale just came through with an invite...I had lost hope there. What a day.

Congrats srnamargarita,....what a day indeed!! I fantasize of days where i can have multiple invites!

Where did you rank Yale if I may ask? Yeah, i've pretty much written Yale off, I ranked them 5/5. I've received 1 invite only (Ross) at the very beginning of the cyle (Jan.18),...so its been almost a month long cold spell for me. The schools i'm waiting on are Haas, Darden, Yale, and Wharton. And Wharton is a superreach. Not hearing from Darden is really agonizing though, of all the schools I thought i had my best shot w/ them and the clock is ticking, my chances are getting slimmer by the day.

Yale was my #2...so still very high up on the list rankings wise. My super cool yesterday was balanced today by my (expected) HBS ding. It's the nature of the beast!

Thanks mooze. I have my fingers crossed for you and all. At the end of the day, we can only go to one school and I hope we all get at least one great option.

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That's what I'm wondering! Hope he did.

Hope he didn't celebrate TOO hard and disappear.

I hung out with The Senator this weekend at DAK. No worries, he didn't disappear and should return shortly. He's got something in the works that's taking his attention from the whole b-school game.

So glad to see that the interview invites are still coming in for folks!

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That's what I'm wondering! Hope he did.

Hope he didn't celebrate TOO hard and disappear.

WHAT!?!? There's something more important than this b-school game?!? Lies! jk

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That's what I'm wondering! Hope he did.

Hope he didn't celebrate TOO hard and disappear.

Senator getting engaged??? He has mentioned his girlfriend pursuing a masters in health management... That would take my mind off of school right now....

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In our effort to track every email & correspondence with our schools. Today, I received an email from Emory telling me my application has been completed (weird b/c this is the 3rd time I've received that email) and I received an email from Tuck asking me to complete a survey about my interview & visit at the end of January. Nothing special but opening my morning email to subject lines of "Tuck Interview" & "Goizueta Thanks You" was exciting for 2.3 seconds.

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Same here QWill!! I was just on the phone with girlfriend talking about fear of not hearing anything yet and when I got off the phone I have the TUCK email! For those moments it was pure joy and Fear!!!

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I have a question about the fellowship that maybe you guys can help me with. Going by the previous couple of posts, if it's true that McCombs does not often give fellowships to applicants who list them lower than first or second, then what about this scenario. Let's say I applied to 4 schools and ranked them in this order: 1) Haas, 2) Stern, 3) McCombs, 4) Wisconsin. I haven't heard anything from Haas or Stern, invited to interview with McCombs and feel good about interviewing with Wisconsin. If I get dinged from Haas and Stern, when it comes time for the draft, will McCombs know that Haas and Stern dinged me and then view themselves as my defacto remaining best option and possibly offer me a fellowship? Or will they not know that Haas and Stern dinged me and only know that Haas and Stern did not decide to offer me a fellowship and still view themselves in third position? Finally, if I get dinged from Haas and Stern, accepted to McCombs and Wisconsin, is there a chance that McCombs and Wisconsin both decide to not offer me a fellowship?

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To make short of this, I think if you originally ranked McCombs #3, they will continue to view themselves as your 3rd choice regardless of the Haas and Stern results. I think the point was that McCombs has enough people putting them #1 or #2 overall that they don't feel compelled to offer the fellowship to those who didn't. In this hypothetical scenario, you didn't. But who knows what will really go down.

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I agree with what Method said.

To add, if Haas and Stern ding you and you're accepted by McCombs and Wisconsin, there is a chance that McCombs and Wisconsin will both not offer you the fellowship, but it's probably 50/50. If you have solid stats and made good impressions on the schools it's possible that one of them, especially Wisconsin, will step up and offer it to you. If you only get into one of the schools you might have some worrying to do because that school would have no incentive to offer the fellowship to you. They would know you already have no choice but to go there.