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

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the night of the 5th, but if possible you should try and get it in a bit earlier cause there's gonna be intense traffic and uploading at that time and you don't want to risk something going wrong.

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this may be a silly question..... on the consortium site, it says the application is due on midnight, january 5th.

is that midnight, as in from january 4th -> january 5th at 12am

or midnight, as in the night of january 5th, when midnight is actually 12am on january 6th

Army,

Ditto what johnnygmat says. Last year there was a bit of leeway on this deadline (a few folks submitted a day or two late) but that may not be the case this year. Make sure to have your scores sent in the meantime if you haven't already so there are no delays in application processing.

Good luck!

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Hey all! I've decided that I'm not going to apply to my Consortium schools afterward. While it would be great to get the fellowship I know that won't sway me toward choosing them over my other schools. As deadlines approach I realize that I won't be able to get all of the apps finished by the first week in Jan so I had to make a decision about which schools to let go.

Good luck to everyone! Can't wait to see how the fellowship awards go in the spring.

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Thanks! I thought so, but wanted to be sure. I'm actually planning to submit in the next day or so, but was curious in case I needed to make a change.

Good luck everyone and happy new year!

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Sorry to hear you wont be in on the Consortium madness this year, but I totally get your reasons. Good luck with the rest of your apps and keep us posted!

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I am submitting it on jan 4 9:00PM to avoid any problems.

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Best of luck!

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All ready to submit, but I had a quick question on the employment part.

I've only worked for one company so I'm unsure if should list all my positions and have several entries, or if I should list the one in this section. Any thoughts?

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Diegole,

I would just use one entry and enter your starting position and ending position. If you want to utilize the resume to add more detail that's fine but you'd be better served by keeping it simple. IF you have had a lot of side to side movement (Operations --> Finance --> Marketing) I think it would warrant a bit more detailed explanation on your resume or somewhere in your essay. Otherwise interviews are a good opportunity to indicate you've held many positions without using valuable real estate on your application.

On a side note could you please update your profile to indicate you are applying through Consortium as well as your schools, we would really appreciate it -- we're hoping to collect as much data as possible to make this a richer user experience for all.

Thank you and best of luck on your wrapping up your application!

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I don't do this often - if ever, but I wanted to post this link to my last blog post regarding the looming Consortium application deadline this week.

https://money9111.blogspot.com/2012/01/h ... cants.html

It hopefully offers some advice and solace to those who are still pounding away with essays that are due very shortly!

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2012 Stern applicant here......anyone familiar with Stern's Real Estate Program? I have some questions about it specifically how it partners with/associates with the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate?

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Thanks money, you rock man!

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Hey Everyone,

I submitted my consortium application just before the holidays but I haven't recieved confirmation from any of the schools yet. I am still waiting on my membership recommender to submit her recommendation; so will the consortium not send my application to the schools until this is complete? Also, how long does it usually take for the schools to send a confirmation of receipt?

Thanks!

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Trey,

Congrats on the submit! I can shed some light on your questions:

1) Consortium will release your application when all materials have been completed in their entirety. They usually do all of the applications at once so expect to get an e-mail from them about a week after you have submitted.

2) Depending on the schools you are applying to they will have different times when they confirm. Some schools will send receipt and an invite to interview all at the same time. From the schools you are applying to you should hear something within a two - three weeks of when you get the confirm e-mail from CGSM. Yale was very quick for me, Johnson sent me an invite to interview with their confirm. And I cannot speak to Stern.

Good luck with everything and don't worry to much if you don't hear anything right away.

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Folks, As we approach the deadline for Round Two I want to encourage everyone to please Update Your Profile to reflect that you will be applying to your schools through the Consortium along with your relevant profile stats. It's very simple, just choose: "Consortium, the" as your school and the rest of the process will be self explanatory. Continue to add as many schools as you are applying to.

I know some of you may not be comfortable displaying your schools & stats on the public roll call and that's more than fine. You have the option of adjusting your privacy settings accordingly. However we DO want to collect as much information as possible for the benefit of forum members.

More important than the statistical information, I want to continue to make an appeal to those of you who have not spoken up to at least introduce yourself and say hello... we are a community of supporters and cheerleaders and we all want gmatclub to be a place you can turn to for support in answering your questions, helping you navigate the b-school process or just being a sounding board when you need to let off some steam.

For those of you who have submitted already, make sure you Update Your Profile to reflect submissions, interviews, etc. Thanks to everyone who has joined in the convo so far and updated their information!

Thank you and please drop a post letting us know when you've hit the submit button. :-D

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Big help man. You saved me a heart attack with the IE advice

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Thanks! That really helps me out.

I just had one more question. Can you check the status of your mission recommendation like you can with the regular recommendations? Is there a way to see if they have submitted the recommendation or not?

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Hey trey,

Congrats on ur submit and your Emory admit as well. When I submitted I wasn't able to see if my Mission recommender submitted her recommendation, but she told me she did a about 2 weeks before I submitted. However the friday after I submitted (I hit submit on a monday, and the deadline was that tuesday) I received an email saying that they didn't get my mission rec. I then contacted the consortium to inquire then right as I was about to call my recommender to send it again I received a call from The Consortium saying they just got it. I think it may have gotten mixed up in their system, honestly. My advice would be to call them up and ask them if they got it. A few days later I received confirmation from Emory, from Stern a week after that with my login info, an invitation to interview from Cornell the first week in December, and confirmation from USC a week after that. Still no correspondence from UCLA though

Hope this helps

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Thanks Johnny! This does help a lot. I'll give them a call today and hopefully have everything worked out by the deadline tomorrow.

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Anyone applied to Olin via Consortium R1? I have had zero response still, which either means a ding or they process them together -- which I thought they didn't. Just trying to read the writing on the wall here...