Habsolute wrote:
I apologize for not having filled in my profile, since that's an important contextual data point.
700 GMAT
3.5 GPA
PhD Molec. Bio
I, like many of you am pretty heartbroken and skeptical about what this portends for the 8th (not even really counting on the 14th). Not because they owe us anything, but because I'm sure many of us put a lot of effort and hope into it and at the very least wanted the chance to get them to meet with us.
I represent 1 of 3 applicants from my company (Pharma), though I have a completely different role and profile than the others. They both got invites, so at this point I have no idea what to think. IF somehow I do get one, it will point to a functional/demographic segregation.
I too do not buy into the whole server nonsense and quite frankly, although I'm sure they've had technical issues in the past (solvable), it's better not to insult people with that lame reasoning. Just don't mention it at all. Wet get it, it's competitive.
IMO they are now trying to pick based on rounding out the classes; The ones who were chosen fit the super high score, high grade category, so easy picks to want to interview. (Though many with those attributes were left out.) I think the remaining 200 or so will be the ones not so much in the close-to-reject pile, but in the which-ones-best-fit-our-needs pile. I always knew I was a dark horse candidate whose only chance was my differentiated perspective and profile, so I shouldn't be 'surprised'. Just hoping for the best over the next 24 hours.
What piques my interest is IF the remaining 200 are the ones even more carefully considered, does that in fact make them more likely candidates given the delicate decisions taken on their candidacy? (Everything that Ms. Leopold says pretty much sounds like opposite day language to me. Not a castigation, I just don't buy it.) I imagine them doing a case study on each of the remaining candidates.
Good luck to everyone!
I disagree with you on the easy analysis of just getting people with super high scores or whatnot invited early. I think the non-traditional application makes more sense. I have a pretty good resume, 99th percentile GMAT score, and am a US URM with immigrant parents and am the first generation to go to college from my family. Everyone I talk to was convinced I'd at least get an interview, not necessarily that I would get in. I figured the same.
In fact, I had someone say something to the effect of "hispanic and 760 GMAT, you're going to get an interview request from everybody." So far, that isn't panning out to be the case.