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Cheetos1
Joined: 29 Sep 2011
Last visit: 19 Jun 2012
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Location: United States
Schools: HBS '14 (WL) CBS '14 (A) Wharton '14 (A)
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04 Jan 2012, 22:27
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Hi Sandy,
Thanks for the clarification. To sum up, you are suggesting to explain the three accomplishments in three paragraphs? And to not bother with a formal intro? Also, do you suggest using transition sentences in between stories? Or better to leave it out? I actually have room for 50 words, so trying to figure out how to best use it. Thanks for your guidance.
05 Jan 2012, 09:16
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WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE ON WHARTON'S INTERVIEW MESS OF LAST YEAR, AND WHY THEY NOW USE ONLY ADCOMS AND STUDENTS TO INTERVIEW.
https://t.co/NZ0bIibG
Stanford continues to use alum interviewers as a marketing tool . . .to its less busy alums, who like to be in the loop, The Stanford B school interview almost never makes a difference in an admission outcome, unlike those at HBS (which often can damage you, and in some cases can help). Bolton, the Stanford adcom director, in his more freewheeling days used to admit that Stanford interviews barely count. That fact remains the same, altho Bolton has become less candid. Call that growing into the job.
The Wharton "behavioral" interview process, whatever motivated it (probably the same consultants-profs who sold similar behavioral jive to Stanford and MIT, with no discernable improvement in any part of the admissions process) has been very poorly received by candidates, who feel it is robotic, esp. as implemented by Wharton adcoms and "trained" students (glad they are not claiming to be EMT's). Wharton asks the same small set of questions, which soon leak, even after the big, bad leak of last year, so it actually does make sense to interview late in the process, but these complaints, along with many other complaints, seem to fall upon deaf ears over at the Wharton adcom, who should be answering a behavioral quesetion of their own: "Tell me about a time you really screwed up and what did you about it?" Hmmmm, they screwed up with this interview process, and have done NOTHING about it.
The best interview process is HBS, which uses 95pct admission officers (and some contract alums) and basically exists to get some rough sense if the applicant can function in HBS case method back-and-forth. The questions are common sense and open-ended, e.g. "What is new in your industry?, what do you want to do?, who do you admire?, what was your favorite course in college????" and they try to take the lottery-like elements of stress questions, odd questions, and rigid behavioral questions out of the mix, or if in, well-balanced with other questions, so no one screw-up is a disaster, the way it can be w. Wharton. Sure, no system is perfect, but while Stanford engages in a meaningless exercise, and Wharton continues to engage in Strangelov-ian psuedo science (along with a grading sheet that in its earliest forms looked like a genome print-out), HBS is walking a sensible and humanistic path.
https://t.co/NZ0bIibG
Stanford continues to use alum interviewers as a marketing tool . . .to its less busy alums, who like to be in the loop, The Stanford B school interview almost never makes a difference in an admission outcome, unlike those at HBS (which often can damage you, and in some cases can help). Bolton, the Stanford adcom director, in his more freewheeling days used to admit that Stanford interviews barely count. That fact remains the same, altho Bolton has become less candid. Call that growing into the job.
The Wharton "behavioral" interview process, whatever motivated it (probably the same consultants-profs who sold similar behavioral jive to Stanford and MIT, with no discernable improvement in any part of the admissions process) has been very poorly received by candidates, who feel it is robotic, esp. as implemented by Wharton adcoms and "trained" students (glad they are not claiming to be EMT's). Wharton asks the same small set of questions, which soon leak, even after the big, bad leak of last year, so it actually does make sense to interview late in the process, but these complaints, along with many other complaints, seem to fall upon deaf ears over at the Wharton adcom, who should be answering a behavioral quesetion of their own: "Tell me about a time you really screwed up and what did you about it?" Hmmmm, they screwed up with this interview process, and have done NOTHING about it.
The best interview process is HBS, which uses 95pct admission officers (and some contract alums) and basically exists to get some rough sense if the applicant can function in HBS case method back-and-forth. The questions are common sense and open-ended, e.g. "What is new in your industry?, what do you want to do?, who do you admire?, what was your favorite course in college????" and they try to take the lottery-like elements of stress questions, odd questions, and rigid behavioral questions out of the mix, or if in, well-balanced with other questions, so no one screw-up is a disaster, the way it can be w. Wharton. Sure, no system is perfect, but while Stanford engages in a meaningless exercise, and Wharton continues to engage in Strangelov-ian psuedo science (along with a grading sheet that in its earliest forms looked like a genome print-out), HBS is walking a sensible and humanistic path.
06 Jan 2012, 10:27
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MY LATEST HANDICAPPING TIP SHEET FROM POETS AND QUANTS.
Handicapping Your MBA Odds
https://poetsandquants.com/2012/01/06/ha ... ba-odds-3/
A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, she’s one of only 18 women to be among the first in history to break into one of the last male-only fields in the country—submarine duty. This 25-year-old Naval officer now wants an MBA to transition to a leadership job in children’s education.
He’s a pop star in Japan, signed to a major label with singles charting in the top 50. A graduate of Yale, he wants to get his MBA degree to make the transition to a top management role at a major music company.
She’s a 27-year-old woman who designs, scouts and puts together luxury chartered travel experiences, including customized safaris and expeditions to Borneo. She hopes to use her MBA degree to further develop her career with her current company but also to some day run the family hotel business.
What these MBA applicants share in common is the goal to get into one of the world’s best business schools. Do they have the raw stats and experience to get an invite? Or are they likely to end up in a reject pile?
Sanford “Sandy” Kreisberg, founder of MBA admissions consulting firm HBSGuru.com, is back again to analyze these and a few other profiles of actual MBA applicants who have shared their vital statistics with Poets&Quants.
After a two-week holiday break, Kreisberg is back again to handicap each potential applicant’s odds of getting into a top-ranked business school. If you include your own stats and characteristics in the comments (please add your age and be clear on the sequence of your jobs in relaying work experience), we’ll pick a few more and have Kreisberg assess your chances in a follow-up feature.
Sandy’s assessment:
https://poetsandquants.com/2012/01/06/ha ... ba-odds-3/
Handicapping Your MBA Odds
https://poetsandquants.com/2012/01/06/ha ... ba-odds-3/
A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, she’s one of only 18 women to be among the first in history to break into one of the last male-only fields in the country—submarine duty. This 25-year-old Naval officer now wants an MBA to transition to a leadership job in children’s education.
He’s a pop star in Japan, signed to a major label with singles charting in the top 50. A graduate of Yale, he wants to get his MBA degree to make the transition to a top management role at a major music company.
She’s a 27-year-old woman who designs, scouts and puts together luxury chartered travel experiences, including customized safaris and expeditions to Borneo. She hopes to use her MBA degree to further develop her career with her current company but also to some day run the family hotel business.
What these MBA applicants share in common is the goal to get into one of the world’s best business schools. Do they have the raw stats and experience to get an invite? Or are they likely to end up in a reject pile?
Sanford “Sandy” Kreisberg, founder of MBA admissions consulting firm HBSGuru.com, is back again to analyze these and a few other profiles of actual MBA applicants who have shared their vital statistics with Poets&Quants.
After a two-week holiday break, Kreisberg is back again to handicap each potential applicant’s odds of getting into a top-ranked business school. If you include your own stats and characteristics in the comments (please add your age and be clear on the sequence of your jobs in relaying work experience), we’ll pick a few more and have Kreisberg assess your chances in a follow-up feature.
Sandy’s assessment:
https://poetsandquants.com/2012/01/06/ha ... ba-odds-3/
. Also kudos to Sandy for the post. Otherwise I was planning to submit around 3 or 4PM tomorrow 
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