we are looking for a candidate who is unique, motivated, and more. During the application, you should be able to highlight your experience, academic performance, and more. We want someone who understands our program and is a good fit. - Eddie Asbie, Associate Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Cornell. We look at your application holistically. While a weak undergraduate record can be a concern, we do look at your work experience and standardized scores as well. In the end, your application will be reviewed along with all other applications in the round. The stronger your application is overall the better. - Kim Szpiro, Assistant Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Cornell. I chose Cornell for a few reasons. Firstly, I knew that a large part of the MBA experience was learning from your classmates and so to get the richest experience I'd want the most diverse class. I felt that Cornell offered the most diverse class between my choices. Secondly, I enjoy outdoor activities and Ithaca offers a great variety of fun activities to keep me active outside of the classroom. Lastly, from a personal point. My wife could not relocate with me to Ithaca and so we'll have to travel back and forth from each other's locations. She'll remain in the NYC area and so frequent trips back and forth from Ithaca were much easier than my other option (Tepper) - David, Current first year at Cornell Download full Cornell chat transcript here.. calling-all-johnson-cornell-applicants-2016-intake-class-of-200239-20.html#p1572119

There will be many LEAD events throughout the year for the class of 2018. If you haven't received one for the event next week, don't worry, there will be many more opportunities.

Thanks dtse86! One more question for you. Do you happen to know if they'll have scholarship weekends similar to years past, or if they'll switch it up this year since they're now doing rolling admissions?? Not sure if maybe you heard whisperings around the admissions office. Thanks!

I'm not 100% sure if they intend to continue the scholarship weekends. However, some of the "whispers" I've heard was that many current students thought that many of the activities and successes from the scholarship weekends should be brought into the admissions evaluation process and so the LEAD events were created. This leads me to think that the LEAD events are a replacement for the scholarship weekends. Like I said, I'm not sure about this and this information is well beyond second-hand, but from what I've seen and heard, the LEAD events are structured to be very similar to the scholarship weekends. Regardless, I think it's great that more potential students get to experience this great event and I do know for a fact that DJ is still happening!

Makes sense. Thanks a bunch for your help!

Got invited for an interview last week. Will be in Ithaca over the next weekend. Message me if anyone else will be visiting. Would love to meet other applicants. Good luck for everyone who is still waiting.

Did you apply by the Round 2 deadline? by 17th Nov?

Had my Skype interview a couple of hours back with an adcom member. One of the most chilled out interview experiences I have had till now. Mostly standard questions on work, post-MBA goals, what all clubs I would like to join at Johnson, what all other schools I am applying to. No curve-ball questions as such. All the best to others who have their interviews scheduled.