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

My Google Chrome at the moment: 1. Clear Admit LiveWire 2. E-mail 3. GMAT Club forums 4. GMAT Club Chat with Admissions Committee (9AM PST today...in 3 minutes) Looking for any indication of verdicts for R1 applicants. Hopefully I will get some work done today. Haha!

Some updates on what I've gathered: 1. December 15 (today), is simply initial notifications (Reject, Waitlist w/o Interview, Invitation to Interview). I think the LiveWire updates are those who have not interviewed yet (e.g. the waitlist updates are probably the waitlist w/o interview candidates) 2. For those of us who have interviewed in R1, the admissions office plans to release "some" verdicts "before winter break" (which, according to the academic calendar, begins with the semester end--December 18). Jade also said the "University is closed beginning December 24," so I think it's reasonable to assume we'll have some verdicts through next week as well. 3. Notifications: If you are like me and have been keeping your phone next to you at all times...we'll get them by e-mail, basically saying our verdict is out (it will tell us to log on to the application portal). 4. Applicant Pool: Heather said on numerous occasions that this is a "very competitive applicant pool" Hope this helps calm some anxiety!

Any R2 interview invites from India?

Update from live chat on R2 interview invitations : "Round 2 Initial notification is guaranteed for February 15, 2016. Final decision will sent out rolling after that." - Chris Lind, Admissions & Application Manager

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no havent heard yet. maybe in the coming week, before the winter break.

Interviewed. Status has flipped to "Under Review"; anyone else in the same situation? How many days after your interview did the status flip to "Under Review". Finally, anyone at all has got the final decision so far?

Yep, in the same boat--flipped to "Under Review" a few days after the interview and has been that way for almost four weeks now. I haven't seen/heard of anyone receiving a final decision...hopefully a few will come out before the winter break.