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

Applied Round 1, Interviewed in late October, coincidentally, just got my result today. I'm in!!!

Hi saugagmatter. You got your notification via e-mail or phone call? Thanks.

Congrats to your admits! I was just wondering when will be the final decision date for R1 applicants? I notice that the deposit due for R1 is Feb. 1, so will the adcom release the final decision before Feb. 1 for all R1 applicants?

Did any R2 applicant get an interview invite after Dec???

Not yet, I was expecting the invitation in this week, but nothing yet

R1 here, interviewed first week of December, still anxiously waiting.

Quick question, for on campus interviews, are they done by admission staff, or second year students?

Hey guys, R2 applicant here. Today, I logged in my application profile to check my status and was surprised to see that it changed to "schedule interview". It must have changed over the weekend, since I checked on Friday and it was "under review". No e-mail yet, but I am very happy with the result! Best of luck to all!