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

I think its march the 15th... for January Round...

Ding Ding Ding!!! 3rd round applicant

Waitlisted without interview. I applied via the consortium. I applied Jan 5th, but I think Consortium applicants might be notified a bit sooner. https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Full-Ti ... tant-Dates

I applied via the Consortium. Interviewed on campus in October. I got dinged. Good luck!

Is there any R1 wait-list (without interview) applicant still waiting for a decision? I haven't heard since wait-list decision (early December) and its Mid-February! And yes I sent them a letter of continued interest 3 weeks ago! Still nothing!

For those waitlisted without an interview, if you are admitted off of the waitlist do they interview you first?

Sure did. it seems their system crashed. My wife has been trying to check her status but she keeps getting and error message. We actually don't mind, since we have a great chance of staying local here in Chicago since we are pretty confident our interviews at Booth went well...fingers crossed

Hey, sorry about the ding, but glad you're feeling optimistic about Booth. I'm a 3rd US applicant as well, but haven't received an interview yet. My status is still under review. I know interview invites are on a rolling basis, but I thought they would let everyone know if they got accepted/wl/ding on March 15?