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Joined: 04 Jun 2007
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Posts: 5456
Location: SF, CA, USA
Schools:UC Berkeley Haas School of Business MBA 2010
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19 Sep 2007, 00:09
Just got back from a good Kellogg infosession in SD.
It had about 20 people, in a nice conference room at Brandes. The adcom was the MMM and JD-MBA associate dean of admissions, a young alum of Kellogg. There were three alums there, 1 lady who just graduated, 1 guy graduated 1999, and the other from Mexico, but I don't know when he graduated, probably early 2000's.
First the adcom person talked about the key values that Kellogg looks for (their website talks about it), then we went into 45 minutes of directed Q&A by the adcom of the alums. They talked about clubs they participated, the network they made, internships, job search, spouse/partner activities, winters in Chicago, rent, dorms, etc...
Q&A only had time for 4-5 questions, but they all stayed after to answer our questions.
One key thing I found out about. If you submit Part I by 10/9 for R1 deadline, and sign up for a interview, you MUST submit your Part II by 10/19, the R1 deadline. I don't know what happens if you slip, but it took me a few tries to get the adcom to understand my question.
Second, the adcom said only about 200-300 applicants apply in R1, versus 2000-3000 in R2!!!! She's the first adcom to tell me flat out to apply R1 for a better chance. If they even "lean" towards admitting you, they are likely to do so because they have so many spaces.
Those were the two nuggets I got out of the session.
Any questions, post here.
The only downside is, with my entrepreneurship/VC focus, I might not apply to Kellogg or any schools outside of California anymore, because of the network and connections I need for those two fields (Career Center doesn't help much in that field, and there are much fewer Kellogg alums in California in small companies). Oh well, I guess we'll see!