Kellogg 2012 - Calling All Applicants

Yeah - even I have heard the same during the Delhi information session where I separately asked the representative. The point she made was very valid - deadlines are released months in advance. As a good practice, ensure you tell your recommender the deadline is 15th October or something (for Round1 deadline 18th October), gives you a bit of a buffer. I did this, and my recommender didn't submit by noon his time on 15th (I am from India and waited the max I could basis time difference), and so I sent a reminder email. He was utterly apologetic in his reply, and said he will ensure he is more proactive for future applications.

Just saying, waiting till the deadlines for EACH part of your application is not a good practice. Essays should be submitted on the last day maybe, but try and ensure recommenders dont keep you hanging. Cheers!

Well this recommender has submitted the other recommendations on time. So Im guessing the reco is more or less ready. But he does tend to on the last day.

I would be vary of telling the wrong dates to the recommenders. Sometimes the mail sent by the school asking for recommendations have links to the deadlines, or the recommender might snoop around a little bit. And if they find out that you told them the wrong dates, it might not look very good on your part.
Happened to me for my Ross application.

A lot of the colleges do add the deadline s to the mail. And my recommender are the type to notice small details ... So I am not going to take such a chance..I gues I will just nag them a lot in future

I understand your point. However, atleast in my case, both my recommenders always asked me to tell them the dates I want them to submit by. For example, they don't really know when Kellogg's deadline is - they don't care and why should they? The points that matter are:

1. Would you recommend me please
2. Ideally if you could submit by XYZ date

Answers to both the questions are typically yes, so you don't really need to get into the detail of there being a lag between submission and deadline. Plus, am unsure if a manager will actually think it was unwise on your part to tell him to submit a day or two earlier. He would have done the same if he was in your place. You do want to keep some buffer - its a time tested good practice.

So I don't really agree with your comment on being wary about telling them 'wrong dates' - you're giving them 'ideal dates' and not deadlines, you're not lying. Even if they specifically ask you for the deadline, its always good to say deadline is X, but would appreciate if you can submit by Y (where Y=x-2) and check and remind on Y+1 If there's a manager who has a problem with that, well ....

Its just about how you approach your overall application process, and within that, how you approach your recommender.

Ok then officially in for R1

Maybe its for the part-time program? Or a deferred admission from last year?

Hopefully I will be able to say the same tom morning..

I just noticed that when uploading the essays it says "When uploading your essay, please include at least a one-inch top margin on each page, and re-state the question at the beginning of the essay." Do you think the restatement of the questions counts against the word limit? I've included the question at the top of the page but not as a part of my essay and I'm already close to the word limit on each essay. Thanks.

I do not think it counts as part of the word count.

I highly doubt the question counts against the word limit. Why would they punish every applicant for writing a long question? Stanford has you restate the question and explicitly points out that the question will not count against the word limit. Either way, because the adcom receives a print out of your essay, they aren't going to check to see if you went tens words over the limit. They'll just know if your essay looks a lot longer than other applicant's.

Finally submitted!
Waiting game begins...

Submitted....On Campus interview next month

Submitted for R1.
On-campus interview next month.

Would really appreciate it if anybody who's interviewed on campus could provide a debrief of his/her experience.

I have mine on 18th....So if Yours is after that, I can share my exp......if yours is earlier, then it would be the other way round.

I have it on the 5th, so I can provide a debrief for you. But I know there are a lot of folks who have already interviewed on campus.

Mine is on the 4th, ill try to give an update as soon as I can