Thunderfan00
From what I can gather about the odds of admissions after an interview, it looks to me that Kellogg interviews around 60% of their applicant pool and not the 80% that is speculated. I came to this conclusion based on data from GMATClub, but if the 37% admittance of interviewed applicants is accurate, then Kellogg interviewing 80% of it's applicant pool would not be possible.
20.2% acceptance rate of all Kellogg applicants= 37% acceptance rate of interviewed applicants, if only 54.6% of the Kellogg applicant pool is interviewed.
If 80% of the Kellogg applicant pool were interviewed then the acceptance rate of interviewed applicants would need to be closer to 25.3%.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/chances-of-getting-admitted-after-an-interview-230246.htmlNow all the data on GMATclub is self-reported and it's not 100% reflective of the actual Kellogg data, but I think it would be unrealistic for that large of a sampling pool to yield such a drastic difference from the actual data.
I had some down time and I'm trying to convince myself that my interview invite was actually meaningful, the wait really is agonizing. Does anyone else have any speculation to add? I'm gladly wearing my tinfoil hat.
Im always confused by those that speculate that schools are misrepresenting the process. Why would they lie?
Kellogg interviews 80% of applicants. They pride themselves are interviewing as many people as possible because it helps to preserve their unique culture. It actually hurts the school to interview fewer applicants because they are so focused on culture fit that not interviewing a candidate could result in denying admission to someone who is a good culture fit which they care about. A lot. So they always try to interview as many candidates as their resources allow.
Keep in mind that most ppl on Gmatclub are international students. The Gmatclub data is therefore highly skewed and the large gap you’re seeing is not really that unreasonable.
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