Calling all Kellogg MBA & MMM Applicants: 2024 Intake Class of 2026

That’s great! It depends when you feel comfortable

Like, after I got matched with my interviewer, I suggested dates in first week of October, and she readily agreed!

#Just send an email to your interviewer and provide him/her/them with three of your preferred dates
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Yes, I was asked to send an email today. I didn’t want to sit on that. Thank you

You’re welcome!
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Mandy001,


Feel free to submit your profile, and we can do a detailed assessment accordingly.
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Hi,

Please find my profile below.

Indian
Male
25 years old

GMAT: 730 (V38/Q50), IR8, AWA 5 (3 attempts)
(planning to give on more attempt)

Education: Bachelor's in Mechanical engineering from IIT Patna (2019 graduate)
GPA: 8.23/10
Overseas experience: I have done majority of my primary schooling from Switzerland, Germany, England, and Wales (nearly 3 years in total), lived in England for about 1 month in 2019, and have worked with clients across multiple countries viz. USA, Brazil, UK, Germany, France, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan

Work ex:
4 years working at ZS associates (Consulting in Pharma domain)
- For initial 3 months, i worked in Sales crediting responsible for reporting sales at weekly, monthly, quarterly level
- For the next 1.5 years, i worked in Incentive compensation responsible for calculating incentives for the sales reps and their managers
- For the past 2.5 years, i have been working as a market researcher responsible for understanding the market domain and provide strategic solutions
- I have even won multiple awards for my outstanding mentorship
- I have also won award at my firm (cash prize) for my outstanding work in a project

Co/Extra curricular:
- Was involved in the college NGO club
- Have been involved in the Office NGO events
- Have organized multiple college events in the tech and cult fest of the college
- Co-authored a research paper published in an international conference
- Have been involved in 2 major academic projects were I built a rice-transplanter machine and a passive exo-skeleton model
- I also started a "ritual" in college where the final year students will share their job application or masters application experiences with the juniors

Entrepreneurial activity
- During the weekends, I actively used to buy fake jewelry from wholesale markets and sell them on Amazon, Flipkart, and Ebay. I generated a revenue of about INR 3,000,000 in two years with nearly 50% in profits
- I had to close the operations down during wave 2 of Covid pandemic due to supply chain issues

Carrier goals/ post MBA
- Want to stay in consulting field in strategic domain

any updates on invites for interview?

For the Kellogg video essays, I used those 20 seconds of preparation time for each question to go over some content I had written on the word document to come up with a brief idea of what to say/present.
Does that 20 second preparation time also matter, and will this be seen in any negative manner?

Mandy001:


Despite your over-represented profile, with your current GMAT, and a very strong application, it seems likely you can get significant scholarships in T-15 schools.

If you can pull up your scores to 750+ however, you may also look at M-7, if the rest of your story provides a strong context.

Hope that helps
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I emailed my interview match within 1 hr of receiving the email. I have not heard back (it’s been over 24 hrs) not sure if i should follow up, worried that my email might go to their mailbox. Did your matches respond right away to confirm the date?

Fall23Apps, Don’t worry about that! The you still have at least 2.5 months to complete the interview. If you don’t receive any update by Thursday, send a reminder.
If you do not receive an email by next Tuesday, send an email to the admission team.

PLEASE DO NOT COPY ADMISSION TEAM WHILE SENDING REMINDER TO THE INTERVIEWER. It’ll reflect poorly.
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What if the interviewer has been copying the admissions team in all replies? It feels weird to leave them out in my replies too

Bruh... I haven’t been even assigned an interviewer yet..

AkshadaS, For the reminder, you do not need to copy the admission team
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Okay thank you.
I was wondering why my interviewer copied the admissions team then 🤔

Mandy001

Your academic arc is solid. The international flavor and the e-commerce side hustle can be skillfully woven into your narrative to add multiple layers to your story.

For me, your work experience in the pharma industry is the highlight. However, please note that many ZS applicants with pharma backgrounds often apply T10 schools (I have worked with a few), so if you are genuinely aiming for M7 schools, you must excel in your application and interviews.

Your growth trajectory within the pharma space, transitioning from sales to market research, is particularly intriguing. There is significant potential to discuss your close work with the target groups across markets (which could be patients or caregivers) and emphasize the key insights derived from your projects. In MBA essays, passion takes center stage. they are about how ready you are to address a problem you've observed through your experiences or seize an opportunity. Ideally, you should identify underlying themes in your narrative and connect them with your career decisions thus far. Your passion for your field of work and how it motivates you to pursue greater opportunities in strategy consulting should shine brightly in your application. I would highly suggest applying to Duke and Tuck. Your background is an advantage, and both are consulting powerhouses.

Get personalized advice tailored to your specific situation. Do not hesitate to reach out should you need help in navigating your unique circumstances in the B School admissions process.

Aanchal Sahni (INSEAD alum, former INSEAD MBA admissions interviewer)
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Kellogg’s class profile for the class of 2025 has been posted. Key observations:
> With the new class size of 529, there’s an appr. 5% increase in the class size
> With 731 as the average GMAT this year, Kellogg has seen a jump of 2 points from 729 last year
> Females continue to contribute significantly to class demography at 48%
> The average GPA is the same as previous year’s - 3.7

Here’s the link for details:
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/pr ... ofile.aspx
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Anyone did not get an interview invite yet from Kellogg?

Did you not get an invite or were you not assigned an interviewer?

Apparently only Domestic GPAs are considered to calculate avg GPA, so there’s still a chance!