Calling all Kellogg Waitlisted Applicants-2015 Intake (Class of 2017)

Lol, yea that date change madness...

Mine has stayed at 1/16/15 as well.

By the way, did anyone send in any updates? The contact with admissions for waitlisters this year has been extremely quiet sans bayareaapplicant 's call.

I only sent in one update and received nothing. No response, no acknowledgement whatsoever. Not too worried.

Just got the news I have been waiting for since January. Got a call from the Kellogg admission director (the same one that called me last week). She told me "congratulations you have been accepted !" The exact words I wanted to hear! Good luck everyone! A little about my process: after being waitlisted I have sent in 2 update letters, a month apart. Spoke to half a dozen alumni and current students. But other than that nothing extraordinary. I hope you all find the process well! Good luck!

Awesome! Congrats!

Did you mention your interactions with the students and alumni in your updates?

Congrats!!!

congratulations!

THANKS ALLL!!! Yes I did on both of my update letters. However it was no more than 2 sentences. Just saying that I was happy with the people I met and it really reflected Kellogg culture.

THANKS ALLL!!! Yes I did on both of my update letters. However it was no more than 2 sentences. Just saying that I was happy with the people I met and it really reflected Kellogg culture.

Hey everybody,

This forum helped me throughout my application process, so I'd like to give back. This will likely be most helpful to future waitlisted applicants. I was waitlisted Round 1 and was accepted 2 days before the Round 2 notification date. I received a call from Admissions letting me know I had been admitted.

After I got waitlisted, I submitted an update the last week of February. My thought process was to provide an update after the Round 1 deposit deadline (Feb 18) had passed and about a month before Round 2 decisions came out. My update was ~500 words and I talked about expanded work responsibilities, deepened extracurricular involvement - my accomplishments, what I learned, and how it related to how well Kellogg and I fit, updated GMAT score (720 --> 740), and plans to visit (again – I officially visited already in April 2014 – not sure if they had it on file) in order to learn more about Kellogg and see how I could contribute. I submitted my update as a PDF on the application page and also emailed admissions letting them know I submitted an update and summarized my update in 3 sentences.

I got a call from Admissions a week before I was accepted - 3 weeks after I submitted my update.

Admissions asked me 4 questions:

1. Are there any other updates you have since you submitted your update?

A: I said that I was still super interested in Kellogg, and described how my deepened extracurricular involvement reflected the team culture at Kellogg, but that I had no significant updates since I submitted my update 3 weeks ago.

2. Specifically, any work updates?

A: I said expanded work responsibilities - basically a quick rehash of my official update and what I had learned from starting to manage a new analyst and how that made me realize how much room I had to grow as a leader.

3. Are there any timelines we're working against?

A: I said I had to decide on another school in a few weeks (true) and would like things to be wrapped up by the last week of March.

4. Any questions for me?

A: I asked her next steps and she said I would find out March 25.

Here are my thoughts on the whole process:

I think 1 substantial update is enough. I think in the admissions game, GMAT is super important, but I don’t think anybody wants to admit it, so I sandwiched an improved GMAT score along with somewhat meaningful, but probably not needle moving updates in order to give the school plausible deniability. I don’t think a 20 point increase makes a difference, but I do think anything in the average just has you make the cut and anything over the average becomes a plus instead of a “neutral”.

I think the advanced call from Admissions was to gauge my interest in the school in a variety of ways. I think by asking for any additional updates they wanted to see how hard I sold myself and by asking specifically for work updates they wanted to ensure I was still at my job. I think their thought process was if I had quit, I had probably gotten into another school and wouldn’t be serious about Kellogg.

I’m super excited for this process to be over and hope what I’ve written is helpful to this year’s and to future years’ applicants.

Awesome write-up manofthehour! Congrats!! Hopefully some of us will join you!

It seems like the good news for waitlisted applicants went out on Monday - at least we won't be on pins and needles today.

Agreed. It also appears (based on comments on this forum atleast) that the prospective admits received a quick phone call from Adcom a week or so ago for any final updates.

I'm going to hold out hope since our sample size is only 1 for the Monday calls


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There is two so far. And both received calls a week before.

In last year's thread, it seems that some waitlisters got an official ding 2 days after R2 deadline. I'm hoping we get an update today at the very least.

Hi...does anyone have any updates yet? you guys think we will hear anything back by end of this week?

Nothing. And nothing on the application site either.

I suspect we'll hear something in the next few days, but I'm guessing, for me at least, that it'll be another WL invite or a ding

Same. Think the best outcome for me would be an invitation to remain on the WL at this stage...