Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants!

You should feel a bit relieved now.

it does seem like ross works the waitlist due to their yield. here's an upcoming waitlist chat with the director of admissions...

https://www.accepted.com/mba/MichiganRoss.aspx#zoneEvent

On Thursday, January 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT, Soojin Kwon Koh, Director of Admissions will respond to your questions about Michigan Ross’ waitlist policies and procedures. If you are on Michigan Ross’ waitlist, come to the chat and find out what you can do improve your chance of admission.

The chat will take place in the Accepted chat room.

I guess Ross saw I was all about attending Booth on here, because I got my Ross ding ! lol

It is a little surprising after super sat invite and my best interview, a little upset about wasting $500 going there, but nonetheless congrats to all the admits and people on the WL good luck !

That's unbelievable Terp. I can't believe they straight rejected you. Oh well, it isn't like you don't have good options.

Wow terp, very surprised to hear that. I was wondering when your name was going to get pumped up as the last Super Saturday invite.

Enjoy Booth!

For those wait listed Matt's post and strategy https://speedywithchicken.wordpress.com/category/waitlist/ gives a good insight.

I'm still not completely sure but it looks like the round 1 wait lists will be considered at par with the round 2 applicants. So a couple of well thought out updates by march 15th could do the trick.

Terp - You'll be laughing about this next year with your classmates at Booth

Not only yield but also shaping the class the way they want it. R1 & R2 wl'ers will be combined after March and you can be admitted as late as August. I still like UCLA, Duke or Chicago's WL system where they release admit/deny/continue decisions after every round with little or no updates from applicant's side.

Sorry to hear you got dinged, but you have some good options in front of you so you'll do fine .

Well, its better than a ding, but Ross is not well known for its waitlist conversion rate. So, still

Oh well, who said admission process is easy... Keeping hopes alive and trying my best.

updated a couple more people on the first page for you guys. congrats to all the admits and good luck those on the WL. I personally believe that a lot of schools are overestimating the quality and quantity of their R2 apps, which could be good news for those of you on the WL.

Is it true that waitlisted applicants at Ross essentially become round 2 applicants? I know a few years ago, the waitlisted applicants were kept together in a group of files, that weren't reviewed until May or so, or until it was clear what the composition of the class would look like. Apparently now the waitlisted applicants are considered in each subsequent round.

See below.


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I got my official word on the ding today ...

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They advanced R1 deadline so that more people could be interviewed, had additional time to review more files and finally, placed a lot more people on waitlist than last year. It just seems so counter intuitive.

Thanks for the info, YihWei!

Actually, this is REALLY interesting and I think it works in Ross' favor.

Scenario 1:

Accept ~40% in R1 (waitlist 10%).
Accept ~40% in R2 (waitlist 10%).
Accept ~20% in R3 (waitlist 20%).

Scenario 2:

Accept ~30% in R1 (waitlist 20%).
Accept ~50% in R2 (draw from the top of R2 and waitlist).
Accept ~20% in R3 (draw from the top of R3 and waitlist).

The benefit is that you get a better look at the total applicant pool. The other MAJOR benefit is that people who are still actively on the waitlist by the time R2 decisions are released are probably VERY likely to accept at Ross (otherwise they would have accepted somewhere else by then). The result is a very high yield.

Of course it's a double-edged sword. A lot of people may bail on Ross if they don't hear until March or so (R2 decision date).

It will be VERY interesting to see how many people get off the waitlist compared to years past.

RF