Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants!

I'm off to the airport for Ann Arbor and Super Interview Saturday! I'll make sure and report back about the event.

currently sitting at airport waiting to go to super interview Saturday : ). I love my iPhone....

I am sitting at work, leaving for the airport in 2 hours

Ditto ditto

So, is it game over for those who have not received interview invites so far? If so, this will be a hard one to stomach

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Thanks YihWei!

Wow! If that list captured everyone, the percentage invited to interview in R1 this year is down almost 20% (60% vs. 80%)!

In fact, the same percentage of 2008 R1 applicants got accepted as got interviewed this year!

RF

I'm assuming it's game over.

I emailed the adcom yesterday asking if all interview invites have gone out and got a form-letter response saying "we will continue to extend interviews through the first week of December".

Well, the first week of December is over!

RF

I'm in the same boat. They had interview invites sent out as late as 12/10 in last year's thread, so I guess it's a possibility (esp. since we didn't hear about ANYBODY getting one this week). But I tend to agree ... it's looking like game over.

I'm interested in how admits will pan out for R1 this year. Last year I think around 75% of those interviewed got accepted.

RF

congrats to everyone with interviews in r1. i spent a weekend at a prospective ross student event and loved it.

i'm working on my essays and wanted to hear advice on the question "If you were not pursuing the career goals you described in Question 1, what profession would you pursue instead? (For example, teacher, musician, athlete, architect, etc.) How will this alternate interest contribute to your effectiveness in solving multidisciplinary problems?" I know there were posts earlier speculating how best to do this, but i'd like to see if thoughts have changed now that your essays are written.

i'm taking the approach of defining my alternate career and speaking about the responsibilities involved. i'm having trouble relating these responsibilities to effectiveness in solving MD problems and i think it may be the wording - "How will this alternate interest contribute to your effectiveness in solving multidisciplinary problems?"

Since this is a hypothetical situation, should i talk about it as "In pursuing xfantasycareer, I would have acquired skills x and y, which would enable me to solve challenges in any situation..."?

thanks!

I'm having a hard time with this one as well.

In the tail of the question, the adCom ask "interest" not "profession".
So I think you can link the alternate profession to your background, and link this background to your ability to solve MD problems.

For example If you pick the "teacher" profession, it can be related to your ability to explain the material in a clear manner. Having such ability will serve you well, communicating with your team member and with the company sponsers.

this question like most others does not have a right answer or wrong...(yeah i am sure this is not the answer u are looking for!!)

so let me just tell you what i did..

i chose an alternate profession that was an EC/hobby for me and aligned well with my career choice... so my essay had a lot of examples from the past.showing my proven committment to it and it also spoke of how i can leverage it in future to solve multi disciplinary problems...

now coming onto "multi-disciplinary".. this has been discussed quite a bit on this thread in the past... it could mean anything from different functions of running a business to the multi disciplinary issues an athlete has to deal with (stress..stamina...concentration...competition etc)

I'm also done with my interview... not something I'm very excited about...I wish I had done better..

my questions-
resume walk through
why mba
why ross
what associations you have built with the ross community
how will you contribute to ross
team failure
leadership eg.

and then a couple of questions for my interviewer.. we spent quite some time discussing the ross community and that was the only (but the highlight) common bonding (for the want of a better word) topic for us in the interview...

so at the end of the 30 mins ( and although I know this is the standard ross practice!) I was pretty disappointed ... its ROSS after all

thanks for reporting back. may i ask what you didn't like about the interview? was it establishing a connection with the interviewer, how well the student was as an interviewer, or you just didn't like how you answered the questions?

it was with an alum...

u hit jackpot on all 3 counts!

maybe i am being a bit overcritical.. but I think I had a funny quiver... was talking very very fast and I had so much to say on MBA@ Ross but could not cover it all... hence was not jumping at the end of it.

I'm applying for R2.Can I exceed the word count for the Goals essay.I'm getting 530 words.

I wouldn't worry about 30 words. That's only 6% over the limit.