Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants!

Hilarious! We have the exact same mindset!

The whole Super Saturday thing crossed my mind too, but based on my profile, I doubt I would have been included.

But like you said, I had pretty much put Ross out of my mind. The thing is, the Ross interview was the first "litmus test" of my apps. I figured if I got an interview from Ross (even if I didn't get accepted) it would at least mean my profile was competitive for schools I applied to.

I applied to Duke as well and when I hadn't gotten a Ross invite I thought "How could I possibly get into Duke if Ross didn't even think I was worth interviewing." I'm also applying to Wharton and while writing those apps I was thinking "Why the heck am I wasting my time with this??". Now everything has changed!

Whatever happens on the 15th, I'm just glad I got the opportunity to interview. They have the whole package now, so I'm satisfied that their decision will be fair.

P.S. Speaking of Gwen, did you happen to find her email address? I was going to send her a quick thank-you note, but her name didn't pop up when I searched on the Ross website. If you have it, could you pm it to me?

RF

PM'd you, RF.

Anybody else getting antsy seeing all the admits and dings in the MIT/Booth/Johnson/Kellogg/etc. threads? Ross should be my first decision, and it's still a month away, but I can barely sit still!

I think Kellogg's decision date is 1/7, so you should know from them before you ever hear anything from Ross.

Nevermind, I just read your list of schools and realized Kellogg was R2...

Ha, yeah. I wasn't able to make the R1 deadline. I was an idiot and didn't finish the Kellogg application first like everybody and their mothers advised me to.

If any of you 2009 applicats are reading this: Write your Kellogg essays first, even if it's not your first application due!

Yup! I've got my Duke R1 admit/deny decision on Friday, so that will be my first one. It just sucks because there are so many really qualified people that get passed over at the top schools.

There are no guarantees.

RF

I had my interview with Andrea this morning. I thought it went well. Hard to tell though. Interesting that there were 4 of us one here that were in the "didn't respond category." Do any of you used GMail?

I use gmail and I got the email in the last week of Oct.

I use gmail

Question guys:

For many Sloan applicants, Ross has historically been a backup school. Club literally had a bloodbath in regards to Sloan. Assuming club represents higher end of the Sloan applicant pool, the situation in the general population would be worse. Many of these will now apply to Ross in R2 deadline 4th Jan.

Ross results will be out on 15th. Based on a general sense of the R2 profiles, do you think the adcoms will put a lot of people on w/l?

I don't think it will have that big an impact. There are two weekends between the 4th and the 15th, which leaves only 5 or 6 business days from the time the R2 apps arrive before the R1 decisions go out.

If you look earlier in this thread, Ross admitted that it took close to two weeks for the apps to be assembled and the first few invites to go out. So my guess would be, the Ross adcoms might have a chance to glance at what the R2 pool looks like, but not closely enough to say "This pool is much better, put 25% of those R1 admits on the waitlist!!".

Consider the fact that the number of R2 apps is almost double the R1s, it makes the scenario even more unlikely.

RF

That would suck if that were the case. The R2 deadline is 1/2/08, which gives the admissions committee a little less than 2 weeks to paint a rough picture of the R2 profiles. It would really stink if potential R1 admits were rejected or put on the WL due to the strength of the R2 applications. You think they'd have enough time to do that?

Guys, but not everyone waits till the last day of the deadline, right.. So let's say 25% of the Sloan rejects will apply earlier than the 4th..

You're right, but do the applications get assembled or even looked at before that? Plus, the school is practically shutdown next week until the 4th of Jan.

I'm not saying they won't look, but I don't think that they have enough time to look at all the apps and get a sense of the "overall feel" of the R2 pool. At least not enough of a feel to make a major decision on R1 decisions.

Also, do you think they'll finish making decisions on all the R1 apps before Xmas? My guess is they'll still be fine tuning the R1 list until the 9th of Jan.

RF

What's the max word limit for this essay?

Thank you YihWei!