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Very philosophical! Hopefully Ross chooses me instead of, you know, Kelley. Hopefully the universe is listening to these posts.
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I'm quite curious why you applied to Kelley if you'd much prefer Ross. I understand everyone picks a program or two they identify as a safety school, but if you aren't thrilled by the program would it be better to wait and try again the following year rather than settling?

Just interested in learning everyone's thought process that went into choosing programs. Don't want to take this thread into a topic totally unrelated to Ross though.
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are you sure Kelley adcom is not reading this?
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are you sure Kelley adcom is not reading this?
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lol. Just imagine he is and he has the corresponding email id of the person posting this. :P
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Surely nobody would be dumb enough to open gmatclub account with an ID used for college registration...
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I believe most of the people would rather have same email ID used for multiple purposes, rather than multiple IDs. :-D
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I honestly do not see a problem with that, unless you are going to be DUMB enough to talk **** about the schools that you are choosing to spend money to apply to.
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Surely nobody would be dumb enough to open gmatclub account with an ID used for college registration...

I believe most of the people would rather have same email ID used for multiple purposes, rather than multiple IDs. :-D
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Lol. I smell trouble.
Keeley guy. DELETE!
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What I meant to say is that every school I'm applying to is my top school! :-P
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I think the bigger issue that I see with this is considering some schools less than others. I applied to Ross in R2, and I appreciate the school. Was Ross first on my list when I first started research? Not really. But I'd absolutely be thrilled to go there. I am sure I speak of most people who have found Ross' goodness sometime into the application process.
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Now that 1 day is left for us guys who didn't make it to round 2 wave 1. How do you guys plan to spend this Friday.
Personally i am planning to watch some Japanese animation to kill time else I'll go mad refreshing livewire.
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I think the bigger issue that I see with this is considering some schools less than others. I applied to Ross in R2, and I appreciate the school. Was Ross first on my list when I first started research? Not really. But I'd absolutely be thrilled to go there. I am sure I speak of most people who have found Ross' goodness sometime into the application process.
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For me there's 1 dream school and 4 schools that I would absolutely love to goto.
No safety.
I'm planning to skip MBA if I don't get into my list of ivy. So yes I do agree with what you've said.
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I think the bigger issue that I see with this is considering some schools less than others. I applied to Ross in R2, and I appreciate the school. Was Ross first on my list when I first started research? Not really. But I'd absolutely be thrilled to go there. I am sure I speak of most people who have found Ross' goodness sometime into the application process.
For me there's 1 dream school and 4 schools that I would absolutely love to goto.
No safety.
I'm planning to skip MBA if I don't get into my list of ivy. So yes I do agree with what you've said.
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I mean I don't think there's anything wrong with applying to schools for the sake of validation. Even if you don't want to end up there. But I sincerely would rather spend that money on the PS4.
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I think the bigger issue that I see with this is considering some schools less than others. I applied to Ross in R2, and I appreciate the school. Was Ross first on my list when I first started research? Not really. But I'd absolutely be thrilled to go there. I am sure I speak of most people who have found Ross' goodness sometime into the application process.
For me there's 1 dream school and 4 schools that I would absolutely love to goto.
No safety.
I'm planning to skip MBA if I don't get into my list of ivy. So yes I do agree with what you've said.

I mean I don't think there's anything wrong with applying to schools for the sake of validation. Even if you don't want to end up there. But I sincerely would rather spend that money on the PS4.
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Everyone's got their own reasons for applying to the schools they apply to, but I personally wouldn't waste mine or my recommender's time if I had no real desire to go there. I didn't skip over any applications simply because I thought I couldn't get in (except maybe Stanford, the golden goose.) Harvard? Wharton? Booth? Not my bag baby, I did my due diligence and found what I believed to be the best fit for me as a student. Like Zakk (killer handle btw) I didn't bother with safeties. If you don't love it, don't do it, especially with such a huge commitment as B-School.

As with Souvik, Ross wasn't even on my radar when I first started applying, but while I was procrastinating...err...preparing my other apps I really did my research on Ross and bumped it into my R1. Would I have loved to get into SOM or Tuck? Hell yes, but I'm equally ecstatic that I got into Ross and can't wait to get there this fall. My .02, but if you love the places you're applying to, it won't matter where you get in.
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Now that 1 day is left for us guys who didn't make it to round 2 wave 1. How do you guys plan to spend this Friday.
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Since the interview invites wouldn't be sent until night time in my time zone, I'd probably try my best to resist the urge to refresh livewire madly and get some sleep before check my email in the morning.
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I honestly do not see a problem with that, unless you are going to be DUMB enough to talk **** about the schools that you are choosing to spend money to apply to.
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Agree..
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The witching hour is upon us, ladies & gents. Wave 2 out any moment now....
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Agreed Mr. Banana Bread.
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agreed too...good luck to all of you guys...!
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Give it 12-16 hours..
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agreed too...good luck to all of you guys...!
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Good luck to you too, marmelade..
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