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brilliant mayte :)


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...i got an interview invite!

surprised me because it was sent at 1:52 am

going to be in DC between Dec 17-19

good distraction until chicago/wharton results
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Any word on when/how international interview invites will go out?
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For this essay can I talk about my completion of my first half-marathon and how I executed my plan of training for it and completing it. ?
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Any word on when/how international interview invites will go out?
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I'm anxiously waiting an invite for Asia...I haven't heard of anyone interviewing outside of US getting an invite yet. Can anyone comment on this? I was told by a current MIT student that we should know of invites by Christmas.
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Last year I believe a lot more people heard post new years than heard in December. There have not seemed to be any invites recently. They drag out their invites over a very long time unlike places like Chicago and Wharton who send them out over just two weeks. I would liken it to Kelloggs decision process, it never seems to end.

I am starting to think if I dont get an invite by mid Jan I may just withdraw. I love MIT but I dont want to drag this on any longer than I have to. It would be nice to just have a decision made soon. By next week I will know about Chicago so I will know if I have to decide between Kellogg and GSB...then its like another month and a half until I would find out about MIT.
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From what I could gather on bw forum, there are no international invites yet except for London. Someone posted Jan 3-5 as the London schedule. MIT uses only adcoms to interview so it makes sense that invites will go out rather by country or multiple countries at a time.

My speculation is the adcoms are interviewing in the U.S. first throughout Dec and then they will branch out to other countries in Jan. I wouldn’t worry too much right now for Asia until after New Year. Of course, my speculation could change when I started seeing posts for Asia invites.
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I have been speculating about MIT, but its impossible to detect any sort of pattern to their invites. They have SF dates in mid-Jan, London dates in early-Jan, Santa Monica in mid-Dec, DC in mid-Dec, Cambridge in mid-Dec and early Jan. Add to this, god knows when they are coming to Seatlle and LA. Same for the other international locations.

Mid-Jan is my mental cut-off date. No invites by Jan 15, then its a ding.
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I have been speculating about MIT, but its impossible to detect any sort of pattern to their invites. They have SF dates in mid-Jan, London dates in early-Jan, Santa Monica in mid-Dec, DC in mid-Dec, Cambridge in mid-Dec and early Jan. Add to this, god knows when they are coming to Seatlle and LA. Same for the other international locations.

Mid-Jan is my mental cut-off date. No invites by Jan 15, then its a ding.
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i think they have different adcom at different locations. my invite indicated who i was interviewing with, so it sounded like that one person was handling the whole dc region.
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Is the 500 word limit for the cover letter strict or can we exceed it by 30-50 words.
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More than the number of words, its important that you fit the entire letter (including From, To, Sincerely etc) in 1 page. Use Times Roman 11-font if you need to instead of the standard 12-font. That said, I think the 500-word limit applies only to the body of the letter, not the other fluff.

I think my cover letter was around 515 words.
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Count me in for Sloan R1, still anxiously waiting for interview invite, I'm an expat working in Asia, so hub interview will be one of the East Asian cities.
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I received the e-mail with interview invitation. It's going to be first week of January.
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Congrats kwam!
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I received the e-mail with interview invitation. It's going to be first week of January.
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Congrats man! :-D
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I received the e-mail with interview invitation. It's going to be first week of January.
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wow kwam you're cleaning up. u also got other invites and acceptances right? care to share your stats? thanks!
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Does it mean that I will not be able to study entrepreneurship in MIT Sloan unless I write this essay? :? Is the core entrepreneurship curric. within MBA good enough for an average career changer?
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Does it mean that I will not be able to study entrepreneurship in MIT Sloan unless I write this essay? :? Is the core entrepreneurship curric. within MBA good enough for an average career changer?
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You can surely study entreprenurship even if you're not in the E&I. I am 100% positive, MIT makes a point to stress that. They recommend that only the hard core entrepreneurs to apply E&I becuase it is super intense and not for everyone, so if you're not sure then go with regular and simply take entrepreneur classes, and you still have all the resources availabe to you.

If I'm not mistaken you can get into the regular program first, then after you matriculate you can then choose to do the E&I in addition if you want. I believe people have done so in the past.

If you are a career switcher (I am assuming into finance, consultin, etc?)then definitely do not choose E&I, it doesn't fit with your story.
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Congrats kwam!
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congrats kwam. i enjoyed my interview, it was not as bad as people make it out to seem.
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