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Calling all MIT Sloan Fall 2011 Applicants! Updated on: 17 Oct 2010, 06:36
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Do you know when do they start sending responses to people that are not invited for interview?
Last year people started hearing about invites/dings around the second week of December.
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it was December 19, I will never forget that day... :(

On the other hand, the first invites were sent on the first week of December. For instance a friend of mine, who is a student this year, got her invitation on Dec 4...
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On the right time to encourage you for R2 applications!!!


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Do you know when do they start sending responses to people that are not invited for interview?
Last year people started hearing about invites/dings around the second week of December.

it was December 19, I will never forget that day... :(
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Guys, don't think about the competition... adcom evaluates us with criteria we don't even know.. from what I understood they do it per gender, industry and location... I went to a sloan presentation and I was really impressed by 2 guys (I was actually relieved that one is in round 2)... but you have to keep in mind that we have decided to apply to Sloan, not to the University of Cornerville, so the competition is fierce, no matter how many people apply :) Be sure of who you are and everything will be fine... hopefully :)

Good luck to us all, I submitted yesterday...
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On the right time to encourage you for R2 applications!!!


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it was December 19, I will never forget that day... :(
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Last year I applied only to Sloan... believe me it hurt more than I thought :)
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Not sure if this question has already been asked earlier on this thread:

Has anyone answered any of the Sloan 3 essays with anecdotes that date back further than 3 years and got accepted to Sloan? Thanks.
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Not sure if this question has already been asked earlier on this thread:

Has anyone answered any of the Sloan 3 essays with anecdotes that date back further than 3 years and got accepted to Sloan? Thanks.
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I don't know, but I wouldn't try it. To put it bluntly, if you can't come up with three stories of note from the last three years, you're probably looking at a ding no matter what. Use the cover letter for an incredible story outside of 3 years.
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all.....

wondering if career goals have any place in the cover letter, or anywhere in the essay set?
have a long way to go if i am to make r1....
opinions...?
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wondering if career goals have any place in the cover letter, or anywhere in the essay set?
have a long way to go if i am to make r1....
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MIT Sloan explicitly states that they are not interested in your career goals, so keep that in mind when you're evaluating whether they belong in your application. In my opinion, if your career goals are consistent with the theme of your application, it can be very effective to tie your these goals into the end of a sentence. Keep in mind, you shouldn't do this to check a box or win them over with how noble your goals are. You should only add this information if it strengthens your story without being the center of attention.

At the end of the day, it's going to be your judgement call as to whether you should include the information.

Good luck :)
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It's the hardest application and its very hard to make a decision on that thing. I am an MD/PhD and spent 12 years for my education. MIT is there to help people like me to get into the business word, how can I avoid presenting my goals.


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wondering if career goals have any place in the cover letter, or anywhere in the essay set?
have a long way to go if i am to make r1....
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MIT Sloan explicitly states that they are not interested in your career goals, so keep that in mind when you're evaluating whether they belong in your application. In my opinion, if your career goals are consistent with the theme of your application, it can be very effective to tie your these goals into the end of a sentence. Keep in mind, you shouldn't do this to check a box or win them over with how noble your goals are. You should only add this information if it strengthens your story without being the center of attention.

At the end of the day, it's going to be your judgement call as to whether you should include the information.

Good luck :)
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Not sure if this question has already been asked earlier on this thread:

Has anyone answered any of the Sloan 3 essays with anecdotes that date back further than 3 years and got accepted to Sloan? Thanks.

I don't know, but I wouldn't try it. To put it bluntly, if you can't come up with three stories of note from the last three years, you're probably looking at a ding no matter what. Use the cover letter for an incredible story outside of 3 years.
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Agreed. Thanks mc.
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Just read the 2009 and 2010 applicants threads. A lot of helpful tips in there. Time to get started on those essays...

Put me down for R1!
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time to get finished with them :)
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did anyone submit a supplemental essay? any advice on this, waiting for 1 moer rec to submit then i am taking it to the house and just hoping for the best
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I will be using the supplemental essay to address my unique qualifications that they skip over in the application.

This was a helpful quote from the "MIT Sloan Admissions Tips" at BW:
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Socem: Is it appropriate to talk about leadership positions held during undergraduate college when that may have been four years in the past?

JulieStrongAtMIT: In the essays section, we require that the examples are more recent. However, we have a supplemental section that you can use to tell us something else about yourself, and depending upon what the leadership position was it might be appropriate to include it on your résumé.
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I will be using the supplemental essay to address my unique qualifications that they skip over in the application.

This was a helpful quote from the "MIT Sloan Admissions Tips" at BW:
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Socem: Is it appropriate to talk about leadership positions held during undergraduate college when that may have been four years in the past?

JulieStrongAtMIT: In the essays section, we require that the examples are more recent. However, we have a supplemental section that you can use to tell us something else about yourself, and depending upon what the leadership position was it might be appropriate to include it on your résumé.
https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/apr2009/bs20090423_326074_page_4.htm
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At one of the information sessions the Admissions person indicated that we should take advantage of the supplemental essay. Perhaps that means to definitely write something rather than leave it out? I'm planning on using it to try and explain my terrible GPA.
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I chose not to use the optional essay. I didn't feel like I was missing any big pieces of my story, so it never really entered my mind.
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thanks for the advice everyone

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