Calling All MIT Sloan Fall 2011 Applicants! This is the 2011 thread and it is locked. Please continue your discussions in the MIT 2012 Thread calling-all-fall-2012-mit-sloan-applicants-118297.html https://i53.tinypic.com/344xfk4.png Total Admission Stats: Total Applicants: 202 Admitted: 41 WL: 9 Dinged: 71 Unknown: 81 Detailed Program Information: GMAT Club's MIT Sloan School Guide 2011 Deadlines https://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/admissions/dates.php Round 1 Application Deadline: October 26, 2010 Decisions Released: January 31, 2010 Deposit Deadline: March 25, 2011 Round 2 Application Deadline: Jaunary 4, 2011 Decisions Released: April 4, 2011 Deposit Deadline: May 27, 2011 LGO Application Deadline: December 15, 2010 Decisions Released: March 7, 2011 Deposit Deadline: April 6, 2011 ROLL CALL Round 1 (133 applicants) Matriculating: TBD Admitted: 26 Waitlisted: 6 Interviewed - Dinged: 2 Interviewed - Unknown: 4 Dinged w/out Interview: 36 Unknown: 61 BruceLee (Interview Invite 12/14) (Admitted 1/31) CarpathianRidge (Interview Invite ??/??) (Admitted 1/31) djknif (Interview Invite 12/7) (Admitted 1/31) gmatalice (Interview Invite 12/6) (Admitted 1/31) kunoflo (Interview Invite 12/20) (Admitted 1/31) LosangelesMBAapp (Interview Invite 12/14) (Admitted 1/31) MetabolismMaster (Interview Invite 12/14) (Admitted 1/31) randompasserby (Interview Invite 12/20) (Admitted 1/31) rdxb (Interview Invite 12/14) (Admitted 1/31) RLTW (Interview Invite 12/14) (Admitted 1/31) sexonthebeach150 (Interview Invite 12/6) (Admitted 1/31) astalaa Azh closetsnob dalillama drdoak GEFMP mbaapply2011 NishaTG nofi ppop salgig YashAgg ypup05 mitorberkeley biochemist jkl84 (Interview Invite 12/20) (Waitlisted 1/31) RogerDodger (Interview Invite 12/20) (Waitlisted 1/31) sharksr1 (Interview Invite 12/20) (Waitlisted 1/31) SloanHopeful (Interview Invite 12/14) (Waitlisted 1/31) mbaapp07 TheBot kalty (Interview Invite 12/14) (Unknown) mbapursue (Interview Invite 12/20) (Unknown) pinktyke (Interview Invite 12/20) (Unknown) SavantNoir (Interview Invite 12/21) (Unknown) 2011MBAApplicant (12/22) Abcalif (12/22) anilwanted (12/22) ankateif (12/22) arindamcanada (12/22) arshankar (12/22) Avernusaur (12/22) bluecollarhero (12/22) bterwilliger (12/22) dallasstar (12/22) danerd (12/22) DimaT (12/22) eskimoroll (12/22) goldgoldandgold (12/22) ivan4mba (12/22) justship (12/22) kfire (12/22) KingShark (12/22) lagsantiago (12/22) LionO (12/22) maximillion (12/22) mbaapplicant2010 (12/22) mbag2012 (12/22) nuvolari (12/22) mc (12/22) rid82 (12/22) rouzbie (12/22) serhio (12/22) slartibartfast (12/22) smartperson (12/22) TDA (12/22) TMS2012 (12/22) tortoiserun (12/22) wiredo (12/22) mysamgmatclub (Interview Invite 12/14) (Waitlisted 1/31) Genghis Indya technologista kegewe (Interview Invite 12/14) (Ding 1/31) wp06 (Interview Invite 12/14) (Ding 1/31) kalty (Interview Invite 12/14) (Unknown) mbapursue (Interview Invite 12/20) (Unknown) pinktyke (Interview Invite 12/20) (Unknown) SavantNoir (Interview Invite 12/21) (Unknown) Adventure79 aksr ankitgarg20 anks461 ashu2020 aycayc blabudu BlackSwan brz BSchoolBrian c00guy calb coffeeaddict Coppa driven ebolavirus flicker gkumar grtembey ikaruga inclinedplatform indaclub2012 InPursuit kc1907 launchpad123 lostphoton maidinindya mbaDreamBig MBAJam MBANinja mojoman mrwuzzman ounce peppermuncher polasky poojagarg rainmaker123 Randomness rdavies85 rvs shalva shr30 simplymanish smallwo stephenzeek summitbid TechPMtoCorpFin thedeadlyone Tiredapplicant tucrew1011 upInTheAir valleyboy vrook WilfulCruiser xbzhou xor0616 zepper Round 2 (67 applicants) Matriculating: TBD Admitted: 15 Interview Invites: 0 Waitlisted: 3 Dinged: 31 Unknown: 18 Amerikanets gtgator03 hereicome bulrok KD2010 gobig2011 ihatethectrap kangaroo orangecode mbaapk nikizaza madman20 opportunity gobigorgohome therollingstone fahim305 tohin gmatccc d3miller blitz85 runnergirl globalcitizen Andoverjon hamsandwich klughing antonydeepak C20 disposable8201 chaoticsilence dhimanlahiri alienfluid CyberC1 boston34 pacific2atlantic icemanjs4 mitisdabest Hussain15 whothere hancy cchelko zimzamzum lennman crackalack backtoschool11 redjam sanlitun njmbaapplicant silverdragonn lhanlhan Arbitrageur BadaDing d3xc dreamiscatalyst eugenes kitbama kt2011 mainhoon Milenochka Phoenix9 Pkit PranavChamp r2hopeful runnergirl683 scorpion31 steelersfan2011 tgtharvard kug1918 LGO (2 Applicants) Matriculating: TBD Admitted: 0 Interview Invites: 0 Waitlisted: 0 Dinged: 0 babyif19 oldskooldp 2010 Applicants Thread: calling-all-fall-2010-mit-sloan-applicants-79470.html?hilit=sloan%202010 2009 Applicants Thread: calling-all-mit-fall-2009-applicants-64214.html

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I personally am using 11 font size TNR and single spacing (as they have not mentioned any spacing requirement) and the print preview seems fine.

Oh and 520 words. So not too bad in one page

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all---are these essays "supposed" to have a bunch of "i learned's"???
maybe im not thinking hard enough....

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all---are these essays "supposed" to have a bunch of "i learned's"???
maybe im not thinking hard enough....

I would not think so...the adcom can figure from past experiences that we portray in our essays IMO

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lol! no it's just "mit" or "sloan"

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"MIT Sloan" is also used pretty frequently on their website.

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does anyone know what happens if recommendations are late...?

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all---are these essays "supposed" to have a bunch of "i learned's"???
maybe im not thinking hard enough....

I would not think so...the adcom can figure from past experiences that we portray in our essays IMO

I also thought the same and I avoided "learned" and "realized" but an hour ago I was at harvard sq coop reading the 65 essays for HBS and they were full of "I realized"

But I am not changing anything (this time), I think I will only proofread one thousand times.

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all---are these essays "supposed" to have a bunch of "i learned's"???
maybe im not thinking hard enough....

I would not think so...the adcom can figure from past experiences that we portray in our essays IMO

I also thought the same and I avoided "learned" and "realized" but an hour ago I was at harvard sq coop reading the 65 essays for HBS and they were full of "I realized"

But I am not changing anything (this time), I think I will only proofread one thousand times.

Unlike other top business schools, MIT expects very concise stories with a lot of what you did, thought etc and less of what you learned and self introspection. I could understand why but looking at the application, I could see that they had pretty straight forward questions, no extra information was asked and my recommenders told me that they just had to upload one document and that is all. No drop downs and ratings.

To the point and precise...

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I am not american and I do not know how is the typical application for admission in university programs, but an MD/PhD friend who reviewed my essays told me that I should put "lessons learned" and "realized" more directly.
I went several times to MIT and I "realized" that they are very practical and smart and can understand from your actions, feelings, and thoughts what you learned. I hope I am on the right track.

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I would mostly agree with you. I attended the chat session a couple days ago and the person from Adcom was reiterating the fact that we are not interested in reading what lessons you learned. Also if you look at the video of Mr Garcia in the link provided on Avenusar's MIT info page, you will see that he mentions the same theme. So I would think you are on right track

On a side note - anyone getting over the 50 line thing on resume? Mine is ridiculous 62 lines but in one page. No way for me to chop it down. I think I am gonna upload it as is..

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I wouldn't use a font smaller than 10 and wouldn't play to much with the margins. The decision is yours but it seems too big. Is everything on it important? I am an MD/PhD and have several things to put but after talking to Julie Strong I made it 47 lines.

She said that usually younger people with less experience are the ones that have the bigger resumes.

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On a side note - anyone getting over the 50 line thing on resume? Mine is ridiculous 62 lines but in one page. No way for me to chop it down. I think I am gonna upload it as is..

Uploaded with 56, one page. No way they will count lines.

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I mean I have tried my best but it looks okay on print (one-page). It has a ton of stuff but it is not clobbered. I will be submitting it and I did not worry about the margins as it will probably mess up the formatting

Here is my summary

CL - 509
Essay # 1 509
Essay # 2 490
Essay # 3 515

Until tomorrow when I am sure, I will be reviewing them again :roll:

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Which essay was the toughest to write?

For me it was #2

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Cover letter hands down

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Ditto on the cover letter. I think MIT is the only top MBA program that asks for this and I think the cover letter had to be approached and organized slightly different from all the other essays I've been writing so spent a lot of time thinking through how I was going to organize it. The plus was MIT was pretty clear on what they wanted to see in it.

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Hello Everyone,

This thread is very informative

I have a few doubts around the coverletter:

1. Do I need to mention my name and address at the top?
2. Does standard business format includes a particular style of writing too? or is it just the right format it should be put in.

Here's a basic structure of my coverletter, please advise.

1. I am seeking position in MIT because of bla bla bla...
2. Who I am as a person followed by my career progression right from college- what I did there, how I evolved - going towards my work experience- why i changed jobs etc, how i made impact in organizations i worked with etc.
3.Then I say that I have a diverse experience because of which I will be able to contribute to the class
4. Talk about my career goals and how MIT fit into
5. looking forward to the interview..

Is this format alright? Seems more like an essay? Or would you suggest I should talk about my accomplishments in bullet points? I saw Rod's interview and he said that they are interested in knowing the person behind the accomplishments so I felt maybe it makes more sense to tell your story chronologically so that the adcom gets to know about your accomplishments as well as the reasons behind why you did what you did?

Please advise, if it is ok to get a bit essayish in the cover letter?

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For Sloan recommendation, they limited the response to two pages. Anyone face the problem that the recommender wrote too many?

Also, for work experience part, if i have internal transfered to another department, shall I wrote two work experience with the same employer or the previous job in another company?

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Hey friends,

Hope you're all making good progress with the app!

I have one question, for the "impact" example for the cover letter do you guys think it is acceptable to use an example that you expand upon in the one of the essays??
i.e. I use the same example twice....

any thoughts?

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Hello Everyone,

This thread is very informative

i dont think there is any one format that we are supposed to follow.....what you mention sounds fine to me...infact much better than mine....

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dont know if it will make much of a difference, assuming you are talking about the online form....on your resume you maybe could indicate change in responsibilities, etc....