Calling all Olin(St.Louis) Applicants: (2016 Intake) Class of 2018!!

Okay, this is a little surprising. Only 1 applicant on this forum has received an invite yet.

Give them some time. They are probably still evaluating the other applications.

I will be surprised if by end of next week there still isn't any more invite.

Olin really should check their efficiency, 1 invite so far, and it has been a whole month, if I worked this slow I'd be fired long time ago from my work.

Hi stevkang

Though Olin's slackness impacted my plans and application to other schools, I wíll still optimistically put a brighter side here:

It could be that adcom is really making a holistic evaluation. That might take sometime.

Schools such as KF started sending interview invites to a number of prospective students without even they submitting the app. I find that disheartening specially when your website craps tha GMAT is just a pointer to evaluate.

Atleast i m happy schools like Olin are not looking to improve the avg GMAT of class primarily. Otherwise even with adcom travelling interview invite could be flooded.

No doubt about that, but still, one month? I do not think booth or stanford or hbs have a bad evaluation mechanism and make rush choices although they are faster (of course, one can always disagree with me), and do not forget that Olin has a smaller applicants pool. Moreover, I doubt any travel plans or stuff came up last minute, so if they knew early, the reasonable thing to do is to extend the deadline so people get more time to work on and perfect their application packages, not to hoard all the apps in their offices which they do not visit for weeks.

And I don't even think those tier 3,4,5,6 schools should be compared here. Olin is a good school, so I would say having a thorough evaluation and solid standard is a must, not a "oh wow I can totally appreciate them doing their jobs right!" type of thing.

You are right about the plans and everything. I admitted their slackness and delay. But atleast they did not forge by just sending interview invites on some basis. Rest all they could have managed much better

And with KF i meant Kenan Flagler, a well renowned school with a better ranking than Olin.

Nothing to offend you mate by any means. I can see how you start each week with a hope. And i m sure your day is near.

What? That is a good school? I keep getting their online MBA invitation LOL

I knew that, and no offense taken. But at the end of the day, they have to have some sort of basis for evaluation, and I do not know if taken extra time and use their own secret formula to decide who gets in is better than any other school's approach. MIT is slow as heck this year too, but even they are doing better than Olin, with 4 times the number of applications (although they likely have more people on their adcom, I doubt they got 4 times as many).

Anyway, I think this year Olin's efficiency sucks, and like I said, if I worked with this type of efficiency, I'd have lost my job long time ago. Good luck to both of us still.

I'm expecting some action from this Monday. Some notification from them meanwhile would have been nice though.

Hope is a dangerous thing my friend. Especially with Olin.

Well if they conduct interviews in mid Novembers like most other schools....it will be tough for some people to schedule in person ones.

What is up with these guys?!

:/
Really!Somebody should call them! Like @stevekang8 said, someone who hasn't applied there and isn't afraid..
:p

I am going to make a call tonight. Sadly, all the schools I applied are giving me a hard time. All of them are absolutely numb.

Don`t think anyone works in the evening.

This school is jokes, someone should consider writing an e-mail through the darknet to their president to review their HR policy when it comes to performance.

Dear Olin2016:

It is not true that no one has seen any interviews coming out. I do not know where you receive your information, but it is inaccurate. We have interviewed a number of candidates already and have plenty more that we will interview. Different schools have different timelines, and I cannot give you an exact timeline other than to say that we will honor our published notification deadlines.



Again, I appreciate your patience with what can be a long process.



Thank you,



Evan

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Hello Evan,

Sorry for e-mailing you again but it is already November and no one has really seen any interview invitations coming out.... some of us already had multiple interviews with other schools and would really like to know what the interview timeline with Olin is like. I apologize if this is bringing you any inconvenience but we would greatly appreciate if you can share that with us so we can better plan our activities and schedules around it. Thanks!

Regards,
Olin2016

So basically 98% of the gmatclub applicants got dinged.

Hah! What a coincidence! I gave a call to Olin and was eventually patched through to Mr. Evans. He even asked me if I were Olin2016 (I genuinely told him he had me mixed up with someone else ). I basically got an identical response from him on phone.
I guess the AdCom shouldn't be long in rolling out the invites now.

Damn that looks bad, honestly, November............................maybe we all suck lol

or may be those who have received an interview invitation are too cool to update their status here!
must be like "it's just Olin!, what's the big deal"

Another quiet week. Expected to hear something like three weeks ago yet nothing lol even those top ranked schools have sent out or started to send out invites LOL

these people lol and it seems like Evan is pissed off by the Olin2016 person lmao