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Received Admit with full scholarship!!!!
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Received Admit with full scholarship!!!!
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Which program did you apply to?
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Admitted with some $
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Received Admit with full scholarship!!!!
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deviprasad2015, Congratulations!!!
can you please let us know the program you applied to?
And may be share your GMAT score as well?

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Hi Abhi and Reddy
Thanks for your wishes and congratulations to you both:)
I have applied to the full-time MBA program in Operations and Technology specialisation.
I applied with my GRE scores and my total score is 316 (Q170)
I have an experience of 4.5 yrs at India's largest car manufacturer and mechanical engineering background at NIT.

Please let me know if you need any other info.

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Does MBA+MSDi give the STEM program benefit to international students?
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Does MBA+MSDi give the STEM program benefit to international students?
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It will give you a 17 month OPT in total
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Does MBA+MSDi give the STEM program benefit to international students?
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It will give you a 17 month OPT in total
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Thank you, Anamika :)
In general MBA program offers 12 months OPT.
And eligible MS programs offers 24 months OPT.
So, for MBA+MS IS students, I think the total OPT was 36 months (Correct me if I am wrong)

Any reason why it got reduced to 17 months now? (Any change in Govt., policies?)

Thanks again, for your clarification :)
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My recommender informed me that there is no question come with the link he got, only instruction to upload the LOR file.
Anyone got the same problems? Thanks!
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Hi hellovenus,

I remember my recommender asking me the same when he had to submit his evaluation. So, that is how it is. Your evaluator will have to write a one page letter (Length may vary, but I feel the more concise, the more better) to adcom and upload that. He can write about anything (achievements, strengths,weakness etc..) that might be helpful for adcom.
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Does MBA+MSDi give the STEM program benefit to international students?
(Added OPT time!)

It will give you a 17 month OPT in total

Thank you, Anamika :)
In general MBA program offers 12 months OPT.
And eligible MS programs offers 24 months OPT.
So, for MBA+MS IS students, I think the total OPT was 36 months (Correct me if I am wrong)

Any reason why it got reduced to 17 months now? (Any change in Govt., policies?)

Thanks again, for your clarification :)
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I had the same query and the adcom told me 17 months (since MS gives you a 17 month OPT). TBH, I am not convinced too
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hellovenus

My recommender thought so initially. But, on a closer look, she/ he was able to see a link in that page, which redirects to BU website's page, where she/ he was able to find some 3/4 specific questions (Q1, Q2, Q3...) to be answered in LOR, which was later uploaded as part of my application.
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Congrats to all admits!! It's time to let R2 applicants take over this thread. Separate discussion thread has been created for admitted students. Feel free to join there.
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Submitted for R2. But the thread looks dead. Anyone for R2?
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I just submitted R2 too :)
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I'm for round 2
I received a confirmation email yesterday from adcom member stating that my application is under review
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Oh That's good. When did you submit the application?

I haven't got any mail yet about my application :(
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Good luck to all who have applied to BU Questrom in R2!! Here is a quick analysis of admission trends observed in R1 this year at BU...

  • Acceptance rate for R1 applicants is 60.61%.
  • As expected, avg GMAT of admits is higher than that of overall application pool; however, GPA of admits is actually lower. Any thoughts on this?
  • GMAT range of denied applicants shows that every applicant who has higher than 700 GMAT score is either accepted or not reported his decision on forum.
  • Applicants with Consulting and Finance background dominate the admit list. More than half of the admits are from these two industries.
  • An applicant to get in to BU with lowest GMAT score (580) was from Nigeria, with Healthcare as undergraduate major and working in Finance industry for 5 year.


BU Questrom R1 Stats (GMATClub Users)
Avg GMATGMAT RangeAvg GPAWork Experience (in Years)
Overall695580-7703.626
Admitted704580-7703.556
Denied/Waitlisted665610-7003.755
*Source: GMATClub Applicant Data


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Any thoughts, comments are most welcome. Do let us know how you are approaching essays and other parts of the application.
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Good luck once again to all those who submitted their apps. I request everyone to update your forum status on Decision Tracker - It will give some stats and insights for others to look into. Thank you! boston-university-219/app-tracker.html
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Submitted for R2. But the thread looks dead. Anyone for R2?
I'm for round 2
I received a confirmation email yesterday from adcom member stating that my application is under review

Oh That's good. When did you submit the application?

I haven't got any mail yet about my application :(
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I submitted my app on 22nd Dec

And thanks Narenn for the wonderful insights
The acceptance rate in first round seems to be pretty high compared to similar ranked schools
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