Calling all Ross 2010 applicants!

I just found this forum...please add me to the roll call for round 2.

I received an interview invite when they first started going out and I interviewed on campus on January 26th. AFTER I had already interviewed, I received a request for "proof of undergraduate degree awarded" on January 29th. I thought this was very odd because nowhere in the application does it say that anything other than a copy of your undergraduate transcript is necessary for U.S. applicants - and my transcript clearly shows my full name, degree awarded and date earned. After emailing another copy of my transcript, I was told that a copy of my diploma would be needed so I sent that this past week. Are they requiring a copy of diplomas for everyone?

Had a 45 min interview with an alum today which went quite well I think.

typical questions:
- why mba
- why now
- why ross
- unique cultural experiences that you bring to ross
- example of how you dealt with an underperforming teammate
- most difficult feedback you received
- what makes you stand out amongst the numerous strong candidates ross gets?

He put me at ease straightaway and gave me positive feedback to many of my answers. Fingers crossed!

Good luck to all you guys!

Just received the invite.

Ross,I'm coming.wooooo.

Just got the interview invite, hopefully a big wave is coming

I'm still waiting for my friend GoBruins.

Actually reading the stats on Ross, it interviews less than most schools. Only about 40% while chicago interviews 50%. It also has an amazing yield, even better than wharton.

My reasoning for why this forum has higher percentage is because of the population here. While I believe this forum has lower than average admits for Harvard/Wharton, we do have higher than average to kellogg/chicago/ross. That is because we're NOT a mirror image of the applying population. If you notice people's profiles, compared to typical application profiles, we have very few M/B/B or IB/HC/PE firms, the traditional feeders to H/W. Those career paths typically have special information sessions on schools to apply/how to apply and several of their peers would be applying at the same time.

My feeling about this forum is that most actually don't have any coworkers who are applying. So we rely on others for feedback so we come to this site. This forum has a very high number of engineers/science backgrounds, some mid-tier finance and accounting/counsulting firms. This profile would be a big hit with schools like Ross which usually have a very large portion of their students coming from engineering/mid-tier consulting.


My personal opinion.

I got the 40% figure from BW for the previous year, where the acceptance rate was 19%, matriculation was 70%, and the interview rate was 40%.

From Soojin's blog (emphasis added):

11/11/2009
The Ross Interview

Last week marked the official start of our Round 1 interviews. Many applicants who have come to campus to do their interviews have gotten to witness the beautiful fall weather we’ve been enjoying in Ann Arbor. Invitations have been going out daily since the end of October. If you haven’t received an invitation yet, don’t fret. Invitations will continue to go out through early December. We’re aiming to complete Round 1 interviews by December 9th. We expect to invite about 50% of applicants to interview. Not all will be admitted, but all who are admitted will have been interviewed.

I've just switched off the Reply Notification for this thread. It's driving me completely nuts when I see "mail" as the sender instead of "ross admissions"

You should actually look for "Application Interview for MBA", not Ross Admissions, ha. But don't worry there were a TON of open interview slots when I scheduled mine, so hopefully thats a sign that many more invites are going out.

Hey tohor
there is no mid decision date. In R1 some people got invites very late. So there is no last date.

Hi All,

I also got an interview invite today. I will be interviewing on campus sometime before 19th. And most importantly, I want to tell anyone who is still waiting that I am sure you will get interview invites. I have pretty vanilla profile and I got an interview so I am sure you guys will get it too. Don't lose hope!

i have applied to Tauber..

waiting for my interview invite !!!!

Neither did I. I actually emailed them a while ago and they said they'd send me a confirmation email soon. I never got the confirmation email but I got an interview invite instead, so I can't complain!!!

Had my interview last week with alumni, standard questions, why mba , why ross... only one that stood out was backup plans in case you did not get in, but i was ready for that one too.

good luck everyone, 1 month seems soooo far away still

I have been a silent reader like many others on this forum but thought I'd mention that I received an incomplete application mailer since they were not able to retrieve my GMAT scores on Jan 22nd. I finally cleared the issue over a call on Jan 26th and received an interview invite today. I never received any application complete mail though.

Good luck to everyone.

This is definitely an optimistic bunch . I don't know if you caught my earlier post in the midst of all this interview invite/non-invite analysis, but I had actually already interviewed and then I received a missing document email a week later. Anyways, I have a question...U.S. applicants are not required to submit "official" transcripts for admissions decisions to be made are they (scanned documents are acceptable)? The only "official" document that needs to be submitted is the GMAT score, right? I recently got an email from the school saying that they had updated my file with my "unofficial" documents, but they did not confirm that my file was "complete." Has anyone had a similar experience?