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I really dislike this "low GPA" stuff that schools put out. Exactly what is low GPA? It's completely arbitrary.

Just venting because I haven't received anything yet :x
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I really dislike this "low GPA" stuff that schools put out. Exactly what is low GPA? It's completely arbitrary.

Just venting because I haven't received anything yet :x


well they did say that they look beyond the gpa being the "mean" on the school's profile. They look at school, major etc. too. Also they dont even review the GPA first so it is probably not something that will break an application... I got a 2.92 so mine is a bit of far from the mean....
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I really dislike this "low GPA" stuff that schools put out. Exactly what is low GPA? It's completely arbitrary.

Just venting because I haven't received anything yet :x

I can understand the frustration. Each of us has objective and subjective strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately for some of us (me included), we hope that the admissions can see past some of the 'objective' numbers to our subjective strengths. I believe, and hope, that Ross is just such a school, at least judging from what they've said as well as what I've learned in my research. They don't just try to peg us and fit us into a neat little picture so much as take a larger approach to judge our applications on their objective and subjective merits. I hope so anyway...but you never know.
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I really dislike this "low GPA" stuff that schools put out. Exactly what is low GPA? It's completely arbitrary.

Just venting because I haven't received anything yet :x

I can understand the frustration. Each of us has objective and subjective strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately for some of us (me included), we hope that the admissions can see past some of the 'objective' numbers to our subjective strengths. I believe, and hope, that Ross is just such a school, at least judging from what they've said as well as what I've learned in my research. They don't just try to peg us and fit us into a neat little picture so much as take a larger approach to judge our applications on their objective and subjective merits. I hope so anyway...but you never know.

Keeping my hopes up, definitely, until next Friday.
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To any current students, do you guys know how soon after you hear about a decision? The website says decisions are mailed Jan. 15th but that seems a bit late....any idea if they let you know earlier?
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To any current students, do you guys know how soon after you hear about a decision? The website says decisions are mailed Jan. 15th but that seems a bit late....any idea if they let you know earlier?

If you read last year's Ross 2010 thread, you will have your answer. Also, according to some Admission/student ambassador blogs from Ross, there is a chance that they 'unofficially' release admissions to certain individuals 2 or 3 days before the deadline. According to last year's thread though, likely the majority of us will be waiting until the January 15 deadline.
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According to last year's thread though, likely the majority of us will be waiting until the January 15 deadline.

That is 100% correct. I heard the day of.
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According to last year's thread though, likely the majority of us will be waiting until the January 15 deadline.

That is 100% correct. I heard the day of.

damn that is a long wait :shock:
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It is quite a long waiting period. Imagine people who finish their interviews in mid-November will still have to wait two more months. I'm probably going to have to tackle and submit round 2 applications, just in case if Ross doesn't fall through. I wonder why Ross decides to render decisions at such a later time than its peer schools.
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It is quite a long waiting period. Imagine people who finish their interviews in mid-November will still have to wait two more months. I'm probably going to have to tackle and submit round 2 applications, just in case if Ross doesn't fall through. I wonder why Ross decides to render decisions at such a later time than its peer schools.


yup i finished my interview on monday and have to wait 2.5 months to hear back...!
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It is quite a long waiting period. Imagine people who finish their interviews in mid-November will still have to wait two more months. I'm probably going to have to tackle and submit round 2 applications, just in case if Ross doesn't fall through. I wonder why Ross decides to render decisions at such a later time than its peer schools.


yup i finished my interview on monday and have to wait 2.5 months to hear back...!


That's why I did Early Action to Duke -- I knew my nerves wouldn't be able to take the wait until mid-January.
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It is quite a long waiting period. Imagine people who finish their interviews in mid-November will still have to wait two more months. I'm probably going to have to tackle and submit round 2 applications, just in case if Ross doesn't fall through. I wonder why Ross decides to render decisions at such a later time than its peer schools.


yup i finished my interview on monday and have to wait 2.5 months to hear back...!


That's why I did Early Action to Duke -- I knew my nerves wouldn't be able to take the wait until mid-January.

Unfortunately, Ross had no such option....
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yup i finished my interview on monday and have to wait 2.5 months to hear back...!


That's why I did Early Action to Duke -- I knew my nerves wouldn't be able to take the wait until mid-January.

Unfortunately, Ross had no such option....

Yeah, I would have been very interested if they had the option. Too bad.
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did you interview at ross already?

i think we're applying to a bunch of the same schools, ross, kellogg, darden...i've interviewed at the first two and not yet heard back from darden...
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did you interview at ross already?

i think we're applying to a bunch of the same schools, ross, kellogg, darden...i've interviewed at the first two and not yet heard back from darden...

amr090,

Did you end up getting an invite?
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did you interview at ross already?

i think we're applying to a bunch of the same schools, ross, kellogg, darden...i've interviewed at the first two and not yet heard back from darden...

amr090,

Did you end up getting an invite?

It looks like he did according to his earlier post. He said he did his interview on Monday.
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did you interview at ross already?

i think we're applying to a bunch of the same schools, ross, kellogg, darden...i've interviewed at the first two and not yet heard back from darden...

amr090,

Did you end up getting an invite?

It looks like he did according to his earlier post. He said he did his interview on Monday.


yes i got an invite and interviewed monday.

vince - did you interview at ross already?

i think we're applying to a bunch of the same schools, ross, kellogg, darden...i've interviewed at the first two and not yet heard back from darden...
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