Ross 2012 - Calling All Applicants

The same thing happened to me in R1. My application was missing one of my transcripts and I received an email notification from Admissions office about it. I submitted the transcript the same day and even got an confirmation from them. This was about a couple of weeks before the 2nd wave of interviews went out for R1 (R1 had only two waves of interviews). But then the next week I got another email from admissions office saying that they had requested the transcript a week ago and they still hadn't received it! So I called them and told them that I had actually submitted the transcript the previous week itself. The lady on the phone then said .. 'oh ok, we have it'. So this was 1 week before the 2nd wave of interviews. I was nervous if my application would be considered in R1 with so little time remaining, but the lady assured me it will. So the 2nd wave of interviews came and went and I didn't hear anything. I was disheartened as hell. But lo and behold, the next day I receive a phone call from the admissions office saying that they have sent me two emails requesting my transcript and I haven't send it still! I was like 'you've got to be be kidding me'. I explained to her that I had sent it 2 weeks ago and already confirmed twice. She again looked at her records and said .. oh we have it. I asked her what all of this meant - since my app wasn't marked complete it couldn't have been reviewed before the interviews went out and she agreed. Then I asked her if my application will still be considered in R1 and she said it will. I really wanted to believe her but practically speaking, it was also easy to see that since both waves of interviews had gone out, I might be bumped to the next round.

So I just waited for the decision deadline and was waitlisted. Now I don't know what actually happened i.e. whether they looked at my application and decided to put me on WL or if they could not get to the application and so put me on WL. Either way, I was happy to still be under consideration. And then, I was invited to interview in the first wave for R2 interviews.

Long story short, for those who were not invited for interviews in R2, you're definitely still in the game. Especially if there was something missing in your application at some point and you received a request from the admissions office to complete it.

I was kind of mad initially at what had happened, but then at the end of the day it was my mistake. My application wasn't complete even if it was a missing transcript. Doesn't matter that I worked my ass off to complete my essays in R1, should have been more careful about about other parts as well. Can't blame admissions for that.

HTH

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And by fit you mean the whole package, personal background, diversity, work, etc,...not just how you performed in the interview? Cause I honestly don't know how i did in the interview. When i think of "fit" I immediately think of how someone comes off in the interview. I hope its more than that.

There is a final rating of, ‘Yes, I think this person will be a great fit.’ Or, ‘I’m not sure this person will be a great fit, but maybe their application has more information on areas I wasn’t clear on.’ Or, ‘I don’t think this person will be a good fit.’ It’s one of those three categories.

This is an online form so they provide comments on each with examples of why they think this person has a good rationale for an MBA. We request the evaluation within 24 hours of the interview, and last year we didn’t have to hunt anybody down. We tell interviewers that ‘you could be the reason we delay a decision on a candidate and they’re pushed to the next round. Please don’t be that reason.’

After the regional experts look at it in concert with the interview, they make a recommendation. Then, the senior AD gets it and looks at the overall pool. He might say, ‘We have too many people who are consultants.’ He takes first pass and then I take the second pass. There’s a lot of shifting about. We’ll waitlist some, un-waitlist other people, until we get to a number based on our historical admission rates. After I look at it, I send it on to Valerie (Suslow) who looks at the whole thing and once she blesses it we start communicating with the candidates.

This is for the R1 admits and existing students, what background verification is done once you get an admit from Ross. Just curious to know.

Last year they used HireRight, but I believe it was mentioned somewhere in this thread that Kroll is being used this year.

And its just jobs, salaries, recommenders, criminal background?

I don't know how they could even find out the Salary bit. That would be a gross violation of privacy for your current employer/HR to reveal your salary to a background verification company. They could probably confirm your employment, dates etc. but certainly not your salary.

For those who will accept Ross, how are you approaching the housing situation?

If you are an American citizen/PR can't they just use your Social Security Number to verify your employment dates, salary etc?