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Stanford GSB: Class of 2017 - Calling All Applicants!

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26 Feb 2015, 00:45

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I guess that after all it's just like in the rest of the schools.
You have to show that you have great English, that you're not a psycho, that you trully are who you wrote you were in the application and to see that what you wrote as your goals are your real goals. I think that they also invited the ones whom they wanted to hear more about, as far as I understood from my interviewer, he got 5 questions from GSB to ask me and the rest were follow up questions he came up with. They want to know things about us in order to know more and to understand about our fit and our goals better.
That's why a good interview doesn't mean acceptance. We might give good answers, but not what GSB hoped to hear

Hi EntMBA, do you know what the 5 standard questions are? Thanks in advance.

Sorry if I wasn't clear about it

Everyone gets his or her own "custom" questions.
A few posts back someone commented about the questions he was asked. I was asked totally different questions.
I was asked to describe my life story in less than 2 minutes, I was asked about an impact on the strategy level that I had in a company and I don't remember what were the other 3 questions

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26 Feb 2015, 08:08

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lose hope ..............

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26 Feb 2015, 08:30

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So, given that 5% of GSB R2 applicants on this site have been extended interview invites, and that 12% received invites in round 1 (which is probably pretty close to GSB's overall average), would it be a safe assumption to say that we are still looking at about 50% more of the total invitations to be going out in the next week or so? Or am I off on something. I'd say that, generally speaking, 275 people seems like a reasonable sample size to be basing this off of, but i could be wrong.

I was wondering the same thing. It looks like 15 interview invites so far- right? Out of 275. That just seems super low, unless the majority of people on here aren't reporting.

I'm hoping a huge batch will come out in the next few days, but at the same time I don't want to convince myself that that will be the case! Either way-I'm looking forward to having some certainty by March 3rd

Well, my thing is that if you look at historical data, whether that be R1 2017, R1 2016, or R2 2016, they all seem to fall in that 12-14% range for people invited to interview. Any biases against reporting an interview, etc, would have also applied to those rounds as well. The fact that they are all so tightly clustered makes me think that eventually R2 2017 will round out at that 12-14% number as well. So I'd say that we've got another 50-60% of the R2 invites still to come. That's going to be quite a few going out in just a weeks time though. For me personally, I would honestly be okay with even getting an interview and not getting accepted (although don't get me wrong, I definitely want to get in). Just getting the interview would at least make me feel a bit better/more confident about some of the other schools over the course of the next month or so. Here's to hoping the next week is a fruitful one!

Do they send out invites over the weekend? Based on general extrapolation of data one can assume that about 32-35 more invites should be reported on this thread. But then the number of R2 applicants listed here is considerably lower than R1 so who knows. I would think the R2 pool would be as large if not larger than the R1 pool. At only 4 more business days left , i am extremely antsy !

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26 Feb 2015, 08:50

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The only other explanation I can think of is that people aren't updating their status until a week or two after receiving invites. Again, I think there's a good chance you're right and that there are still a whole bunch of invites left to go out. But I want to prepare myself for the worst case scenario!

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Originally posted by towski on 26 Feb 2015, 09:16.
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26 Feb 2015, 09:41

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Hi Friends, When I was just about to give up my hope on Stanford (the only school I applied to, for personal reasons), I got interview invite and then a follow-up saying that they are gonna interview me at GSB Admissions office. I know it is typical of Stanford to conduct interviews via GSB Alumni, will it still be the case with me? Or will it be someone from AdCom? If so, I wonder what kind of questions do they ask? I appreciate any tips. Thanks. FYI, I'm an indian citizen living in bay area on green-card. Work in a small vc company.

Szybe.

I actually have the same question. My friend (lives in LA) was invited to come to campus for an interview with AdCom, but I was assigned a GSB alumni. Want to know the difference between on campus/alumni interviews.

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26 Feb 2015, 10:33

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Yes, there have been interview invitations reported on the weekends.

Regarding the expected invitations, are you counting those that report statistics via profile but do not post? The timing is very unreliable for those individuals, so I would only consider those that post. I never did an exact count, but from eyeballing previous threads, the number of invites reported on GMAT Club seems fewer than 32-35 per round.

I was going purely off of the r1 and r2 number of applicants vs (invited + interviewed) displayed at the beginning of this thread. Possibly not many GSB R2ers have GMAT club accounts. Others just didnt add GSB into the My schools section on their Profile. Either way I am expecting to be ON the huge wave that hits between now and tuesday

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26 Feb 2015, 19:59

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those who received invites, did you see any changes in your application status? what was it before and after?

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26 Feb 2015, 20:04

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Believe it was "Invited to Interview" or something before. Now it is "Interview Complete"

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so "in review" means we still have hope?)

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Hey all - my husband has also been given option to interview with AdCom, any thoughts on what would be difference between alums or Adcom interviewing?

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My counter reads, I have refreshed my mail 5670 times since 2nd feb-that comes to an average of more than 220 times in a day..and it is bound to increase in the next 4 days..Such unproductive month

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My counter reads, I have refreshed my mail 5670 times since 2nd feb-that comes to an average of more than 220 times in a day..and it is bound to increase in the next 4 days..Such unproductive month

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Its all about those push notifications.

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now I think the GSB really playing with me, I received the following email today and my heartbeat almost stopped:

Dear XXXX,

Greetings from the Stanford MBA Admissions Office. The 2014-15 application season is well underway and we hope you'll be part of it.

The Round 3 Application Deadline is 01 April 2015:

If you plan to apply in Round 3, you must submit your application no later than 5:00 PM Pacific Time on 01 April 2015.
The application is available online.
We look forward to reviewing your application!

-Stanford MBA Admissions

who else got it?

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27 Feb 2015, 16:28

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I would check to make sure everything was submitted all right for your Round 2 application. That looks like an email someone who hasn't applied would get.

Well anyway it seems like some people are on edge. In case anyone is wondering, the interview invite comes from "Stanford GSB - MBA Interview" ([email protected]) and the subject line is "Stanford MBA Admissions: Invitation to Interview" So they make it very clear and don't leave too much mystery as to what is going to be in the body of the email!

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27 Feb 2015, 18:00

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If you're positive you submitted your application, go back and look under the "Application Information" section. Which round does it say? Maybe you accidentally selected Round 3

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27 Feb 2015, 18:53

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If you're positive you submitted your application, go back and look under the "Application Information" section. Which round does it say? Maybe you accidentally selected Round 3

I contacted the admission office, it turned out that I had 2 subscriptions. And this email came under another one. Unsubscribed.
So next week should end all this wait pain?)