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Stanford GSB: Class of 2017 - Calling All Applicants!

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fede7flores

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3 more days!! (or is it 5?) :shock:

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3 more days!! (or is it 5?) :shock:

Last year, Stanford sent out invites the last weekend before Ding-Day.

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3 more days!! (or is it 5?) :shock:

Last year, Stanford sent out invites the last weekend before Ding-Day.

Well then best of luck to all of us in this final weekend. I think someone posted earlier that someone has to be the last one to get an invite - could be any of us. Either way, what is meant to be, will be.

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Updated on: 08 Jan 2015, 13:30

Originally posted by niedermeyer1990 on 21 Nov 2014, 08:07.
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21 Nov 2014, 08:12

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fede7flores

3 more days!! (or is it 5?) :shock:

Last year, Stanford sent out invites the last weekend before Ding-Day.

You mean they sent invites on Saturday and Sunday too?

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21 Nov 2014, 08:26

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3 more days!! (or is it 5?) :shock:

Last year, Stanford sent out invites the last weekend before Ding-Day.

You mean they sent invites on Saturday and Sunday too?

Anxiety drove me to check on last year's posts around this time...

stanford-gsb-calling-all-applicants-for-class-of-151291-480.html

"Kitkat6", 3rd post from the bottom, got her invite Sunday, Nov 24th, 2013 @ 10:30pm PT!

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21 Nov 2014, 08:40

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That's awesome! Guess there's about 5 days then, good stuff!!

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21 Nov 2014, 09:36

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Trying to bring some levity back to this thread

Question for the folks who have interviewed, how are you keeping busy until d-day? It's really tough knowing that there's absolutely nothing we can do, and that a good interview (or poor one) may ultimately have little effect on the outcome.

Has anyone asked current students or friends who are alums of the school to send in letters of support to add to their file?

Nope, not doing this. I actually just got my interview invite on Wednesday, and my interview isn't for another week. I am just really curious about how the interview will weight in the final decision slash freaking out about how it might even be, considering I have to fly to another city to connect with the interviewer as well. Lalala.

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21 Nov 2014, 10:01

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For those with a morbid curiosity about what happens when you're "denied" -- read on. This was from last cycle -- I'm hoping for better luck this year! I firmly believe we all should maintain optimism, but since the odds are most certainly not in our favor, preparing yourself for a similar message to this by November 24 might soften the blow... slightly.

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Frequently Asked Questions

I was not invited to interview. Did that impact your evaluation of my application?

We do not use the interview as a separate hurdle for applications. After a thorough review of the application by the Committee on Admissions, we identify candidates as most competitive for admission. Those individuals are selected for the final step in the admission process — the interview. The interview alone, however, is rarely the decisive factor in evaluating a candidate.

Assuming adcom isn't lying, this plays into another post I saw a couple weeks ago where Sandy Kreisberg said the interview doesn't really matter. Obviously it matters a little, but it seems like your fate is pretty much sealed already, as long as you don't make an a$$ of yourself by acting superior or douchey.
I hope this is the case with HBS too, since, in my opinion, I had a fairly bad interview there.

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21 Nov 2014, 10:01

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Trying to bring some levity back to this thread

Good luck with your interview whiplash2411, I'm sure you will have a great chat with the alum.

niedermeyer1990, I don't think extra letter of support is needed at this point. You were invited because you were deemed "competitive for admission". A bad interview may keep you out:

"Do you often override a bad interview?

Not often. It’s much easier for an interview to keep you out than to get you in. Again if one of our alumni says, ‘This person is not a good fit for the Stanford community. This person is arrogant. This person won’t engage well with the community. This person doesn’t share our values.’ Why would I dispute that? I may follow up with the person and say, ‘Help me understand what was the evidence of that? What led to that point of view?’ But it’s pretty rare for us to do that."

--https://poetsandquants.com/2010/10/06/stanford%E2%80%99s-b-school-gatekeeper-predicts-application-decline/4/

On the contrary, a good interview merely confirms their impression of you and moves you into the final selection phase, where DB crafts the incoming class based on experience, perspective and contribution (after all, GSB does claim no two admitted students are the same). Extra letter of support won't impose pivotal impact on your candidacy at this point.

SO, just enjoy a fabulous Thanksgiving with your family and friends and we will all know where we land in just 18 days.

To others who are still waiting for an interview invite, my friend got hers on the last day in the previous cycle. It does happen so don't lose hope just as yet.

Till then, I'm still working on my "intellectual vitality" and brushing up on physics: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/metaphysic ... erstellar/ :lol:

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21 Nov 2014, 10:09

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Stanford interview doesn't matter that much. Otherwise, say you get invited on the 25th. They barely have time to reevaluate everything given that they need to make a decision by Dec 10th. On the other hand, and if you folks want to see this on the brighter side. Then, people who are invited late, are people who the adcom most probably knows they are going to admit, so they really don't need to put that much emphasis on the interview data point and thus give short time for this process.

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Updated on: 08 Jan 2015, 13:29

Originally posted by niedermeyer1990 on 21 Nov 2014, 10:22.
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21 Nov 2014, 10:30

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Considering they interview "roughly 1000" and only accept ~400, does anyone know what they really look for in an interview (not that I've gotten one...sigh...this will be a rough weekend)

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Whiplash and Hellokitty - can't say that differs from my own research, good to see that we are all on the same page regarding interview importance.

I'll definitely be chowing down on turkey and stuffing to keep my mind off things. Food comas FTW...

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21 Nov 2014, 11:18

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Considering they interview "roughly 1000" and only accept ~400, does anyone know what they really look for in an interview (not that I've gotten one...sigh...this will be a rough weekend)

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IMHO They are looking for you to screw up so they can have someone else take your spot basically. So quickly, from the 1000 they have 2 groups, groups that's in and the other group who are the backup. Of course when you interview you don't know which group you belong to. But, if your'e in the good group and you screw up badly then you lose your spot to another guy in the second group who really nailed it. These are extremes but everything else from an OK interview to a somewhat below average one stays the same. So what I'm trying to say here is that this explains why people with great interviews don't get in and people with less than average interviews get in.

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21 Nov 2014, 13:29

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any updates?

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any updates?

Nope. I hope at least a few people on here get good news to celebrate this weekend, even if it's not me!

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21 Nov 2014, 13:56

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can one of the consultants here do a quick analysis on TY v. LY interview invites based on geographic region? Seems like there have been a lot of invite posts coming from international applicants relative to domestic when i'd have to expect the overall number of domestic applicants is higher. Would be nice to see if this qualitative observation actually rings true and whether or not that is consistent year to year.

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21 Nov 2014, 14:02

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+1 on this request. I've gotten the same feeling with this year vs last year. it would be a great data point to have if anyone has the savvy to put this together.

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21 Nov 2014, 14:16

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+1 on this request. I've gotten the same feeling with this year vs last year. it would be a great data point to have if anyone has the savvy to put this together.

+2 on this request. Would one the more savvy admissions experts on this forum please analyze for the group's benefit?

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+1 on this request. I've gotten the same feeling with this year vs last year. it would be a great data point to have if anyone has the savvy to put this together.

+2 on this request. Would one the more savvy admissions experts on this forum please analyze for the group's benefit?