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20 Oct 2009, 09:11
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I know that interviews started back on October 2, but any sense of when the big wave of interview invitations will go (has gone) out?
Given that HBS deadline was 1 week earlier and their wave was on October 16, should we expect Stanford to go out this weekend?
Given that HBS deadline was 1 week earlier and their wave was on October 16, should we expect Stanford to go out this weekend?
20 Oct 2009, 09:20
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I don't think Stanford traditionally does a big wave like that. In the past, they've trickled invites out (literally) all the way until just a few weeks before the deadline. It's agonizing... but you really can't give up hope until the deadline itself. A friend of mine got an invite in January last year and was accepted.
Not sure if anyone else has any more insight here - I would love to be wrong about this and be able to expect news sooner!
Not sure if anyone else has any more insight here - I would love to be wrong about this and be able to expect news sooner!
20 Oct 2009, 09:47
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Last year Derrick Bolton spoke about Round 2 on the Stanford MBA Admissions blog -
25 February 2009
Round 2 Interview statistics
As of this morning, we have invited 275 second-round candidates to interview. We will extend an additional 100-125 interview invitations to second-round candidates in the next couple of weeks.
During that same period, we plan to interview some of the first-round candidates who accepted spots on the waitlist without having interviewed.
I hope this is helpful,
Derrick
The deadline for R2 last year was 7 January, so as of 25 February (7 weeks later), between 68%-74% of the interviews had gone out. That means that between 26%-32% (almost 1 in 3) of applicants who would get an invite hadn't heard anything after 7 weeks... It has only been 2 weeks. Based on those numbers, and considering that the first invitation went out October 2, I think that we can safely confide in what adcom says - interview invitations go out until December 16 based on when individual applications are reviewed. And, even then, you can be wait-listed and interviewed during the next round.
My suggestion comes from a Chinese proverb: There are two types of problems in life - those with solutions and those without. If there is a solution to your problem, there is no use worrying about it. You just need to find the solution and put it to work. If there is no solution to your problem, there is no use worrying about it. There is no solution no matter what you do. Hence, there is no use worrying. Our Stanford apps fall into the latter category (unless you're religious, in which case you can pray). So don't worry about it.
25 February 2009
Round 2 Interview statistics
As of this morning, we have invited 275 second-round candidates to interview. We will extend an additional 100-125 interview invitations to second-round candidates in the next couple of weeks.
During that same period, we plan to interview some of the first-round candidates who accepted spots on the waitlist without having interviewed.
I hope this is helpful,
Derrick
The deadline for R2 last year was 7 January, so as of 25 February (7 weeks later), between 68%-74% of the interviews had gone out. That means that between 26%-32% (almost 1 in 3) of applicants who would get an invite hadn't heard anything after 7 weeks... It has only been 2 weeks. Based on those numbers, and considering that the first invitation went out October 2, I think that we can safely confide in what adcom says - interview invitations go out until December 16 based on when individual applications are reviewed. And, even then, you can be wait-listed and interviewed during the next round.
My suggestion comes from a Chinese proverb: There are two types of problems in life - those with solutions and those without. If there is a solution to your problem, there is no use worrying about it. You just need to find the solution and put it to work. If there is no solution to your problem, there is no use worrying about it. There is no solution no matter what you do. Hence, there is no use worrying. Our Stanford apps fall into the latter category (unless you're religious, in which case you can pray). So don't worry about it.
Weird tho! considering schools with similar deadlines have started sending or already sent.... 
