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28. 710 (Quant 50, verbal ?, writing 6). high tech/web. rejected by HBS. asian.

i think we are too old for H and S ;)

ready to get rejected!!
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It's way too early for people to be panicked or giving up hope on Stanford. If it makes you feel better, use whichever coping technique you like best :)
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It's way too early for people to be panicked or giving up hope on Stanford. If it makes you feel better, use whichever coping technique you like best :)
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I think the standard coping technique is logging on here and reading tea leaves.
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I am also 29 and also worried that I am too old for GSB. Already dinged by HBS.
My stats: 3.9 Harvard GPA, Summa Cum Laude, 4.0 Graduate GPA; 740 GMAT; 800/800 GRE. Have those of us over 28 just missed our chance by virtue of age?
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when i did my analysis for hbs, matriculating at age 29 (applying at 28) would place me older than 95% of the class

https://www.hbs.edu/mba/images/site/class12graph.png

blog https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog-all.html


matriculating at 30, or gasp 34, would make you the older than 99% of the class. i knew this but i still applied anyway ;)

id wager GSB is very close to HBS in who they take in.
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anything outside the ideal age, race, sex, gmat, gpa, work experience, extra-curriculars will lower our chances.

Age is an important consideration, but it is by no means an automatic ding e.g., the 1994 grad the HBS age distribution link. I didn't see a similar age distribution at stanford, but there are likely similar stories.

Outside of the $250 + work to put together the app + anxiety.. it's essentially a risk-free bet.
We all made it together.. let's hope it comes through.

It's kind of counter-intuitive though.. I agree. We think if we work hard and put in our best effort, we can achieve anything. This is true to a point. Luck and randomness have a role as well... sucks, but that's the way it is.
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hey. Has anyone in India received an interview invite yet?
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I am also 29 and also worried that I am too old for GSB. Already dinged by HBS.
My stats: 3.9 Harvard GPA, Summa Cum Laude, 4.0 Graduate GPA; 740 GMAT; 800/800 GRE. Have those of us over 28 just missed our chance by virtue of age?
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Keep your head up! I'm 29 as well and I don't consider myself "too old" at all. I haven't wasted my years of work experience and I strongly feel that I'm much more ready now for b-school than I was several years ago. My background isn't in any sort of feeder industry/company but I did get the opportunity to interview with HBS recently. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Stanford also allows me to opportunity to talk with them.

Your profile is outstanding and I'm sure you'll end up at an amazing school either way. Best of luck!
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What does everyone think, is this the week for the first big batch of US interview invites? Next week? Anyone else get invites recently?
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hey. Has anyone in India received an interview invite yet?
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Not that I have heard of. My other friends are also waiting.
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What does everyone think, is this the week for the first big batch of US interview invites? Next week? Anyone else get invites recently?
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Clear admit says:
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The Stanford adcom is scheduled to send out all Round 1 interview invites by November 19th and all Round 1 decisions by December 15th.
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so it should be soon...
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I am also 29 and also worried that I am too old for GSB. Already dinged by HBS.
My stats: 3.9 Harvard GPA, Summa Cum Laude, 4.0 Graduate GPA; 740 GMAT; 800/800 GRE. Have those of us over 28 just missed our chance by virtue of age?
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Throw me into the old age club as well. I just turned 32 and where I feel I am in a MUCH better place to actually get more out of the education now than I was 5 years ago I knew that I was at an age disadvantage. For my stats - 32 yo white male, work in corporate finance/business analysis for a big brand and own a martial arts school, 700gmat, 3.8gpa and played a division 1 sport. Lots of ecs and have a 1 year old son.

Denied from HBS and Wharton, but invites from Chicago & London (self initiated at Tuck). Not particularly hopeful for Stanford, but I think my essays relfected a better fit for that school than say HBS, bc of the smaller class size. But who knows. If I was to guess, more work experience would be more valued at smaller schools (classes under 500 students), by virtue of each individual student making up a greater % of the class population.
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What does everyone think, is this the week for the first big batch of US interview invites? Next week? Anyone else get invites recently?

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The Stanford adcom is scheduled to send out all Round 1 interview invites by November 19th and all Round 1 decisions by December 15th.
so it should be soon...
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I wonder where their source is for the Nov 19th interview date.
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The information on clearadmit is incorrect. The Stanford adcom says:

"Interview invitations can be exteded anytime between now and the decision notification date, with all interview invitations most likely extended by early December."
"Since this information is absolutely incorrect we like to be aware of false reporting on different websites."
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The information on clearadmit is incorrect. The Stanford adcom says:

"Interview invitations can be exteded anytime between now and the decision notification date, with all interview invitations most likely extended by early December."
"Since this information is absolutely incorrect we like to be aware of false reporting on different websites."
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can you post a link to that?
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Based on past trends, there's some truth in both of those statements (Stanford's likely to be completely true). The 19th is the last weekday before Thanksgiving week, a time when admissions staff isn't likely to be sending out invitations.

Unless they're doing things differently this year, it's unlikely that they will send out ALL interview invitations by the 19th. However, we should see a a significant increase from what we've seen so far. Anything you hear at this point is probably speculation, so don't expect to receive accurate information about what percentage of invites will go out by the 19th, etc.

We're almost there!
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Last year, it seemed that the majority of invitations to GMATClubbers went out in the week of Nov 16-20th (this year that'd be 15th-19th). There were, however, invitations that went out early in the week after thanksgiving. None appeared to go out the week of Thanksgiving.

Unless they actually have a source, I'd choose to believe Stanford on this one as it matches their past practices. That said, I'd still expect that after November 19th, there won't be a ton of invites.

All speculation, of course. Trend spotting on GMATClub tends to work best for spotting large clumps of invites (e.g. HBS on Oct. 15th) but it's not great at spotting smaller ones.
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Hey Jeanette,

To keep us completely on topic, did you know that the only other Jeanette I know is from one of my favorite childhood cartoon movies, The Chipmunks' Adventure. I think she was the leader of the Chipettes (who were the bain of the Chipmunks) and definitely the coolest since she wore rad leg warmers. You'll have to live up to the legacy by showing up in the same style at Admit Weekend (fingers crossed)! 8-) 8-) 8-)

Alright, back to refreshing my inbox....
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Hi everyone - I am new to the forum!
Looks like not too many international invites have gone out yet - I was reading last year's forum and by this time quite a few ones were out...
I am also on the older side :) 28 F from kazakhstan - any other Kazakhs!? :-D
Anyone in London got an invite?
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calihopeful: Thanks for the reply, very helpful.

I got an interview invite late last night, around 22:15 GMT (based in London).
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Congrats!!!! good luck - could you share when did you submit your application?
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