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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 26 Nov 2011, 02:54
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What do you think guys? Any chances for more interview invites early next week?
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What do you think guys? Any chances for more interview invites early next week?
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Really hope so!
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 28 Nov 2011, 03:04
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Invites will continue to go out until early December - i.e. will likely finish at the end of this week.

Anyway, shout out to those doing Round 2 - I'm an MBA1 and happy to look over essays for anyone that PMs me. Will only provide overall comments so please don't expect anything in great depth. Did this last year after I was accepted in Round 1 to great success, so thought I'd provide the service again.

Good luck Round 1! I received my invite on December 1st last year, so fingers crossed.
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 28 Nov 2011, 07:52
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I was talking last week to a very well known/successful VC whose on a board that I'm an observer on about GSB and he said "I have never met a recent Stanford MBA I would hire. They have all been obnoxiously entitled and incapable of handling the quantitative aspects of the job." He doesn't have an MBA (has been in VC since before you needed one to get into the field) and he's spoken highly of other programs, so I don't think it was coming from bias (i.e., it's not like he's a harvard MBA or is still bitter he got rejected from gsb 20 years ago). He also didn't know I'm applying to Stanford, so it's not like he was tyring to make me feel better about having not received an interview invitation.

After the meeting the managing director from my firm on the deal and I were talking about the comment and he said "well the only Stanford MBA I've worked closely with was [former associate/principal at our fund] and he was a moron."

I'm curious if this is a commonly held stereotype of GSB grads by execs in Silicin Valley that we applicants don't typically hear about or if these are just outliers. But I found it interesting either way.
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 29 Nov 2011, 09:21
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Guys effectively today is one of the last few days....hold on the fort!!
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 29 Nov 2011, 09:59
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So I will have to put a break on my dreams for this year. I screwed up on my GMAT big time. I scored 600 where I was supposed to score 750. But that is fine. Crying over the spilt milk is of no use at this point. I am not giving up yet. I will take this GMAT down because I know I can.

Anyway I wish all the best to whoever is applying this year. :)
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 29 Nov 2011, 12:52
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What's going on? Is there any hope left? And has anybody here received an invitation in the last few days?
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 29 Nov 2011, 12:55
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What's going on? Is there any hope left? And has anybody here received an invitation in the last few days?
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As per BTG, a LOT of people have received their Interview invites today. So, about hope still being left - I'm hoping there is, since I'm in the same place as you are buddy!
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 29 Nov 2011, 12:57
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What's going on? Is there any hope left? And has anybody here received an invitation in the last few days?

As per BTG, a LOT of people have received their Interview invites today. So, about hope still being left - I'm hoping there is, since I'm in the same place as you are buddy!
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I think those were from yesterday. There's something weird with the way the timing works on that site (i.e. it updates when someone else posts, no matter when, so if you posted something a week ago and someone else responded today, it would show today).
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what is the link to the BTG post on this topic?

... still hopeful!
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 29 Nov 2011, 15:58
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what is the link to the BTG post on this topic?

... still hopeful!
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yeah, definitely a little rough that only 5% of the people registered on this forum got invites. oh well...
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Did "a LOT" of people at BTG really get invites today/yesterday? I only count 3 or 4 invitees. I'm wondering whether to give up hope, though there still seems that we have the rest of this week, and possibly the beginning of next week, yet to come.
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 29 Nov 2011, 23:43
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could someone pls post the link to BTG's forum on Stanford 2012-14 mba apps? Thx
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Has anyone in Mexico received any interview invite? I know a number of good applicants and no one has been contacted yet. Seems strange to me…
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 30 Nov 2011, 14:40
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I already gave up and I signed for a MBA fullly sponsorized by my company... I wish you good luck budies... Don't forget the financial crisis and remind the post in the economist : "The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source"
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What's going on? Is there any hope left? And has anybody here received an invitation in the last few days?

As per BTG, a LOT of people have received their Interview invites today. So, about hope still being left - I'm hoping there is, since I'm in the same place as you are buddy!

I think those were from yesterday. There's something weird with the way the timing works on that site (i.e. it updates when someone else posts, no matter when, so if you posted something a week ago and someone else responded today, it would show today).
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That's true. One post (by JSA) has a stamp of 14 hours ago talking about the Scholarship webinar. That invite went out on 26-Nov-11. Moreover, the first response to the post shows a time stamp of 5 days ago and the second response of 14 hours ago.

In short, I don't think any new invites have gone out for a while.
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The number of invites seem to be considerably lower. Last year's R1 thread on this forum had a 11 percent admission rate as opposed to this year's 5 percent interview calls.

Moreover, the number of invites in India seem to have gone down drastically (Only 1 person in this forum has reported a call). Hoping that there is one last bunch of invites to go out tomorrow or the day after.
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Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants 01 Dec 2011, 01:22
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The number of invites seem to be considerably lower. Last year's R1 thread on this forum had a 11 percent admission rate as opposed to this year's 5 percent interview calls.

Moreover, the number of invites in India seem to have gone down drastically (Only 1 person in this forum has reported a call). Hoping that there is one last bunch of invites to go out tomorrow or the day after.
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I have started praying for a waitlist.
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don't be like that..I haven't received an invite as well, but stanford is not the only school. You have other fantastic schools, and I personally would not sit and wait on the waiting list while being admitted to other top 10 school.
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I did not receive invite from any of the schools I applied in R1. But it has been a great learning experience. Now when I read back my R1 Essays I can see the weak areas. My best way to keep my mind off this waiting has been to get started on the R2 list of schools.
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