Stanford 2012 - Calling All Applicants

Yes no pattern at all...

I'm not too sure there will be interviews anymore...unless they are by phone....because they have to give u time to schedule and meet with an interviewer. Also the interviewer needs to be able to get back to stanford... im not sure a week is enough time especially since they will be finalizing the decisions sometime later this week all the way to monday.

It's easier to schedule an interview (at least it should be) with an alum in your area than it would be to buy a flight and interview on campus with adcom/student (which Stanford doesn't do). I'm sure if there were any last minute invites, Stanford could get it turned around in the time it needs.

With that being said, I wouldn't hold my breath for a last minute invite at this point. But if it did happen, I wouldn't complain at all.

Yeah i think no one would complain about a last min interview.

The issue is that I think it scheduling an interview date with an alum is not that easy..that's why Stanford gives u about a week to schedule an interview and get back to them so i do not think that would be possible this week..

I do not know if this has been asked b4 but what percentage of those interviewed get accepted?
Also I think like 5-8 got interviews in R2 (in this forum), is that usual? i know gmatclub is definitely not representative of the entire population but i was just wondering.

Have you received an interview invite? I actually can't tell from your post. If you haven't, then chances are you won't have to worry about any of this.

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Honestly, I think if we put as much effort into our post-MBA goal as in the MBA application, we will succeed even without an MBA.

In my application, I stated that entrepreneurship was my long-term goal. But I can't help asking myself "Why not invest the tuition fee in my own start-up instead?" To some extent, an MBA is just an excuse to procrastinate.

I don't agree totally, even for entrepreneurship an MBA is a formidable opportunity to put your ideas to test, to improve them, find business partners, and get access to an alumni network that would be very helpful. It also makes the process of finding investors much easier.

In the meantime I agree that it is not mandatory to succeed!

No. The decision day is the just that. The day you will get a final decision (admit/deny/waitlist).

Don't get me wrong. I am not saying that an MBA is useless for entrepreneurship. Otherwise I would not have applied.

I'd be really happy if I could get in Stanford. Apart from the staff, curriculum, student network, etc, its geographical location is a huge plus. I could only imagine how it would feel to be surrounded by entrepreneurial people and constantly exposed to new and crazy ideas.

On the other hand, although there is nothing in the Netherlands (or Continental Europe for this matter) comparable to the Silicon Valley, there are still many successful IT start-ups. So why not try my best to succeed in the NL instead of bewailing my unsuccessful application and hoping it would turn out better next year?

I admit that there might be some sour-grapes element. And BTW, if there's someone here who wants to start some IT business in the Silicon Valley and wants a partner, please consider me. If you're single male, you may marry me to help me get a visa (A Dutch passport is only good for tourist purposes in the US.) Meanwhile, I will try and see how far I can go in the NL. Business ideas I do have.

Best comment I have EVER read on this particular thread. Awesome plan!

Keep up the spirit guys n gals

@cheetarah
As a side note, I would love to have u as a fellow student in the B school that I finally attend. Have been reading ur posts on many threads and love ur positive spirit and the time and effort u take in answering queries of people u don't know at all.

Would love to be in the same cohort coz I kow that u would be an awesome team worker for sure!!!!

Sam

You have a valid point, if you have the ideas and the guts to do it you obviously can be successful without the MBA!
And what about Wharton, would you not go if admitted ? because if you would, try to stay hopeful for 11 more days and you may not have to think about back-up plans

As for you plan to get a US partner / husband, I think you should post the offer in this thread, you'll probably find a taker : odds-of-meeting-your-spouse-at-mba-73618.html

I think I would go if admitted by Wharton. Guts are what I need. I do have a good salary and a mortgage. So the opportunity cost of starting my own business is substantial. But, the opportunity cost will only get higher and higher if I don't start now. I have but one life and it's better to do what I really want to do than to have so many regrets on my death bed.


Haha. Thanks for the suggestion. I would use marriage only as a means to get a visa and start a company in the US. I am not looking for a relationship right now.

Ironically, I am principally against marriage as an institution. I believe it should be privatized.

Now that you unveiled your plan, it will be harder to lure someone

Good luck for Wharton! I hope we'll receive good news on that front next week!

Aww, thank you Sam! That's really nice of you to say. I appreciate your calming influence in the Booth thread. Even if Stanford doesn't like us, it seems we have some other schools in common that might. Who knows, we may indeed wind up classmates

I'm a little confused. I just stalked last yrs thread and it seemed there were about 30 or more interview invites for R2. Do we even have 10?

All admitted applicants should have interviews. Stanford does not interview all applicants. I believe there is a possibility of getting waitlisted without an interview. You'll have to wait until the 28th to see what Stanford decides.

its a week from decision time...let the praying begin