Stanford: Graduate School of Business - 2012 - Calling All Applicants Stanford Business School Guide Stanford Applicant Summary (Real Time) Quick Glance: GMAT Club vs. Latest Intake (Class of 2013) Application Tracker Feed Detailed Applicant List: Add Yourself to This List (add Stanford to your profile) GMAT Club's Real-time Admissions Statistics Add Your Profile to This List Essays You have 1800 words that you can allocate in any way you feel appropriate across the four essays. Essay 1: What matters most to you, and why? The best examples of Essay 1 reflect the process of self-examination that you have undertaken to write them. They give us a vivid and genuine image of who you are—and they also convey how you became the person you are. They do not focus merely on what you've done or accomplished. Instead, they share with us the values, experiences, and lessons that have shaped your perspectives. They are written from the heart and address not only a person, situation, or event, but also how that person, situation, or event has influenced your life. Essay 2: What do you want to do—REALLY—and why Stanford? Use this essay to explain your view of your future, not to repeat accomplishments from your past. You should address three distinct topics: your career aspirations the role of an MBA education in achieving those aspirations and your rationale for earning that MBA at Stanford, in particular. The best examples of Essay 2 express your passions or focused interests; explain why you have decided to pursue graduate education in management; and demonstrate your desire to take advantage of the opportunities that are distinctive to the Stanford MBA Program. Essay 3: Answer two of the four questions below. Tell us not only what you did but also how you did it. What was the outcome? How did people respond? Only describe experiences that have occurred during the last three years. Option A: Tell us about a time when you built or developed a team whose performance exceeded expectations. Option B: Tell us about a time when you made a lasting impact on your organization. Option C: Tell us about a time when you generated support from others for an idea or initiative. Option D: Tell us about a time when you went beyond what was defined or established. Deadlines ROUND 1: Submit by: 12 Oct 2011 Notified by: 14 Dec 2011 Deposit due: 01 Mar 2012 ROUND 2: (Ongoing) Submit by: 11 Jan 2012 Notified by: 28 Mar 2012 Deposit due: 03 May 2012 ROUND 3: Submit by: 04 Apr 2012 Notified by: 16 May 2012 Deposit due: 31 May 2012

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Jacksparrow1906

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20 Mar 2012, 09:53

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MBAorLust

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

I already gave up on this school.

hello212

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20 Mar 2012, 10:10

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Same here.

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20 Mar 2012, 12:52

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Do you have an idea on how they will inform us?
Is it the same agonizing process of Booth? Or emails notifications?

MBAorLust

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20 Mar 2012, 13:05

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Do you have an idea on how they will inform us?
Is it the same agonizing process of Booth? Or emails notifications?

i think acceptances are done by phone call...i think dings are by email or the online status checker

MBAorLust

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20 Mar 2012, 13:09

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just wondering did anyone with no work experience get an interview invite?

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20 Mar 2012, 13:17

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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.

How fitting, I'm of the same mindset. Sounds like we're meant to be together

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20 Mar 2012, 15:03

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20 Mar 2012, 21:04

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Need help with Letters of Reference.

Can I get all 3 letters from work?

First letter: Supervisor
Second letter: Past supervisor
Third letter: Peer at work

jerseygal

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21 Mar 2012, 06:21

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Need help with Letters of Reference.

Can I get all 3 letters from work?

First letter: Supervisor
Second letter: Past supervisor
Third letter: Peer at work

that's what i did...but i didnt get invited to interview.

i think your lineup should be fine though. i had the same lineup submit recs for hbs, and i got an interview.

MBAorLust

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21 Mar 2012, 10:54

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6 more days y'all

axolotl

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21 Mar 2012, 11:31

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axolotl

How fitting, I'm of the same mindset. Sounds like we're meant to be together

So, my fellow libertarian - am I correct in assuming you're libertarian solely based on your opinion on marriage? - shall we discuss our marriage contract? :wink:

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21 Mar 2012, 13:52

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How fitting, I'm of the same mindset. Sounds like we're meant to be together

So, my fellow libertarian - am I correct in assuming you're libertarian solely based on your opinion on marriage? - shall we discuss our marriage contract? :wink:

I'm not big on labels.. I'm a free thinker :D

Let's do it!

On a side note, does Stanford waitlist non-interviewed applicants? If you withdraw your application prior to decision date, and you reapply, are you a "new" applicant or a reapplicant?

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21 Mar 2012, 14:25

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faro

Let's do it!

Are you serious?

faro

On a side note, does Stanford waitlist non-interviewed applicants? If you withdraw your application prior to decision date, and you reapply, are you a "new" applicant or a reapplicant?

Officially, they do waitlist applicants without interviews. Unofficially, two people have claimed that they were admitted without interviews.

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21 Mar 2012, 14:57

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Let's do it!

Officially, they do waitlist applicants without interviews. Unofficially, two people have claimed that they were admitted without interviews.

You mean this year? Where did they report that they were admitted without being interviewed?

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21 Mar 2012, 16:41

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Any word of recent invites? I've been trying to stay optimistic and holding out hope for a last minute interview, but it's getting increasingly difficult with nothing but crickets around here. Only two invites on this forum since their blog post stated invites are still going out. Since it's officially 1 week out, I guess I should shift my prayers to a waitlist spot. 10 years of W/E trying to compile a body of work worthy for Stanford & HBS and not so much as an interview between either...depressing. I just don't understand why schools don't notify candidates early when they decide the candidate won't get an interview instead of this torturous wait. I think every school should follow IMD's example and do a preliminary "do you have a chance" pre-evaluation.

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21 Mar 2012, 20:58

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axolotl

Officially, they do waitlist applicants without interviews. Unofficially, two people have claimed that they were admitted without interviews.

Were these two candidates from the waitlist pool? Or are they just too awesome?

This year?

MBAorLust

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22 Mar 2012, 01:58

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Sorry about the silence from HBS and stanford. But I think we can say that there are no more invites going out. From an admissions standpoint it's a little too late. But I do have a theory that they wait list some people that they couldn't interview in time for the deadline. Hopefully you hear some positive news soon.

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22 Mar 2012, 02:49

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This whole application process has driven me crazy. What happened this morning shows that I am indeed crazy, or at least, not far from it.

(I just wrote the following on my facebook. It is not really application related. But you may read it for amusement.)

I got sick. So I am now sitting on my bed instead of working in the office.

When I am sick, I tend to have long sleeps and in my sleep I have weird dreams. This morning, before I woke up, I had this weird dream which was quite amusing.

The dream started in a shop where the saleswoman made me rather angry. On my way to somewhere else, I started quarreling with my girlfriend until I got tired of quarreling. In this process I somehow realized that I was dreaming.

I started to float in the air consciously and asked my girlfriend "Do you want to fly?" She asked "Is it possible?" I said "Look at me." Seeing me flying, she was surprised. I explained that she was actually in my dream and we decided to fly together.

We had a lot of fun before we went to a restaurant. The following conversation took place.

I said "It doesn't matter if you have won or lost the quarrel. I was in fact just quarreling with myself."

My girlfriend understood and smiled.

I said further "Do you think other people in this restaurant understand it? Let's have a try.'

I picked up a guy sitting at the table next to me and asked him.

"Do you exist?"

"Pardon? Say it again?"

"Where are you from? How did you come into existence?"

He told me about his parents, etc., etc.

I interrupted him and asked "But what if your existence is actually made up by someone else? Let's say, you exist in a novel." - I said novel instead of dream because I did not want to give him too much clue.

He said "It certainly doesn't feel so. When I want to do something, I do it." He stressed on the I's in his sentence. Obviously, he was saying that he felt that he had free will and therefore he really existed and was not made up by some novelist.

At this moment I woke up but continued to think about the dream. I couldn't ask myself the following questions.

Is there a real difference between this guy in my dream and us "real" people in the "real" world? If an omniscient God exists, we can say that effectively we exist only in his thought. It doesn't get better if you are a materialist and believe in science, since all the physical laws seem to suggest that our feeling of free will is just an illusion.

So, do we really exist? Is Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" still that convincing?

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22 Mar 2012, 02:56

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faro

Let's do it!

Officially, they do waitlist applicants without interviews. Unofficially, two people have claimed that they were admitted without interviews.

You mean this year? Where did they report that they were admitted without being interviewed?

MBAorLust

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22 Mar 2012, 14:06

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faro

Let's do it!

Officially, they do waitlist applicants without interviews. Unofficially, two people have claimed that they were admitted without interviews.

You mean this year? Where did they report that they were admitted without being interviewed?

Last year.

One guy mentioned that in the 2011 thread.

Another guy I knew from a colleague who finished his MBA at INSEAD a few months ago. Both my colleague and that friend of his are from Israel. He told me that his friend applied to Stanford Round 1 last year and got wait-listed. And afterwards, without being interviewed, he got an offer.[/quote]

i guess the waitlist--->admit is possible but i doubt that people get in without an interview (and b4 being wait-listed i guess)..its kinda sad...i was looking thru the YAle thread and it seems so happy and full of acceptances...come tuesday/wednesday we will only be checking to see how many of the 8 people who got interviewed got accepted.talk about a slow day