Calling all Stanford GSB MBA Applicants: [2020 Intake] Class of 2022!

Yes -- I think GSB goes through the same process all schools go through after the interviews: they gather the adcom team back together, share notes, and then start making decisions now that they have the last piece of the puzzle in place. I would imagine that they would be more directly comparing those in similar "buckets" to decide who gets the spot as they try to put together a diverse class (with "diverse" covering a lot of different criteria: gender, ethnicity, country, industry, role, single vs couple, sexuality, etc).

So while I'm sure for every school there are a few candidates that bomb interviews and kind of blow their shot because of that, as well as situations where someone who was already a strong candidate nails it and secures there spot, I think the vast majority of candidates are lumped back in with the rest of the contenders and judged by the totality of their candidacy. It also depends A LOT on just who is applying "against" you in a given year/round.

For example, I had a stellar client a few years back (with a worldwide-famous recommender who was her direct boss and wrote her a letter) who got out of her GSB interview confident that she got in -- the interview was great and the alum pretty much said she would be recommending her and wanted to know the final result. That client did not get in. She worked with me on a reapplication the following year -- almost nothing in her materials changed. She came out of her interview and called me in tears saying that her recommender was a jerk and she had bombed it. But then she got in. So an interview truly is just one more data point -- I have countless stories like this after doing this for a decade.

All you can (and should!) do is be yourself! Congrats on the interview invte!

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