https://rankings.r.ftdata.co.uk/lib/img/logos/entity/university-of-pennsylvania-wharton Business School Guide: https://gmatclub.com/forum/penn-wharton-103701.html This thread is for the Wharton 2011 Application Year, meaning applicants that are starting School in the Fall of 2011. Please direct all of your questions for this year into the 2012 thread calling-wharton-fall-2012-applicants-113014.html Current Students and Admits, please continue your discussions here: admitted-to-wharton-class-of-2013-thread-107439.html Please use the following form to add your stats to the spreadsheet Form link Edit link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArkyKRSo74XNdHJDT0RoNUFqYWhyQ0c2aVV3TDV2WHc&hl=en&authkey=CPS16ccG Spreadsheet 0ArkyKRSo74XNdHJDT0RoNUFqYWhyQ0c2aVV3TDV2WHc Add your name to the list https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/evolvelearning/assets/huntsman_at_night.jpg MBA Program Application Deadline Decision Release Date Round 1 October 4, 2010 December 17, 2010 Round 2 January 4, 2011 March 24, 2011 Round 3 March 3, 2011 May 12, 2011 The Admissions Committee will release interview invitations on Friday, October 29th and again on Friday, November 5th . Due to the nature and complexity associated with the admissions process there is no particular order in which invitations are released. Also on November 5th , the Committee will release all final admissions decisions to candidates that are not being invited for an interview and therefore no longer being considered for admission . If you are invited for an interview, you will need to complete your interview by Friday, December 3rd . Interviews will be available on campus with second-year Wharton MBA Students who are full members of the Admissions Committee, off campus with alumni, and off campus in various "Hubs" around the world by Admissions staff members. All interview options are equally considered within the admissions process. Essays Required Question (same for first-time and reapplicants): What are your professional objectives? (300 words) Respond to 3 of the following 4 questions: Student and alumni engagement has at times led to the creation of innovative classes. For example, through extraordinary efforts, a small group of current students partnered with faculty to create a timely course entitled, “Disaster Response: Haiti and Beyond,” empowering students to leverage the talented Wharton community to improve the lives of the Haiti earthquake victims. Similarly, Wharton students and alumni helped to create the “Innovation and the Indian Healthcare Industry” which took students to India where they studied the full range of healthcare issues in India. If you were able to create a Wharton course on any topic, what would it be? (700 words) Reflect on a time when you turned down an opportunity. What was the thought process behind your decision? Would you make the same decision today? (600 words) Describe a failure that you have experienced. What role did you play, and what did you learn about yourself? How did this experience help to create your definition of failure? (600 words) Discuss a time when you navigated a challenging experience in either a personal or professional relationship. (600 words) Stats, rankings and other relevant links FT: https://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/university-of-pennsylvania-wharton BW: https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/full_time_mba_profiles/wharton.html Career report: https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/your-career/career-trends.cfm Great resource to get questions answered by current students: https://engage.wharton.upenn.edu/MBA/forums/ Quick facts: https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admissions/quick-facts-and-dates.cfm Wharton vs. Booth: https://gmatclub.com/forum/chicago-vs-wharton-74034.html Previous Threads Class of 2010 Thread - calling-all-wharton-fall-2010-candidates-78775.html Class of 2009 Thread - calling-all-wharton-fall-09-applicants-66548.html Class of 2008 Thread - calling-all-wharton-2008-applicants-50294.html

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Bac2School

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01 Dec 2010, 08:52

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I have talked with several experienced alum interviewers, and all say that the new behavioral interview is a great tool as it brings a lot more structure to the interview. Nobody argues that it is a perfect screening tool, but all people I had conversations with agree that the new approach does not diminish the importance and role of personal interaction, and does not in any way disadvantage the candidates.

I agree that behavioral interviews are great tools to assess a candidate, but the concern is that there are only 6 questions and they have been leaked. How hard is it to come up with 6 stories and just blurt it out at an interview? I clearly puts candidates who interviewed early on at a severe disadvantage. It's like someone getting the question paper ahead of the exam - do you consider it to be ethical? - From my perspective, it is as easy as walking into the interview with 6 solid stories + having good communication skills to articulate them.

Since the whole interview is around just the 6 questions, I do think it is unfair. Moreover, by limiting the time, Wharton isn't allowing the interviewers to connect with the candidate or understand his/her personality/goals.

It's just my personal opinion. I will still accept if I get an admit :-D

I understand that people have mixed feelings regarding the new interview format. I have created a poll to understand what people think about the new Wharton interview format.

PLEASE CASTE YOUR VOTE AT -- > wharton-fall-2011-new-interview-format-105562.html

Well, the assumption most people have for some reason is that the interview questions have to be unexpectedly and surprisingly fresh and tough for each candidate. This would have been the right approach if the goal was to observe how a person communicates in spontaneous, challenging situations.

If the goals of the interview are different (hint), then there is nothing wrong with using 6 questions over and over again. I guess, Wharton could have just announced the 6 questions ahead of time (or even now) to just finish this debate once and forever.

To me, the voting above makes no sense whatsoever because it only invites opinions on user experience from people, the vast majority of whom have not experienced anything else, but the new format. It is like asking drivers if they like turning the steering wheel to the left or to the right; whereas the discussion should really be about them pulling the wheel out or pushing it in vs. bending it up and down to move the vehicle in different directions.

Please, allow me to use some allegorical comparisons here. Think of the interview as a mathematical function f(x) that produces and array of data to be analyzed. Each candidate is an x, and so the result depends on the x itself. The old format was one type of function, and it produced a certain type of data that was analyzed using an old algorithm. The new format is a different type of function, and both the type of data it generates, and the analysis of such are very different from the old ways.

I agree. It really comes down to how Wharton intends to analyze the interview results

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01 Dec 2010, 18:17

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Wharton just likes to make things interesting for applicants... last year it was the 3-box : 5-box theory, this year its the new interview format! Either way, now is not the time for debate, but the time to pray to the Wharton Gods.... :pray

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01 Dec 2010, 18:22

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My question is - when you ask the adcom whether interview is a make or break deal. They say "No"

When they call 800 for interview and let go 400 of those, then what basis do they make to let go 400? because all 800 are supposed to have good candidacy right? good essays, grades and workex?

Or is it that the adcom knows that the 200 out of the 800 are sure shot admits. Let's see who does well in the other 600 and lets chose the remainder 200 from that 60

If the above isnt true, then interview has to be a make or break.

Comments/Opinions???

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01 Dec 2010, 20:06

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I may be wrong, but here's what I think:

No one is sure shot admitted until the interview....after the interviews are over, whoever they find to be utterly awkward socially and who they don't think will work well in a team or who will be succesful in a professional interview later on gets tossed...them they make some tough decisions about the rest. The try to build a balanced class with whoever is left.

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02 Dec 2010, 08:51

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I had my interview yday. The interviewer was VERY nice....she was personable, told me in advance that she would be writing and won't be able to look at me while I talked. Also, she replied to my thank you note within hours. Who knows whether I will get in, but atleast the experience was not as nerve-wracking as I had imagined it to be.

Fingers crossed till the 17th!

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02 Dec 2010, 10:00

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Had my interview yesterday. Same three behavioral questions as expected. My interviewer was very nice. She told me in advance that she would be taking a lot of notes. Now the wait begins for the 17th...

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02 Dec 2010, 10:09

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Did you two have the same interviewer? lol

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02 Dec 2010, 13:58

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If your interviewer replied you with:

It was a pleasure to meet you as well. I sent in your report already. Let me know if you have any other questions about wharton.

Thats it. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??? I need an interpretor...

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02 Dec 2010, 14:05

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For fun sakes - start packing for Philadelphia dude...Wharton waiting for you....buy those Wharton jerseys NOW :-D

I hope I am right!

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LOL, um, I wouldn't read too much into it. it sounds like a standard, polite response. I received a similar response to my thank you note. What do you expect the person to say?? I don't exactly see some hidden cryptic meaning in anything that's written there.

I think you should lay off the caffeine!! :yikes

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02 Dec 2010, 17:43

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Interview on campus yesterday. Questions were as reported, so no point in reposting.

Not that it will affect us, but I did learn that the 1st year core is likely to be revamped for the class of 2014.

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02 Dec 2010, 17:48

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One thing that my interviewer let me in on was that they're introducing more "global modules" to their classes. Essentially students take the class and then travel to a location where the class is focused on during winter/spring break to do more experiential learning.

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Here is an excerpt from a recent Chicago Booth blog post:

[quote2Booth]On Tuesday, we finished the last of our admissions interviews. Applicants had the opportunity to interview with students or alumni either here in Chicago or at different locations around the world. After each interview was conducted, an interview report was submitted and added to the applicant’s file. The file then went to a member of the Admissions Committee for another review. We’ve now turned our attention to building our class. This is an exciting part of the process where we are able to craft a class of students who will bring a unique set of interests, experiences, and perspectives to Booth. We will announce our decisions on Wednesday, December 15. And, as we have done in the past, we’ll call our admitted students to welcome them to the Booth community.[/quote2]

I suspect the same process would be followed at Wharton and most other schools. While everyone who was interviewed is considered as admissible to the program based on the application merits and a small percentage of this group may be dinged solely based on a poor interview, almost everyone else will be thrown in to the mix of "building the class" and then its just a question of whether u qualify as a piece of the puzzle they're solving without any one aspect of your application (including the interview) being a "make or break" deal.

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03 Dec 2010, 08:45

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Hey guys, new to the site. In for R1. Interviewed Nov 22. Willing Dec 17th to come faster...

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Wharton's proposition has suddenly become much more valuable, so for all of new applicants who have built DCF and Cost/Benefit analysis to make decisions about school, it is time to update and overhaul your models: Wharton has re-vamped its curriculum, and strategy. In addition to a revamped core in the full-time program, the school is starting to offer life-time business education, and cannot stress enough that executive business education for new MBA grads will be FREE.

Expect a detailed editorial exclusive on Wharton's most recent curricular innovations in Bloomberg Businessweek any time soon.

My understanding is that Wharton is transforming itself into a school with unmatched global influence. The management are pushing all the right buttons to capitalize on Wharton's obvious strengths: cutting-edge research, superb research-based teaching, and alumni community.

Anyway, the prize for the new admits has just appreciated in value.

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Thanks for the update.. this is in line with an interview of the Wharton and INSEAD Deans I saw some time ago where they talked about how most other professions (law, medicine, accounting) have life long education but this was missing for MBAs. They talked about how continuing education throughout life could be one tool through which to try and prevent the decisions that led to the recent crisis. Nice to see Wharton taking this seriously.

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That's really exciting. Will be interested in hearing about how they plan to implement that program and what topics it will cover. Like I needed another reason to apply to Wharton...

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R1, they dinged me, bloody your chart a bit more.

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R1, they dinged me, bloody your chart a bit more.

Are you just speculating or do you know you've been dinged? I was under the impression they weren't releasing any decisions until the 17th...

Edit: Er, sorry, I guess I assumed you had been interviewed. My mistake.