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crossingfingers610

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18 Dec 2010, 13:41

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Hey guys, sorry for the late post! I got an acceptance call yesterday morning but the status update didn't come through till later that night. Good luck to all those on the WL!

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18 Dec 2010, 13:44

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They also have access to many who were dinged by HBS who would typically be accepted. Maybe that has something to do with it?

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18 Dec 2010, 15:06

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I believe there was one person on this forum who did get an admit without a phone call.

I would hope that they ran out of time and put everyone on the waitlist, which could be the reason for the delayed decision releases. And adcom will gradually work through the waitlist over the next month and start getting people off the waitlist.

I admit that it is absolutely adcom's prerogative how they choose to run this process. But when they make radical changes (interview, waitlists etc.), I think it would reflect well on adcom if they kept the applicant community better informed about these changes.

Yeah, that was me. No call but got in when the decisions came out late last night.

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18 Dec 2010, 15:10

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Similar to prior questions, does anyone have an idea of the accept/wl/reject percent for R1 interviewees?

Someone speculated the rate was 25%/25%/50%. If this is so, it appears that most of us were waitlisted, which implies to me that there were either fewer initial rejections for R1 or most of us are inherently coming from the "middle" of this pack of those who were interviewed ...

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Updated on: 18 Dec 2010, 18:02

Originally posted by danielduq on 18 Dec 2010, 16:01.
Last edited by danielduq on 18 Dec 2010, 18:02, edited 1 time in total.

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I agree the WL seems staggering - not really sure what to make of it. Since I'm a born pessimist, I'm not buying the "they'll call people first and then accept them this week" theory. Still, if they're only admitting ~200 students, that seems ridiculously low for round 1.

Basic math:

Let's assume 7,000 applicants (roughly equal to last year) and a 16% acceptance rate. That means 1100 acceptances. I had assumed that most schools admit 40/40/20 in the rounds -- so that means there should be about 440 acceptances this round. Does anyone think they admitted that many students?

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18 Dec 2010, 16:09

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Waitlist here as well. Banking/PE, 740 GMAT, 3.8 GPA from a top university.

Sounds like there's a couple theories going around already but here's my 2 cents.

I think Wharton saw the HBS admission results earlier in the week (that HBS didn't admit as many PE/finance guys as in years past) and Wharton scrambled between Wednesday and Friday to adjust their R1 admits. With all the PE guys that were expecting to get into HBS and didn't even apply to Wharton, maybe Wharton is expecting that this group will now apply in R2 and is trying to save spots for them.

Then again, even if this is true, I think the total number of PE guys at the top firms is around 60-80 and that many applicants shouldn't affect the whole class. I'd have more belief in my own theory if the Wharton waitlist pool were PE/finance heavy but I don't think that's necessarily the case. Go figure...

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18 Dec 2010, 16:10

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waitlisted too...

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18 Dec 2010, 16:44

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A little bit but I was dinged.

Congrats to all who got accepted. Or at least got waitlisted :-D

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18 Dec 2010, 21:27

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I sincerely hope that this isn't a kneejerk response to what happened at HBS. I know a lot of the people that go to Wharton are those that did not get into HBS, but I still feel Wharton has its own identity as one of the world's best schools. I would hate to think that adcom is working in HBS's shadow like this where they scramble to catch the PE folks that HBS left behind.

As you said, the number of PE guys on the fringes that were left behind are no more than 30-40 I would estimate. Not enough, I think, to change the waitlist system as much as it has this year.

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18 Dec 2010, 21:39

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I'm doubtful that Wharton is playing second fiddle to Harvard like that. It'd be pretty pathetic if they were... Wharton is a great school that can stand on its own merits, I don't think they'd be affected by the Harvard decision. They'd only have three or four days to scramble a response, with hundreds of applicants needing decisions. It's preposterous to think they'd wait for HBS.

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18 Dec 2010, 21:45

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I agree with the points both of you raise. It's highly unlikely they would change the strategy just because of 40 people. The theory just made SOME sense to me in explaining both the high number of WL and the delay in announcing results until 9pm eastern time (since they'd be scrambling to reshuffle the piles). A blog post from adcom would be nice just to give some insight into the change this year.

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18 Dec 2010, 22:31

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fyi, one W admit that will likely decline the offer and go to LBS instead: the-london-business-school-2011-thread-95964-480.html#p837758

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18 Dec 2010, 22:34

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yups thats me......i will also free up some $$ along with the seat

....all the best to all waitlists still waiting

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18 Dec 2010, 23:49

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Ding.

Disappointing result. I thought I had a strong application.

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19 Dec 2010, 02:33

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Updated the rollcall - 111 reported applicants in R1 - from the people who reported their decision -
17 admits
12 dings
42 waitlisted

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Updated the rollcall - 111 reported applicants in R1 - from the people who reported their decision -
17 admits
12 dings
42 waitlisted

Based on this summary there is a 15%+ acceptance rate - isn't that the usual acceptance rate?

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19 Dec 2010, 04:21

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For everyone's benefit, the following are the stats for last year's R1:

Round 1 GMATClub Stats:
Total Applicants: 80
Class of 2012: 0
Interview Invites: 49
Admits: 16
Waitlist: 14
Dings: 22
Unknown: 30
Deadline: 10/1/2009

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19 Dec 2010, 05:45

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Updated the rollcall - 111 reported applicants in R1 - from the people who reported their decision -
17 admits
12 dings
42 waitlisted

I had a look at the spreadsheet upfront. I think the problem is that there are quite a few people with incomplete information. A more relevant stat for us right now is looking at those who have interviewed. Out of 111 reported R1 applicants, there were 81 who interviewed (in fact 4 of the dings in the numbers above were from people who have not interviewed).

Interviewed = 81
Admits = 17
Dings = 8
Waitlisted = 42
Unreported = 14

Based on previous years about 40% of those interviewed receive admits from Wharton (43% P&Q says). So instead of ~30-35 admits there are at the moment only 17. Of course, 14 people haven't reported their final decision - a relatively large number. If all those people received an admit, then the numbers do fall in line with Wharton's admit rate from previous years.

I may be missing something here in my analysis, but I don't think it quite works to look at the spreadsheet because of missing information. Overall, I would say that based on general discussions on GMAT club and BW and assessments from Sandy on these forums, it just 'feels' like the waitlist is overloaded this year and we don't really know why.

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19 Dec 2010, 08:16

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Another waitlisted here. Was WL last year as well. I added myself to the spreadsheet. Definitely agree that this year there seem to be a ton more waitlists than expected. Hopefully we'll get some info this week...or it will be a long wait until March.

MBAtreat

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19 Dec 2010, 09:52

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long-time lurker - this forum has been extremely helpful, thanks to all. sorry for the late addition (traveling). admit -IB & PE. best of luck to those on the WL.