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Calling all Wharton 2011 Applicants 04 Feb 2011, 16:43
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Got an invite!

Congrats! What was the timestamp on your email?

Thanks! Timestamp was 4:48pm, although I saw the news on mywharton mba page first.
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Congrats! You've been getting interviews everywhere! I guess the changes to your page did mean something. Hopefully I'll hear good news on the 18th. The wait is gonna kill me though.
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The way I understand it (based on the email) is that interviews will be released everyday, starting from Feb.4 until Feb. 18th. If you search for this email in your inbox, you'll find this exact wording.
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I guess we will find out next week if people are getting interview invites.

I would really want to get this clear - if we get replies only on two days or every day - because now it's the crunchtime and the anticipation is really starting to get to me. This morning I felt like throwing up before I even ate breakfast :sick:
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Got an invite too! :) :)
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I find it hard to believe that 50% of the invites have been sent out just today. Wharton has a batch size of ~850 and has had a yield around mid-70s over the past few years. That equates to 1150 admits. A roughly 50% interview to admit conversion would suggest nearly 2300 interviews. If R1/R2/R3 split of total seats is 40%/40%/20%, we are talking of nearly 900 interview invites for round 2. Do we really think 450 odd folks have received their invites today? In any case, here's the text from the Wharton status email, which specifically says that invites will be sent on a daily basis. This wording is quite different from the text from round 1.

Round 2:
"The Admissions Committee will begin to release interview invitations on Friday, February 4th and will continue to release invitations on a daily basis until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday, February 18th."

Round 1:
"The Admissions Committee will release interview invitations on Friday, October 29th and again on Friday, November 5th."
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I find it hard to believe that 50% of the invites have been sent out just today. Wharton has a batch size of ~850 and has had a yield around mid-70s over the past few years. That equates to 1150 admits. A roughly 50% interview to admit conversion would suggest nearly 2300 interviews. If R1/R2/R3 split of total seats is 40%/40%/20%, we are talking of nearly 900 interview invites for round 2. Do we really think 450 odd folks have received their invites today? In any case, here's the text from the Wharton status email, which specifically says that invites will be sent on a daily basis. This wording is quite different from the text from round 1.

Round 2:
"The Admissions Committee will begin to release interview invitations on Friday, February 4th and will continue to release invitations on a daily basis until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday, February 18th."

Round 1:
"The Admissions Committee will release interview invitations on Friday, October 29th and again on Friday, November 5th."
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I hope you're right. All my chips are down, and all my highs are lows... about time W gave me a reason to joyride!
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so what percent of interviewed applicants are accepted?


According to this thread from 2008 it's 48%. I have no idea if that's still accurate.
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applicant # must have increased since 2008. anyone has up-to-date figures.. I hope the odds of admit among interview candidates are as good as hbs (60%)
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Got an invite too! :) :)
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Congrats! Are you interviewing with Lauder as well?
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To my regret, I have not received an invintation and want to figure out whether this is because my second recommendation was submitted very late - on January 10 or because I should start preparing next year's essays?

Has anybody, whose recommender submitted a recomendation very late, received an e-mail from Wharton yesterday?
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To my regret, I have not received an invintation and want to figure out whether this is because my second recommendation was submitted very late - on January 10 or because I should start preparing next year's essays?

Has anybody, whose recommender submitted a recomendation very late, received an e-mail from Wharton yesterday?
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Not getting an interview this time doesn't mean anything! Don't read in to it too much.. its not over till its over. I know there's a temptation to find correlation and reason behind everything that goes on but there are far too many variables and unkown elements to be able to make any useful conclusions. Just remain positive till the next deadline!
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To my regret, I have not received an invintation and want to figure out whether this is because my second recommendation was submitted very late - on January 10 or because I should start preparing next year's essays?

Has anybody, whose recommender submitted a recomendation very late, received an e-mail from Wharton yesterday?
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Did I read somewhere that there's a 7-day lag allowed after the submission deadline for LoRs? Maybe not for Wharton but for Booth and HBS.
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To my regret, I have not received an invintation and want to figure out whether this is because my second recommendation was submitted very late - on January 10 or because I should start preparing next year's essays?

Has anybody, whose recommender submitted a recomendation very late, received an e-mail from Wharton yesterday?

Did I read somewhere that there's a 7-day lag allowed after the submission deadline for LoRs? Maybe not for Wharton but for Booth and HBS.
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There's no general rule - it differs by school.
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Got an invite yesterday 4.47pm EST.

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Got an invite too! :) :)

Congrats! Are you interviewing with Lauder as well?
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Haven't heard from Lauder yet. Still have my fingers crossed on that.
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Got mine yesterday as well.
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so what percent of interviewed applicants are accepted?


According to this thread from 2008 it's 48%. I have no idea if that's still accurate.

applicant # must have increased since 2008. anyone has up-to-date figures.. I hope the odds of admit among interview candidates are as good as hbs (60%)
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I'd love to hear more about the interview/accepted figures from Wharton alumni/students.

I did a bit more research on this yesterday and found myself getting discouraged while reading through last year's thread. But who knows how much of it is just discussion board banter/speculation. Strategically, it seems like the best thing is to prepare as much as possible and do my best, knowing that there is certainly a chance that I'll be dinged regardless of how well my interview goes.
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For those that received an interview, congrats on receiving the invite! I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in setting up some mock interviews over Skype? I would also welcome anyone from Round 1 that would be interested in helping us R2-er's out - admitted or otherwise.

EDIT: It looks like there's already a thread out there for this - gmatclub-interview-groups-85902.html. Kudos to MBAgirl2010!! It looks like the best way to do this is coordinate on this thread and through PM's and we can use the accounts from the interview thread.


Also - wondering what everyone thinks the interview will be structured like? There was a lot of swirl around the behavioral interview and knowing the questions ahead of time. Do you think Wharton will be changing it up for Round 2?
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Also - wondering what everyone thinks the interview will be structured like? There was a lot of swirl around the behavioral interview and knowing the questions ahead of time. Do you think Wharton will be changing it up for Round 2?
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That's a good point, I'd forgotten about all that.
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Also - wondering what everyone thinks the interview will be structured like? There was a lot of swirl around the behavioral interview and knowing the questions ahead of time. Do you think Wharton will be changing it up for Round 2?

That's a good point, I'd forgotten about all that.
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Pure speculation on my part but I'm thinking it will still be behavioral with a much larger question bank. It'll be interesting to see if Sandy chimes in.
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Redjam, congrats on your invite brother!!

So I was wondering, how is it that HBS and Wharton BOTH decided to suddenly start trickling invites out THIS exact round? I agree, both threads seem very quiet, and you would still expect a few extra lurkers to come declared invites too.

It's a conspiracy I tell ya... to give us all heart disease by the age of 32.
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I guess that the closer to the deadline the application was sumbitted, verified (and receive status "complete") the later the application was reviewed and respectively the later the invitations are sent.

This may correlate.
You guys who have received the invitations when did you submit your application?
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