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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I'm not so sure about that. I get the feeling that adcom didn't really care that the questions leaked. If they had they could have taken measures to switch questions up. I don't know about everyone else, but for me, even though i knew the questions and had several days to prepare, Wharton was by far my most difficult interview to prepare for. I felt like it was less of preparing for an interview, and more of preparing 6 new essays. Rehearsing them so that they sounded natural took a lot of work as well. I gotta think they're going to weight this interview pretty heavily...

I thought it was more like 40% of those interviewed were accepted.[/quote]

Everyone keeps quoting that graph but..I didn't say it, not sure how I got attributed lol

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I thought it was more like 40% of those interviewed were accepted.

Everyone keeps quoting that graph but..I didn't say it, not sure how I got attributed lol[/quote]

What graph?

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01 Mar 2011, 21:37

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Everyone keeps quoting that graph but..I didn't say it, not sure how I got attributed lol

What graph?[/quote]

Sorry forgot where I was (quant central!), graph is journalism talk for paragraph.

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I had a weird wharton interview with an alum and am not sure what to do - or can I do anything? basically the interviewer told me that they are not familiar with wharton right now, cannot tell me much about it but had a sense that I would prefer other programs. was really disinterested both in me and in wharton. did not ask behavioral questions! I am worried about the review and feel it was somewhat unfair. don't want to be a complainer but wouldn't wharton want to know?

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for any school and wharton
what is the weight of interview in the overall procedure..
so lets say if you did extremely bad in the interview would that necessary mean you will be dinged or in other case if you did extremely well would that mean you will be accepted for sure.

I had a terrible phone interview with another school. (phone interviews are very hard especially if you are international) should I forget about that school?

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Wow, I have no idea - what a horror story. Hard to know what the right thing to do is. Maybe a current student associated with the admissions process would be best placed to answer (leaving your name out of it unless they do want to hear the details).

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Oh no! Try asking one of the admissions consultants on GC or maybe post it anonymously on Wharton's student run admissions forum and see what Victor suggests. Sounds like your interview was terribly unfair.

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Try asking one of the admissions consultants on GC or maybe post it anonymously on Wharton's student run admissions forum and see what Victor suggests.

I like this idea.

In a traditional interview format where the interviewer has more flexibility, I'm not sure you'd be able to make much of a case to admissions even if it was entirely unfair. But given the behavioral interview format - when the interviewer didn't even ask you the questions, it seems like admissions would be more willing to hear your case. I wonder what the interviewer wrote down on his report.

Let us know how it goes.

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KD2010, your interviewer sounds brilliant and you had a good rapport, fingers crossed for ya!

Anyone else at Wharton today? PM me and I'd love to meet up since I got from 11am - 3pm to kill!
Cheers,

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I thought it was more like 40% of those interviewed were accepted.

I think you're right. It used to be that a higher percentage received interviews and a lower percentage were accepted post interview. From what I can tell now (mostly from sources cited in this thread and last year's thread) the breakdown last year was about 40/40. I don't have a reason to think it would be different this year.

According to P&Q it was 43% last year

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Gents,

Just had my interview with an alum and no behavioral questions at all.
Kind of scorn for my preparation of those questions... I'm even thinking about requesting a second interview )))
Who is in the same boat with me?

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KD2010, your interviewer sounds brilliant and you had a good rapport, fingers crossed for ya!

Anyone else at Wharton today? PM me and I'd love to meet up since I got from 11am - 3pm to kill!
Cheers,

Thanks, good luck today!

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Anyone at Wharton tomorrow?

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Hi - I had an interview on Sunday. Lots of questions, only one or two behavioral ones. If anyone gets an official response from the Wharton blog as to whether that's normal, please let me know!

Do you think interviews are a great differentiator, or rather apps are still reviewed and compared afterwards and rated on the overall submission. I didn't feel like I shone at my best; now that there's nothing to do, I'm getting really impatient!

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Wohooo done with Wharton & Lauder - really great interview style on both and I found that both 2nd years tried hard to establish a strong rapport.

Wharton
-Started with resume walk through
-Then Why Wharton / Why MBA (Erm I forgot to talk of my career goal - what a fail)
-Tell me about a time --- disagreement on ideas
-Tell me about a time --- team lead project to success/something
-Tell me about a time --- Persuade / convince
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Lauder
-Resume walkthrough
-International experiences
-Why lauder / mba / career stuff - mine was a hodgepodge of stuff since I was following visual cues and a general long conversation that encompassed why lauder, mba, career goals and all....
-What have you done to learn of program etc..
then it just evolved into a great casual conversation and I felt like I was in already... (I wish)

Anyhow, Wharton I was decent, Lauder was great...
Let's see how it all plans out

Thanks to previous posters and good luck to all

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Was your interview on campus, or with an alumni? Seems like on-campus interviews are all consistent in format, but alumni interviews are a little bit of everything...

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Hi - I had an interview on Sunday. Lots of questions, only one or two behavioral ones. If anyone gets an official response from the Wharton blog as to whether that's normal, please let me know!

Do you think interviews are a great differentiator, or rather apps are still reviewed and compared afterwards and rated on the overall submission. I didn't feel like I was at my best; now that there's nothing to do, I'm getting really impatient!

Was your interview on campus, or with an alumni? Seems like on-campus interviews are all consistent in format, but alumni interviews are a little bit of everything...

With alumni... makes sense then.

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count me in round 3. I hope i dont have to be the second coming of mother teresa to get an interview call.
Anyone else out there who put in an app for round 3?

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I don't think the interview is the final differentiator. I was a round one applicant to W and was accepted despite my interview experience being a complete nightmare. I did a Hub interview and was asked the 3 standard questions. The interviewer interrupted me several times while answering one of the questions to say that I wasn't really answering the question. I had to explain that I was getting to the point. It was so bad that at one point, I had to ask if I could re-do that question over. The whole interview took only 15 minutes and in the end, the interviewer didn't seem enthusiastic about answering my questions. So for those who had terrible interviews, don't give up. I think the adcom does review the apps one more time after the interview so continue to reiterate your interest in the school after your interview. Goodluck all and looking forward to being your classmates!