Calling all Wharton 2011 Applicants

Been combing through the posts, and I must say, I'm really glad Jmw will be my classmate at Wharton.

Been combing through the posts, and I must say, I'm really glad Jmw will be my classmate at Wharton. Honestly, if you've been accepted into your top choice, there is no excuse to stay on a waitlist in fear of the background check. Unless you've purposely tried to deceive people on your application, we all know that a minor, accidental mistake will not keep you out from a school. That's just ridiculous. Once I got my acceptance from Wharton first round, I instantly withdrew from my interview with Sloan to open up that space to someone else who may have been on the fence for an interview. I was NOT scared of the background check because I knew I was as honest and thorough about my application as I could have been.

JMW - you work in private equity, correct? Has your firm ever extracted a "consulting fee" from a portfolio company, while also laying off employees at the company? Or engaged in other odious private equity practices? And yet you project such moral outrage on these forums? The difference is, you assist in the institutionalized theft of millions of dollars costing dozens of people their jobs, while the other guy is causing maybe one person to wait until July to hear if he gets to upgrade from Stern to Wharton. I don't excuse either of you. But please, people - let's try to have some perspective here. There's a whole wide world outside of the MBA admissions game. Let he who is without sin...

what is crazy is that people continue to draw parallels between someone staying on the waitlist when they have an offer they prefer in hand and unsavory business practices. that's just nuts.

Not unsavory...just unethical and inconsiderate.

inconsiderate - maybe, unethical - no. I'm sorry if all people at Wharton are so rigid and militant, I am happy I won't be going there

At least we both agree on something...

FYI everyone, I'm an admitted student and a member of the facebook group...the members have increased by about 15 from Friday to today (from 629 to like 643-644). This was just after the first weekend. So there is some positive movement, even if it doesn't seem that way on these forums.

bschbound:what is crazy is that people continue to draw parallels between someone staying on the waitlist when they have an offer they prefer in hand and unsavory business practices. that's just nuts.
Jmw135:Not unsavory...just unethical and inconsiderate.
bschbound:inconsiderate - maybe, unethical - no. I'm sorry if all people at Wharton are so rigid and militant, I am happy I won't be going there.
Jmw135: At least we both agree on something...
bschbound: very classy of you, mr. wharton

It's ok bschbound. I'm happy I won't be studying with a radical/extremist as Jmw125. And not because of his position, but because he is unable to even process the arguments of someone with a different point of view, considering only his "only" and "true" perspective above all else.

Jmw125, in his quest to be the "winner" of the discussion, fails to notice its own evolution, actively choosing to ignore 1. The posts recognizing it's not considerate with others to keep a spot in the waitlist if you are 100% sure and cleared to attend your preferred B-school 2. That there are people who want, and are in their right, to keep their spot in waitlists to avoid risks related with background, employment and grades checks (have you thought of international applicants from troubled countries? have you ever applied for a visa to a developed country, being a national of an emerging nation?). 3. And finally, the sad fact that inconsiderate!=unethical, and if you take it further, unethical!=illegal in many cases.

Of course, he thinks repeating the same sentence one thousand times would make his position "the truth". No arguments, no contribution, just radicalism.

And of course, his double standards are appalling. "We exist to make money to our investors" does not mean that, in some cases, innocent bystanders are not harmed with his decisions and inputs in PE. If we apply his radicalism to ethics in business, and if Jmw123's really consistent, he should stay away from the business world and quit PE. Immediately.

I hope, and actually I'm pretty sure, this is not the standard profile of people going to Wharton. I guess he just makes Wharton students look bad...

Have fun in Boston.