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 did read the online forum and read it verbatim. Now I'm totally confused and dumbfounded. Maybe I'll dream about it tonight, about getting an invite tomorrow morning. =P

That Victor wrote back on that forum...
"I may be incorrect regarding this year's plan for the release of invitations. I'll look further into this."

I tend to side with the email sent to every single applicant rather than one student representative on a forum. I think we will not hear until next Friday. Kind of hope I am right, too... it's way more stressful hearing people get invites everyday! Haha.

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Yeah sounds like it will be all on next Friday after all - that's definitely the better option - although I wish other schools would follow LBS and release all decisions on one day at one go.

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Yeah sounds like it will be all on next Friday after all - that's definitely the better option - although I wish other schools would follow LBS and release all decisions on one day at one go.

Totally agree. Yale is even worse. They send out interview invites until mid-December!

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31 Oct 2010, 17:13

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anyone with GMAT score < 750 got an invite yet?

got an invite.

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gpa: 3.8, large public university, engineering
2 years a top consulting firm
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some extra curriculars while working

I want to do something entrepreneurial in tech after

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Has any international applicant who's last name starts with R, has a 750 GMAT, a 3.6 GPA in accounting from a public top ten undergrad bschool, has a CPA, and works for the Big 4 got an invite? If so, I'm dooooomed!

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Man. Getting through this weekend has been b.r.u.t.a.l.

But I like Wharton though. There is nothing to question - wait for their decisions on 2 Fridays. Yale is cruel in that aspect.

I guess we will see on Friday. I would like to apologize last year's applicants wuss for getting jittery.

I feel your pain.

I will get through Mon to Thurs looking at Yale and Booth. Good luck to everybody.

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31 Oct 2010, 18:29

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lol this reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman gets Butters to freeze him coz he can't wait 3 weeks till the Nitendo Wii comes out.. totally wish I could do something like that

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Okay , I just got off the phone with the admissions office. Invites will be sent at or after 4 pm EST , no invites have yet been sent out.
Not getting an invite today does not diminish your chances , because the admissions officers might not have read your application yet . If there is no invite by Nov 5th , that means that you are in trouble.
Hope this helps.

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just spoke with the admissions office and invitations will be released only on Oct. 29th and Nov. 5th not during the rest of the week.

Just an FYI for everyone.

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thanks, peanalyst, for confirming it.

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Any word on the amount of slots left? Does Wharton do it like HBS where we can try to estimate, or is it just not worth it to try to figure it out?

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just spoke with the admissions office and invitations will be released only on Oct. 29th and Nov. 5th not during the rest of the week.

Just an FYI for everyone.

Thanks!

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Now this may be a bad theory, but it seems like when Harvard's invitations went out there was an unbelievable wave of people who posted that they received invitations. It seemed much less of that on this Friday for Wharton and they have been very clear to say that invitations will be sent out on both days. I have a feeling it will be pretty evenly split, though maybe I am just optimistic.

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I share your optimism.

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I second that optimism.

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Hi!

I'm another candidate who got a first day Harvard invite, but didnot hear anything from Wharton last Friday. Really thankful to you for spreading this optimism

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anyone have a clue what percentage of invites were sent out?

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anyone have a clue what percentage of invites were sent out?

Are you asking if people actually know or if they're willing to wildly speculate (two different questions). Knowing a % means you have to know the total amount, which no one does.

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I feel everyone's anxiety, but think it this way - the past is a good indicator of the future, not THE indicator. Analyzing past data is mostly about trying to feel optimistic and calm. At least for me, I rather underpromise and overdeliver to myself. That's mentally better in long run.

I probably read the Round One information e-mail from W 20 times by now.

I realized that getting an e-mail itself won't be a good news this Friday, as they send out the bad ones on the same date. Only thing that I wish is that they don't send out the e-mails as late as they did last week. That was a wild mood swing. I temporarily felt the need for Yes on Prop 19.

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question for those who got invites last week:

are any of you doing an alumni interview? I wont be able to make it to campus on a weekday so have to do an alumni interview. I emailed the person I wanted to interview with as instructed on Friday afternoon - but still no word back... when is it appropriate to re-email or ask admissions? I'm so impatient haha.

and GOOD LUCK to everyone this friday!! sending lots of positive vibes..