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Calling All Wharton 2011 Business School Waitlisters 25 Mar 2011, 11:45
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do all of your waitlist letters say that your app will be reviewed periodically?

Mine does and I am an R1 rewaitlister.
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do all of your waitlist letters say that your app will be reviewed periodically?

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Mine does too.
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Calling All Wharton 2011 Business School Waitlisters 25 Mar 2011, 11:48
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however, the an R2 waitlister just posted a letter on the regular forum that does not say periodically...this is very interesting.
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Calling All Wharton 2011 Business School Waitlisters 25 Mar 2011, 12:12
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do you R1 WL WL view this as good that ours says periodically? or does it mean that since they have seen our app twice now that it is easier for them to ding us?
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Calling All Wharton 2011 Business School Waitlisters 25 Mar 2011, 12:37
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do all of your waitlist letters say that your app will be reviewed periodically?

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you just made me crack up with rewaitlister.i think you just coined a new one.classic!
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Calling All Wharton 2011 Business School Waitlisters 25 Mar 2011, 12:41
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to the rewaitlisters,

did you actually get an email on the r2 notification date telling you that your app status was updated? or did it not change?
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to the rewaitlisters,

did you actually get an email on the r2 notification date telling you that your app status was updated? or did it not change?
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Im a rewaitlister and yup I did get an email last night stating a status update and when I logged in to the applyyourself page there was an email stating they are inviting me to continue on the WL ... the letter was diff from the R1 WL letter ... hope that helps :-)
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Calling All Wharton 2011 Business School Waitlisters 25 Mar 2011, 13:22
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yes we got a different letter

it seems as though the R1 people that were waitlisted again in R2 have "periodically" and the people that applied in R2 and were waitlisted do not have that.

Not really sure what it means, if anything and whether it is good or bad for us R1 re-waitlsiters.
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anyone else having essay regrets. i regret writing the create a course essay.it was a waste of words. i should have written the turn down an opportunity essay. perhaps, i would be in.
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I don't even remember the essays since I submitted my app so long ago. Were essays a required part of the application? Maybe that's why a decision hasn't been made on my app : )
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Calling All Wharton 2011 Business School Waitlisters 25 Mar 2011, 14:28
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No it was the 1st optional essay. I thought it was a strange essay prompt and perhaps, I should have stayed away from it

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No need to beat yourself up over it at this point. If anything, that prompt screamed "answer this because it's super unique to Wharton so we'll know that you're not just re-packaging crap from your other schools". In my mind, it helped show just a little bit more that you really wanted to go there.

Now they're testing you again, but w/ the waitlist :P
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I am a fellow R2 WL and it seems our chances are slim :( Have any R1 WLers made it?
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after reading last year's thread, unfortunately i have to agree. i almost wish wharton just rejected me. it would have hurt more but then, i would have been working on closure. but, they have an annoying habit of waitlisting a ton of people cruelly and dare i say, unfairly.
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Calling All Wharton 2011 Business School Waitlisters 25 Mar 2011, 18:30
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Someone I know had got the final decision while he was attending classes in Harvard last year:/ I want to imagine that being waitlisted twice is a positive sign, but apparently Wharton is tad cruel in this respect and there's always a huge waitlist... :roll:


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I am a fellow R2 WL and it seems our chances are slim :( Have any R1 WLers made it?
after reading last year's thread, unfortunately i have to agree. i almost wish wharton just rejected me. it would have hurt more but then, i would have been working on closure. but, they have an annoying habit of waitlisting a ton of people cruelly and dare i say, unfairly.
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Congrats! though it's a bit strange that they accept additional material after specifically mentioning otherwise in the decision letters...anyhow good going zorro!

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Did you guys do anything since the waitlist decisions (follow-up letters, extra letters of support?). And congrats again!

Thank you!! Still shaking from the call.

Yes, I got two additional letters/phone calls of support from (somewhat distant) contacts who were connected to the school. They mentioned that Wharton was my first choice, which may have been particularly relevant because I have a strong family connection to another top school.

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Quoted from the email Wharton sent me:

"We will be reviewing your application each round and will contact you no later than Thursday, 12 May, 2011 with an update as to your status"

Do "each round" and "periodically" differ? I get what they mean is that those waitlisted from previous round are judged against potentially admitted applicants in the next round.
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Jerry are you an R1 or R2 waitlister?

I would assume that all R1 waitlisters that were re-waitlisted in R2 got periodically because they have seen our applications so many times now that its easier to make decisions prior to May 12th as people drop out.
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Nah i think it's nothing but semantics. meaning they both mean the same thing. our apps will be reviewed again along with r3 apps.
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i concur..

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Nah i think it's nothing but semantics. meaning they both mean the same thing. our apps will be reviewed again along with r3 apps.
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