WHARTON Fall 2009 Applicants: Round 1: Total Applicants 62 Admits: 13 (2 WL converted in R2) Waitlist: 18 Dings: 24 (4 dinged off WL in R2) Unknown: 10 zoinnk - accepted and Matriculating businessm - accepted CompanyMan - accepted Virflo - accepted Mikus - accepted goldfishee27 - accepted sterny - accepted sebycb976 - accepted jjright - accepted chifootball - accepted (Withdrawn for Kellogg) msday86 - accepted (Withdrawn for HBS) Pathfinder_77 - Waitlisted – accepted R2 falibay - Waitlisted – accepted R2 isa (fka ac) - Waitlisted – dinged R2 vijapp - Waitlisted – dinged R2 wolffali - Waitlisted – dinged R2 Madz - Waitlisted – dinged R2 bdog9 - Waitlisted bostonsparky - Waitlisted chickmagloor - Waitlisted coadman - Waitlisted companyman - Waitlisted cougarblue - Waitlisted emirtumen - Waitlisted garbus222 - Waitlisted Milspec - Waitlisted ndiaconu - Waitlisted nj24 - Waitlisted u0388768 - Waitlisted chitchat - Dinged cpgmba - Dinged DimeCFH - Dinged garun77 - Dinged Gil - Dinged gt7er - Dinged jigar34 - Dinged maverick2011 - Dinged MeddlingKid - Dinged Meowzilla (k88) - Dinged Legend - Dinged Leverandon - Dinged levfin2003 - Dinged liquidice - Dinged lsuguy7 - Dinged ral - Dinged sept09 - Dinged Snayt - Dinged sonibubu - Dinged tarmac - Dinged terp26 - Dinged Walker - Dinged wooster123 - Dinged amatory angryMOFO Invited to Interview bschoolguy Invited to Interview - 11/4 BSchoolorBust Invited to Interview Captain Invited to Interview - 11/5 CaptainMolecule charlieb gregory Invited to Interview 11/12 MattG2185 Invited to Interview mbabiden08 Invited to Interview Round 2: Total Applicants 35 Admits: 7 Waitlist: 10 Dings: 10 Unknown: 8 Paradosso - Admitted Hardestadt- Admitted pallavi79us - Admitted TheGuy – Admitted Rosav – Admitted Zoemoe – Admitted Matterhorn762 – Admitted mikenyc - Waitlisted pu2003 - Waitlisted MBAAspirant2008 – Waitlisted hobart – Waitlisted sajal09 – Waitlisted mbafwi – Waitlisted sset009 – Waitlisted gixxer1000 – Waitlisted foodstamp – Waitlisted ashaker – Waitlisted syd999 – Dinged w/interview pguard – Dinged w/interview Magellan – Dinged Refurb – Dinged w/out interview Balboa – Dinged bucktooth911– Dinged dglasser – Dinged w/out interview fall09 – Dinged w/out interview gboi – Dinged w/out interview AlbertNTN – Dinged w/o interview arshia22 - interview invite davidbrent - interview invite dp122008 - interview invite ma.agrawal - interview invite oziozzie - interview invite stopper5 sudhir18n woncosmo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ STATISTICS & GENERAL INFO 2008 R1 GMATClub Stats: Applicants: 18 Admitted: 3 (16.7%) Waitlisted: 2 (11%) Dinged With Interview: 5 (28%) Dinged Without Interview: 8 (45%) Last Years TOTAL GMATClub Wharton Stats: Applied: 49 Accepted: 5 (10%) Rejected: 29 (60%) Waitlisted: 5 (10%) Unknown: 10 (20%) Wharton Fall 2009 Admission: Application Deadlines Round 1: Thursday, 9 October, 2008 Round 2: Thursday, 8 January, 2009 Round 3: Thursday, 5 March, 2009 Wharton Fall 2009 Admission: Application Essay Questions First-Time Applicant Questions 1. Describe your career progress to date and your future short-term and long-term career goals. How do you expect an MBA from Wharton to help you achieve these goals, and why is now the best time for you to join our program? (1,000 words) 2. Describe a setback or a failure that you have experienced. What role did you play, and what did you learn about yourself? (500 words) 3. Where in your background would we find evidence of your leadership capacity and/or potential? (500 words) 4. Please respond to one (1) of the following questions: a. Describe an experience you have had innovating or initiating, your lessons learned, the results and impact of your efforts. (500 words) b. Is there anything about your background or experience that you feel you have not had the opportunity to share with the Admissions Committee in your application? If yes, please explain. (500 words) OPTIONAL: If you feel there are extenuating circumstances of which the Committee should be aware, please explain them here (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, TOEFL waiver request, inconsistent or questionable academic performance, significant weaknesses in your application). (250 words, maximum) Reapplicant Questions (for candidates who have applied for admission for Fall 2008 or 2007 only) 1. Describe your career progress to date and your future short-term and long-term career goals. How do you expect an MBA from Wharton to help you achieve these goals, and why is now the best time for you to join our program? How has your candidacy improved since the last time you applied? (1,000 words) 2. Describe an experience you have had innovating or initiating, your lessons learned, the results and impact of your efforts. (500 words) 3. Please respond to one (1) of the following questions: a. Where in your background would we find evidence of your leadership capacity and/or potential? (500 words) b. Is there anything about your background or experience that you feel you have not had the opportunity to share with the Admissions Committee in your application? If yes, please explain. (500 words) OPTIONAL: If you feel there are extenuating circumstances of which the Committee should be aware, please explain them here (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, TOEFL waiver request, inconsistent or questionable academic performance, significant weaknesses in your application). (250 words, maximum) Link to the 08 thread: https://gmatclub.com/forum/103-t50294 Here we go! good luck everyone ac.

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dp122008

Looks like decisions may be coming soon...I interviewed R2 and now the Decision letter is gone (the one inviting me for the interview) and next to "Application for Admission" it says "(Deadline Has Passed)"

I guess they're loading up the system and will be notifying on Monday?

Speculation is gonna get you nowhere but trouble. Just be patient and wait it out until Thursday. If they notify you earlier, then it's a bonus.

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20 Mar 2009, 13:28

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mine is also gone..

oh god, please make this happen .. I want wharton ..I want wharton

pu2003

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20 Mar 2009, 14:00

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dp122008

Who knows? The decision letter is still up for me.

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22 Mar 2009, 11:46

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If they finished early it looks like we may be getting calls early this week (tomorrow or Tuesday). This is based on the decisions for Round 1.

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As difficult as it may be, try not to speculate!! All of these signs mean absolutely nothing.

Case in point is me: All the way till 3PM on the decision day, I had not recieved either a call, nor a congratulatory email. By this time, many people of this forum and on bweek were reporting admit calls from adcomm, calls from current students etc from the previous day!

In fact my decision still said "Invite to Interview" all the way till the end I think..until FINALLY at 3.30PM I just get a simple status change message from Wharton. I check it, expecting to see a ding letter but instead the status says "Congratulations!".

Lesson learnt: Don't think about all of these small signs and wait it out till the decision day. And even IF you dont get a call, that doesn't mean its over!!

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sterny

Excellent advice. I am anxious to find out, but worrying is getting me nothing. By Thursday night we'll all know.

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sterny

agreed, seems sensible enough

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sterny

Excellent story. Thanks for the advice.

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23 Mar 2009, 01:27

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sterny

Excellent advice but most difficult piece of information to follow

... The wait kills the hell out of you...

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good advice sterny

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sterny

Lesson learnt: Don't think about all of these small signs and wait it out till the decision day. And even IF you dont get a call, that doesn't mean its over!!

Easy for you to say :roll:

Thanks for the advice, though!

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After stressing out about Booth all day and not receiving a call, I've decided on a different strategy for Wharton: It's snowing here, so I'm going to get up Wednesday, drive to the mountains, turn my phone off and hit the slopes. Then just see what happens when I check my voice mail on the way home.

To everyone else, best of luck to you! Checking back in later.

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25 Mar 2009, 10:04

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I assume this means no one will be getting calls until tomorrow:

https://s2s.wharton.upenn.edu/wh-wharton ... sg=23765.1

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25 Mar 2009, 10:11

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syd999

I assume this means no one will be getting calls until tomorrow:

https://s2s.wharton.upenn.edu/wh-wharton ... sg=23765.1

Not sure, but I'm guessing you were referring to this: https://adcomblog.wharton.upenn.edu/admi ... orrow.html

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25 Mar 2009, 11:19

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I assume this means no one will be getting calls until tomorrow:

https://s2s.wharton.upenn.edu/wh-wharton ... sg=23765.1

Not sure, but I'm guessing you were referring to this: https://adcomblog.wharton.upenn.edu/admi ... orrow.html

Sorry my bad. i pasted the wrong link. In other updates (from BW forum), I heard they have started calling the admitted students.

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25 Mar 2009, 11:54

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I am not sure the guy who claimed he received a call is being truthful. I honestly would not believe it until I saw a bunch of posts on BW or one here. I heard from someone that applied to Lauder that he was told they would release the decisions at 5 P.M. tomorrow, which probably means the calls will come tomorrow.

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25 Mar 2009, 12:07

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i am also not sure whether he is being honest. either way we will know latest by 5pm tomorrow:)

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TheGuy

GREAT PLAN!!! Can't go wrong. When Kellogg decisions starting going out for round one, I was a complete mess. I was an compulsive "status" checker, and everytime my phone rang, I about s*** myself. It was a 6pm on a Friday afternoon, 10 days after decision started rolling out. As I was finishing up with work, I realized that the battery on my phone was about dead so I just turned it off. That night, I forgot about my phone, assuming that no call was coming. I had a great night out with the wife and slept late the next morning. When I finally got rolling at about noon, I was in the car running errands and I turned my phone. I saw that I had one new message and didn't really think too much about it. As soon as I started to listen to it though, I realized what it was, almost rear ended the car in front of me, and then found a way to pull off the road to let the blood flow back into my brain before I passed out.

Moral of the story, make sure you are not actually driving when you get the message saying, "this is so and so from the Wharton admissions office, I want to be the first to welcome you to the class of 2011!!!"

Best of luck. Enjoy the slopes.

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at this point last round, I was visualizing my rejection letter, and the steps that I would take in order to rebound from the situation.

And here I am, a very proud and happy matriculating student.

Keep the hope alive my brothers and sisters

pallavi79us

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25 Mar 2009, 13:39

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i know what you mean..

BTW, Congrats for admit from 3 good schools and generous scholarship from Wharton. Man: what is that you do that makes you so special :-D