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- accepted goldfishee27 - accepted sterny - accepted sebycb976 - accepted jjright - accepted chifootball - accepted (Withdrawn for Kellogg) msday86 - accepted (Withdrawn for HBS) Pathfinder_77 - Waitlisted – accepted R2 falibay - Waitlisted – accepted R2 isa (fka ac) - Waitlisted – dinged R2 vijapp - Waitlisted – dinged R2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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It's not necessarily either......just curious. Take it easy, fella

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It's not necessarily either......just curious. Take it easy, fella

right...apologies. welcome to the forum, haha.

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But I guess there may be more accomplished applicants. Moreover I am 32 years old. Hope thats not playing a negative role. :-(

Wharton tends to be very older applicant friendly. I doubt your age is an issue.

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Basically the acceptance rate now is roughly 16-17% , after an invite that number is close to 40%

Yes, the lore has it that way, but given the recent dynamics in the economy and the general awareness about MBA programs and their impact on careers, one needs to do small adjustments of the traditional estimates: apparently the apps have really gone up this year.

You, guys, have a huge lot of competition so do work extra super mega hard on your essays and beyond. I think it is important to view your application as a multi-purpose tool whose parts are designated to tighten up all kinds of different 'screws' here and there. Many people write good essays, but because they do not approach the application holistically (and the adcom views it that way) their submissions turn out to be incoherent or even controversial as a result.

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Care to elaborate on how much the applicant pool has grown? 10%?

I remember going to a Wharton event where one of the heads of admission said that applicant pools for the top 3 schools tend to not oscillate with trends in the market, and that she expected applicant pools to swell in the middle-tier MBA degree market...

I guess she was wrong.

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I was told the exact same thing at the presentation I attended 2 weeks ago...

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Can someone who has received an invite please paste the text of the email?

Dear XXXX,

The status of your application has been updated and you have been invited to interview with the Wharton MBA Admissions Office. (Please look for the link to the letter inviting you to interview located at the bottom of the main page of your online application account.)

Please log into your Wharton account and select "Search" in the Events box to the right on the main page. Next select an interview type (On-Campus or Alumni) and proceed to schedule your interview. Please read the instructions given for each type of interview very carefully.

If scheduling an on-campus interview, select the date you are looking for and proceed. If scheduling a HUB location interview, select the location, and proceed to schedule your interview.

We look forward to meeting you in the near future.

Sincerely,

Wharton MBA Admissions Office
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
420 Jon M Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

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Care to elaborate on how much the applicant pool has grown?

I do not think anyone would release this information now as there is no point in doing so at this point of time, but lots of people say that the volume has gone up significantly.

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Desperately hoping to get an interview this week...fingers are crossed

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Desperately hoping to get an interview this week...fingers are crossed

let the e-mail refreshing resume!

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Just saw this posted on BW forums. Maybe I should chill out until the last couple of days (or maybe not

). I did go through last year's thread and I think many of the calls came in the last few days.
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Current Wharton student here - let me preface this by saying I have no affiliation with the admissions office whatsoever.

I was in your shoes last year, so I totally understand how nerve-wracking the waiting period can begin.

Last year, I received my interview on the second-to-last-day. Speaking with friends here at school, I know most of my friends also heard about their interviews towards the end of the invite period.

My best advice: don't try to "crack" the system and look for any trends regarding age, gender, nationality, or career track. There are so many variables, and so many eyes, that go into reading each application. Try to trust the recommendations that you hear from others - stay calm and confident that you'll receive an invite, and know that the highest probability of receiving one is during the last few days of the period.

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Just saw this posted on BW forums. Maybe I should chill out until the last couple of days (or maybe not

I totally agree with this post, but I know how hard it is not to try and crack the system! I feel for you guys, I was there too. Just go out and do your stuff.

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Hope this is not a dumb question - is tomorrow a work day in the USA? Can we expect invites to be sent out, or is it a holiday because of voting? (Here they make election days a holiday).

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^ It is a work day (for the private sector at least).

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I expect the bulk of interview invites to go out starting next Monday til the deadline on Thursday. It's possible that since first readers are students, they probably procrastinated and put off reviewing apps until they had recruting/academics out of the way first.

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any interviews this morning?

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received my invite this morning!

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congrats msday! ill update your status

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got an invite this morning :-D

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msday, if I am not mistaken, you went complete early right?

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