Figured I'd start the thread rather than just talk about it. dont want to bring any more misery to the happy Yale board. So lets talk strategy on how we weasel are way in from here. Also, hopefully this can help some waitlisted candidates in future years. Yale SOM 2013 Waitlist Post in the thread to be added to the rollcall Round 1: aniketdeb (Silver Scholars) Bigblue1010 burgundy2015 - Matriculating at Stern. Dbalks - Dinged with R2. ianczop krudget lfa - Dinged with R2. MoonlightGrahm notenoughtheta - Dinged with R2. NYCFinanceGuy - Dinged with R2. OjilEye/EmBeeAy23 - Dinged with R2. oldmonk rtrhead shushu - Dinged with R2. Stardust sublime4510 Ward2012 - Dinged with R2. Round 2: alphabetagamma chessmaster1234 ctgmat123 - Withdrawn. Matriculating at Duke. forquer genericuser1 - Dinged with R3. junaidjanjua - Dinged with R3. Matriculating at UCLA. mba20155 - Withdrawn. Matriculating at UCLA. Pashya powerpuff rainfall tokugawa86 wp83 --------------------------------------------- As for the SOM waitlist, I'm not sure what to share with ad-com. I started managing another employee right after I submitted my app, so I'm not sure if that's significant or not (I hadn't managed anyone before). I did share this with the person who interview me, so not sure if it counts as an update or not. Also, don't think I can write a whole page about that. I also have no former Yale or prestigious MBA contacts, so I don't think I can come up with the recommendations necessary to impress ad-com. Any ideas out there?

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I think it is a possibility that they might give feedback but I don't think we should be banking on it. NYCFinanceGuy - was your email a simple one or did you elaborate on our interest on Yale etc? Just trying to form my email now...

I wrote an informal email to get details on protocol for an additional recommendation (what format, where to send it, etc.) I wrote that shortly after receiving the waitlist info, and have not heard back. Personally, I would assume they're handling admits and then will get to waitlisters after the break. (May or may not be a bad assumption.

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As far as what to do: jontron had a great post. I particularly liked the mba admit post.

There is the secure a promotion/take on new leadership responsibilities, but frankly I can do neither in my position. So I ignored that. Also, there are the get a better GMAT score and take courses to prepare yourself analytically. Well I took up to differential equations and linear algebra, have two science degrees, and an advanced degree with biostatistics and epidemiology research, so if they think I need to spruce up my "analytical background", then they're silly.

However, I will certainly write a formal letter of interest. I can secure another letter of recommendation from someone who was too busy during the months before due date. And hopefully, I will be able to make a visit to campus. Been to the med center and main campus plenty, but never to SOM.

Anyway that's my plan; good luck! :-D

As, an aside, I have two impressive offers on the table with substantial scholarship/fellowship money. I am still strongly considering Yale despite that. Is that something I should point out in my letter of interest? I would assume yes, and it would be great for them to know that I still think highly of them despite great offers, but I know this process is littered with bizarre fortuitous faux pas that my head spins. :lol:

HOLY moles HOW did you apply to so many programs? I am just amazed...

Yea my only update is that I was accepted into a pretty good school (how does one even begin to talk about that in a letter of interest without sounding arrogant?) Being on the waitlist is pretty agonizing. Not sure if I will be submitting a 10 page package as mentioned before...best of luck to everybody!

Oh and Dbalks, thanks for getting this party started and including me!

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I think school selection is something that is a one liner in a page of updates. If its your only update, it will be tough to drop in. I would imagine how others are going to do it is by writing like a 250-500 word essay where they say "I got a promotion and revisited the school and reconfirmed my passion for Yale. I recently was accepted at HBS, but my number one choice remians Yale because of its xyz."

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Preferably B, but you can let them know it's coming by sending them an email

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I am planning to send my waitlist update today.

Is it okay if I send them a word document with my essay
or do I have to paste it with the email directly.

It would be great if someone could help.

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I am planning to send my waitlist update today.

Is it okay if I send them a word document with my essay
or do I have to paste it with the email directly.

It would be great if someone could help.

I just did a pdf, personally.

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I got reply from waitlist adcom this morning. They say there is no special recommendation from for waitlisters; a recommender can send the email to the adcom directly.

According to the feedback, I feel lost more than before. There is nothing to update in my application package, but also there is nothing shiny making them choose me over other candidates. Sigh. I did not send yet update to adcome as I am waiting for the official announcement of my promotion at work. But I feel this is not enough to make adcome lean toward me.

Headache *Arg* *Arg*...but i want this so bad!!!

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Is there anything else regarding your application profile that they highlighted you should work on? Or did they just give you a short response in regards to the recommendation?

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I have received a similar reply as Shushu's, basically saying there is really nothing wrong with my application. They don't see major weakness in my application that made them choose others over me. It is difficult to handle a reply like this, but my takeaway is that there is not much waistlisters could do. They chose other applicants over us for reasons that we cannot control. I hope sending an email to them will let them know our interests, but essentially, i don't feel there is much i could change. As someone said, last year a few lucky ones got off the list.

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Maybe we have similar feedbacek. You got the point. Factors making the school choose me over others are actually out of my control unless I do get a unique position in non-traditional field at this moment (But i think it won't be able to happen)

This is like a lucky draw I think. I will keep trying, but I won't expect too much on this. What I can do for now is to update my promotion, volunteer activity, and my personal story about why MBA, why Yale I could not contain enough in my essay due to word limit. I will write the genuine story from deep insde my heart, although it sounds cliche, and wait for the reuslt until May. Oh they said, most of waitlists are moved around May.

Fingers are crossed

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Is there anything else regarding your application profile that they highlighted you should work on? Or did they just give you a short response in regards to the recommendation?

Nope, they did not specifically mention anything about my application profile. But they also said it means I might have nothing glaring which inherently prevent me from getting in. On top of this feedback, they gave me short response regarding with the recommendation.

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I just submitted an update to the waitlist/admissions committee at SOM. Early? Perhaps. But there's no major promotion in the works (being at a large company and having been promoted just a year ago) and I seriously doubt I'll be re-taking the GMAT. So letter of interest it is ~ has anyone else submitted anything?

(I also noticed that I didn't receive the usual auto-reply e-mail receipt from Yale. Guess we're not so high on their priority list anymore :/ )

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I sent a reply roughly on the day of that the waitlist announcement was made. I didn't get a response for a couple of weeks. Probably not terribly high on the "respond back"-o-meter, but it's good to know that it was read and explicitly responded to.

So don't fret. But yes, I too see no point in retaking the GMAT, so it ended up being a confirmation of interest, as well.

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I had sent my update on 2nd Jan.
Received a reply just a day back saying that the update along with the application
will be read by the adcom in March when they review their waitlist.

They also asked me to submit additional updates if any.

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I just submitted additional essay last night. I think mine was a bit late compared to you guys as I had to wait until pormotion list is announced. And yeah, I got promoted!

I devoted every effort into 8 pages of PDF file with extra caring on the design of the format.

So let's see what will happen. Yay!

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Wow, 8 page pdf for your update, thats really long! I had the understanding that these update letters are usually a letter or two but maybe I'm wrong. Do you mind my asking what your wrote about in such a long letter? I feel I do not have enough material professionally and personally to cover more than maybe 2 pages at most. And I actually have not written my letter yet either but plan to do so next week - hope thats not too late! I figured since they said they don't look at waitlist candidates until mid March that an update in early Feb would be fine. What do you guys think?

How long were everyone elses update letters?

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I agree that 8 pages seems like a lot (maybe even excessive, sorry shushu, but that's just my opinion--perhaps your situation warrants a longer update though). I was wailisted at another school and my plan is to send an email with headings for the update (i.e. professional, leadership, volunteer work) and then put 1-2 bullet points below each section with new accomplishments. I think it might amount to 1 printed page. I'm not doing an additional essay, but if you felt that your essays could use improvement, it might be worth sending an updated version (particularly since the Yale essays are so short).

I think this is definitely one of those quality over quantity situations...I'd tend towards brevity.

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I sent a two page pdf consisting mainly of my recent accomplishments
and I also tried to explain my MBA motivation in a detailed manner.

I answered few questions that were posed to me during the interview
where I thought I could have done better.

Overall I tried blending all of these into a single essay.

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The contents are 4 pages only, each page with one theme. I updated my current work status, why Yale, why MBA, and my life-long plan I kept in my heart for over 7 years. Think my posting triggered some noises here lol. Just because I also focused on design and format, the number of total pages is more than of actual contents. Not sure if this would work or not, but I am just doing all of my best.