GMATClub Chicago GSB Applicants Round 1: Tally: Admitted: 9 Dings: 9 Waitlist: 4 Matriculating: 6 Irishfan: Matriculating dabots: Matriculating kwam: Matriculating jpjazzman: Matriculating burger2001: Matriculating CookieMonster: Waitlist (R1) Admit (R2) Matriculating cooldar: Admit malumier: Matriculating ApolloLuna: Admit Withdrawn for Kellogg Forcefeed: Admit Withdrawn for HBS CfaMiami: Waitlist Admit Withdrawn for Kellogg (I think) maina_s: Waitlist Aviroop: Waitlist (R1), Denied (R2) Faceman: Denied w/ Interview riverripper: Denied w/ Interview chillonamill: Denied w/ Interview Vij101: Denied w/ Interview Sangoman: Denied w/ Interview gnr646: Denied w/ Interview Collegesenior: Denied w/o interview nnabros: Denied w/o interview beyondinfinity: Denied w/o interview Round 2: Total applicants: 42 Admit = 10 Waitlist = 3 Dinged = 21 unknown = 6 mNeo - Matriculating helg - Matriculating CerealsMBA - Matriculating nick_sun - Matriculating Jann - Matriculating ujjib - Matriculating wallspotter - Matriculating nervousgmat - Admit Withdrawn for Kellogg ghgirl - Admit Withdrawn for Kellogg Audio - Admit Withdrawn for Wharton clarksdv2 - Waitlist sudden - Waitlist bherronp - Waitlist yellowjacket - Waitlist adcxaway - Denied w/ Interview bsd_lover - Denied w/ Interview vchhaochharia - Denied w/ Interview tsaditya - Denied w/ Interview max125 - Denied w/ Interview nupurgupt - Denied w/ Interview KingKREEP - Denied w/ Interview KK Iyer - Denied w/ Interview pandeyrav - Denied w/ Interview Poochandi - Denied w/ Interview grap - Denied w/ Interview svrider - Denied w/ Interview trojan812 - Denied w/ Interview foxtrot - Denied w/ Interview SoccrRef - Denied w/ Interview nupurgupt - Denied w/ Interview hsampath - Denied w/o interview bkk145 - Denied w/o interview gregspirited - Denied w/o interview ryguy904 - Denied w/o interview dosa_don - Denied w/o interview spideyeclipse27 - Denied w/o interview Prodigy - Denied w/o interview PEtoMBA - Denied w/o interview Pokerface - Submitted (01/09), Invited to interview (02/08) JDMBA - submitted, Invited to interview ncprasad - Submitted 01/09, Invited to interview swedenr09 - submitted 1/9, Invited to Interview Cleardmit has some useful advice to approach this year's Chicago GSB application essays. I hope this is useful for all you GSB aspirants out there. https://blog.clearadmit.com/2007/07/chi ... 2007-2008/ Reproduced in full below Essay 1: Why are you pursuing an MBA at this point in your career? Describe your personal and professional goals and the role an MBA from the University of Chicago GSB plays in your plans to reach these goals. (1,500 word maximum) Our general guidelines for the standard career goals essay apply to this document, but the above-average length and the nature of Chicago’s other questions add another strategic consideration. While the second and third essays certainly provide ample opportunity to share information about oneself, there really isn’t much room for narrative. This is a distinct contrast from schools like Stanford and MIT, which ask applicants to recount the details of their actions in several specific kinds of situations across the application essays. With this in mind, Chicago applicants might want to use a portion of their 1500 words in this essay to briefly share the details of some professional achievements and significant experiences. Essay 2: If you could step into someone else’s shoes for a day, who would it be and why? (500 word maximum) The most common trap that applicants fall into when answering this question is writing more about the person whose shoes he or she would choose to occupy than about the reasons for this selection and the way it fits into his or her candidacy. While this can be a fun question with an answer that is sure to be telling, it’s important not to lose sight of what should be the main objective of one’s application: sharing impressive information about oneself that is relevant to one’s business school candidacy. Selecting a prominent figure whose work is in line with one’s professional goals or favorite hobby can be a great strategy for producing an interesting essay that allows for detail about the applicant’s background as well. Essay 3: We have asked for a great deal of information throughout this application. In this portion of the application, we invite you tell us about yourself using a non-traditional application format–a PowerPoint presentation. In four slides or less, please provide readers with content that captures who you are. This approach isn’t exactly revolutionary - Stern’s usual Essay 3 asks for a personal expression that gives candidates complete freedom with content and medium (except for the exclusion of edible/perishable personal expressions) - but it does speak to Chicago’s interest in a candidate’s interests and personality. While all this “white space” might be daunting to some, an easy way to approach this process is to ask oneself a few simple questions. Are there four personal themes to which you would like to devote a slide each? Would you prefer to use the four frames to create a sense of progression through a day, event or activity? We’re hesitant to provide too much guidance given the free-form nature of the task; the best advice we can offer is to think about who you are (and how this might be of interest to the GSB adcom), consider how you could translate this into words and images, and then try it out. Showing the initial result to someone who knows you well could be a great way to determine how successful this draft is. Good luck, and have fun! ***Updated applicant list: 1/9/08 RiverRipper

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Really...that's strange...my recommender is positive he submitted...yet i didn't get any emails. I also don't see any indications online? Should'nt they have a status thing that says whether its submitted or not? All other schools have that...

Thanks anyway. if others can confirm please chime in.

HBS sends you an e-mail. Wharton doesn't send an e-mail, but the recommender status on your app changes. Check with your recommender again.

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i just checked with recommender...submitted for sure, however still no emails from Chicago. No indication online whatsoever.

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Maybe some of the Chicago R1-ers can throw some light on this....I can see that college senior received an e-mail when his recommender submitted. So....

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HI Guys,

Untrue, there is a copy of the questions on here. I am not sure if its in the rec best practices or this thread but they are there. I gave a copy to my recommenders.

Thanks dude......saved me 2 bad recos.....maybe not bad, but unstructured ones all the same - Thanks

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hey fellow chicago applicants....

does anyone know where to enter undergrad internship and part-time work? There are no specific places to enter that info....

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If you can't fit it or justify putting it on your resume its not going to add a whole lot to your application. If you have a very unusual part time job that is something you love doing, like you are a surfing instructor on weekends you can either try to work it into an essay or maybe even put it in the block of extracurriculars (even if you get paid). If you are a bartender/waiter to help pay the bills probably not going to add a lot to your application anyways.

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Am I the only one that find it extremely strange that Chicago doesn't have space for undergraduate work??? Every other school has it.

For me, I have 6 years of post grad full time work, so my resume talks about those in detail and left out anything prior. Professionally it would be the right thing to do on the resume; employers don't care much about what you did 7-8 years ago in school...they're looking for recent relevent work experience.

But I have some very solid undergraduate internships, of course i'm not talking about bartending and crap jobs like that LOLLL. I'm talking about extensive part-time work at blue-chip firms. Probably more impressive than my post-college jobs even. Not to mention all this undergrad work is why my GPA took a hit.

Any ideas?

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I need help from the Chicago students and applicants. I think I am almost done with my Chicago application. But because of circumstances at work, I will not be able to visit Chicago this month. I have not attended any info session for Chicago either. So, should I delay my application just so I can say that I have attended an info session and have visited the school? Or is applying to R1 more valuable to my admit chances than whether or not I have visited the school and info session?

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if you feel confident in your application, i see no reason to delay submission. visiting/attending an infosession is not required and ive met several current students that never visited until they were accepted (one was fighting in iraq though). however, i got a lot out of my visit that i feel bolstered my essays. i can see a big difference between my essays previsit and postvisit.

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Do you guys think UG Work Ex can be bundled as part of Extra Curriculars in College??

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Do you guys think UG Work Ex can be bundled as part of Extra Curriculars in College??

im putting mine in my resume...i only have 2 years ft exp, so i think i can sqeeze in some internships.

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If the application is complete, its complete. They aren't going to admit you because you visited, nor will they deny you because you didn't. If it is something that keeps you up at night, then just throw in a sentence about how excited you are to visit campus in December (or whatever). The only difference is that, in my experience, a visit usually gives you a lot of valuable material to write about - but if you feel your essays are done, then submit em and be done with it.

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Is anyone elses recommender having issues logging into the online system? One of my recommenders has been trying to login but keeps running across a system error. He is working the issue with the IT support team, but I really hope my application doesn't get delayed till R2 because of this issue.

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I'm done with GSB, and both recommenders have already sent their LoR!

Now for GSB I'm starting the paints pooping phase :lol:

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im not a fan of this online application at all. actually makes me yearn for ApplyYourself. doesnt render correctly in firefox, and there is no pdf preview. the essays arent even converted into pdf. makes it hard to review the entire application and be sure they will see everything correctly.

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I am paranoid my ppt wont look right when it prints out or something will come out screwy and make me look bad.

Isn't it amazing how we over analyze the dumbest parts of this process.

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The powerpoint essay doesnt even get uploaded if its too big in size

It was a headache uploading them

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I havent tried to upload my ppt yet. I am planning on doing it as a PDF since I did mine on a MAC and when it converts to ppt it comes out screwy half the time so I dont want to risk that . Anyone know if its possible to use a PDF.

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did everybody submit a word/ppt? im thinking of going to pdf just because it is less likely to not open correctly. anybody use the paste-in-textbox choice?

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did everybody submit a word/ppt? im thinking of going to pdf just because it is less likely to not open correctly. anybody use the paste-in-textbox choice?

according to this thread https://forums.chicagogsb.edu/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=21&nav=messages&webtag=gsbAdmissions&tid=1617 you can use pdf instead of ppt[/url]