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CookieMonster: Waitlist (R1) Admit (R2) Matriculating cooldar: Admit malumier: Matriculating ApolloLuna: Admit Withdrawn for Kellogg Forcefeed: Admit Withdrawn for HBS CfaMiami: Waitlist Admit Withdrawn for Kellogg (I think) maina_s: Waitlist Aviroop: Waitlist (R1), Denied (R2) Faceman: Denied w/ Interview riverripper: Denied w/ Interview chillonamill: Denied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nick_sun - Matriculating Jann - Matriculating ujjib - Matriculating wallspotter - Matriculating nervousgmat - Admit Withdrawn for Kellogg ghgirl - Admit Withdrawn for Kellogg Audio - Admit Withdrawn for Wharton clarksdv2 - Waitlist sudden - Waitlist bherronp - Waitlist yellowjacket - Waitlist adcxaway - Denied w/ Interview bsd_lover - Denied w/ Interview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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The alumnus supposed to interview me called this morning. I have my interview scheduled at his office on Tuesday afternoon... Any advice on "in-office" interviews ?

I researched the guy's profile, and it is quite impressive... I'll let you guys know how it went afterwards.

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Good man cereals .. Fill the rest of us in

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Be nice to everyone you meet. Don't say a !@(#! thing about anything to anyone in the elevators. You never ever know who is standing next to you.

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R2 interview invitation today. Need to decide between alumni and on-campus interview.

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R2 interview invitation today. Need to decide between alumni and on-campus interview.

congrats nc! all the best.

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ncprasad

R2 interview invitation today. Need to decide between alumni and on-campus interview.

that's awesome, nc! go get 'em!

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Congrats nc! Have you been to GSB before? If not, then definitely try to get to campus. Else, either one is fine

Good luck!!!

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R2 interview invitation today. Need to decide between alumni and on-campus interview.

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Updated with NC's invite. What else to do to kill time ;-)

adcxaway - Submitted 01/08 Invited to interview! WOOHOOO!
bherronp - Submitted 12/30 Invited to interview
bsd_lover - Submitted 01/06 Invited to interview
nervousgmat - Submitted 12/31 Invited to interview
vchhaochharia - Submitted 12/25 Invited to interview
CerealsMBA - Submitted 01/09 Invited to interview
JDMBA - submitted, Invited to interview
ncprasad - Submitted 01/09, Invited to interview
Dosa_don - Submitted 01/09
hsampath - Submitted 01/08
max125 - Submitted 01/08
mNeo - Submitted 01/09
pandeyrav - Submitted 01/09
robinantony - Submitted 01/09
trojan812 - Submitted 01/07
tsaditya - Submitted 01/08
bkk145 - Submitted 01/09
KingKREEP - Submitted 01/09
helg - Submitted 01/09
gregspirited - Submitted 01/09
Audio - Submitted 01/09
ryguy904 - submitted 01/09
nick_sun - Submitted UNK
Poochandi - Submitted 01/09
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wallspotter - submitted -01/09
svrider - Submitted 01/09
saurabh357 - submitted 01/09
sudden - submitted 1/8
swedenr09 - submitted 1/9
ujjib - submitted 1/9
nyrberg - Submitted 01/09
Prodigy- Submitted 01/08
nupurgupt - Submitted 01/09

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Interview Tip:
Go to LinkedIn.com to research about your interviewer before the interview.

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Congrats nc! You've opened the account for the Indian-IT bandwagon

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Interview.

I'm surprised. If you listen to all the hype, non-quant jocks are not supposed to get into Chicago and Wharton. Not that I have been admitted to either yet, but I did at least get interviews. Humanities majors unite! Go diversity!

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Updated with Sudden :
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adcxaway - Submitted 01/08 Invited to interview! WOOHOOO!
bherronp - Submitted 12/30 Invited to interview
bsd_lover - Submitted 01/06 Invited to interview
nervousgmat - Submitted 12/31 Invited to interview
vchhaochharia - Submitted 12/25 Invited to interview
CerealsMBA - Submitted 01/09 Invited to interview
JDMBA - submitted, Invited to interview
ncprasad - Submitted 01/09, Invited to interview
sudden - submitted 1/8, Invited to interview
Dosa_don - Submitted 01/09
hsampath - Submitted 01/08
max125 - Submitted 01/08
mNeo - Submitted 01/09
pandeyrav - Submitted 01/09
robinantony - Submitted 01/09
trojan812 - Submitted 01/07
tsaditya - Submitted 01/08
bkk145 - Submitted 01/09
KingKREEP - Submitted 01/09
helg - Submitted 01/09
gregspirited - Submitted 01/09
Audio - Submitted 01/09
ryguy904 - submitted 01/09
nick_sun - Submitted UNK
Poochandi - Submitted 01/09
vishalsuri
wallspotter - submitted -01/09
svrider - Submitted 01/09
saurabh357 - submitted 01/09
swedenr09 - submitted 1/9
ujjib - submitted 1/9
nyrberg - Submitted 01/09
Prodigy- Submitted 01/08
nupurgupt - Submitted 01/09

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KK, dosa, nervous,pandeyrav : Thank you for the wishes.

R1ers : For interview purposes, did you use the extended resume that was sent in with the app or the standard 1-page resume? Thanks!

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nc - first of all, my congratulations. I believe they require an abbreviated one page resume similar to the one for London Business School .

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KK, dosa, nervous,pandeyrav : Thank you for the wishes.

R1ers : For interview purposes, did you use the extended resume that was sent in with the app or the standard 1-page resume? Thanks!

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It's the 1 page, the same you probably used everywhere else...

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Thanks kwam!

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It's the 1 page, the same you probably used everywhere else...

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Anyone going to the dinner tonight? The weather's terrible and I'm driving in from the suburbs, so I may leave in a few minutes...

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Irishfan,
I'm still thinking about it. I'm actually pretty sick so I'm not sure I can deal with the snow and all...

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R2 interview invitation today. Need to decide between alumni and on-campus interview.

Congratulations nc! I am sure you'll do really well.

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I just reread the Chicago invite and have a question for those of you have been invited to interview (or for anyone else, for that matter)

. The instructions say "If possible, we highly encourage all applicants to interview on campus. Later it says "All interviews, regardless of the interviewer, are weighted the same."

I know this has been discussed before, but there seems to be some mild contradiction here. Is it really better to interview on campus? If not, then why do they encourage people to interview on campus? I am sure they want people to visit the school (I have heard the recent campus improvements are awesome), but this seems like an awkward place to state that desire.

I would like to go to campus, but I have limited vacation days left. I used one of my two weeks to write my apps and I am going to use the second week to take my girl friend on a trip to China to thank her for putting up with me during this process.

So if I can avoid going to campus without having it affect my app decision, so much the better. Otherwise I may have to call in sick (oops...) or do a weekend interview.

Congrats everyone on their invites. For the rest of you, hang in there -- this whole thing is pretty random. A lot people on here have great profiles, so I have no doubt that many of you will get invites.