Hi prospective MSxers, I am a new admit in MSx 2020 and I thought I will start a thread for you to share some admission statistics from our year: - Graduating class of 2020 year was the MOST COMPETITIVE year in MSx history. Previous years they received something like 400-450 applications, this year received 500 applications. - R1 admitted 34 people, R2 admitted 56 people, and R3 admitted 13 people. - Depending on the yield-rate, MSx class of 2020 might be 90 to 95 students strong. The previous record for class size was 103. - Director Mike Hochleutner said that he doesn't see MIT SFMBA as a competitor program. Out of 6-10 dual-admit students each year, usually 1 chooses SFMBA while rest choose MSx. For MSx 2021 prospective students it is clear that applying in R1 is the best strategy. I hope to see some of you during class visits. If you want to learn about our admission journey, please check out the previous year's thread here: calling-stanford-msx-candidates-2019-intake-graduating-class-of-276879-240.html#p2252662 Stanford MSx Deadlines: 2020 Intake Round Application Due Decisions by Round 1 12 Sep 2019 Early Dec 2019 Round 2 9 Jan 2020 Late Mar 2020 Round 3 12 Mar 2020 Mid Apr 2020

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Sorry. Wrong thread

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Received the interview invite this evening!

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Hi everyone

MBA 2022 applicant here.

I was just wondering whether you guys received an email after the deadline with details about when they will start sending interview invites for MSX? If yes, when did they say they will start?

Thanks

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Received the interview invite this evening!

Congratulations. Which program you had applied ?

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Received the interview invite this evening!

Congratulations. Which program you had applied ?

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Thank you! I applied to MSx in R3.

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Hi! I received an email after the deadline saying that the program start is delayed for MSx Class of 2021, but the decision date is the same - 23 April 2020. There was no information in the email with regard to interview invitations. I received the invitation yesterday.

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Amazing! Best of luck to you.

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Received the interview invite this evening!

I too received the interview invite on 04/12. Are you done with your interview, how did it go? I did mine today, went well.

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Received the interview invite this evening!

I too received the interview invite on 04/12. Are you done with your interview, how did it go? I did mine today, went well.

My interview was yesterday. I think it went well but will see

Good luck!

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I request you to add your interview experience in the following link. Thanks.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/stanford-gsb ... brief.html

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Anyone heard back on MSx R3 decisions?

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Anyone heard back on MSx R3 decisions?

Not yet..

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Hi everybody,

Just received the email from MSx: Waitlisted

Congrats to those who got admitted!

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Hi everybody,

Just received the email from MSx: Waitlisted

Congrats to those who got admitted!

No, congrats to you Emma! Notwithstanding the opportunity cost, who is foolish enough right now to incur $130K+ for a one-year, likely-to-be-largely online program?

Current MBA and MSx students sure aren't happy. See "The Student Revolt Over MBA Tuition For Online Classes" by Poets&Quants.

Very unwise to quit a job during a global pandemic and return to school. Hold onto your job!

Remember, the last recession started in 2007. Things got a lot worse before they got better.

One year from now when the recession is raging and the class of 2021 students are being conferred their online degrees with terrible prospects, you'll be glad you weren't admitted this year.

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COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on the Stanford MSx program!

Hadamard, please provide updates and more insights on your now-online degree program.

According to Poets&Quants, it seems the value proposition has gone out the window: "The Student Revolt Over MBA Tuition For Online Classes"

What's your advice now for this forum that you so boastfully started last year "class of 2020...MOST COMPETITIVE year in MSx history"? Any regrets?

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Hi everybody,

Just received the email from MSx: Waitlisted

Congrats to those who got admitted!

Seeing as how your username is off-putting and you seem to be posting seemingly negative things, did you just come here to troll?

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To admits and waitlisted candidates: If you need to talk to us - current students - to understand more about our experience, please let me know. My classmates and I would be happy to host a Zoom call to answer any questions you may have. All we want is to ensure you have *accurate* information to make an informed decision. We look forward to welcoming you to Stanford. For many of us, this has been one of the best years in our lives and we are committed to helping you experience the same.

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EmmaCl

Hi everybody,

Just received the email from MSx: Waitlisted

Congrats to those who got admitted!

Seeing as how your username is off-putting and you seem to be posting seemingly negative things, did you just come here to troll?

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Accuracy can be off-putting. If trolls are truth-speakers to you, then I guess so. What part of my username or comments do you dispute? You didn't say. BTW, my MBA was conferred 10 years ago.

Nothing new about my comments. Here's some good reading from 2013 -- Google search this Quartz article: "If you can’t get into a top-five MBA program, don’t even bother". Oh and FinanceMan, I work in finance.

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EmmaCl

Hi everybody,

Just received the email from MSx: Waitlisted

Congrats to those who got admitted!

Seeing as how your username is off-putting and you seem to be posting seemingly negative things, did you just come here to troll?

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Tim Cook, Melinda Gates, and my friend Michael Prince did not attend a top 5 MBA program. Are top 5 programs great? Absolutely. However, realistically, the top 25 are very fine schools with great job prospects. We will have to agree to disagree I am sure.

I am glad to hear you work in finance. It is a great field.

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Hi everybody,

Just received the email from MSx: Waitlisted

Congrats to those who got admitted!

Seeing as how your username is off-putting and you seem to be posting seemingly negative things, did you just come here to troll?

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You're missing the point. Top-5~25...arguably the same. That's just the title of an article. The point is value/ROI of graduate business degrees themselves--especially when one is doing a full-time program and graduation timing is important.

Melinda is a nobody without Bill. But your other known name is worth dissecting: Tim Cook. His MBA is from a reputable school: Duke. But he did so while working for IBM and the company paid for it--in 1988. Would IBM pay today? Almost certainly no.

Few b-school candidates are company-sponsored anymore (some partial tuition reimbursement isn't the same thing). Things long ago changed. Smart Tim didn't quit his job then and wouldn't today--especially during a pandemic.

Still, if he had, that MBA in 1986-88 was a lot less expensive relative to median income. And there were many less MBA degree holders as a % of the population then. The ROI was there. Now, graduate business degrees are a commodity and very costly relative to median income.