Do the admission office read the forums?

Even if they do identify you by your profile here... does that matter? They know most applicants apply to multiple schools, and as long as your essays describe specifically why you want to go to their school, I don't see it as an issue.

I don't think adcoms come here and read threads, although Booth adcom has his/her own thread at BW where people can ask questions directly.

There was this one incident where people were in the chat room in December and we traced few IP addresses to admin.nyu IP address. I am sure they were NYU students....not adcoms....

I was thinking about this too, but I would say its a good thing if they do. They can see our keen interest in the program and other stuff. I guess there are many students who r not really motivated with the whole thing at all but they still somehow get in and leave others at the door

However, I was also thinking... do they really read our essays? I mean they prolly do, but do they just kinda briefly glaze throughout it to make sure its related to the topic or they really really read?

With same topics repeating a year after year and round after round reading this stuff makes one bored to death...

Just imagine how many essays they receive (3 papers per student times several thousand apps per round) and students generally receive same advices about what to put inside

must be very tedious to read all this same stuff over and over

as long as nothing scandalous happens on this forum like on scoretop we should be fine.

Well, people gave credit card info on Scoretop.....that's why i like doing deals in cash

Thanks traffix for acting as my un-appointed and un-licensed spokesperson. I can't pay you though...I am still paying off my graduate degree related debt....

They read the forums

Last year when I was rejected from Chicago, and got feedback, they said that it was because I was inconsistent with my long term goals. When I asked what that meant, this is what they told me

"In your essay you said you wanted to build water wells for villages in South Africa, but we know on GMATClub.com you talked about getting into management consulting and swinging with McKinsey... you liar"

and so I was dinged


(I need to add a disclaimer, I did get dinged by Chicago but the above is fictional Don't sweat )

adc surely you are kidding ?

Again, that's a joke, right?? Seriously now, you're having a laugh... No??

Back to the original topic – I think that some adcoms do read the forums, or at least look through some threads.

They most probably are aware of gmatclub existence, to begin with. Remember, in the apps we have this marketing section – where did you learn about our school etc; and there’s a list of some online resources as well to pick from. Perhaps some app forms even mention the gmatclub; I don’t know. Also, I guess some people click on the b-school links in our threads, and if they analyse the logs later, they see which site gave them these visitors.

However, I seriously doubt that they’ll be wasting their time trying to figure out a particular applicant on the forums. I think they read our posts for general purposes mainly – i.e. estimate the quality of the applicants, see how their school is perceived etc.

I hope you are right. My profile is quite different from the people in this forum (Spanish with 2 master degrees), and with the 2009 profile thread, the admissions office just have to read some posts to gather data and match it with their's.

btw ninkorn why do u have yale in blue and chicago and kellogg in green

I don't think adcoms read the forums. But even if they do, all they're gonna find out is how nice, helpful, and generally awesome I am

and modest!

LOL!

no, adcoms generally won't read these forums since they barely have time to read the application essays.

He was accepted by chicago, kellogg and Yale (with $$) and is matriculating at Yale. Thats the color code used. Green for admits, Red for dings, Orange for WL and Blue for matriculating...