Application Information for Class of 2016 Application Deadlines Class of 2016 Round: Online application submitted by: Tests taken by: Decision posted/emailed by: One October 16, 2013 October 16, 2013 January 15, 2014 Two January 8, 2014 January 8, 2014 March 26, 2014 Three March 12, 2014 March 12, 2014 May 15, 2014 Essay Questions: 1.) If you could choose one song that expresses who you are, what is it and why? (250 word maximum) 2.) What is your most significant accomplishment? (250 word maximum) 3.) Describe a time in the last three years when you overcame a failure. What specific insight from this experience has shaped your development? (250 word maximum) 4.) a. What are your post-MBA short-term and long-term career goals? How have your professional experiences prepared you to achieve these goals? b. How will an MBA from Haas help you achieve these goals? (750 word maximum for 4a. and 4b.) Supplemental Information 1.) If you have not provided a letter of recommendation from your current supervisor, please explain. If not applicable, enter N/A. List in order of importance all community and professional organizations and extracurricular activities in which you have been involved during or after university studies. Indicate the nature of the activity or organization, size of the organization, dates of involvement, offices held, and average number of hours spent per month. 2.) List full-time and part-time jobs held during undergraduate or graduate studies, indicating the employer, job title, employment dates, location, and the number of hours worked per week for each position held prior to the completion of your degree. Please explain all gaps in your employment since earning your university degree. 3.) If you have ever been subject to academic discipline, placed on probation, suspended, or required to withdraw from any college or university, please explain. If not, please enter N/A. (An affirmative response to this question does not automatically disqualify you from admission.) Optional Essays (Optional) Please feel free to provide a statement concerning any information you would like to add to your application that you haven't addressed elsewhere. (500 word maximum) (Optional) If not clearly evident, please discuss ways in which you have demonstrated strong quantitative abilities, or plan to strengthen quantitative abilities. You do not need to list courses that appear on your transcript. (250 word maximum) Prominent Current Students/Alumni Active on GMAT Club: Mrbucket - Class of 2015 Haas Social Media Updates Tweets BerkeleyHaas,465143484953788417,500 FB Updates BerkeleyHaas Dealing with a Ding - Webinar Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=echqdCOW7cM Dealing with a Ding.pdf

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Preparing for Round 2 and..... I can't find my song!!!!
How did you R1 applicants find yours?

Start it from the end. Take the list of songs that you love the most. Throw away those without lyrics or those that have undoubtedly simple lyrics. Try to find something encouraging or phylosophical, but do not go with most obvious choices, like Nirvana or The Beatles... Then find something in your life, like the time when you struggled or overcame a setback and then you should try to make an overlap between this song and that period of life and how it helped you and what you took from it. More or less like that.

That's one way. Just a word of caution - the question doesnt about your favorite song, but the one which expresses you the best. So, another way can be to identify what you want to convey to the adcom and then picking a song. However, I agree with the advice that doing a very common song would be no fun. Finally, show some creativity in choosing and linking the song to your life. The song itself is a very small component of the essay. It's what you do around it.

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Mine status changed to stage 2 on 27/11/2013 :

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Your application for admission to the Berkeley Full-time MBA Program is under review by the Admissions Committee. You will be contacted at the decision deadline to see your final admissions decision.

I think now they have picked up my application and reviewing. So I should be expecting interview call in a week if they like my profile.

Berkeley has a very nice app portal and they keep us updated about changes. I really appreciate that they too understand we are anticipating updates periodically.

Good luck Guys !!

Appreciate the feedback!
Good to know that they are not done reviewing the apps.
Hopefully my status changes soon as well.
Good luck to those who are still waiting!

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Preparing for Round 2 and..... I can't find my song!!!!
How did you R1 applicants find yours?

Thanks guys!
I know that I have to find the song that expresses me best, but I'm not really into music so I don't know many songs..
I wish there were a site that categorized music based on the contents of lyrics... not the genre...

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Well, me neither, I just surf and sometimes something I find attractive and just add it to my list. Try to look through the list of Indie groups, you may find something really brilliant there. I don't know your taste, but check out these bands and look through their lyrics, maybe something will catch your eye:

Arctic Monkeys
Coldplay
The Guggenheim Grotto,
Bebe Balck (I liked "Never Forget" and Deathwish")

and many many others of that kind. =)

And by the way, this particular song from OST Breaking Bad was really great: Black.

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This essay is supposed to be fun...it should be fun to write and fun for the adcoms to read. I wouldn't over-think or over-analyze the essay, just think about a few songs you like, see if any relate to who you are, and enjoy writing an essay that's less 'serious' than most other ones.

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anyone based in Great China got the interview yet? just logged in to check and my status is still in Stage 1.i.e" ready for review" rather than "is under review"..

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FROM Haas Admissions Blog: Haas Trivia Contest Day 1

Part I: Through which experiential learning course did Wells Fargo engage students to develop recommendations for cost-effective and scalable solutions to double retirement accounts? (Hint: An MBA graduate was hired by Wells Fargo as a result of this course!)

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Just got my interview invitation. I am based in Singapore.

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anyone based in Great China got the interview yet? just logged in to check and my status is still in Stage 1.i.e" ready for review" rather than "is under review"..

I'm based in China and right now I'm at the "application under review" stage

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Just got my interview invitation. I am based in Singapore.

Congrats Ramdonwalk! Few questions:

When did ur app move to the under review stage (the one with ready to review) and did it change to stage 2? Also, what does the status say right now?

werfancy, I unfortunately did not track the status changes. I had wrongly interpreted the status change stages and had been tracking the remarks section which used to say "bring the transcripts along during interview" instead of the statuses themselves. :roll:

My current status is "interview and review".

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If it's at all helpful -

Stage 2 Review: Nov. 12
Interview Invitation: Nov. 26

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If it's at all helpful -

Stage 2 Review: Nov. 12
Interview Invitation: Nov. 26

Go123, did you submit the GMAT or the GRE? I'm wondering if anyone's submitted the GRE instead of the GMAT and gotten an interview...

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If it's at all helpful -

Stage 2 Review: Nov. 12
Interview Invitation: Nov. 26

Go123, did you submit the GMAT or the GRE? I'm wondering if anyone's submitted the GRE instead of the GMAT and gotten an interview...

Just GMAT

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I'm an international applicant and haven't received an interview invite yet...
How worried should I be?

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So I logged into the account, it says my application is under review but when I click on the status description and it keeps saying an error occurred. Should I be worried?!

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Only 9% of applicants on this forum have reported either an invite to interview or an interview. Haas admissions people say they usually interview around 25% of applicants. Am I missing something? I think we have a whole lot more invites to go. Way too early to lose hope! If I don't hear from admissions by Christmas, I will allow myself to lose hope then