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Rankings (2012 GMAT Club Rankings Table) US News 2011 #7 Entrepreneurship #6 Executive MBA #9 Finance #8 International #10 Management #9 Marketing #8 Nonprofit #2 Part-time MBA #2 Bloomberg Businessweek #8 Financial Times #4 The Economist #6 Historical GMAT Club Applicant Threads Fall 2012 - Calling All UC Berkeley Haas Applicants Fall 2011 - Calling All UC Berkeley Haas Applicants Fall 2010 - Calling All UC Berkeley Haas Applicants Fall 2009 - Calling All UC Berkeley Haas Applicants Fall 2008 - Calling All UC Berkeley Haas Applicants Fall 2007 - Calling All UC Berkeley Haas Applicants Popular Links Programs Offered at UC Berkeley Haas UC Berkeley Haas Employment Reports Prominent Faculty Notable Alumni 2011 Employment Report https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/careers/employmentreports.html Top Programs Finance Program: https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/finance.html Marketing Program: https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/marketing.html Management of Organizations: https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/mors.html Entrepreneurship: https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/entrepreneurship.html Global Management: https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/globalmanagement.html Nonprofit and Public Leadership: https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/nonprofit.html Application Deadlines Round 1: October 17, 2012 | Decision Date: January 10, 2013 Round 2: November 29, 2012| Decision Date: February 21, 2013 Round 3: January 16, 2013 | Decision Date: April 11, 2013 Round 4: March 12, 2013| Decision Date: May 16, 2013 Consortium Deadlines: Round 1 November 15, 2012 | Decision Date: March 14, 2013 Round 2 January 5, 2013 | Decision Date: March 14, 2013 Admission Essays: At Berkeley-Haas, our distinctive culture is defined by four key principles — Question the status quo; Confidence without attitude; Students always; and Beyond yourself. We seek candidates from a broad range of cultures, backgrounds, and industries who demonstrate a strong cultural fit with our program and defining principles. Please use the following essays as an opportunity to reflect on and share with us the values, experiences, and accomplishments that have helped shape who you are.(Learn more about Berkeley-Haas' Defining Principles). 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 when you questioned an established practice or thought within an organization. How did your actions create positive change? (250 word maximum) 4. Describe a time when you were a student of your own failure. What specific insight from this experience has shaped your development? (250 word maximum) 5.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 5a. and 5b.) Supplemental information 1. If you have not provided a letter of recommendation from your current supervisor, please explain; otherwise, enter N/A. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Please explain all gaps in your employment since earning your university degree. 5. 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 1. (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) 2. (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. 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lilmo

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21 Dec 2012, 01:53

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I read this on the haas mba blog

When will Round 2 interview invitations start?
We are in the early stages of reviewing Round 2 applications. Interview invitations will start going out the first week of January, and will continue through the Round 2 decision deadline of March 1, 2012.

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21 Dec 2012, 07:34

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Interviewed last night off-campus with an alum. Went alright, not great.

Questions:
Walk me through your resume
Tell me about a time you directed strategy.
How will you fit into the Haas community?
Why MBA?
What will you bring to the community?
Any questions?

Overall, just eh. Thankfully I have Booth so I don't have to fret.

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21 Dec 2012, 12:51

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I feel like Haas' admissions tactics are beginning to annoy a lot of people....

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23 Dec 2012, 23:51

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are there any Canadians out there who have received an interview invitation?

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25 Dec 2012, 05:27

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Any Indian women applicants out there who got an interview invite from Haas?? or anybody who already interviewed with them??

I am a round 2 applicant, and my application is in "currently under review" status since Dec 20th. One of my recommenders took longer to finish my recommendation form due to which my application was "Incomplete" for some time.

I am from Engineering background with 8 years of WE, working at client locations in US since 2007. Wondering if anybody from similar background has got an interview invite.

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26 Dec 2012, 03:32

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Had my interview with an alum last week and it went so well it's making me reconsider my admit at Booth if I were to get into Haas. The agony is killing me.

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26 Dec 2012, 11:18

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Congrats, I would definitely pick Haas over Booth, but that's just me.

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hi all, consortium round 1 applicant (which falls into haas's normal round 2), 740 / 3.3 / mixed 4 yrs of finance/nonprofit/retail experience, received the invite to super saturday last week. really, really looking forward to it & hope to see some of you there!

good luck to all

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26 Dec 2012, 22:55

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Congrats, I would definitely pick Haas over Booth, but that's just me.

Tell me your reasons! :-D

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26 Dec 2012, 23:21

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Sure thing. Well I love California, and would much rather spend 2 years in the Bay Area than Chicago. I actually plan to move there once I'm done with ucla. 2nd, Haas just had an amazing vibe, whereas Chicago seemed to be pretty dorky. 3rd, Haas seemed to be much more entrepreneurial in nature. 4th, it is a lot, lot harder to get into Haas because of the small class size, so it's much easier for ad com to build a cohesive (and thus, closer) class.

Of course, I'm biased as although I'm practically dinged from Haas, it would have been my top choice out of all the schools I applied to. :-D

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Interesting! I definitely agree with you on the CA vs Chicago thing. Been in CA my whole life and sometimes I just worry if I'll freeze to death in Chicago haha. I agree on a lot of your points BUT I feel like I have to defend the Booth students and alumni I met, they definitely did not feel nerdy at all. Actually very welcoming and friendly, as if the Midwestern friendliness rubbed off on them haha.

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Updated on: 28 Dec 2012, 00:53

Originally posted by Shawshank on 27 Dec 2012, 02:13.
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We will have to agree to disagree. Booth may have a stronger applicant pool from the finance guys, but I doubt that's true across the board.

Chicago is alright, but nothing like a coastal city IMO. And the winters are awful.

I believe people, especially on GC, greatly exaggerate the differences between the top 15-20 schools. Agreed that H, S, and to a lesser extent W, are a cut above, but the rest are pretty interchangeable depending on the candidate's goals, living preference, and scholarship offers.

Then again, you are the guy who jerks it to brand name, so you would be the last person I'd take advice from! All due respect of course.

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Updated on: 28 Dec 2012, 00:52

Originally posted by Shawshank on 27 Dec 2012, 13:18.
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Okay guys, calm down. No need to get into a junk measuring contest over schools. We all have preferences and not everyone's preferences aligns with Businessweek or US News rankings. Finance "rockstars" are not the sole measuring stick of what makes a great bschool. Nor are acceptance rates the end all and be all in selectivity. Please do not turn GC into the **** that is WSO.

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Sure if I was going for MC or finance, I would go with booth over those schools. If I like healthcare, I go fuqua. If I like hospitality management, I go Cornell.

B schools admissions is such a crapshoot. I've seen people get into hbs, but dinged from sloan. In at booth, rejected from stern. Granted these were not mc or finance people. I'm in finance, but don't want to go back. I have no interest in Mc. If i did, Anderson would not have been the best choice. You have to remember there are more options than mc or finance. Unfortunately many don't. I fully understand applicant pools, yield, and their effect on acceptance rates. It's not a very nice thing to say, but in my anecdotal experience, a lot of people attended booth/kellogg over others that may have been a better choice in hindsight because of their "M7" status. I know this is not the case for everyone who attends, so don't misinterpret what I'm saying.

Refer to rhymes reflection post for more information regarding b school prestige and career advancement.

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Fair enough. I agree with cheetah though that we don't want this thread to distract from the overall discussion of Haas. I just disagreed strongly with some of your assessment, but we just have to agree that there's multiple ways of looking at this.