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Indian applicant.
Waiver recd on 15th
Skype interview mail recd on 20th.
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Indian applicant.
Waiver recd on 15th
Skype interview mail recd on 20th.

Feel so envy...
would you pls share your bg?? thanks...
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Indian applicant.
Waiver recd on 15th
Skype interview mail recd on 20th.

Likewise!
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Hi..Kellogg has not mentioned the font/ margins/ type of document (PDF or Word) in their essay section of the application. Can anyone share the best practices ..:)

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Yet another anxious international applicant waiting for interview invite after I received waiver on Nov 12. I am a MMM applicant. Any MMM applicants received interview invite ?
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FROM Kellogg MBA Blog: The JV Experience: Evanston Life

Evanston in the Fall

So where do we live in America? It’s this cozy suburb of the metropolitan city of Chicago called—just Evanston. Snug away from the hustle bustle of the city, it’s a quiet town that houses Northwestern University. The Kellogg School of Management is located very close to downtown Evanston, and if you happen to live in the Northwestern Apartments called McManus (especially reserved for only Kellogg residents), you will find yourself bang opposite the Orrington Hilton Hotel in the center of downtown Evanston.

Local Spots

Pubs like JTs, Prairie Moon and Tommy Nevin’s will become your midnight hangout dens. You will find yourself eating at Panera Bread, Giordano’s Pizza and Chipotle a lot! The Evanston Public Library is right next to McManus and the membership is free! For JVs who don’t work (and this bit of information will be really helpful) you can issue up to 75 books/movie DVDs at one time (again, all for free!) for your constant entertainment! Citibank and Chase will be your local banks, and you will take the Metra to downtown Chicago very often! For the health freaks, there is LA Fitness gym, pilates and barre classes. Lots of organic food is also on sale at Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s. A Jewel Osco in the proximity makes life quite easy as well!

The Weather

The weather is generally very bipolar. It swings 10 degrees Celsius in just a day sometimes. We have seen temperatures as low as -2 degree Celsius already, and it’s just October! Lake Michigan has awesome parks alongside it for evening jogs, but the icy cold winds ensure that you layer up before stepping out! There are lots of dog beaches for pet owners, too. Fall season is pretty scenic and could be a photography enthusiast’s delight. Yellow lights from downtown Chicago light up the evening sky.


Evanston Beach

The City

The city is pretty safe (a bunch of us girls have walked back safely to our apartments at 1 a.m. after a movie). Uber cab service is recommended by Dean Blount for nearby travel. Clothes and apparel are easily available. The city should be a joyride for people seeking some peace and solitude from the shimmers of noisy big cities! Some find it dull, but the many events at and around Kellogg make it an engaging and enriching journey. Definitely one that all should get a chance to experience! In a nutshell—we love Evanston (until we find a job, at least!).

Yashika Khanna is an international JV from New Delhi, India. Before she started whiling away time in Evanston while her husband studied at Kellogg, she was a Television News Producer and a journalist. She has degrees in television journalism, commerce and business.

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Finally got the waiver mail. Indian applicant. The wait for the next mail begins.
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Has anyone received a decision notification yet? the website says the last day of notifications is 18th Dec - which I presume means they will start sending out decsions well before then? Anyone has an ETA - just trying my luck here
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Has anyone received a decision notification yet? the website says the last day of notifications is 18th Dec - which I presume means they will start sending out decsions well before then? Anyone has an ETA - just trying my luck here

My interviewer (an adcom member) said that I would hear "on or around December 18th." I'd be very surprised if they started notifying people before the start of that week.
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I received my waiver last Wednesday and it's already more than week...
Does this mean it's over since I found that the time to get an interview after waiver is generally less than one week....
Could anyone answer this? Thanks a looooooooot...
Kellogg is my dream school, so sad about this...
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How can I know if interviewer has submitted the interview report?. Will the status on the Check application status page change from "Submitted" to something else?
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desiexpat, I don't think it changes. Mine still shows "submitted" even though I interviewed about a month ago. Good to know that others are seeing the same thing!
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desiexpat, I don't think it changes. Mine still shows "submitted" even though I interviewed about a month ago. Good to know that others are seeing the same thing!

this is correct. Kellogg's app system does not change or update after interview. Seeing the same thing
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FROM Kellogg MBA Blog: Kellogg Business Design Challenge Recap: Breaking the Mold

My KBDC Team

My classmates and I largely come from structured backgrounds: consultants, investment bankers, marketers, engineers, the list goes on. We’re used to identifying and scoping problems and working with teams to create solutions. #oldhat. The beautiful thing about business school is that it gives you the opportunity to expand beyond the norm and explore new ways of tackling challenges.

I recently participated in the annual Kellogg Business Design Challenge (KBDC), which offered me the opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and tear all of those familiar problem-solving steps to the ground. KBDC is an annual competition that leverages the principles of user-centric design to solve a real-life client issue. This year’s challenge was to help executives from Hyatt think about how hotel loyalty is changing in today’s economy, and how they can capitalize on emerging trends to create more genuine connections with their guests. In total over 100 Kellogg students formed ~25 teams to participate in the competition.

As part of the challenge we had access to leading design and innovation thinkers from firms such as Gravity Tank. They led us through a series of workshops that pushed us to think about the prompt in different ways. Starting with design and user research, we then learned about prototyping, how to synthesize our field research and finally how to craft a compelling story. Special attention to that last point: a compelling story is nothing like you’re used to if you come from a traditional business background. In my structured past as a consultant I felt comfortable presenting a logical deck that was supported by research, data and overly complex powerpoint slides. While some of these elements exist in a compelling pitch (research and data…leave the complex slides for the archive), in order to be effective you have to hit the audience on an emotive level. Truly inspired thinking has to pull the audience to innovations that they have never considered before, and that requires a different kind of story to take them there.

The contest culminated with 5 finalist teams presenting to executives from Hyatt and a high-energy crowd of Kellogg peers. While our team felt confident that we had developed interesting insights and a compelling re-thinking of the loyalty experience, we weren’t sure how well it would resonate with the Hyatt team. Design and innovation is inherently disconfirming; what makes sense to you at the start is not where you end up because the entire focus is on creating a breakthrough idea. While my team had undertaken that journey to understanding, we now had the tough task of getting others to buy-in.


Presenting at KBDC

When it was our turn to present I couldn’t help but reflect on how we had gotten there. Every slide or insight we talked through, while well-polished on the surface, was in my mind still standing on a billowing cloud of chalk dust from the frantic whiteboarding that we had wrestled with. As my teammates—Ann and Ariel—smoothly walked through their sections of the pitch, I was called back to the hours of back-and-forth debates, the mockups that were developed and then scraped, and the crushed coffee cups being tossed into the trash that had helped fuel our efforts.

In the end our team won the competition, which was an incredible validation of our hard work. Reflecting on the experience though, the greatest benefit of this challenge was getting to practice and become (somewhat) competent with these new ways of thinking. We all come to business school to learn how to become more effective business leaders, and challenges such as this one help put that learning into practice with new tools for tackling and solving problems. Also invaluable was the path that Ann, Ari and I had walked down together. I gained an incredible respect for what they were capable of, and battling through the process brought us closer. Friendships like these make challenges like KBDC something bigger, something memorable that we’ll hold on to long after the chalk dust has settled.

Ryan Shain (@RyanShain) is a first year student at Kellogg’s full-time MBA program. Prior to Kellogg he worked in strategy consulting. Ryan is also the co-founder of an eLearning business that has helped over 30,000 clients improve their food safety operations.

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Hi..Can anyone tell that how much (if at all) time do we get to prepare our answer for the video essay question (post the question prompt)?
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Hi..Can anyone tell that how much (if at all) time do we get to prepare our answer for the video essay question (post the question prompt)?

I think I had a minute to prep my answer before it started recording.
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Hi..Can anyone tell that how much (if at all) time do we get to prepare our answer for the video essay question (post the question prompt)?

You get 90 seconds to prepare your answer before it starts recording.
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