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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 09 Mar 2007, 21:22
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Well Done Matt.

Congrats and all the best for the future
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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 09 Mar 2007, 21:41
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Well gang, I used the sniper approach and by the good grace of god it paid off. I have been admitted at the University of Washington with a partial scholarship. UW is a great campus and, thanks to a $150M donation, will be expanding its facilities significantly over the next few years. UW took first place at the Pac10 case competition, ranks #5 in entrepreneurship, has solid ties with the asian business community in the Pac Northwest, doesn't cost a fortune, and also offers top 10 programs in medicine, law, and several other graduate disciplines.

After all said and done, I thought my chances were slim at best because of a very low GMAT score (the school's mean is a 680 and I scored a 500, then retook for a 640). The key is to really nail your essays and show an unusually keen interest in the program.

This thread may help for those of you targeting schools you might consider to be out of your league: https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... r+approach

Regarding the GMAT Club party 2007, I am sorry to have missed you guys (especially Pelihu and U2Lovergirl) in SF. Fact is, I decided to cancel my flights to Indiana and SF to spend an extra week with my family celebrating in the Colorado rockies.

Congrats to everbody else on getting admitted to your target schools. Let's keep the energy alive in this forum over these final few months before matriculation.
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A truly well deserved admit... I am extremely happy for you and know you are going to have an amazing time. You fought for it - heck, you were nuts enough to go 1 for 1 (congrats on being the only gmatclubber here who likely ends up with a 100% admit rate ! LOL) - and you earned it.

A big hearty congratulations. I hope you hang around the forums and dont forget us.
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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 09 Mar 2007, 22:45
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I had full faith in you. Well deserved admit.

Congrats again.....
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Pretty dam good, 1 for 1, congrats, indulge in some Sapporo or whatever your poison is over there!!
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Congrats dude!
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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 10 Mar 2007, 05:40
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Amazing!!!!

I read your post about your GMAT effort. It was truly inspirational
Your success on the admission is equally awesome.
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Great to see this pay off, HUGE congratulations man!
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GMATT73 - after a long and hard fight - congratulations! I still remember your "i'm really depressed" posting :) and look how far you came!

Enjoy your admit, and we hope to keep hearing from you!
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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 10 Mar 2007, 11:35
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MATT...Congrats on the admit.... :-D
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Agree with others :D :).... What a long story that ends very nicely ! :D :)

Congratulations.... :D :)... U diserve it ;) :D :)

PS: I hope to be in the club of 1 school / 1 admit soon ;).... let see... another member is necromonger ;)
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Great news Matt!!! UW was always on my "wish" list... It's a great program and with your snowboarding interests you will enjoy the location as well!!! :-D

CONGRATS!

PS I wondered whatever happened with last night in SF, but celebrated with my friends there anyways!!! However, I am sure we'll meet in Seattle now :-D
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Hey, Matt! I am happy about your admit. Congrats!!!
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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 10 Mar 2007, 17:21
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Matt,

extreme congrats! the sniper approach paid off!

Cheers. L.
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Well Done Matt.

Congrats and all the best for the future
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Back at you jaynayak, give em hell at UNC buddy!
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I had full faith in you. Well deserved admit.

Congrats again.....
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The last I recall, you are in at INSEAD right dahiya? All the best to you and your family. Let's hope you can continue to study while your son sleeps :-D
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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 10 Mar 2007, 19:55
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Great news Matt!!! UW was always on my "wish" list... It's a great program and with your snowboarding interests you will enjoy the location as well!!! :-D

CONGRATS!

PS I wondered whatever happened with last night in SF, but celebrated with my friends there anyways!!! However, I am sure we'll meet in Seattle now :-D
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I really apologize about that U2Lovergirl (and Pelihu also) :cry: . After interviewing, I flew to SLC to visit BYU and received an admissions notification from UW three days later. I then proceeded to check out a couple schools in Illinois and ultimately decided to cancel the SF tour because I was convinced that Seattle is the best place for me to study, work, and eventually raise a family.

You are right, there are numerous places to explore all over the Northwest, including Vancouver BC to the north and Oregon to the south. The Cascades offer descent snow for us fellow boarders/skiers. The summers aren't too hot either.

Another major factor in the decision process is the asian influence in Washington. One in three students at UW are from either China, Japan, or Korea. One in four residents in the Puget Sound area are also asian or of asian descent, which will definately ease my wife's transition and (hopefully) aid in my post MBA job search.

Good luck with your GMAT studies and MBA aspirations. Also, remember that it is your "fit" with the school that is the most important factor that adcoms use to base their decisions.

One final point. I don't know if it was by pure coincidence, but exactly 24 hours after sending a follow up thank you letter to the interviewer, I was accepted. Be sure to employ this tactic when you visit and interview at the school of your choice.
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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 10 Mar 2007, 20:02
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Pretty dam good, 1 for 1, congrats, indulge in some Sapporo or whatever your poison is over there!!
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Thanx johnny. Sapporo isn't a bad brew but nothing holds a candle to Yebisu. Try asking for a bottle of that the next time you go into a really nice sushi bar. Otherwise, we put back a few glasses of "shochu," a form of liquer distilled from sweet potatoes, wheat, or brown sugar. It's pretty strong stuff.

What's your status? Any news yet?
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I hope you hang around the forums and dont forget us.
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After over 5K posts, how can one simply forget a forum like this? Like yourself, I'm a GMATClubber for life.

With your top b-school admit, you should definately stick around as an ambassador.
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ONE application ONE interview ONE admit w/scholarship! 11 Mar 2007, 06:17
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Congrats Matt!! Truly well deserved. You are very hardworking and you have a dogged determination to reach your goals.
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Congrats MATT! Job well-done.

I'm accepted at UW too, but I'm not sure where I'll be going yet. UW has a lot of good things going for it. It has great placement stats since it's the only decent b-school in the region. Seattle is an awesome city. And the students I've met have been pretty bright and friendly.

I wish the school was bigger (more electives, more contacts) and had more well-developed finance program. And the building is pretty shabby, but I guess I can get over that.

Good luck--maybe I'll see you in the fall. Are you going to the admit weekend in a month?
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