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To Teutonic and Lumone: good luck with your JBS apps! :gl
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Thanks!

Unfortunately, looks like I am probably out for the Open Day. :( I will probably be heading to Oxford the week after, however.
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Teutonic,

Have you received a confirmation email from JBS?

I haven't yet. My recommenders told me that their email message was read. But I submitted my application from my yahoo email account, and I do not have the settings "show when message is read".
Could you let me know? I'll post a message here as soon as they confirm.

BTW, only 2 gmatclubbers applied for JBS R 1.5?
6 applied in R1...
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Oxbridge 2009 applicants Updated on: 23 Nov 2008, 14:28
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Yes, I received an email confirmation. I thought I remembered reading that I would get emails after my recommendations were submitted as well, but nothing on that end.

Here's what I got:

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Dear prashok

Thank you for your application to the Cambridge MBA.

Your application is now complete and ready for consideration by the Admissions Committee. Approximately four to five weeks after the application deadline for this round, we will notify you regarding the decision on your application.

If you have any queries, please contact mba-admissions@jbs.cam.ac.uk.
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Count me in for R1.5

I got an email saying that my application is complete.
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Still no news from JBS...
:? :?
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Still no news from JBS...
:? :?
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No confirmation email yet?! I would probably check with them -- they should have sorted through the applications emails by now, I hope...

Speaking of news, has anyone heard back on Oxford interview dates? I sent my preferences, but still haven't heard if I'm confirmed yet...

(this is teutonic9, BTW -- I changed my username)
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Hi Prashok (or Teutonic ... yes, I was surprised at first when I saw your new name :) )

I sent my preferences to Ox on the very day I received the invitation, and, after I waited patiently for 3 business days, still got nothing. Then I started to worry and sent another email (on Thursday last week), explaining that I was worrying that my previous one was lost. I got a reply almost immediately, and the Adcom said that they received my first letter, but were still working on arranging the interview date and time (I asked for 28 Nov, in person). Later that day I received confirmation that my date was approved.

So it seems they had too many applications for R1, and now experience some problems sorting our preferences. But if you did not receive anything for more than a week after your initial email, I think you could write them again. Who knows, maybe your email was lost or something.

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Still no news from JBS...
:? :?

No confirmation email yet?! I would probably check with them -- they should have sorted through the applications emails by now, I hope...

Speaking of news, has anyone heard back on Oxford interview dates? I sent my preferences, but still haven't heard if I'm confirmed yet...

(this is teutonic9, BTW -- I changed my username)
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I have sent them an email yesterday night to check whether they have received my application and am awaiting to hear from them...
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Hi Prashok (or Teutonic ... yes, I was surprised at first when I saw your new name :) )

I sent my preferences to Ox on the very day I received the invitation, and, after I waited patiently for 3 business days, still got nothing. Then I started to worry and sent another email (on Thursday last week), explaining that I was worrying that my previous one was lost. I got a reply almost immediately, and the Adcom said that they received my first letter, but were still working on arranging the interview date and time (I asked for 28 Nov, in person). Later that day I received confirmation that my date was approved.

So it seems they had too many applications for R1, and now experience some problems sorting our preferences. But if you did not receive anything for more than a week after your initial email, I think you could write them again. Who knows, maybe your email was lost or something.

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Thanks greenoak! I just received my confirmation today, so looks like I'm set. Interview is for the new in-person session in San Francisco, though. I expressed interest in on-campus interviews at Oxford or the SF session, but in retrospect, I probably should have focused on just the on-campus sessions, since I still want to visit.

I'll probably email the office and see if I can visit the campus during one of the drop-in sessions instead...
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Still no news from JBS...
:? :?

No confirmation email yet?! I would probably check with them -- they should have sorted through the applications emails by now, I hope...

Speaking of news, has anyone heard back on Oxford interview dates? I sent my preferences, but still haven't heard if I'm confirmed yet...

(this is teutonic9, BTW -- I changed my username)

I have sent them an email yesterday night to check whether they have received my application and am awaiting to hear from them...
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And I have received an email that my application is considered for R 1.

I assume they mean R 1.5
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Huuhh, admitted to Judge :) I've just received an e-mail. Good luck with your applications, girls and guys.
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Huuhh, admitted to Judge :) I've just received an e-mail. Good luck with your applications, girls and guys.
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Congrats!!! Are you going to accept the offer?
By the way, how much is the deposit and how long do you have to accept?

Responses for R 1.5: interview, ding or waitlist should come in the next few days.
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Huuhh, admitted to Judge :) I've just received an e-mail. Good luck with your applications, girls and guys.
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Congrats Pathfinder! :woohoo

And good luck to everyone else awaiting final decisions for Cambridge R1!
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Good luck to all Cambridge applicants, and huge congrats to Pathfinder!!! (Although I've already send them :) )

Alas, no good news for me - I was put on the waitlist. So I guess me and Buffdaddy are today in the same situation: hoping and waiting. I know that in my particular case chances are not good at all: being waitlisted after the interview means that they did not like precisely _me_, and not my stats. It was really painful to learn that, but again - nobody to blame except from myself.

Anyways, I will fight till the end! Good luck to you all again, friends!
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Thanks Lumone.

I don't know whether I am going to accept the offer, depends on the results of my applications to Wharton and Yale SOM. I was already interviewed for Wharton, so I am sitting and waiting, although now waiting is much, much, much easier.

Regarding deposit and everything else, I don't know. Official papers shall be sent in next couple of days where all the details should be displayed.

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Huuhh, admitted to Judge :) I've just received an e-mail. Good luck with your applications, girls and guys.

Congrats!!! Are you going to accept the offer?
By the way, how much is the deposit and how long do you have to accept?

Responses for R 1.5: interview, ding or waitlist should come in the next few days.
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Huuhh, admitted to Judge :) I've just received an e-mail. Good luck with your applications, girls and guys.

Congrats Pathfinder! :woohoo

And good luck to everyone else awaiting final decisions for Cambridge R1!
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Thanks mate. I wish you all the best with your applications.
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Greenoak...

This is terrible, terrible news. Damn, this morning have started much worse than the previous one. My sorry is even greater knowing how strong your commitment was to JBS and Said.

I hope that Oxford will be able too see your indisputable qualities.
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Congrats pathfinder!!!

But I also send my condolences to Greenoak. Don't worry hang in there! I am doing the same although your waitlist position is a LOT better than my waitlist position.

i so wish this MBA application phase comes to an end one day!
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Congrats pathfinder!!!

But I also send my condolences to Greenoak. Don't worry hang in there! I am doing the same although your waitlist position is a LOT better than my waitlist position.

i so wish this MBA application phase comes to an end one day!
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Thanks fellow, I'm certain that you will get accepted elsewhere, so don't worry about JBS.
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I would just like to give you some insights from the Oxford MBA open day that I attended last week.

My start to the day was a bit tricky as I missed the early train from London to Oxford and the "on-time" train was running 15 Mins late. But I got there just in the nick of time and was amongst the last batch of people to sign in. For some reason, SBS's superb marketing team had a slip up - they had spelt my last name incorrectly and used it as my first name. So my name infact read (duddybuff) - go figure. A minor gaffe, however all day I had to explain to other students and staff what my name really was when they kept calling me duddy.


Jokes aside - The day was kicked off by the meet and greet before hand, where I met greekoak. It was awesome to put a face to a name!
A presentation from the adcom followed shortly after. Interestingly they said last year they got 20% more applications than the year before and this year in R1, applications were about 15% up. Also interesting they said that they interview about 60% of applicants and "about the same" percentage get an admit from the interviewed applicants. So I guess an admit % of 36% roughly.

Next was a lecture sit-in. Greenoak and I sat in on the Decision Science lecture. I felt that the start of the lecture was going rather slowly. The lecturer was taking a while to come to conclusions while a few students were checking emails and surfing facebook. I figured that this was a core class and he needed to make sure that he doesn't rush through the probability concepts akin to "decision making". He did however do a good job in keeping the class entertained, despite the dry subject matter. The last half of the class was VERY interesting when he introduced robust business concepts to the mathematical material. Where this class lacked in comparison to the lecture I sat in on in February, was the class interaction. There wasn't much of it. I feel that this was the case purely because of the subject matter.

After the class we got to meet a student panel. Many of the questions directed at the students were about the collegiate student life. If you guys have specific questions about this let me know, as I feel many of the answers were the same as those that can be seen on many Oxford MBA blogs.

At lunch we got to mix and mingle with some of these students and I took the opportunity to ask a couple of specific questions to a student from Romania.

After the lunch session, we got a presentation from the MBA director (an ex-Wharton professor). I was impressed by this guy, not because of what he had to say (standard MBA brochure type presentation), but I found him very engaging. I also noticed he was pushing the Oxford Advantage of it's collegiate atmosphere heavily.

The next session was a 30 min presentation by the Career Services director. He was a new hire into the business school and came from a Head of Recruiting position for Barclays Capital. So obviously he knew a thing or two about MBA recruiting into the financial services sector. He basically said that you have to be extremely lucky as a MBA applicant to get a job at IBs at the moment - something obvious but also scary. Next was the famous "percent of the class with job offers 3 months after graduation". After the dizzy mid-90 percentile figures of yesteryear, he said this year will be down but it was too early for this year's figures. The next thing he said was shocking. He compared this year with 2002 when this stat was 73% in the middle of the dot com burst. He said that this year 73% will be optimistic. Goodluck to all graduating in 2008 and 2009. I hope it improves as much as anyone.

Then came a tour of the SBS campus. A modern and comfortable campus it is with plenty of formal and informal spaces.

The day finished as it had begun. The trains were running rather late and I reached home very late and crashed pondering about my R2 app.


-duddy
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