Wharton 2013 - Calling All Applicants

Ok thanks, sorry, my nerves are getting the best of me. Keep refreshing Gmail every half hour at work.
Appreciate it all.

partially because all rejections recommended by the committee will have to be vetted by Ankur prior to being final... so rejections won't come until the last day. However, unless she is in the mood to go against the recommendation of the committee, there will be more rejections than invitations going out on the last day. Not that I am encouraging anyone to do this (because it's pointless), but I agree that if you don't get something by Thursday, you can pretty much count yourself out, and think about whether you should focus on other schools/applications.

I agree that there will be more rejections than invitations on Friday because there are simply more people that are going to be rejected anyway. I think we should all just relax. I am checking the website every 10 minutes as well.... So don't think I'm not panicking. I'm just not going to allow myself to spiral down the rabbit hole quite yet.

Lets cross our collective fingers and toes, wear lucky underwear, put socks on in that special way and do a lucky dance because at the end of the day, it may not help (or maybe it will...) with the final decision, but it will keep you sane for the next few days.

this thread has been pretty quiet for the past few days without anyone posting interview invites... did anyone hear anything this week?

I have a very close friend who received his invite last year on the LAST day of the window. You're not out until you receive a ding letter. Quit speculating and wait until they update your status.

With all of our wishing and hoping, it's also important to note that last year the largest invitation wave went out on the final notification day (Friday, Nov. 11th last year). According to the stats from last year, the biggest invitation waves were 10, 10, and then 15 (a 50% increase!). If the prior data is any indication of future performance, there are still a lot of invites to go out. Keep wishing.

I personally know a current Wharton MBA student who got her invitation on the last day, last year

Yeah, its far from impossible to still get accepted. I don't buy the fact that Ankur is going to spend the next 3 days rejecting the 1,000 or so applicants who dont make it. She just doesnt have the time, its impossible. The fact is some of us are already dinged and just dont know it. They officially ding everyone at the same time and send out the last invites at the same time (probably around 4pm last day such as last yr).. If Ankur does have the last say, she has been deciding the fates of people since back in October.

Some are already dinged. But hopefully its none of us. At the same time, I bet there are people who got invitations on the first read still left dangling out there, and they just havent been invited yet due to logistics, timing, proximity to the school. Maybe they go by major, or undergrad school, or industry, or geography, or by letter of your middle name, or last name, or first name, or left handedness, or if you wear contacts or not. No one knows the system, lets just let it play out.

I feel you guys on freaking out and checking the inbox. In a few months it will all be over. A lucky portion of us will have impressed one admissions committee. Best of luck to all!

Don't lose hope guys. I just received an invite. What are the odds that the email would pop up exactly at the time that I am going through the forums and the Wharton website trying to figure out if something is updated?

Just at the exact moment that I forgot all about it, I received an invite!

Congrats to both of you!!

Invited!

Yay huntzman!! Very happy to see you got the invite. Good luck with your interview.

Also invited

also invited! I was losing hope..

Interesting to note that 3 out of the 5 people (including myself) who have been invited today have listed their industry as Energy and Utilities. Are we seeing a trend in terms of how the decisions are coming out?

you are all US too (except Mbagotime, who chooses not to list).. perhaps all northeast too?