Stanford GSB 2013 - Calling all Applicants

The whole story is getting ridiculous...where are all the invites?

I think it went well, although it wasn't what I was expecting overall. I'd prepared for a bunch of behavioral questions, but I think I was only asked two: a success-type story and a failure-type story. The interviewer broke in a lot and took the conversation in a different direction frequently, so I didn't get to tell complete stories. All of the "big" questions were very predictable, but the follow-ups were very pointed and specific--not things I could have prepared for.

We talked a lot about topics that weren't directly related to my experiences or future plans, which I assume was either to see if I seemed like an overall intelligent person, or because the interviewer just liked talking about those things. Unless I've just totally forgotten, I also don't think they ever specifically asked why I wanted to go to Stanford / get an MBA, so I had to work that into various tangents.

Basically, I came away from it feeling like the interviewer just wanted to talk to me and see if I seemed like a normal person who could converse intelligently on a range of topics, including my field of interest.

Is Stanford even sending the invite?? I dont see beside handfull of people declaring they got the invite. What is happening- either people are not reporting or Stanford is not sending it. So people what it is ? Any guesses?

Just got my interview invite!!! Am thrilled, especially after my HBS ding last week!

congrats! did you get it through email?

Yep! Email came at 4:07 CST today!

Congrats!

Also, random, but I noticed that you and I are in exactly the same boat regarding both the schools we've applied to and the decisions we've gotten so far... Weird! Anyhow, good luck!

So funny - clearly HBS is missing out on both of us What's your background/geography? I'm at an MBB in the Midwest.

Best of luck to you, too!

Congrats! This is fantastic news! Best of luck to your interviews!

And hope the rest of us waiting also get some good news soon...

Haha, definitely! I'm in the Midwest also, and I work in public sector consulting.

Received an invite as well. Came in about 530 ET today (I'm domestic). They're only just starting to pick up. I know current students who got invites as late as March 14 (equivalent), so unfortunately it's just a long waiting game... Best of luck to everyone.

I'll think again the common belief that GSB steal a large portion of HBS admit...So it is possible they really have different eyes for candidates?

Alright, this made me wonder... Apparently, they are looking for different things in some cases. But here are the numbers, according to poetsandquants (I added the "not enrolled" line")

Stanford
Applicants: 7,204
Accepted: 488
% Accepted: 6.8%
Enrolled: 389
Not enrolled: 99
Yield: 79.7%

Harvard
Applicants: 9,524
Accepted: 1,071
% Accepted: 11.2%
Enrolled: 903
Not enrolled: 168
Yield: 84.3%

Stanford's not going to steal a huge portion of anything, because it's just too small, but assuming that all 168 of the people that turned down HBS went to Stanford, that would be around 19% of HBS's admits.

However, what's perhaps more interesting is that both schools together got a total of 267 not-enrolleds. Assuming that all refusals to one of these schools was to go to the other one (not true, of course, but as a very rough estimate), that would mean that only 267 people got into both schools--which would be 55% of Stanford's admits and 25% of HBS's. So a lot more Stanford admits would have been accepted at HBS than vice versa... but 45% still wouldn't have. (Unless I've done something crazy with my math here.) Food for thought?

ETA: This of course has very little bearing on anyone's chances of getting into both if they apply to both, since the people who apply to one definitely don't always apply to the other. Just talking about how much overlap there would be at the end of the day.

You are awesome!

I'll think again the common belief that GSB steal a large portion of HBS admit...So it is possible they really have different eyes for candidates?[/quote]

Just looking at my friends around me, it does appear that way.... Most people I know got accepted/ interviewed by Harvard but did not even get an invite from Stanford...

There is some overlap but not as much as people think.

Got the invite! 5:30pm ET today, east coast applicant. Similar to previous posts, it definitely made my day after the ding from HBS last week.