McCombs (UT Austin) 2013 Calling All Applicants

Nothing for me yet either. Previous rounds sent the dings at midnight on the night (or morning) before the decision date if I recall correctly.

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Sorry, can you clarify - so you were on the waitlist last week, emailed, and then they accepted you?
Did they ask you for any more information/material?

So I received a midnight ding email. All those who haven't heard back should call admissions if you don't hear back till late afternoon. If you were to be dinged you should have been with me I think!

Best of luck to those still in the game!

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Interesting. Not sure why all Dings are not sent out at the same time. Maybe they want to WL me w/o interview? Will surely call in couple hours.

Good luck to all those dinged, WLed, or still waiting. I can only imagine they filled most of the slots in R1 and R2 and you were vying for a small number of remaining seats. My guess is we will start seeing people move off the waitlist right after April 18th, and then another batch in May.

I wonder how WL candidates from one round compare with the other. Does Adcom first get done with the WLed candidates from R1 and R2 before focusing on R3? Curious

Um... to all those waiting to hear back... guess what, I just got the following email from AdCom:

"Thank you for reaching out to us. Your application is good to go and is still being reviewed. While we work to get all decisions out today it is tough! We should have an answer for you by mid-week next week. Thanks for your patience and good luck!

Regards..."

Wow that's crazy. Well since you haven't been dinged or waitlisted so far, hopefully it means your chances are pretty good. Kinda frustrating that they're pushing the decision date back on you though.

Odd that so many of you Dallas residents are getting WLed as well? I got waitlisted a few weeks ago in the Consortium round, just sent in my updates + video by the 4/1 deadline. Though I am in San Francisco, so who knows.

Fingers crossed for everyone.

The video interview was 3 questions, with a 90 seconds time limit for each response...for a total 4 minutes and 30 seconds MAX. I was expecting about a half hour!

First question: why would you be a good fit with McCombs?
Second question: what would you change about the McCombs curriculum?
Third question: what clubs would you like to join?

It was really odd for me to not have the instant feedback from seeing an interviewer's reactions and no ability to interact. Also, your computer displays how you look in your video, so it's like dictating an essay into a mirror. I felt quite awkward, while I'm quite comfortable in face-to-face interviews.

I thought that the video interview would be my chance to jump onto the accepted list, but it was a strange experience that didn't leave me feeling confident.

Good luck to you other waitlistees.

Just did my video interview after making R2 waitlist with in-person interview. There were 3 questions @ 90 seconds each (as stated by prior poster). Once you start, you have to finish. So for those who don't read these forums and may not have had a head start in prepping, I have to wonder what the quality of their responses were (or what the admissions committee is expecting). I had the above 3 questions as my reference point so I was able to have somewhat coherent answers.

My questions were similar to the above poster's, but one was different.

1- Why is the Texas MBA program the right program for you?
2- Based on what you now know, if you could change one thing about the curriculum or student life, what would it be?
3- Where do you see yourself working in 10 years and why