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angelfire213
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Concentration: Marketing
Schools: HEC Sept'16 (A) Cnsrtm-KenanFlagler '17 (A$) Kellogg '17 (M) Cnsrtm-Anderson '17 (A$) Booth '17 (A) Insead Sept '16 (D) CBS '17 (D) Cnsrtm-Ross '17 (A$) Cnsrtm-Stern '17 (D) Cnsrtm-Yale '17 (D) Cnsrtm-Marshall '17 (A) HBS '17 (S)
GPA: 3.4
Updated on: 02 Mar 2015, 14:02
Originally posted by angelfire213 on 02 Mar 2015, 13:52.
Last edited by angelfire213 on 02 Mar 2015, 14:02, edited 1 time in total.
Last edited by angelfire213 on 02 Mar 2015, 14:02, edited 1 time in total.
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i don't have any inside info but I will say UNC was #6 for me and i got a fellowship. Ross was #5 and i got an interview.... Yale was #3 and i was denied no interview...so idk. There might be some element of truth but I don't think it was so cut and dry.
Yale seems to have rejected an unusual number of folks outright (even non cgsm - check out the main yale thread). I think we will find out when the stats are released that their apps went up and with such a small class they were probably uber -selective. I don't know how yours went but my video interview for yale wasn't that great IMO so there's that.
I know someone who ranked NYU #5 and they offered them the deans scholarship to try to steal them away from their #1 ranked...
all this to say, who knows? Look at the dude from Grant me admission - he did everything most people say you need to do yet didn't get in this year. It's possible he was unlucky or there was just something about his story that did not click. Looking at how large the candidate pool is, sometimes it just works out to luck! You'll get in somewhere - as they say all you need is one!
Yale seems to have rejected an unusual number of folks outright (even non cgsm - check out the main yale thread). I think we will find out when the stats are released that their apps went up and with such a small class they were probably uber -selective. I don't know how yours went but my video interview for yale wasn't that great IMO so there's that.
I know someone who ranked NYU #5 and they offered them the deans scholarship to try to steal them away from their #1 ranked...
all this to say, who knows? Look at the dude from Grant me admission - he did everything most people say you need to do yet didn't get in this year. It's possible he was unlucky or there was just something about his story that did not click. Looking at how large the candidate pool is, sometimes it just works out to luck! You'll get in somewhere - as they say all you need is one!
LazyBoy8
I am starting to believe that rankings do play a larger role than I was initially led to believe. I feel pretty strongly that my work experience GPA and GMAT are in the ballpark for the schools I have been dinged from. I believe that yield management -now more than ever- is of particular importance for many schools. The change in the application process that happened recently changed the game. Michigan has already exceeded last year's whole application cycle through round 2. Yale is up 37% YoY through the January round. I think some schools are less willing to take risks this year with people who may balk. It makes sense to me as a business person. As an individual whose pride has been smacked around ehhhh it doesn't make as much sense.
02 Mar 2015, 13:58
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I actually know the guy from Grant Me Admission...he's a stellar applicant, and there isn't any real reason I can see why he was rejected, other than that (this will sound bad, but it's true in this process) he's Asian and his GMAT score was low compared to that demographic. But he should've gotten into at least one of those schools. It might've been a different story had he applied R2 instead of R1 with that same score. Who knows...this game can sometimes be a game of chance. :-/
02 Mar 2015, 14:02
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When you all refer to "Top 15" which rankings are people going by? US News?
I think the consensus is that the schools that are top 15 in the consortium are Tuck, Ross, Haas, NYU, Darden, UCLA, Yale. these schools can afford to be more selective in regard to their interviews and admissions through the consortium than the other member schools. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Those 7 plus Duke and the M7 are considered top 15!
So more than half of the consortium schools are outside of this top 15. But would you all think that most consortium students, regardless of school, would have similar opportunities via OP, consortium alumni support, etc. and should be able to obtain desirable job opportunities? (Outside of maybe the top 3 consulting firms (MBB) and bulge bracket banking opportunities (GS, JPM))
. Good luck to those of you that interviewed a while back! 
