McCombs Waitlist Discussion: 2018 Intake; Class of 2020!

Also I bet it’s number 2. McCombs yield was no different than any other schools in the 15-20 rank so I bet they got a higher yield this year. I live in Austin so I can wait. Sucks if you are planning a move

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Tend to agree with both your situations. While logically it looks like its the 2nd scenario, I've actually spent a ton of time checking this site and clearadmit over the past few months. On clearadmit, there are hardly any posts of people going to McCombs on Decisionwire. On this site, I've probably checked (read: stalked) almost every profile who's been admitted and I remember there being very few people who were actually going to pick McCombs. This was either from their post history or the fact that they've chosen that they're matriculating elsewhere. Obviously this data isn't representative, but I definitely did not see a very high yield.

Also, the current class of 2020 group on Facebook has about 260 people, but this includes adcom, people who joined the group before the Round 1 decisions and people who got admission but haven't taken it either, so take that info however you want to.

My situation: international, waitlisted in R1, stayed in touch, shared a letter of interest, a couple of transcripts and retook my GMAT. Doesn't really look good, I hope its situation 1, but logically it seems like its 2. Even with all the checking I've done, the fact is if their yield was exceptionally low they'd probably be admitting people off the waitlist early so that they don't lose out on good candidates. It is what it is I guess.

Everyone's reasons for scenario 2 being likely make sense, i.e. dinging waitlisters, admitting low #'s in R3 and pushing the waitlist admit decision timeline back.

However, I can't get past the fact that AvalonQQ brings up, which is that anecdotally, McCombs yield appears low this year. In addition to DecisionWire and their Facebook page, I attended the Tepper Welcome Weekend and I spoke to a surprising number of students who had been admitted to McCombs along with Tepper and every single one turned down McCombs (at least 5 students). Also, with their new Rowling Hall building they are likely to increase their class size this year compared to last (Tepper also built a new building and they are targeting to increase class size by 10 students per Adcom, and they pride themselves on being the smallest class size in the top 20). So I think there is a strong case for Scenario 1.

They wont be increasing class size due to Rowling Hall’s completion. Asked adcom that exact question when I visited and was told no.

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Not sure if you guys will find this useful, but I went back and looked through the admitted people on the decision tracker. These are the results I found based on their applicant status or post history. Please don't judge me lol, I need something to keep me distracted.

Known Matriculating Results:
People matriculating at McCombs - 10
People matriculating elsewhere - 27

Unknown Matriculating Results:
People admitted to a higher ranked school (includes Darden, Fuqua, Ross, Tuck, Haas, M7 & 1 person from LBS) - 14
No info from either the applicant profile or post history - 39

Total: 90

There is 1 waitlist acceptance here, but I'm not sure if its legit so I haven't included it.

Waitlisted from R1. Received a ding earlier today.

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Yup, just got rejected too. Improved GMAT from 710 to 750, wrote a letter, completed some online courses and MBAMAth.

Wasn't expecting to get in, atleast I've done whatever improvements I can for my reapplication. Good luck to you all, hope you get better news than me!

sucks guys. did it come in an email? round 3 deposits were due today so I guess they hit whatever demographic you were in.

Yup, I got an email asking me to check the portal

Man, that sucks, it seems like you did everything you could and 750 is a great score. This is crazy...

Very very crazy. Has anyone been admitted off the waitlist at all? I'm shocked at hearing these outcomes

Now that the shock is wearing off, I'm starting to see that today was a really funny day. My friend was visiting Austin, and called me from there. Seeing the Austin number, I took a few seconds to brace myself and answered the phone super formally. My friend was so confused and thought he was calling the wrong number lmao. Couple of hours later I got the email with the rejection.

Oh, and all this on the 150th day on the waitlist, so there's that

Hope you guys get into your dream B-School and get better news than me! I personally will be taking a week off and am getting right back to essays for next year's applications, I've clearly got some holes in my story that need to be fixed.

Deposits are in. How long until they start reaching out to people about their interest?

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Yeah at this point who knows... for those of us remaining we’re in uncharted territory. I’m continually expecting word any day now.


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just got the ding. have other options and actually feel kind of relieved. good luck to everyone waiting

Where you going?

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You international?

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