Corona COVID-19 Impact on GMAT/MBA [Master Topic]

Can you share a link please to the announcement by Fuqua?

Thanks!

PM'ed you bb. Looks like admitted students are receiving the communication via email.

I got rejections from almost all the B-Schools I was waitlisted in except Simon, I had to decline the Georgetown offer.

Corona has not supported my case either
This is the most unprecedented event of our lives.

My neighbour is quarantined
My state has the least number of cases in the developed states category but the worst part is none of the ones tested positive survived

100 new cases per day in India, and we still have not tested all the people that we have isolated. Chandigarh saw 500,000 immigrants vanish from the airport to dodge the quarantine situation.

India is still in the testing phase and we don't know how many new cases will emerge

If I am to apply an interpolation, Prime Minister launched a 3 month plan for poor people to prevent famine.
Now it only implies that the lock down in India is supposed to go up than stop. If the lock down extends, there will be no visa or international travel involved for at least next 9 months given that everything is pending.

What does remain is the fact that India is a large Business School feeder, especially for Canadian B-schools, where almost half the population is Indian. So if the Lock down extends, what impact will it have on the Business schools that see this tremendous decline in international applications. As far as I can see they extended the deadlines to accommodate more local students and fill the seats at least.

No one knows what will happen, these are desperate times. Stranger times lie ahead

The way I said it I believe that I should end it with
This is Moderator BusinessConquerer, giving you all the creeps

The transcript of the above chat has been posted in the following link. There were a lot of interesting questions like

* Will business schools give less scholarship money because of the impact on endowment funds?
* Should we consider deferral or just not going on an MBA this year?
* Do you think that doing a term online is worth, keeping in mind that an MBA is so much about networking and personal interaction?
* Do you think R1/R2 will be more competitive this fall because of international students having to defer and taking up spots already?
* Do you think there will be more online programs next year? Since programs are forced to adopt digital learning for now. And would that be worth it strictly speaking in terms of ROI?


https://gmatclub.com/forum/coronavirus- ... l#p2485586

Any international students having second thoughts about accepting b-school admission offer due to concern about travel/visa/covid-19? I don't know if I'm going to be able to make the move to Europe from U.S. and they want my decision in 3 hours. I asked for an extension on my decision and they refused. Any perspective/advice would be very helpful. My intended program starts end of September/early October.

Personally, I'm still going ahead with accepting my admission offer. I'm from Canada and am enrolling in a US school. Good luck making your decision.

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I think that’s a wise decision! There is a good chance next app year will be difficult and odd.

Congrats! What did you end up selecting as your choice?

bb

Please share more thoughts on this!

It is fairly simple thinking so let me know if I am missing something but if people are stuck on unemployment or getting laid off or their salaries are cut by 20%, they choose to change their lives for the better and go through the application process. The fewer prospects, the more people head for the MBA while the economy is bad and options are few.

Also if there are people who are deferred (international students), the number of spots may be reduced, driving up the competition.

Now, these are forward looking statements and I am not sure if this is exactly how it plays out but proactive folks probably have started planning already.




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I agree with your analysis. Next year’s application cycles will be very competitive... less so in a sense of better candidates, and more so with the volume of candidates and the number of seats up for grabs.

Nothing compares with this year’s amazing candidates

I feel the caliber may go up in some weird way - it may be 2 camps of people (those who are trying to escape unemployment and not in a great position and also highly qualified group whose career trajectory is slowing down or who are testing the waters and having a plan “B”) thinking perhaps the average folks stay and work hanging on to their jobs...

However even with sheer volume, adcom will need to differentiate somehow and naturally things will get more competitive.

I feel there will be

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Hi, can someone guide on the way to check GMAT score(forgotten) before reinstating(since once reinstated, cannot be cancelled)

This is a silly thing about GMAC and canceling scores. I can’t believe they still hide it after canceling.

The only way to look it up is to order an ESR.

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I have my GMAT exam on April 17th, is there a possibility it might get canceled then ? I want to take the exam in a testing center as it will be hard to take it at home as I don't live alone. Would testing possibly reopen in May/June?

Just tried to see when GMAT can be next taken in Shanghai, and the first available date shown is 5/30. Yikes.

Pretty drastic date change from original availability on 4/6 to all the way on 5/30. This is significantly disrupting my prep momentum unfortunately.

chencchris

If you don't mind me asking:

Why?

You have a 740 already

TheNightKing

I won't lie, I have flirted with the idea of retaking it myself. That elusive Q50/51 is a big prize in itself.

I wish you all the best for that dream score!