Calling Berkeley-Haas Fall 2008 Applicants!

Da Da Ding! Here . This ends my application season. Overall, I am happy! I got into my first choice, Ross, and with $20K per year to boot. No complaints.

In FT rankings, Haas has steadily fallen from 13, 16, 25 to 32 in 2008.

What has been the reason for this. Is the school planning to do something about it?

Thanks for your thoughtful post, I'll do my best to address your concern.

The first thing to call out is that the Financial Times is just one ranking, among many, and their standards for measuring schools differ from others (such as US News, WSJ etc). Most critically, the Financial Times rankings places a lot of weight on post-graduate salaries. In fact, 40% of their rankings are driven by salary figures. As a result, you'll see a lot of finance/consulting heavy schools ranked high up because obviously those jobs will command high salaries. Another angle, for example, would be the WSJ rankings which are driven by recruiters assessment of schools. Here, Haas has consistently risen in the rankings and recently placed #2 overall.

Although Haas sends many people into these professions, we also pride ourselves on a curriculum that emphasizes non-traditional career paths - such as non profit, corporate social responsibility or entrepreneurship. If you take a closer look at the Financial Times rankings and dig into their category rankings, you will see that Haas scores incredibly well in these areas...areas that may not equate to a high salary immediately after graduation.

In fact, Haas ranks in the Top 10 for several category specific rankings:

#1 - Corporate Social Responsibility

#1 - e-business

#4 - Entrepreneurship

#5 - IT

#6 - Economics

#9 - Consulting Salaries

Haas strives to be considered among the best business schools in the world, but we also want to offer a dynamic curriculum that affords our students both traditional and non-traditional career paths.

I hope this answers your question, thanks for your post.

Morgan

Does anyone have a link to the Waitlist Friday (2/1/08) chat session with Pete and adcom members?

would anyone like to summarize? Did they say what % might get in this year??? I'm hoping a lot of GMATClubbers!

thanks trojan and red_s4.

150 in R1 sounds about right, assuming 50% yield like past years. If they do 150 per round, they get 75 matriculating, with R4 being very limited in admissions, that's about right. R1 + R2 will give 150 students, R3 probably gives 50-75 students, while R4 rounds out the rest.

With 110 on the waitlist...