2010 Profiles w/ Admit/Dings Results - NO DISCUSSION!

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA: Sales & Trading
GMAT: 730, Q48/V42, AWA 4.2
GPA: 3.36 Marketing Major
Work experience(WE): 5 years on Fixed-Income Trading Desk
Nationality: US (Ethinicity Chinese)
Age: 28 at Mat
Gender: M
Extra-curriculars/community: Organized and Team Captain of Cycling Team, Individually fundraised over $1000, Member of Kung Fu School/Dragon and Lion Dance Shows, Mentor to a H.S. student

Schools will applied to:

School 1: Columbia ED
Status: Work in Progress

School 2: NYU Stern Round 1
Status: Work in Progress

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : Entrepreneurship, Consulting
GMAT: 690 Q44 V40
GPA: 3.4 ( I guess ) Computer Science, So-So public university, India
Work experience(WE): 9 years , 5 years software development, 2 years field deployments, 2+ years project management. International - North America and CALA
Nationality: India
Age: 32, 33 at matriculation
Gender: Male
Extra-curriculars/community: President for a volunteer org, amateur nature photographer, avid hiker

Schools applied to:

Columbia: RD
Status: In progress

Duke: R1
Status: In progress

UNC: R1
Status: In progress

Oxford: R1
Status: In progress

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : Marketing
GMAT: 710
GPA: 3.5, Humanities major, top ten U.S. university
Work experience(WE): 4 years at matriculation, unique consulting/management job
Nationality: Not an underrepresented minority
Age: 26
Gender: F
Extra-curriculars/community: Strong undergraduate ECs (major leadership positions in large campus organizations, etc), post-undergraduate: Good, but not as strong as undergrad (continued with some of the national organizations I was involved with in undergrad)

Schools applied to:

Fuqua EA: Matriculating

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : Consulting, Tech industry in ecommerce or banking, Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 770
GPA: 3.5, Engineering
Work experience(WE): 4 years at matriculation
Nationality: Chinese
Age: 27 at matriculation
Gender: M
Extra-curriculars/community: engineering honor society, tutoring, bbbs volunteering, volunteered at hospital and soup kitchens

Schools applied to:

School 1: Kellogg R1
Status: Submitted 10/13, Interviewed (self-initiated) 10/26, Denied 12/10

School 2: Booth R1
Status: Submitted 10/13, Denied w/o interview

School 3: Duke R1
Status: Submitted 11/12, Interviewed (self-initiated) 11/2 Waitlisted 1/15 Admitted 3/8 and Matriculating

School 4: Ross R2
Status: Submitted 1/5, Interviewed 2/12, Denied 3/12

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : Consulting / IB
GMAT: 700
GPA: (B.S.) 3.2, Humanities, Naval Academy, (M.A.) 4.0, Int. Relations and Strategic Studies
Work experience(WE): 10 years Naval Officer - Fighter pilot
Nationality: American - Hispanic
Age: 32
Gender: M


Schools applied to:


School 1: HBS R2
Status: Submitted 1/16, Invite 2/12, Interview Complete, Admitted 4/06, Matriculating

School 2: Stanford R2
Status: Submitted 1/06, Invite 3/09, Interview Complete, Admitted 3/31

School 3: Wharton R2
Status: Submitted 1/05, Invite 2/12, Interview complete, Admitted with $20K

School 4: Tuck (Via Consortium) R2
Status: Submited 1/05, Interview Completed, Admitted 3/12

School 5: Columbia RD
Status: Submitted 1/07, Invite 2/22, Interview Complete 3/10, Admitted 3/20

School 6: Virginia / Darden (Via Consortium) R2
Status: Submitted 1/05, Interview Completed, Admitted with Consortium Fellowship 3/17

School 7: Texas / McCombs (Via Consortium) R2
Status: Submitted 1/05, Interview Completed, Admitted 2/27

Program: MBA - FT
Area of interest in MBA :
GMAT: 750(98) Q 50(94) V 41(92) AWA 5.0
GPA: Computer Science (decent univ in India outside India ok-ish) 72%
Work experience(WE): 6yrs (3yrs technology in wireless industry, 3yrs technology in Financial industry)
Nationality: Indian
Age: 31
Gender:Male
Extra-curriculars/community: Photography(professionally, I help a local media too), part of green team in company.

HBS: R1
Applied (Sep 29)
Denied without Interview Dec 15

Kellogg: R1
Applied part1 (Sep 30), Part2 (Oct 15), Interview: Oct 21.

Stanford: R1
Applied (Oct 5) Denied Without Interview Dec 16

UC Berkeley: R2
Applied Dec 10.

Wharton: R2
Not yet applied

GMAT 770 (M51,V44)
Acads: Top 10% of branch in a premier engineering institute in India(NIT)
Work-ex:: 4 years at the time of admit (1+3 in two top S/W companies)
Extra-curriculars: Excellent in undergrad, Quite good in corpo-world
International exposure:None
Documented community Service: None

Application results:
Tuck: Applied in Early-action, Waitlisted.
Fuqua: Applied in R1, Dinged after Interview.
Darden: Applied in R1, Dinged without Interview.
ISB: Applied in R2, Admitted.
Goizueta: Applied in December, admitted with full scholarship.

(If everything goes fine) Matriculating at Goizueta this July.

program: MBA - FT
Area of interest in MBA : Investment management/Research
GMAT: TBD
Acads: Chartered Accountant (India), CPA (USA), Post grad in Inv & Fin analysis (India). GPA :N/A
Work experience(WE): 5.5yrs (Audit/Assurance/Accounting with IT and consulting gigs) in big 4
WE Intl - India/Middle east/NY
Extra-curricular's: Avg in grad/Corp level
Nationality: Indian
Age: 29
Gender:Male


Duke R2
Ding

NYU Stern: R2
Ding

Darden/Kelley/GWU: R2
Waiting

BC R2
Admit with $$

Program: MBA Full Time
Post MBA : Strategic Position in Investment Management

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest Post MBA: IB, Strategy Consulting
GMAT: 710 (47/42, AWA - 6.0) 710 (45/42, AWA - TBD)
GPA: 3.8 undergrad, Double degree - one in Economics and the other in Information Systems (Major GPA's both 3.9+)
School: Private US - ranked around 100 (but habitually in top 5 for Information Systems)
Work experience: 4 years at matriculation. Strategy Consulting (Big 4)
Nationality: Indian - grew up all over the world (France, Italy, Ivory Coast, Haiti, USA, India)
Age: 27 at matriculation
Gender: Male
Extra-curriculars/community: A whole host of things while in University - Founding president of Cultural Diversity Club (principal author of constitution), Revived Cricket Club from having its status revoked due to financial impropriety to captaining it to 2 intercollegiate trophies in 2005. Also received 'Sports Club of the Year Award in 2005' - this may sound trivial but believe me, it continues to be my most satisfying achievement in college and a source of constant joy. Also led student run University Budgetary committee which doled out USD1MN+ (one of the few such structures for an UG institution in the USA at the time) - fought a lot of tough battles and learnt a lot doing that.
Post University - Helped organize a high profile Canada India Energy Conference earlier this year (which played a role in a major nuclear energy memorandum between the two countries) and involved in corporate fund raising with a North American charity focused on building boarding schools for underprivileged children in rural India.

Schools I intend to apply to:

Harvard: Round 1
Status: Denied w/o interview

Wharton: Round 1
Status: Waitlisted

INSEAD: Round 1
Status: Accepted

Ivey: Round 1
Status: Accepted + $$

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : Consulting, Marketing, GM
GMAT: 710
GPA: Top 10 Public University: 3.3 Management and Human Resources
Work experience(WE): 3 years at matriculation, Large IT Consulting Firm
Nationality: American
Age: 25 at matriculation
Gender: M
Extra-curriculars/community: Many leadership positions with large org while in Undergrad. BBBS now.

Schools applied to:

Round 1
Darden: Submittted 10/24, Invited to Interview 12/1, Accepted 1/28
Kellogg: Submitted 10/10, Self Initiated Interview 10/5
Booth: Submitted 10/10, Ding 11/12
Carlson: Submitted 11/30, Invited to Interview 10/30

Round 2
Fuqua: Submitted 1/5, Self Initiated Interview 11/7, waitlist 3/8
Ross: Submitted 1/5, Invited to Interview 1/28, waitlist 3/12, Accepted 5/19

Man, some of you are giving isa a run for her money...you guys are going to be crazy tired at the end of this whole thing.

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest: Health Care - Product Management
GMAT: 740 (Q49,V42)
Undergrad: Chemical Engineering, 3.46 GPA
Work experience(WE): 5 years, health care IT
Caucasian, White, Female
Current Extra-curriculars/community: Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Relay for Life Committee Member

Schools applied to:

Round 1
Kellogg
Duke
Ross

I am putting all my eggs in three baskets

Program: MBA Full Time, Dual Degree with MS in Environmental Science
Area of interest in MBA : Strategy Consulting, Non-Profit, Corporate Social Responsibility
GMAT: 770 (Q48, V47)
GPA: Top 10 Public University, 3.3 GPA, Computer Science & Engineering and Management Science
Work experience(WE): 5 years at matriculation at a large IT Consulting firm
Nationality: American (Ethnicity - Russian)
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Extra-curriculars/community: project leader/committee member at Hands on Bay Area, California wilderness search and rescue volunteer

Schools applied to:

Round 1:
Ross: In Progress
Stanford: In Progress
Fuqua: In Progress

Round 2:
Haas: In Progress
Yale: In Progress

Program: MBA(FT)
Area of interest in MBA : Strategy. MC post-MBA
GMAT: 770
GPA: 3.6 GPA. MS in Computer Science from Top 40 state school, Comp. Engg from India
Work experience(WE): 3 years (by the time I start bschool) in tech division of top i-bank doing business analysis and and project management
Nationality: Indian
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Extra-curriculars/community: minor

Schools applied to:

Round 1:
Wharton: Dinged w/ interview
Columbia ED: Dinged w/o interview
Booth: Dinged w/ interview
Tuck: ADMITTED and MATRICULATING

Round 2:
HBS: Dinged w/o interview
Kellogg: Dinged w/ interview
Duke: Withdrawn
Ross: Withdrawn
Darden: Withdrawn
Johnson: Withdrawn

Program: MBA (Full-Time)
Area of interest in MBA: High Tech / Education / CSR
GMAT: 680
GPA: 3.6 GPA - B.S. Software Engineering, Minor Mathematics @ small state school
Work experience: 5+ years SW Engineering @ large tech company
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Extra-curriculars/community: Strong to..quite strong.

Berkeley: Round ?
Status: Researching...

Ross (MBA/MA Education): Round ?
Status: Researching...

Stanford (MBA/MA Education): Round ?
Status: Researching...

Yale: Round ?
Status: Researching...

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : Mktg/Strat, Real Estate
GMAT: 700 (43q/41v)
GPA: 3.4, Communications, Top UG (HYPS)
Work experience(WE): 3.3 yrs FT (at time of matriculation) integrated/emerging/online marketing, 4 summers at top CPG
Nationality: US (minority)
Age: 25
Gender: F
Extra-curriculars/community: Tons of leadership and volunteer service and PT job in UG. Currently work on school's board of alumni in my city, CMO of non-profit, food bank/soup kitchen volunteer, traveling.

Schools applied to:

School 1: Harvard RD 2 w/o int withdraw 4/12
Status: Submitted 1/18
W/L: 4/6

School 2: Wharton RD 2 w/ fellowship
Status: Submitted 1/3
Interview: Invite 2/4, Interview completed 2/19
Accepted: 3/26

School 3: Kellogg RD 2 withdraw 4/12
Status: Pt. 1 Submitted 12/18, Pt. 2 Submitted 1/13
Interview: Assignment 2/1, Interview completed 2/22
Waitlist: 3/24

School 4: Stern RD 2 (CGSM)
Interview: Invite 1/29, Interview completed 2/20
Accepted: 3/5

School 5: Ross RD 2 (CGSM)
Interview: Invite 2/4, Interview completed 2/16
Ding: 3/12

Other: Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
Status: Consortium interview completed 12/9, Submitted 1/3
Accepted: 3/19

Program: MBA FT
Area of interest in MBA : GM/Consulting/Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 700 Q(42) V(44) - Retaking in August
GPA: 3.6/4.0, Supply Chain Management, Top 10 Public
Work experience(WE): 4 years (at matriculation), 1.5 Public Sector Consulting (Large Firm), 2.5 PS Consulting (Boutique)
Nationality: American - Caucasian
Age: 26 @ matriculation
Gender: Male
Extra-curriculars/community: Very acitive in Alumni Association and Sports
Schools applied to:

Wharton: R1
Status: Submitted

Columbia: RD
Status: Not started (Probably won't submit if I get in to Stanford or Wharton)

Darden: R1
Status: Writing Essays

Stern: R1
Status: Writing Essays

Stanford: R1
Status: Submitted