Calling all Wharton Fall 2010 Candidates

Congratulations to those who've already received their interview invites. Do you guys mind sharing something about your application/profiles?

Thanks!

Count me in for R2. Waiting for invites is excruciating

Got an interview for R2! Didn't think it would happen, excited.

Sure, but I wouldn't read into the early notice at all.

White male/740/3.1 top 30 UG/5 years pharma and health economic consulting

Got an interview for R2~
Now is the time for the final match~!!
Good luck to y'all and myself, too~

* 720/below 110/3.1+/CFA/IB for 7 years

Congrats to everydody that received invite!!
I said to myself that I won't be worried until next week, however seeing that the invites have defenitely started to pick up today, it is difficult not to check emails/applications few times a day...

Checking spam, refreshing website, checking spam, refreshing website... and repeating! hahahah

Congrats to everyone who received an invite!!
In the mean time, I'll keep waiting patiently... and repeating!

I agree w/ DuckPond, but here are my basic stats

female/white/760/3.6 top ivy/4 years WE

Got an invite yesterday via email.

Asian / Female / 770 / Intl undergrad w. honors / 4 yrs mgmt consulting at a top tier firm

interview advice, anyone?

Congratulations to all those who have received interview invitations and to those of us who are still patiently waiting. Is it safe to assume adcom doesn't usually ding people this early? Do they always wait till the last day to send out a "mass ding" email?

has anyone who applied to the lauder program received an invite yet?

Congrats, guys!

Here are the questions from my rd 1 interview and background for context:
F/Top Public/3.6/760/3 yr WE at top IB

- Spend a few minutes introducing yourself
- How do you like banking vs. investing
- Long-term/short-term goals
- Why MBA/why now/why Wharton
- One leadership experience
- What would you do if you and a peer are competing for the same thing
- What do you bring to Wharton ("don't say your professional experience")
- Why would your cohort want you here?
- What extracurricular do you want to participate in? ("Don't say xxx that's related to your experience". I think he was really drilling for my interest in the school here)
- How do you define success. Another follow-up question based on my answer
- What do you do for fun
- Questions for him

That seems like a lot of questions, but it went by really quickly. W posts your interviewer's name on the website prior to the interview (should be under your interview information, just check it a day or two before your actual interview), so I was able to look him up and gain a sense of his background prior to walking into the interview. I also really enjoyed chatting with other candidates and first-year volunteers in the waiting room. Some people like to avoid the waiting room. I actually found it helpful to have lots of those 3-min convos about background/undergrad/why mba/etc, as it helped me to get used to "talking" about it vs. "rehearsing" it. Hope this helps!

thanks, that's very helpful!

Still waiting for an interview. Submitted on R2 deadline day, nothing heard yet. When is the notification date? Sigh

25/f/710/healthcare/3.1 top engineering/2 years we - manufacturing and health care

definitely agree on not looking into the timing, profile def not as strong

So far I count 6 invites out of 65 applicants on the thread. That's about 10%. Considering, there were about 60% invites in R1 and about 30% acceptance out of those who got interview invites, the invites situation does not look that bad if the percentages remain same in R2.

Hey guys - I am a R1 admit. Came back on here to check out to R2 activity. I was a nervous wreck during the interview waiting process.

Just some advice to hang in there. As I saw from how R1 was handled, when you get your invite does not matter. I got my interview invite on the second to last day. I interviewed 2 weeks before decision day, and got in.

I know it's hard not to check message boards/email every 5 minutes. In hindsight, I felt like I wasted a lot of time. Try to focus on other things (if possible).

Good luck all!