Calling all Berkeley-Haas Fall 2011 Applicants

The worst part about it was that Haas' word count always seemed to be 10-20 words higher than Microsoft's

I noticed the same issue, but I didn't edit my essays to reduce word count. Hopefully they know that their word counter isn't working properly.

Yes, that application was frustrating, when it came to formatting, pretty much was fighting against it to make sure everything showed up properly.

I discovered their online word counter counts spaces after the period as words. <--Two words right there! They sure add up. Also, carriage return (paragraph breaks) also count as a word. Pretty crude way of arriving at a word count.

I wouldn't sweat it. The admissions committee understands how much trouble it is for a supervisor to write individual letters for each school an applicant is applying to. If your manager can easily break the letter into paragraphs to address the questions, that's probably good. But if it involves some time and rewrite, then I would just say one single letter is good enough.

Like Aver said, we have very diverse backgrounds. You can find it on our website here:

https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/community/ ... ofile.html

In fact, someone in my class did something similar to what you did and I know another one in the class below mine.

If you're applying through the consortium, isn't it pretty straightforward to submit a Haas essay too?

I got in with a 5-10% overage. Don't worry too much about it as long as you're not OBVIOUSLY over.

Hey I'm pondering whether or not I should apply for round 2 for Haas. I love the school and I am hoping to plan a visit as long as it's not a 100% chance of ding.
Age at Matriculation : 26
Future Desired Industry: Social Commerce Entrepreneurship (long term), Management consulting( short term to gain more leadership/mgmt experience)
Undergraduate school: Top 10 Engineering (co-op student)
Undergraduate GPA: 3.0
Professional: Founded and President of own successful companies(2) during undergrad (partial cause of semi low performance). Worked part time and full time for startup consulting firm while attending school after coop program. Still working as an investment consulting analyst for Morgan Stanley. Not a lot of high meaningful experience but did have a large impact on a few projects I initiated.
GMAT: 710 (Q:48, V:40, AWA:6)
Extra curricular: Online community leader and mentor/tutor for underprivileged children. Active in providing educational materials to chilrden in asia and africa.

Any thoughts would be nice. The mid 80% GPA kinda of scares me along with the low acceptance rate but I think Haas would be a good fit for me overall.

Definitely go for it. You should probably be shooting for even higher than Haas, also.

Any idea what percentage of interview invitees get selected at Haas?

@wonderland: Go for it. GPA is only one aspect of the application process.

@Pediashare: there's no exact number, but in the past rumors have been between 30-70% depending on the year.

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This is really cool... thanks!

Awesome! Thanks for putting this up. +1.

Looks like this went un-noticed.

Could anyone please comment on this question?

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There's probably a disadvantage, but it may not be as big as normal.