Calling all Sloan MIT Applicants (2016 Intake) Class of 2018!!

No invites today

Better than a bunch of invites going out and not receiving one.

I think this is specific of MIT.

In a previous post I questioned their process and speed and wondered if they were understaffed.

Turns out that they actually have a small staff. It seems that they also do everything themselves.

To be able to do all they have to use some sort of screening, hence the formula. This also justifies their pace.

In the other hand, some schools hire outside help or have a larger staff, so they move faster.

Out of curiosity: has anyone examined last year's thread to see if there was a correlation between notification time and acceptance rate? Given what we know above, I'd bet that being notified earlier in the process would indicate a higher chance of admission. If this theory holds, we might be able to say that they send out invitations by priority rather than by region.

Someone in the Booth thread had analyzed this on his/her own and found no correlation with that particular school, so I figured I'd ask (sorry for stirring up additional anxiety!)

It is certainly possible, but personally I doubt it. I don' think Sloan is just chopping off the top right quadrant of their graph and interviewing the candidates there first, since they aren't just trying to fill a class with all of the candidates with the highest stats.They are also - like any program - trying to ensure a certain level of class diversity. I suspect there is some amount of sorting the class into various buckets based on industry and background which would prevent the school from just inviting its most desired candidates first. I also don't know that there is a benefit to doing that anyway. If I were the adcom, I would want my most desired candidates interviewing late in the cycle hoping that Sloan was the last campus they visited for an interview and therefore most recent and strongest in the candidate's memory, which might help manage yield.

Beyond that, it seems like some folks in last year's thread got confirmation from adcom at Sloan on the Road events suggesting at least some amount of regionality played into the way invites rolled out.

Anyway, pure conjecture on my part, but I guess my point is people shouldn't read too much into the order in which invites go out and start worrying. There is a long time between now and Nov 9th for invites to go out. Of course, maybe I am biased by the fact that I am still hoping to receive one!

looking at clearadmit livewire, people have started getting invites...
https://blog.clearadmit.com/livewire/?school=mit-sloan
EDIT... looking at the posts and summary, clearly its already known here :D

So I got an email from Sloan saying that I should have gotten an interview invite and wondering why I haven't signed up for the interview yet. Apparently the invite was sent Tuesday.

Did it hit your spam?

I have no record of it whatsoever. Triple checked everything. Anyway, got an invite \:D/

If you are using gmail, check the promotions tab. My recommender had all his Sloan emails end up in there.

Congrats! Where are you from??

Of course she's from space, duh.

Northeast

So no invites today?

I found this in an interview (December - 2012).

mbaMission: MIT Sloan has introduced a multimedia option into the application. Can you tell us more about that?

Rod Garcia: Yes, this was a response to this generation. It will give us a new opportunity to see something an applicant has done. Still, it is not scoreable. It might be interesting to see, and it might influence our gut, but it is not a factor in our metrics.

https://www.mbamission.com/blog/2012/12/ ... anagement/

Do we know when the next wave of invites go out?

i was under the impression that invites could come out any day between oct 20 and nov 9. i'm using this forum and the livewire from clearadmit to determine when invites go out and when more information is released.