Ross (Michigan) 2013 - Calling All Applicants

Ross School Guide

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INFORMATION - APPLICATION FOR CLASS OF 2015

Essays
1. Introduce yourself to your future Ross classmates in 100 words or less.
2. Describe your career goals. How will an MBA from Ross help you to achieve those goals? (300 word maximum)
3. Describe a time in your career when you were frustrated or disappointed. What did you learn about yourself from that experience? (500 word maximum)
4. What are you most passionate about and why? How will this passion positively impact Ross (300 word maximum)
5. Optional question: Is there anything else you think the Admissions Committee should know about you to evaluate your candidacy? (500 word maximum)
(Official PDF Link: https://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Fulltime_Essays.pdf)

Recommender Questions
1. Please comment on the context of your interaction with the applicant. If applicable, briefly describe the applicant's role in your organization.
2. How does the candidate's performance compare to other well-qualified individuals in similar roles?
3. Please describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant's response (more recent examples preferred).
4. Please provide any additional comments about the applicant's performance, potential, or personal qualities you believe would be helpful to the Admissions Committee.

Application FAQs: https://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Mba/MbaFaqs/

Class Profile - Class of 2014

Total Full-Time MBA Enrollment 1046
Applications 2,929
% Admitted 32%

Class Composition
Women - 31%
US Ethnic Minorities - 28%
International - 32%

Average Age - 28
Average Work Experience - 5 years

GMAT Middle 80% - 650 - 750
Average GMAT - 703
Average GPA - 3.4

Undergraduate Majors
Business Administration/Economics - 42%
Computer Science - 7%
Engineering - 22%
Humanities/Social Sciences - 17%
Math/Physical Sciences - 6%
Other - 6%

In for round 1!

Let's get this party started... Good luck EVERYONE. Let's make this the BEST Michigan Ross/GMAT Club Application season ever!
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Good luck everyone! I'm a dual-degree student who will be starting MBA1 in 2013, so hopefully many of us will be classmates together.

Also in for R1 for the 2013 app season!

Looks like the essays have been released!

1. Introduce yourself to your future Ross classmates in 100 words or less.
2. Describe your career goals. How will an MBA from Ross help you to achieve those
goals? (300 word maximum)
3. Describe a time in your career when you were frustrated or disappointed. What did you
learn about yourself from that experience? (500 word maximum)
4. What are you most passionate about and why? How will this passion positively impact
Ross (300 word maximum)
5. Optional question: Is there anything else you think the Admissions Committee should
know about you to evaluate your candidacy? (500 word maximum)

https://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Fulltime_Essays.pdf

If I'm not mistaken, those are exactly the same questions as last year's meaning there might be essay question advice floating around the net that would still be good for this year.

Oh also, if anyone is applying to Ross via Consortium and would like to know more about the process, ranking the schools, what happens after you're in, OP, and the general Ross Consortium family appeal, feel free to ask here or PM and I'd be happy to discuss.

Yep, I listed those in the original post, but I believe those are last year's questions, and a new set will be released on 8/1 when the application goes live.

The header "Fall 2012 Full-time MBA Essay Questions" refers to Fall 2012 entry into the program.

idk, the header says Fall 2013 now?

The header in the link kingfalcon posted is 2012.

https://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Fulltime_Essays.pdf

Looks like they must have just changed it! Edits made Good luck guys!!!


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I think you may have just misread it. It said Fall 2013 when I found it through ClearAdmit on the third.

Ah, so apparently Chrome wasn't re-downloading the PDF, it was just opening the one it had cached a couple days ago.

My B falcon, thanks for noticing they had been posted!

Good luck everyone!
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Ahhh that totally makes sense! Don't sweat it. We're all under a lot of stress .

Yeah it will get you sometimes. Last year I answered all of Carnegie Mellon's questions early, only to find out they were the old ones and were pretty different than the new ones. I was pretty mad at myself but getting some extra thoughts out did help so it wasn't a total loss. Still pretty idiotic...
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Still not decided when to apply... gunning for R1 though!

Cheers,
WanderLust

Folks,

Feel free to reach out to me here or via PM as a resource. I was a reapp last year in R2 and was accepted.
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Hi,
I am not sure if I will be applying to Ross. Got a reject from Ross last year and apparently Ross doesn't provide feedback. So I am a little confused about reapplying.

The info mentioned above in the first post (of this thread) mentions: "Total Full-Time MBA Enrollment 1046". If I am not mistaken isn't the class size for Ross around 500. Am I correct?