The MIT Sloan Class of 2015 Applicant Thread https://spectrum.mit.edu/wp-content/images/2011-winter/new-center-for-mit-sloan-school-of-management.jpg Hey Everyone - Welcome to the MIT Sloan Class of 2015 Applicant Thread!! The admissions season is upon us, and Sloan has joined the charge, releasing their deadlines and essay topics for 2012-2013. In the coming months, I'll try to keep this thread as up to date on everything Sloan as I can, but to start things off, here's a cache of information on Sloan for both this year, and past years. MBA Program Application Deadlines and Important Dates - for August 2013 Entry: Round I Application Submission Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012 - 3 pm ET Decision Release Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 Reply By Friday, Mar 8, 2013 Round II Application Submission Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 - 3 pm ET Decision Release Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013 Reply By Friday, May 24, 2013 *Reapplicants may submit their applications by the Round I or by the Round 2 deadline. LGO reapplicants must submit their reapplications by the LGO deadline. **Decisions will be released early for some candidates who will be denied admission without an interview. MIT Sloan Real time Applicant Summary GMAT Club vs Latest Intake GMAT Club's Real-time Admissions Statistics Latest GMAT Club Member Profile Updates Detailed Applicant List Add Your Profile to This List Questions about this Roll Call ? Rankings (2012 GMAT Club Rankings Table) US News 2012 #4 Entrepreneurship #4 Finance #5 Information Systems #1 Production/Operations #1 Supply Chain/Logistics #1 BusinessWeek 2010 #10 Historical GMAT Club Applicant Threads Fall 2012 - Calling All MIT Sloan Applicants Fall 2011 - Calling All MIT Sloan Applicants Fall 2010 - Calling All MIT Sloan Applicants Fall 2009 - Calling All MIT Sloan Applicants Fall 2008 - Calling All MIT Sloan Applicants Fall 2007 - Calling All MIT Sloan Applicants Popular Links Programs Offered at MIT Sloan MIT Sloan Employment Reports Prominent Faculty Notable Alumni Application Elements 1. Cover Letter 2. Resume 3. Essays 4. Letters of Recommendation 5. Transcript 6. Test Scores 7. Application Fee ________________________________________________________ 1. Cover Letter Please prepare a cover letter (up to 500 words) seeking a place in the MIT Sloan MBA program. Your letter should describe your accomplishments, address any extenuating circumstances that may apply to your application, and conform to standard business correspondence. Your letter should be addressed to Mr. Rod Garcia, Senior Director of Admissions. 2. Resume Please prepare a business resume that includes your employment history in reverse chronological order, with titles, dates, and whether you worked part-time or full-time. Your educational record should also be in reverse chronological order and should indicate dates of attendance and degree(s) earned. Other information appropriate to a business resume is welcomed and encouraged. The resume should not be more than one page in length (up to 50 lines). 3. Essays We are interested in learning more about how you work, think, and act. For each essay, please provide a brief overview of the situation followed by a detailed description of your response. Please limit the experiences you discuss to those which have occurred in the past three years. In each of the essays, please describe in detail what you thought, felt, said, and did. Essay 1: Please describe a time when you had to convince a person or a group of your idea. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page) Essay 2: Please describe a time when you overcame a personal setback. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page) Supplemental Information (Optional) The Admissions Committee invites you to share anything else you would like us or your future classmates to know about you. This may be in written or multimedia format. Please do not use Flash Media Player, and include a URL where it can be accessed online. Written essays should be 300 words or fewer. 4. Letters of Recommendation MBA applicants must submit two letters of recommendation. Professional recommendations are preferred from individuals who are able to speak with certainty about your professional achievements and potential. Recommenders must submit recommendations online. We do not accept mailed recommendations. Recommendations may be in either letter or short answer format and should not exceed two pages each. Please choose recommenders who are able to provide specific answers to the following questions: How long and in what capacity have you known the applicant? How does the applicant stand out from others in a similar capacity? Please give an example of the applicant's impact on a person, group, or organization. Please give a representative example of how the applicant interacts with other people. Which of the applicant's personal or professional characteristics would you change? Please tell us anything else you think we should know about this applicant. 5. Academic Records (Transcripts) Please scan and upload copies of your academic records. Do not mail in your official academic records or transcripts. Applicants invited to interview will be required to provide an official transcript from each school attended. Any discrepancy between the scanned transcripts and official transcripts may result in a rejection in our decision or a withdrawal of our offer of admission. 6. Test Scores The GMAT or GRE is required of all applicants and must be taken before submitting your application. Once your online application is submitted, we will not allow replacement of your test scores. Only tests taken after September 1, 2008 will be considered. The TOEFL or IELTS is not required for MBA or LGO applicants. MBA GMAT School Code: X5X-QS-41 MBA GRE School Code: 3791 7. Application Fee MBA Application Fee: $250.00 ___________________________________________________ CLASS PROFILE Full-time students in newest entering class (2010-2011) that are: Female: 38 % International: 38 % Students from following regions: Africa: 1 % Asia: 18 % Europe: 8 % North America: 64 % Latin America and the Caribbean: 9 % Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class that are: African American: 8 % Asian American: 24 % Hispanic or Latino American: 15 % Native American: 1 % White (Non-Hispanic): 46 % Chose not to report: 6 % Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class who are from the following regions: Northeast: 52 % Mid-Atlantic: 9 % South: 9 % Southwest: 7 % Midwest: 5 % West: 18 % Work Experience Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 58 Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 60 Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months: From: 36 To: 96 Age Median age of entering class: 28 Mean age of entering class: 28 GMAT score distribution (incoming class): Average GMAT Score: 710 50th Percentile (median): 710 (Official Class Profile Page: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/student-ex ... rofile.php )

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Thanks for informing. It is useful indeed.

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Is anybody else having difficulty coming up with ideas for Essay 2 ("personal setback")? Don't get me wrong, I've suffered many personal setbacks, but nothing is jumping out at me from the last three years.

Emphasis should be on the "personal" MIT's application has a tendency to lean towards the uber professional...cover letter, introduction to classmates, etc. This is the applicant's opportunity to swing the pendulum the other way. Think about something that is personally meaningful to you: could be volunteering, caring for aging parents, raising a special needs child, fundraising for your church. When you look back on what you've committed yourself to over the last few years (MIT also likes recent stories), strip out anything that earned you a paycheck, what really made you reflect, reconsider your goals, made you feel vulnerable? Dig deep. This question requires a lot of introspection, which is where most applicants fail big time!

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Emphasis should be on the "personal" MIT's application has a tendency to lean towards uprofessional...cover letter, introduction to classmates, etc. This is the applicant's opportunity to swing the pendulum the other way. Think about something that is personally meaningful to you: could be volunteering, caring for aging parents, raising a special needs child, fundraising for your church. When you look back on what you've committed yourself to over the last few years (MIT also likes recent stories), strip out anything that earned you a paycheck, what really made you reflect, reconsider your goals, made you feel vulnerable? Dig deep. This question requires a lot of introspection, which is where most applicants fail big time!

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I get that it has to be personal, but the setback part is being more difficult. I feel all the "typical" options don't really apply to me (eg, natural disaster, death of a loved one, some type of bullying, etc). I realize I am likely overthinking this but what else is there? I of course have had personal setbacks but I am also keeping in mind that this is an application, not my best friend's couch.

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While volunteering, caring for aging parents, raising a special needs child, fundraising for your church can be personal achievements or have a major impact on your personal life...I am not sure how these can be used as 'overcoming' a 'setback'. I am not sure how the 'setback' would precede these social transformations illustrations...

I am also stuck on identifying the setback and how I overcame it

Perhaps this is a setback

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Perhaps this is a setback

Send me your essays. I'll give you some pointers.

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Hey Everyone,

Great to see people already congregating here!

Does anyone know whether Sloan has a Sloan-on-the-Road event for applicants from India? I've been checking back regularly, and don't see an event anywhere close to India

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Check the theMBAtour(dot)com they have a fair happening in September wherein both MIT and HBS will be participating

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Good luck to all of you! If you make it to Sloan you will have an amazing time and I hope to meet some of you here next year.
Everyone at Sloan is helpful and extremely diverse. It is definitely the place to make life long connections and accelerate your career dramatically.

If anyone has any questions, feel free the send me a message. I will try to respond when I get a free minute. :D

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Hello everyone!

I wanted to let you all know that there is a separate thread for the MIT LGO (Leaders for Global Operations) program. That thread can be found at
https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/2013-mit-sloan-leaders-for-global-operations-lgo-thread-135271.html

Leaders for Global Operations is a two-year collaborative program between MIT Sloan, MIT School of Engineering, and a select group of industry partners. Equipped with both an MBA and a master's degree in engineering, LGO graduates go on to effect transformative change in industry and society through their groundbreaking careers in manufacturing and operations.

If you have a quantitative background, are interested in manufacturing / operations, and are interested in a dual-degree MBA and Masters in Engineering, it is definitely worth checking out! The website is lgo.mit.edu

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Here is an interview with Rod Garcia from August that should be very insightful for all you folks!

https://blog.clearadmit.com/2012/08/admi ... od-garcia/

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Here is an interview with Rod Garcia from August that should be very insightful for all you folks!

https://blog.clearadmit.com/2012/08/admi ... od-garcia/

Yeah - had read this. Seems this will be a very competitive year to get into at Sloan. They already defered some admits from this year to next year, so the target class size (i.e. offers made) will be lower this time.

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A few questions came up as I was going through the app:

1. Does MIT prefer the GMAT or the GRE?
2. Do we have to send official GMAT/GRE reports with the application or do they not need that until we're accepted/matriculating?
3. Are they actually going to look at everyone's LinkedIn profiles?

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Hey mba2014hopeful,

I don't know about any specific bias toward either the GMAT or the GRE. A lot of schools have begun accepting GRE scores, and as far as I know, both the GRE and GMAT scores are viewed equally.

Official scores are required with the application, but are not bound to the deadlines. You will need to submit unofficial (self reported) scores along with the application, and just make sure that official reports are sent to the school directly (or just made available online to them). The schools understand that official reports take time to process, and hence do not wait to receive the reports before evaluating applications.

LinkedIn profiles?!?!? That's the first I've heard about something like that. Where did you read this?

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Thanks MBAWanderlust! I was more trying to figure out when to send official score reports (with the application, with the interview invite, or after acceptance). I realize one has to send it eventually if you want to enroll, but if adcoms don't care when they receive it during the application process, then we all could potentially save some $$ if we wait to send it. I know some schools explicitly say that don't need official reports until you're accepted, so I was wondering/hoping MIT is the same way.

Yeah, LinkedIn profiles... It's not a required part of the app but there is a space to put your profile URL.... not really sure what they do with this since in the grand scheme of things a lot of the information would be the same.

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Just to add to Robbie's comment above, if you are considering applying for Leaders for Global Operations (LGO), we encourage you to attend LGO Ambassador Day on November 5th.

For more information on LGO Ambassador Day, my classmate Jane has a great blog post:
https://supplyjaneoperations.blogspot.co ... r-5th.html

For more information the LGO admission process in general, the LGO website is a good resource https://lgo.mit.edu/apply/admissions-overview/

We are a part of the Sloan MBA class and several of us will be checking this board and trying to answer as many questions as we can!

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It's going to be a tough year for Sloan applicants this year.
1) 5% of the class is spoken for
2) higher yield = less admits
3) a bunch of fellowship money has already been spoken for

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bad-math- ... dents.html

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Was able to attend a class and an info session this past week as part of a Sloan Ambassador day. The Adcom member there briefly discussed the lack of a goals question in any of the essays. She stated that it was fine for candidates to include if it was important to their story, but that they didn't really care at all. What's GMATClub's thoughts on this?

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Sloan's application is so lean. How are we supposed to speak to our extra-curricular activities? It's not simply enough to "mention them in the essays" because the essays require focus elsewhere. It's easy to come off as self-centered if all of the essays focus on the candidate, why they're a fit, how they've convinced a group, and survived a setback. Anyone have any pointers/thoughts?

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I'm really struggling with the personal setback question. I can think of multiple examples for setbacks at work but nothing jumps out at me for a personal setback in the last three years. How are others approaching this? One of the MIT Sloan transcripts mentions that they are looking for something to wow them and some creativity...what exactly does that mean?

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Hi, can someone give an example of a "setback" please? Just trying to figure out what is hidden under the term "setback".

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Hi, can someone give an example of a "setback" please? Just trying to figure out what is hidden under the term "setback".

Its fairly straightforward actually - a 'setback' is any external factor that prevents you from accomplishing something. eg, You train like crazy for the annual marathon; You know you have a good chance of winning it this year; The week before the marathon, you break your leg. So it may not be your fault, but because of some external factor, you could not accomplish what you set out to do.

Hope this helps!

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