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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01 Nov 2012, 10:20

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When and how are you guys planning to apply for Legatum Fellowship. Looks like it needs two letter of recommendations too.

I wish the deadline was after we received our main application's decision. Don't want to trouble my recommenders again for same application.

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Updated on: 01 Nov 2012, 18:33

Originally posted by Ward2012 on 01 Nov 2012, 18:24.
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Just saw a new video essay ("My Life in Numbers") that I hadn't seen before. I want to tell the applicant in this video, "Uh...you know that the video is supposed to be no more than 1 minute?" It's almost three min.

I really liked the "Oscar" supplemental video though

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Yeah, I could see people getting dinged for not following directions. Not like top schools don't have leverage.

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Received the email as well.
Twice actually. Each with different, but similar, content. Anyone else have this happen?

I got the email twice as well. but the content seems the same to me. However, I haven't done a line by line comparison. I just deleted the first email and am considering the 2nd one as the most up to date message.

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Received the email as well.
Twice actually. Each with different, but similar, content. Anyone else have this happen?

I only got 1 email ... I must not be as cool as you folks are! :-D

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I only got one as well!! And I agree, Sloan students seem to be extremely well rounded.

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Actually I realized that the "My Life in Numbers" video is for the MFin. And the MFin supplement essay doesn't have a time max.

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Actually I realized that the "My Life in Numbers" video is for the MFin. And the MFin supplement essay doesn't have a time max.

All quiet on the western front. Anyone know how many applications MIT expects during round 1?

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They probably get 2-3 thousand since they only have 2 rounds...

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I think they get about 4700 for both rounds, I recall an interview that said that for every seat there were 12 applicants, so if the class is 394 people, it comes to be around that. I do think I have also heard that R1 has way less applicants than R2, so there may be some strategic advantage to applying on R1 merely on the fact that they dont know how the applicant pool looks like yet, so they may wait list you or favor you if you have an unusual background. In R2, they pretty much know everything by then.

Sigh... Keeping my fingers crossed, if I dont get admitted this year, I will just quit the whole graduate school thing and start my own business. Everyone keeps telling me to forget about b-school, but I keep telling them to mind their own f-in business. I do feel that they may be right sometimes and I am wrong to keep pursuing this, so this may even be a good theme for an essay on how I learned from my mistakes for the next application cycle.... yikes! :-D

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according to fortune, acceptance rate is 13% (in 2010 or 11) . https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/pf/ ... une/6.html

So if you were to back into this number (750 students in a class/.13), the number comes out to be 5,770 applicants per year. So cut it in half and you are looking at 2900. If you want to argue there is less in round 1 (probably valid), then split it 2,500 in round 1 and 3500 in round 2.

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Class size = ~400
Yield = 67% (ref: https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/ra ... sloan.html)

Therefore, acceptances = ~600

Acceptance rate = 13% (again, https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/ra ... sloan.html)

Therefore, applications = ~4615

I personally know someone who is a Sloan '14 who was told by the adcom that they typically receive twice as many applications in R2, so figure ~1500 for R1 and ~3000 in R2.

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Looks like last year, a little over 4100 applied. I wonder whether the number will drop below 4000 this year considering the downward trend since the economic slump.

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/about/facts-and-figures.php

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That's a good prediction.

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That's a good prediction.

Anyone checking their youtube video analytics page to see if anyone from Massachusetts has watched their video from a mobile app? hahah The things I will do to pass time. :/

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Anyone checking their youtube video analytics page to see if anyone from Massachusetts has watched their video from a mobile app? hahah The things I will do to pass time. :/

Like only ten times a day :!:

But I live in Massachusetts, so I have to rely on the view counter and it has been stuck at one number from the 24th!

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Anyone checking their youtube video analytics page to see if anyone from Massachusetts has watched their video from a mobile app? hahah The things I will do to pass time. :/

Good suggestion.

I just checked the analytics on my video. There about 9 views from Massachusetts. They might have looked at my application.
But who knows, the video is public and there are also about 8 views California. ( I am not from either of those states)

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Anyone checking their youtube video analytics page to see if anyone from Massachusetts has watched their video from a mobile app? hahah The things I will do to pass time. :/

Maybe Stanford and MIT are sharing their apps :-D

If called for an interview, will this have to be completed before the holidays? I just thought about their timeline and the email said that mid december would be when we can expect them to roll out.

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I'm pretty sure interviews were held into at least the beginning to middle of January last year. I'm sure we'll get a better sense of the timeline once invites start rolling out.

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I saw some analysis on applicant numbers for R1. If there is any truth to it I feel little better but at the same time MIT Sloan has very objective admission process. They rank applicants on 0-10 scale for 9 different traits. I have faith in their process. I have a good feeling about this app.