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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OK midwest/southeast/west men and women.... the party is over. lets all go home.. see you all this weekend for the afterparty with loads of hard liquor...

Are you loosing your mind or what?

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already did... too much alcohol in the past one week has already killed half my brain cells

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typing arbitrary comments on this thread has been such a stress-reliever

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Hope is such a good thing... and also a bad.....
while it makes achieving great dreams possible.... on the other side of the spectrum, an excess of it gives rise to a feeling of entitlement... and entitlement leads to despair...
ah Buddha, get me my Johnie Walker...

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Tongue, I'm up there with you. I've been pretty quiet on here and I'm waiting. I got an interview invitation back when I applied in 2009. I'm a third-time reapplicant and 2009 was my second time around. This will probably be my last time applying. But I have fingers crossed for all of us on here.

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Hehe... I am also a re-re-applicant in some ways (not MIT Sloan)... but sometimes I look back, I see a total of 4+4+4 months so far wasted in the MBA pursuit... Early this year, I was working on a part-time startup, which I eventually put on hold for this application round...

If this time I get dings... then it will be life on full throttle... tired of this drama.

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Hey Grumpee, my case is very similar to yours... I applied to the LGO program twice, but being an international is incredibly tough. This time, I decided to go directly for Sloan R1. I am based in the Western US, so I am hoping to get an invite soon, but if I dont succeed this year, my back up is an engineering program at the Technical University of Munich.

I am hopinh this week will bring great news to all of us who have not heard anything. Cheers and may the force be with us all !

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Cheers and may the force be with us all !

AMEN!

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Cool guys. I'm a startup founder here so I know what you're going through Tongue. I'm testing the waters with this final attempt at Sloan. If it doesn't pan out, my GMAT score expires this year and I'm happy to put it to rest. I may need a crowd for the funeral if it doesn't happen. lol

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It seems this week is slow. Nothing really happened. Hopefully next week they move to mid-west!

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Saw a whole bunch of dc invites the first week - I'm a dc guy...is this bad news for me? Likely a ding unless somebody gets into another program and pulls out?

I didn't know it was regional - I applied on the deadline day a few hours before 3 pm so was thinking I might get read later than others...

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Invited to interview. 30, Asian-American male, 740, New York City. Got the invite at 4:18 p.m. today!

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Invited to interview. 30, Asian-American male, 740, New York City. Got the invite at 4:18 p.m. today!

Hi jwcardinal, congratulations on the interview invite. Here is a resource to help you prepare for the interview.

https://blog.clearadmit.com/category/int ... mit-sloan/

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Invited to interview. 30, Asian-American male, 740, New York City. Got the invite at 4:18 p.m. today!

This gives me hope since i'm in NYC too. I'm wondering if anyone has actually confirmed that the AdCom goes by geography. So far, the interview invitations I've seen seem kind of random.

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MALD2011

This could be because some people might withdraw their application (someone who got accepted to Stanford GSB or HBS). So they might have more spots open later on.
So hang in there my friend.

I see this argument a lot.... but I doubt it....
I will present why in 3 steps:
1. Anyone (Let us say Joey) who applied to Stanford and got in, will tend to wait till the last minute before sending their rejection of MIT
2. The reason is: MIT could offer scholarship that Stanford didnt.
3. MIT is one of those schools which draws a very niche audience: people very comfortable with who they are, not concerned much about brand name, but concerned with what activities they can do at the school, and what they can learn. Therefore Joey has nothing to lose in waiting till the ultimate result comes out with scholarships offered. This could in turn give Joey a bargaining power with Stanford.

If I'm not mistaken HBS/Stanford are the only schools that do not offer any merit scholarships. Does Sloan offer generous scholarships, or is it mostly need-based?

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I got an invitation at 3:18 pm CST! Thrilled!

Profile: Female, 740 GMAT, 3.59 at midwest state school, 4 years WE, finance and marketing for an oil and gas equipment manufacturer in Houston.

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Congrats ShowmeTX.. make it well....

Okay given I am currently in Texas, that is strike 3

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Invited to interview. 30, Asian-American male, 740, New York City. Got the invite at 4:18 p.m. today!

Hi jwcardinal, congratulations on the interview invite. Here is a resource to help you prepare for the interview.

https://blog.clearadmit.com/category/int ... mit-sloan/

Thanks, MALD2011!

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My experience thus far: applied R1 with supplemental video, received an invite to interview on Dec. 4, will be interviewing in early Jan in Boston

My stats: Texas based management consultant, small highly ranked US university for undergrad, European national, 700 GMAT, 3.5 GPA in mathematical economics

Fingers crossed! Really excited, especially after painful dings from HBS and Stanford. Best of luck :-D

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Invited to interview. 30, Asian-American male, 740, New York City. Got the invite at 4:18 p.m. today!

This gives me hope since i'm in NYC too. I'm wondering if anyone has actually confirmed that the AdCom goes by geography. So far, the interview invitations I've seen seem kind of random.

Yeah, frankly, I wasn't terribly optimistic given what seems to have happened in past years. But I also think there is always a lack of information that makes things uncertain. That said, I've been invited for early January in Cambridge, so perhaps the interview slots for December are up? Just speculation though.