Thanks for the details! I'm anxiously awaiting an invite from So Cal as well...

It appears they send one batch a day.

Don't know if you got this question answered. They do not ask for transcripts to be brought to interviews. The email clearly states that the interview will be behavioral in nature, and that candidates should be prepared to answer questions about past experience. They include a link to a page that gives some tips about the interview and behavioral interviews in general.

Thinking positively for you about getting an invite-- hang in there. Have you done behavioral interviews before? If not, do you know the STAR format (situation, task, action, response)? If not, get to know it...it's the accepted/expected template for answering behavioral ("Tell me about a time...") questions.

I was starting to get impatient about how few interview invites have gone out for MIT. I took a quick look at the numbers and it looks like 25% or fewer of the interview invites have gone out. If you want, check out the full MIT interview invite analysis.
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Thanks, good post. I did something similar in the HBS and Stanford threads but never got around to it for Sloan! Agreed that the numbers look low, so this may be a big/busy week for them. I know Stanford was sending out invites Saturday night at 8pm, so I'm guessing adcoms are working hard right now.

The only difference between yours and mine is that I went back a few years and got data across time. First years avail were in 2010/Class of 2012, so there's roughly 4 years or so of data for schools on GMAT Club.

Thanks for that information! I know that in past years they have asked candidates to bring transcripts so I was not sure if that would be the case this year. I definitely need to practice behavioral interviewing. But I have 2 other interviews this week to prep for and a pile of work before that!

congrats to all the lucky ducks/soon-to-be Sloanies!!!! Still waiting patiently in Chicago! *fingers crossed*

Quick question: someone knows if your application can be rejected without them reviewing your optional essay (in my case, a video) ?
My video has still not been viewed and I was wondering if that means that they still did not review my application or if that means that my essays didn't seem convincing enough ?

thanks

I think this analysis is erroneous. My page 1 of this thread, shows "invited to interview" in R1 as 10 (not 98). I believe 98 comes from adding "invited to interview" and "interviewed". We cannot compare "interviewed" number to this round's "invited to interview". If you look at percentages on page 1, "invited to interview" percentage in R2 already exceeds R1. If you assume that the ratio of people who report "invited" in each round is roughly the same, then we're very close to the end of the invites.

Nobody really know the answer to this question. It has been asked many many times over the past couple of years I've been following this thread. There are three possibilities for this, each speculated roughly equally:
1. Your application was not good enough and optional essay wouldn't have made a difference.
2. Your application was so good that optional essay didn't matter.
3. Your application hasn't been fully read yet.

And all of that assumes that the stat counter is perfect in recording views.

Actually kostyan5 is correct - it appears as though very few invites have been sent out. The stats on the first page are actually very misleading because they don't record cumulatives, they only report current status. So that means when someone goes from "Invited to interview" to "Interviewed" they're no longer counted in the former category, but in the latter. This throws things off because it's difficult to figure out the total number of people who actually received invites at somepoint. The best estimate to use is to look at R1 and add up "Invited to interview," "Interviewed," and "Accepted," since these are the categories that we know received interview requests at some point. You could possibly even at "Waitlisted" to that total, but I'm not sure if Sloan puts applicants on the waitlist without an interview or not, so conservatively it's better to leave that category out.

In any case, using that methodology, the number of applicants on gmatclub who received an invitation to interview was around 40% for R1, so if the same percentage holds true for R2, we'd expect about 97 people in total to receive invites on this board (we're at 9 right now). Of course I'm sure many people will jump in and report their status at a later time, but at least it gives you some perspective...

At the end of the day though, I wouldn't put much faith in these stats. An invite will come when it comes. Or it won't

If you look at the total number of people for round 1 and the decision then you will see that Accepted + Denied + WL + Unknown decision = total applicants. Clearly interviewed and invited to interview do not factor into that population. Those who were interviewed overlap with the accepted, denied and wait-listed. I assumed that for round 1, "invited to interview" meant that that the person was invited but was unable to actually make it, so I added them together with "interviewed".

I was not trying to create a perfect analysis but just demonstrate that only a small percentage of the total invites have gone out so far. I have a hard time believing that 40% of applicants were interviewed and only 13% were admitted because that would mean only 32% of those interviewed were accepted, which is dismal.
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Hi folks, any international invites in Asia?

My take on this is that "invited" is a status you set when you get an invitation email and then update it to "interviewed" once you completed the interview. Not everyone updates their status at every step. I'm suspecting that only a small portion of those invited to interview actually update their status to "invited" and a larger portion update when they were "interviewed". Since people haven't been interviewed in R2 yet, we're not comparing apples to apples.

As a newbie to this board, I can honestly say that I have no idea how to update my status. Not that anything has changed for me in terms of Sloan. But I did get an invitation to interview at Wharton last week but did not update anything to indicate that... I just posted to the Wharton forum.

Keeping my fingers crossed for good news today! On a side note, has anyone from Chicago been invited to interview? Does anyone know if Sloan comes to Chicago? I was under the impression that if I am invited, I will be flying to Boston.

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Actually - any international invites in R2 except for Mexico ? Anyone heard of any international invite except for Mexican reported at BTG ?

Thanks!

Someone in HK have received invites on Mon...saw on a Chinese forum

No. It seems they haven't sent many international invitations yet.

If you click on "My profile" in the toolbar above the thread title, you'll see a section on the top for "Applicant profile." Once that loads, the second link down on the left nav bar is "Schools." Click on that. You can then add schools, indicate your status there, and include the dates of invitations/interviews/etc. Once you have status changes, you just go back there and change the drop-down menu to indicate what happened with your application.

The colors have significance; if you look at mine, obviously the red at HBS means a ding, the purple indicates an invitation to interview at Sloan and Booth, the grey/black for Kellogg and the (I) afterward indicate a completed interview, etc. The 1st page of each school thread has a table that shows the status #s and the colors are there, so you can figure out what each means.

Hope this helps!

Quiet day today, huh?

I find that international students tend to get invites towards to tail end of invites for most schools. Though as an international (Asian) living in the US (Central), I get confused on whether I need to keep staying alert or to give up already.

Will find out soon enough, I suppose. But I really do need to do some work.

Thanks, that is super helpful! I figured it was simple enough but have been so bogged down at work that I have not taken the time to get acclimated to this message board. Waiting for good news to hit my inbox!