The London Business School 2011 Thread

it's amazing!
good luck

stress reduction ...check this out :D......saw this on some blog

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OMG...I just got in!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to everyone who have also got admitted. I look forward to seeing you in London!

For the waitlisters, you must get in touch with bsd_lover. He is the poster boy of LBS waitlisters on GC and is probably one of the most helpful guys around (realized it after reading LBS threads of the past 2 years and took some advice too under another login name myself sometime back).

For people who have got dinged, I truly believe, if you are efforts are honest and if a school does not admit you, its just a mismatch of likes and dislikes from both sides. That essentially means you will find your destiny somewhere else, which might turn out the best for you.

This whole experience has really humbled me and I really want to thank this forum for helping me out so much all along!!

Waitlisted...fml.

congratuations!
how about your wife?

hey bluedreamer......I have decided on LBS over insead and wharton +$ !!!!

Sure - I think I share the view of the administration. The Booth administration has impressed me over LBS as well and I have only dealt with their international office so far. Comparing the two schools is not easy. They both, although competing top business schools, represent two very distinct experiences. Its like saying I'm an Angelina Jolie fan v/s I'm a Scarlett Johanssen fan. Each of these beauties have their own quirks and the folks that get attracted to Angelina would be attracted to her for reasons very different to the reasons of folks attracted to Scarlett - but that doesn't make either a bad choice. Neither does it qualify one as a decidedly better choice than the other.

LBS administration and marketing lets it down. But people dont go to school for its administration or for its spin doctors. People go to a business school for its faculty, its student body and the opportunities it provides (not necessarily in that order). Ironically for such a poorly marketed school, LBS has a rockstar marketing faculty (Nirmalya Kumar, Marco Bertini). It also has rock star Finance and Strategy faculty. It has fewer electives than Booth - but lets get real, how many b-school students want to do Phd level Applied Regression analysis anyway (I kinda did and hence I am using the exchange programme to Booth ). The electives at LBS cover all major bases and are extremely well taught.

The student body at LBS is unbelievable. You will not find such diversity anywhere else in the world - not at Harvard, not at Stanford or Wharton or any other 2 year programme in the world. Stern markets its collaborative community. LBS is just as collaborative if not more. Wharton prides itself in the student run nature of campus activities. Well LBS is absolutely driven by students - everything from the Asia Business Forum to the Private Equity conference to the Mexico trek. The kind of guests we are able to attract just by being in London is unreal.

Almost all top recruiters hire from here and some exclusively so. The alumni base is all over London and most part of the world (owing to the international nature of the students). We will see some pretty amazing placement numbers for my year (2011) because recruiting has really picked up after the crisis. Even during the crisis LBS has been one of the better performers.

Anyway I'll post more about Booth later as I start classes there. Good luck with your choice and feel free to pm me with any specific questions.

Hi waitlistedlbs,

Unfortunately, everyone in the waitlist has the same questions but no one can provide accurate answers, since LBS doesn't disclose figures nor information about its waitlist process.

I applied for the MBA2012 (R2) and was waitlisted in March 2010. In my experience, you will not see movement at all from now to June-July. In June-July, very few spots will open up for waitlisters. Many people in the waitlist will withdraw voluntarily throughout the process.

If LBS is your first choice, as it was mine, be patient, since you will have very good chances to be accepted for MBA2014 in case you make it to the end of the road.

I was accepted in September 2010 (earlier than R1 applications) and will be attending to the MBA Class of 2013 by the way.

You can read bsd_lover posts as they are very very useful.

I wish you the best of luck in this tough journey you will have.

I'm not quite sure of the reasons why. They were never available to my class (2011) to begin with. Although there are plenty of opportunities for Africa as a target. I know of a few people who are doing projects in South Africa. PE in Africa is big and several recruiters have advertised for Africa based roles. Besides that there are several social opportunities to visit - Mt. Kilimanjaro climb is quite popular and so are visits to Morocco.

1st year:
- plan 1: pay full amount £26,950 by 30 Sep 2011
- plan 2: 3 installments (with an additional charge of £250... and the last installment deadline is March 2012)

2nd year:
- plan 1: pay full amount £26,950 by 3 Oct 2012
- plan 2: 3 installments (with an additional charge of £250... and the last installment deadline is March 2013)

Just called LBS the lady at the adcom said all the invites/dings go out tomorrow evening. so good luck all.

I have to commend LBS for the way they handle releases. They keep to a deadline and it makes for a much less anxious process than schools that drag things on for weeks. But I won't be so cheery if I get dinged!

Someone earlier in the forum has replied that his status did not change from "submitted" to anything even after getting an admit.

Interview invite for me as well

The most common interview method is via an alumnus in a location close to the applicant. They try to pair you up with an alumnus with similar background/industry etc. so I personally think its better to interview with the alumnus where you'll have more of an opportunity to establish a connection (as opposed to interviewing directly with admissions). You can of course always fly out to London to get the feel for the city / classes during admits weekend (or if you happen to come here for travel or business).

Guys, I will get location of my alumnus in a week or so; however I might I have travel to a completely different location next 3 weeks (not sure yet). Any idea how LBS might be able to help me out on this?