https://kelley.iu.edu/mba/images/consortiumLogo.gif Q: What is the Consortium? A: The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management is the country’s preeminent organization for promoting diversity and inclusion in American business. Through an annual competition, The Consortium awards merit-based, full-tuition fellowships to America’s best and brightest candidates. In conjunction with our member schools, sponsoring companies, and our elite group of MBA students and alumni, The Consortium has built a forty year legacy of fostering inclusion and changing the ethnic and cultural face of American business. Q: How does the application process for the Consortium differ from a regular school application? A: Common Application - One application allows you to apply to up to six Consortium schools. (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill requires that all applicants submit both The Consortium application and the UNC application) 2011-2012 Deadlines: R1: November 15, 2011 R2: January 5th, 2012 Related threads/links: 2011 thread: https://gmatclub.com/forum/calling-all-fall-2011-consortium-applicants-95473.html 2010 thread: https://gmatclub.com/forum/calling-all-fall-2010-consortium-applicants-merged-87799.html 2009 thread: https://gmatclub.com/forum/any-consortium-applicants-56951.html Real Time Roll Call for Consortium (separate from other discussions) Add Yourself to the Consortium Applicant List - Update Your Profile Real Time Stats for Each School Add Yourself to the Consortium Applicant List - Update Your Profile Member Schools: University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business University of California-Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Cornell University, The Johnson School Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business Emory University, Goizueta Business School Indiana University-Bloomington, Kelley School of Business University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Stephen M. Ross School of Business New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business University of Virginia, Darden School of Business Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business Yale University, Yale School of Management Tiered Application Fee - Using The Consortium common application significantly reduces your application fee costs. You may apply to up to two member schools for $150, three schools for $200, four schools for $240, five for $275, and six for $300 (source: Official Consortium website) Essays - There are 2 common essays as part of the Consortium application. Additionally, each member school you are applying to requires at least 1 separate, school specific essay. Interviews - New for 2011 - 2012 Consortium interviews are NO LONGER required. Check with your Consortium school for their interview policy. Q: Can I apply even if I am not an under-represented minority? A: The Consortium seeks applicants who align themselves with its mission. Being a minority is not a prerequisite as long as the applicant has demonstrated a commitment to the Consortium's mission in his or her life. Official site: https://www.cgsm.org School 'Interview Captains': Please feel free to Private Message any Forum Members below for advice on interviews. If you've completed your interview and you wanted to be added as a resource, simply PM TheSenator or post on the Board to be added. Anderson - btsl84 Darden - JacksonCinco, TheSenator Goizueta - suchdaddy Haas - TheSenator Johnson - btsl84, mixedin86, TheSenator, encoredazzle31 Kelley - mixedin86, gablaze23, encoredazzle31 Kenan-Flager - Marshall - mixedin86 McCombs - btsl84 Olin - Rochester - BEnergy Ross - arzad Stern - Tepper - iamvolitant, mixedin86 Tuck - JacksonCinco, btsl84, TheSenator Wisconsin - Yale - JacksonCinco, TheSenator

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I'm proud to announce that I received the Consortium Fellowship from UCLA!!!! I can finally exhale. Thanks to everyone in this forum for sharing your stories and for encouraging us to keep the faith. FYI: I ranked UCLA #1, and they called me late this afternoon. I'm sooooo incredibly happy right now!!! Stay encouraged everyone...calls are still going out.

Congratulations!!!

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Congrats Socialbiz!!! Look forward to seeing you at "A-Days".... I just hope I'll be seeing you there with some fellowship in my pocket as well.

Do you have any clue if they were just starting to make calls when they called you? I wondering if they still have a bulk of their calls to make tomorrow.... I've been waiting axiously by my phone all day.

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I think they may still have more calls to make tomorrow morning. I, like you prayed and waited by the phone all day, and eventually received the call after 6pm. I'm hopeful that they will call you and others in the morning. I look forward to meeting you at A-Days!! Keep the faith!!

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15 Mar 2012, 05:19

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Looks like it was a busy evening yesterday. Congrats to all admits and those with fellowships, your hard work has paid off.

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Does anyone know if Ross offers feedback on applications?

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Since UCLA, Ross, and Texas have offered their fellowships...that leaves me with Tuck, UNC, and Kelley as possibilities...ahhhhh, I can't concentrate at work!

Any advice from anyone on how to get through the rest of the week?

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I'm a little irritated that i haven't even recieved a response from UCLA- seems like they should at least formally ding me....

I guess it doesn't matter because I HAS MONIESSS!

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15 Mar 2012, 06:35

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What about Stern?!?!?

Has anyone anywhere heard of Stern calling anyone yet? I ranked them #1 and it looks like all of the other schools that I was accepted to have already made their calls so I either didn't get one at all or I got one with Stern. I am hoping for the latter, we shall see!

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Good Morning All, long time reader first time poster! Also waiting and staring at my phone for any Yale calls! I was admitted a few weeks ago (ranked Yale 1 of 2) and am 94% sure I'm going regardless of Consortium results (In with $$$ at BU, wait-listed with interview at NYU). Glad to (mostly) be done with this long process, but still anxious to learn my financial fate! Thank you all for your insights over the last few months! Congrats to all who've realized their goals and good luck to those still waiting!!!

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Congratulations on Yale! Absolute best of luck with the fellowship, and stay active on the boards! We've got to all get together at OP, maybe take a big GMATClub group photo or something.

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Question to all out there... how do you think schools are awarding fellowships in general. Do you think it's based on merit, how much interest you've shown in the school (attended conferences, visits, etc.) Or perceived fit?

There may no be one magic answer to this question at all, but it's worth considering.

Great question, this is my situation:

1. Tuck didn't offer me the fellowship. (I visited the school several times including Tuck DivCo, and my interview was on campus)
2. Kelley had already offered me 100% so it is natural that they didn't make a consortium offer. (I visited the school and had a skype interview)
3. My 3er school Olin offered me the Consortium fellowship

. (I have not visited the school yet, and I had a skype interview).

I have a third offer of 100% of a non-consortium school that I visited, and I was soon rejected by my last choice in the consortium ranking which I didn't visit.

So what does this tell us? well obviously that each school has its own scholarship policy, and that somehow showing interest to the schools is a good recommendation but not guaranteed.

Ketchup,

I was a Divco attendee as well and I asked an adcom directly what do you look for when awarding a fellowship? First of all, I believe you DO have to pass through the screen of whether you can handle the rigor of those first two semesters at Tuck. Second, she said they look for 'fit' and they take it very seriously. I'm not an expert, however I don't think it necessarily equates to visitations - this is really where the holistic process they talk about plays in.

You pass thru the screen, then they assess from recs, res, interviews, essays, etc. to see if you fit and are therefore if you are fellowship material. Seems to me Tuck takes the process as seriously as admission (Dawna, the director, signs off on each CGSM fellowship), and they have their own idea of which profiles fit and don't fit at Tuck. You're talking about a school that has a very low yield and less than 20% acceptance rate, so you'd have to assume, they assume if someone wants to come to Tuck it's not just for the fellowship.

I would think Yale and Haas have similar approaches, and the screen may even be more stringent at Haas since it's a public Uni.

My $0.02

I agree with your statements. They follow my "scholarship policy" comment.

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Ok, now I am confused.

Tuesday, someone reported receiving a fellowship from Darden, but since then we have not heard peep about Darden calls from anyone.

In my desperation, I called Darden (went through the automatic message like three times, and finally spoke to the "Consortium" contact, but now I don't think she really was the right contact, she might have just picked up that call) and they said that the Consortium calls applicants about fellowship decisions, which I know is not true. And that Darden decisions will come out on the schedule date, March 28th.

I am freaking out with anticipation here at work, peoples! I can't even concentrate on billing my time for last week and you know how law firms feel about that their time!

I need answers! Thanks.

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I am also waiting to hear from Darden. I find it funny that only one person has "supposedly" heard from Darden (with positive or negative news). I would expect more people to have heard by now if they indeed have started to make calls.

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15 Mar 2012, 07:58

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Hmph, MountainLion, I am praying that Darden hasn't really started calls. And hoping that all their Consortium fellows are not "non-members" of GMATClub.

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If I may interject here...

I was called by Kellie(CGSM contact) in admissions on Tuesday. She first informed me about the admissions decision, and then told me the reason that I was being called this early(before March 28th) was that I was awarded the CGSM fellowship through them.

I can't speak to the rest of the gmat club community and the number of calls, but I would assume at this point that they have only called fellowship winners, and they will call the rest of the admits closer to the 28th.

Hope this helps

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gmgismo,

Thanks. What number did you rank Darden? Also, have you heard from of anyone else getting the call about the consortium fellowship?

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JD, so you know, the Darden Consortium rep is Kellie Sauls. She's very energetic and probably the sweetest person on that campus. Hope this helped.

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gmgismo,

Thanks. What number did you rank Darden? Also, have you heard from of anyone else getting the call about the consortium fellowship?

I ranked them #2.

My only consortium lifeline is this blog, and I've been following this for a couple months now. I think Darden pretty much waitlisted everyone in R1 and I can only recall 2 other Round 2 applicants on this thread even getting interview invites.Both of those ppl ranked them 3rd or lower, which may be the reason there hasn't been much noise about it.

Maybe there's a lurker out there who may want to jump in...?

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Nessy if you're planning to attend UVa & Darden the first thing you have to know is that it is not called "campus" we call it GROUNDS. ;-)

good luck, I loved my time there as an ug, and I spent a lot of time at Darden for a business ethics seminar course

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JD, so you know, the Darden Consortium rep is Kellie Sauls. She's very energetic and probably the sweetest person on that campus. Hope this helped.

Thank you Nessy! Do you think it will help to call her and ask? Actually I think I will.

Also, regarding gmgismo's last post, I applied to Darden R2 (via Consortium) and interviewed a couple weeks ago. So are you saying only a few Consortium applicants were interviewed? I thought they interviewed all of them? Or are you saying that few Darden applicants overall were interviewed? Thanks.

Now I will be google Kellie's number since Darden likes to keep that information on lock, but they don't know about my CIA skills