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We seek candidates from a broad range of cultures, backgrounds, and industries who demonstrate a strong cultural fit with our program and defining principles. Please use the following essays as an opportunity to reflect on and share with us the values, experiences, and accomplishments that have helped shape who you are.(Learn more about Berkeley-Haas' Defining Principles). 1. If you could choose one song that expresses who you are, what is it and why? (250 word maximum) 2. What is your most significant accomplishment? (250 word maximum) 3. Describe a time when you questioned an established practice or thought within an organization. How did your actions create positive change? (250 word maximum) 4. Describe a time when you were a student of your own failure. What specific insight from this experience has shaped your development? (250 word maximum) 5.a. What are your post-MBA short-term and long-term career goals? How have your professional experiences prepared you to achieve these goals? b. How will an MBA from Haas help you achieve these goals? (750 word maximum for 5a. and 5b.) Supplemental information 1. If you have not provided a letter of recommendation from your current supervisor, please explain; otherwise, enter N/A. 2. List in order of importance all community and professional organizations and extracurricular activities in which you have been involved during or after university studies. Indicate the nature of the activity or organization, size of the organization, dates of involvement, offices held, and average number of hours spent per month. 3. List full-time and part-time jobs held during undergraduate or graduate studies, indicating the employer, job title, employment dates, location, and the number of hours worked per week for each position held prior to the completion of your degree. 4. Please explain all gaps in your employment since earning your university degree. 5. If you have ever been subject to academic discipline, placed on probation, suspended, or required to withdraw from any college or university, please explain. If not, please enter N/A. (An affirmative response to this question does not automatically disqualify you from admission.) Optional Essays 1. (Optional) Please feel free to provide a statement concerning any information you would like to add to your application that you haven't addressed elsewhere. (500 word maximum) 2. (Optional) If not clearly evident, please discuss ways in which you have demonstrated strong quantitative abilities, or plan to strengthen quantitative abilities. You do not need to list courses that appear on your transcript. 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10 Jan 2013, 19:26

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PMd you so we don't spam these poor people!

AspiringCan

Thank you Stayfrosty6 and @dwchin for your response. Looks like we have lots to do..
@dwchin - I agree we should stick together, help each other out

I read the past transcripts for Haas Waitlist chats a noted a few interesting things:
1) R1 Waitlist candidates will be notified before R2 waitlist about a final decision.
2) They will review all the waitlist candidates together again in Mid/end March. So we have until then to beef up our candidacy. A decision will be provided that will be admitted/denied/waitlisted further.
3) If you decide to provide an additional personal statement then they recommended it should not be more than 1 page.

Like you said, it is hard to provide additional information without really knowing what they view as a shortcoming on your profile. My plan is thus to reinforce all aspects:
1) Have one of my original recommenders talk in detail about my quant ability.
2) Have a second new recommender talk about overall leadership potential and a more personal side of me.
3) Take a trip to Haas. I have only attended chats/spoken to students so far
4) Write a personal statement saying how my visit further reinforced my interest in Haas talk about new community work I have done since, I have changed my job so how that has brought me closer to my long term goal.

Does that sound a little overbearing?

dwhchin

Without really knowing for sure on how things will play out and what exactly would help enhance candidacy, I would tend to agree with stayfrosty.

Personally, I'm thinking additional letter of recommendation and perhaps a personal statement. What about you?

Us waitlisters got to stick together! Haha

AspiringCan

Waitlisted for me too, after interview..
What kind of info should we be working on for the AdCom?

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Hi! New to this forum. I'm a R2 applicant who is invited to Super Saturday- saw my status updated for the interview invite in late december, got an email this week asking for my official transcript (then confirming they got it). however, I haven't gotten any details about the agenda for Super Saturday itself, and I'd really like to start making travel plans! Has anybody gotten details, or know when we should?

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Can somebody explain what is super Saturday? Is this where they will interview most R2 applicants?

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eltoro

Just got the call from Stephanie! And fyi, my application status is still under review.

Wow. You must have a heck of a resume and essays to get into all those great schools with a sub-3.0 gpa. What do you think set you apart?

Congrats.

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11 Jan 2013, 06:58

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MBAtLast

You should have gotten an email too with the invite and email address to RSVP to, as well as the schedule. Maybe check your spam? The day's events go from 11:30am-5pm.

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eltoro

Just got the call from Stephanie! And fyi, my application status is still under review.

Wow. You must have a heck of a resume and essays to get into all those great schools with a sub-3.0 gpa. What do you think set you apart?

Congrats.

Thanks Shawshank. My GPA is a little tricky. My undergrad grades out of a 5.0 scale. The 2.9 is based on their conversion recommendation, but I'm not sure if schools follow that. Other than that, I have good work experience in manufacturing with increasing responsibility, lots of extra-curriculars, and a masters in engineering.

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11 Jan 2013, 07:54

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eltoro

Eltoro,

Thanks for sharing the info. I am in a similar situation but in Aerodynamic design. I hope I have done a decent job explaining my situation.

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MBAtLast

You should have gotten an email too with the invite and email address to RSVP to, as well as the schedule. Maybe check your spam? The day's events go from 11:30am-5pm.

Thanks! I've been checking my spam folder regularly and never saw that. I guess it's time to check in with admissions.

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Can somebody explain what is super Saturday? Is this where they will interview most R2 applicants?

From what I understand it's an interview day for people outside of the Bay area. Beyond that (as in, who gets invited, who doesn't), I don't know the particulars. Specifically, I don't know why some people get invited to that while others interview with alumni in their home town.

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Can somebody explain what is super Saturday? Is this where they will interview most R2 applicants?

I'm pretty clueless about it, but here's an excerpt from a Haas adcom from two years ago that might help:

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MYTH #1: Super Saturday interviews hold more weight than other interviews
FALSE - Candidates invited to Super Saturday are round 2 applicants who typically reside in the US, but outside the Bay Area. This gives them an opportunity to travel to campus for an interview during a weekend. Though we wish we could extend this opportunity to all of our candidates invited to interview, rest assured that a Super Saturday interview holds equal weight to an interview conducted with an alumnus in your local area or with a student on campus.
Source: https://www.mbaprepadvantage.com/blog/haas-dispels-myths-about-mba-interview-invitations/

So if there are limited spots for Super Saturday, how do they decide which U.S.-based candidates are invited?

Who knows. On one hand, it could make sense to use a priority system in terms of applicant quality and match: you want to sell to the strongest candidates and the best way to do that is through a campus visit. As a U.S.-based candidate who did not get a Super Saturday invite, it could mean that I'm in a 2nd-tier of interview candidates.

On the other hand, it makes just as much sense to look at it logistically: if a metro area has a well-represented alumni population, you'd want to prioritize SS invites to other applicants who might have a harder time finding an alumni match in their area. I'm from D.C., where there is a decent pool of Haas alumni doing social and non-profit work, and have had an easy time connecting for my interview.

It's interesting to contemplate, but I've learned that there is so much out of our control in this process that it's not worth worrying about.

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have any R2 who got their "your application is ready for review" email after 12/12 been invited for an interview?

i'm from California, grew up in the Bay Area and live near LA so I know I wouldn't be invited to Super Saturday but I was hoping to hear something by now...

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WL'd, but going to deny, headed to Booth, have fun guys and gals!

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Congrats to all R1 applicant call-getters! Those who are in waitlist/waiting for a interview Invite R2... all the very best. Hope is something you can hold on to pretty tightly

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R1 applicants - would be really glad if you can post your profile, country and interview questions along with what you loved about the interviewer(culture or something). Might be of a great help to us all.

Happy new year to all of you!

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Engineering background, about 7 years of WE, GMAT 710. Good luck to us all!

Hi, congratulations! I'm still in the early phase of preparing. Maybe cannot catch up this year's R3. So I might join the R1 later this year:)

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Congrats to all R1 applicant call-getters! Those who are in waitlist/waiting for a interview Invite R2... all the very best. Hope is something you can hold on to pretty tightly

I'm a US applicant working in the financial services industry. GMAT was 750+ with a 3.5+ gpa from a top US public school.

The interview questions were posted earlier in this thread by someone else. They are quite generic in my opinion (why a MBA? Why Haas?) and I believe that the interview is more a fit test than anything. My interviewer was from Europe and was very laid back. He had participated in a startup competition at Haas so it was interesting to talk to him about that since I have entrepreneurial interests. We had a very good dialogue and I came away feeling that we had connected well. Note that they end the interview at 45 minutes sharp on campus.

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Hi Everybody,

This is my first post on gmatclub!

I am a R2 international applicant. I know that interview invites for R2 have started coming in, any international applicant who got an invite yet?

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Hi All,

Can anyone offer any insight on the evaluation process for Super Saturday? Are the various panel sessions and group activities really just for the applicants' benefit or are you evaluated throughout the day based on your engagement, questions you ask, etc?

Thanks.

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From what I understand it is very much like a campus visit with some added activities but the only evaluation you will go though would be the interview. Of course unless you do something really outrageous, and ad-com will take a note of it. So prepare well for the interview and enjor rest of your day. It is a beautiful campus and awesome people.

You might have already seen it but here is a good blog post to give you an idea about the Super Saturday.
https://berkeleymbastudents.wordpress.co ... the-table/