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FWIW to those turned down, it feels 10x worse to get an interview (on the second to last day, too!) and then completely bomb it, like I just did ~2h ago. Don't let the nervousness get to you, kids: you'll end up rambling like a madman for an hour and curse yourself on the car ride back.
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FWIW to those turned down, it feels 10x worse to get an interview (on the second to last day, too!) and then completely bomb it, like I just did ~2h ago. Don't let the nervousness get to you, kids: you'll end up rambling like a madman for an hour and curse yourself on the car ride back.
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I wouldn't worry too much! You probably did a lot better than you think, we all usually focus on the areas we think we messed up and forget about the times where we did well. Either way, the interview is just one piece of the process. I know someone who thought they bombed it last year and still got in!
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FWIW to those turned down, it feels 10x worse to get an interview (on the second to last day, too!) and then completely bomb it, like I just did ~2h ago. Don't let the nervousness get to you, kids: you'll end up rambling like a madman for an hour and curse yourself on the car ride back.

I wouldn't worry too much! You probably did a lot better than you think, we all usually focus on the areas we think we messed up and forget about the times where we did well. Either way, the interview is just one piece of the process. I know someone who thought they bombed it last year and still got in!
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You're awesome for the reassuring words! I'll cross my fingers you're right (and that we end up classmates). I will say that my interviewer left me even more eager about Stanford (which is hard to believe).
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FWIW to those turned down, it feels 10x worse to get an interview (on the second to last day, too!) and then completely bomb it, like I just did ~2h ago. Don't let the nervousness get to you, kids: you'll end up rambling like a madman for an hour and curse yourself on the car ride back.

I wouldn't worry too much! You probably did a lot better than you think, we all usually focus on the areas we think we messed up and forget about the times where we did well. Either way, the interview is just one piece of the process. I know someone who thought they bombed it last year and still got in!

You're awesome for the reassuring words! I'll cross my fingers you're right (and that we end up classmates). I will say that my interviewer left me even more eager about Stanford (which is hard to believe).
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You will feel much better if I tell you I encountered a very untypical Stanford interview: my interviewer got both top degrees from East Cost and Stanford, and rather than the said friendly and conversational interview, he did not ask one single behavioral question, rather, keep challenging me about all my life choices so far: my past, my current, and my future career goal. I feel it is more of a HBS kind of sharp and intense interview, which is not fit with my style at all. :( .
I feel so nervous now seeing that most of the Stanford interview went very casual and relax and friendly, I hope the theory that since Stanford's alum interview is so random that it is hard to standardize and therefore only carries no more than 10-15% weight is true. Otherwise I don't think it is objective and fair. :cry: :cry:
Praying for that they will increase the class size further and all of us will become classmates next year!
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FWIW to those turned down, it feels 10x worse to get an interview (on the second to last day, too!) and then completely bomb it, like I just did ~2h ago. Don't let the nervousness get to you, kids: you'll end up rambling like a madman for an hour and curse yourself on the car ride back.
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Don't worry about it. I know that's easier said than done, but I'm pretty sure that the interview at Stanford means very, very little in the evaluation process. It's more of a way for them to sell Stanford and to get alumni involved with the school. Hope you get good news on the 11th!
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MYTH 1: The interview has a lot of weight so if I blow the interview, I have blown my chances of being admitted.
THE TRUTH: There is no specific weight assigned to the interview; the interview is one part of a comprehensive process. A positive interview does not guarantee admission, while a less than favorable interview does not, by itself, preclude admission. The written application, including the essays and letters of reference, is a critical part of the evaluation process. The interview is a key source of supplemental information.

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ONE WEEK TILL D-DAY!!!!!! How are people feeling?! I can't stop thinking about it... :(
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My interview experience too was very "Harvard-like" and focused on my resume and my accomplishments. There wasn't a lot of back and forth, despite my best efforts to make it conversational. Lastly, the interview only lasted 45 minutes because there was another candidate waiting to be interviewed right after me. My advice to those preparing for Round 2 interviews is to not study typical Stanford MBA questions that you can find all over the internet, but rather objectively have answers, and more importantly, stories to the following questions:

1. Who are you?
2. What have you done in your life?
3. What so you want to do, and why will a Stanford MBA help you?

Having succinct stories is what allowed me to progress through a fairy serious interview.

On a side note, I'm going stir crazy waiting for next Tuesday. I'll be traveling that afternoon to Europe so I won't even know if I got a phone call. Hope everyone else can tune out the impending decision, but I'm absolutely useless at work right now.
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I left my GSB interview thinking it was only okay, now I'm looking back and realized that it went pretty poorly (especially in the beginning). I'm a reapplicant so last year - last year my interview went pretty well and didn't much about the deadline until I got waitlisted; this year I'm just kind of replaying the interview in my head and regretting what I said. I didn't expect to be worrying this much, but at least it's over next week!
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I left my GSB interview thinking it was only okay, now I'm looking back and realized that it went pretty poorly (especially in the beginning). I'm a reapplicant so last year - last year my interview went pretty well and didn't much about the deadline until I got waitlisted; this year I'm just kind of replaying the interview in my head and regretting what I said. I didn't expect to be worrying this much, but at least it's over next week!
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Same here... I could've definitely given better answers to few questions. Given that Stanford was my first MBA interview, I was nervous and rambled... hopefully the interview does not weigh that much in the admission process as others said before. Good luck to us all!
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this time next tuesday will be agony.
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Anyone know if DB leaves voicemails?

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Anyone know if calls will start on Tuesday? Or all Wednesday (the official notification date)?
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If history is any guide, all of the calls will happen on Tuesday.
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I'm also curious about this.
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If history is any guide, all of the calls will happen on Tuesday.
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Its going to be a frantic and sleepless 48 hours for those of us on the other side of the world, with a totally wacko sense of date and time.
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I simply have no productivity this week ( and guess till next Tue..) and out of curiosity, I did a research on last year's interviewee's final results, also gsb said that there is no correlation to the timing of the interview invites and the final results, to my horror, for a sample size of 13 people who finally got accepted in R1, only 4 of them received invites in the later stage of the interview invite circle ( in last year's case, after late Nov), whereas for a sample size of 5 people who were dinged/wl with interview in R1, only one people got the invites in early stage of the invite circle ( early Oct), most of those got dinged with interview got their invite after mid/late Nov. I myself received the invite in the later 1/3 of the whole invite circle, not feeling confident after finding out these. But again maybe the sample size is too small.
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I simply have no productivity this week ( and guess till next Tue..) and out of curiosity, I did a research on last year's interviewee's final results, also gsb said that there is no correlation to the timing of the interview invites and the final results, to my horror, for a sample size of 13 people who finally got accepted in R1, only 4 of them received invites in the later stage of the interview invite circle ( in last year's case, after late Nov), whereas for a sample size of 5 people who were dinged/wl with interview in R1, only one people got the invites in early stage of the invite circle ( early Oct), most of those got dinged with interview got their invite after mid/late Nov. I myself received the invite in the later 1/3 of the whole invite circle, not feeling confident after finding out these. But again maybe the sample size is too small.
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I wouldn't worry too much!!! I just wonder why last year at least there were more interview invites, compared to this year?! (8% vs 15%)
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I simply have no productivity this week ( and guess till next Tue..) and out of curiosity, I did a research on last year's interviewee's final results, also gsb said that there is no correlation to the timing of the interview invites and the final results, to my horror, for a sample size of 13 people who finally got accepted in R1, only 4 of them received invites in the later stage of the interview invite circle ( in last year's case, after late Nov), whereas for a sample size of 5 people who were dinged/wl with interview in R1, only one people got the invites in early stage of the invite circle ( early Oct), most of those got dinged with interview got their invite after mid/late Nov. I myself received the invite in the later 1/3 of the whole invite circle, not feeling confident after finding out these. But again maybe the sample size is too small.

I wouldn't worry too much!!! I just wonder why last year at least there were more interview invites, compared to this year?! (8% vs 15%)
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I've read before that this is because many people don't join GC until after they have been accepted. Also, people will just delete a school from their profile rather than changing it to a ding.
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I simply have no productivity this week ( and guess till next Tue..) and out of curiosity, I did a research on last year's interviewee's final results, also gsb said that there is no correlation to the timing of the interview invites and the final results, to my horror, for a sample size of 13 people who finally got accepted in R1, only 4 of them received invites in the later stage of the interview invite circle ( in last year's case, after late Nov), whereas for a sample size of 5 people who were dinged/wl with interview in R1, only one people got the invites in early stage of the invite circle ( early Oct), most of those got dinged with interview got their invite after mid/late Nov. I myself received the invite in the later 1/3 of the whole invite circle, not feeling confident after finding out these. But again maybe the sample size is too small.

I wouldn't worry too much!!! I just wonder why last year at least there were more interview invites, compared to this year?! (8% vs 15%)

I've read before that this is because many people don't join GC until after they have been accepted. Also, people will just delete a school from their profile rather than changing it to a ding.
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That's true, I simply deleted HBS and Wharton after they dinged me :P :lol: :x
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