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28 Oct 2014, 12:41

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Roomoo22

By my logic, roughly 10% of applicants get interviews. There are 350 people registered here as applying R1. That means that there should be 35 who get interviews. Even if we are a super lousy bunch (hopefully not!), let's say maybe there would be 20 interviewees in the gmatclub pool. I think only 6 have posted that they got interviews (right?). If there are a few others who got an interview but didn't post anything, I think it is reasonable to assume that there are at least 10 more spots available (and this is under a very conservative estimate). That doesn't exactly look good... But the dream isn't over yet.

True, but that assumes the profiles are equal for the pool on gmatclub and off. I wouldn't get stuck thinking about the interview slots this way. You wouldn't use this logic on the GMAT right?

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28 Oct 2014, 12:44

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Roomoo22

True, but that assumes the profiles are equal for the pool on gmatclub and off. I wouldn't get stuck thinking about the interview slots this way. You wouldn't use this logic on the GMAT right?

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Doing the numbers with Stanford never looks good.. haha

But on the other hand its just two days, I don't think that the invites on the first days are more numerous than after. In fact, if anything I should think its the other way around

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28 Oct 2014, 13:23

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jlgdr: I hope you're right! Fingers and toes crossed for tomorrow and the next day and the next day...

psal: Remember, I assumed that those of us here on gmatclub were in face inferior candidates than the pool as a whole. We may be better, we may indeed be worse; again, it's just an assumption yielding a conservative estimate. Maybe re-read my initial thoughts before you feel the need to comment on my critical thinking skills?

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28 Oct 2014, 13:28

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I believe we are better candidates. But there is still another factor on our side, maybe the % of invitations is higher in round 1 than in round 2... (they have to fill the slots)...?

psal

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28 Oct 2014, 13:30

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Roomoo22

Ohh I see your logic now, I (mis)read it quickly. My bad. Anyways good luck to you! I just prefer to let things play out.

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28 Oct 2014, 14:11

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tunasalad

Does anybody have intel on whether the invites per day go out at the same time? Or scattered throughout the day?

The invite yesterday went out around 5pm PT, but the invites today went out around 10:30am PT. Could be scattered throughout the day and we just have a small sample size or could be that there is a particular time per day that invites go out (and that time varies every day). We'll have to see if more invites come out this evening around 5pm PT or any other time throughout the day.

Hope that helps

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28 Oct 2014, 14:48

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TripleDetroit

maybe it's just the GMAT 740 and up club today. I need GSB to bring it down a notch lol

haha so true.

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28 Oct 2014, 14:56

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TripleDetroit

maybe it's just the GMAT 740 and up club today. I need GSB to bring it down a notch lol

haha so true.

yup no invite here either. :'(

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28 Oct 2014, 15:00

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Thanks everyone, the support from you all is truly encouraging. I received today at 16:22 GMT the name of my interviewer, I am going to connect with him tomorrow. I assume the interview will take place in the next 2 weeks.

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28 Oct 2014, 15:24

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For those getting invites: When did you apply relative to the October 1 deadline?

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28 Oct 2014, 15:26

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For those getting invites: When did you apply relative to the October 1 deadline?

Asked another way, did anyone who applied the night before or the day of 10/1 receive invites? Wondering if their review process is chronological, or if it's truly randomized.

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28 Oct 2014, 15:36

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NandoParrado

Kindly ask if he's willing to interview me too 8-)

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28 Oct 2014, 16:24

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Has anyone in the southern hemisphere gotten an invite?

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28 Oct 2014, 16:25

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Roomoo22

I believe we are better candidates. But there is still another factor on our side, maybe the % of invitations is higher in round 1 than in round 2... (they have to fill the slots)...?

We are least better looking candidates. Of that I am confident.

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For those getting invites: When did you apply relative to the October 1 deadline?

Asked another way, did anyone who applied the night before or the day of 10/1 receive invites? Wondering if their review process is chronological, or if it's truly randomized.

I submitted the morning of 10/1, so don't think its chronological.

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28 Oct 2014, 16:47

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Gmail is blocked at work, so I keep checking my phone every time it receives an email. It's near the end of the work day on the west coast, so I'm assuming emails are done for today. Hoping that means I'm more productive the next few hours at work

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28 Oct 2014, 16:53

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For those getting invites: When did you apply relative to the October 1 deadline?

Asked another way, did anyone who applied the night before or the day of 10/1 receive invites? Wondering if their review process is chronological, or if it's truly randomized.

I submitted the morning of 10/1, so don't think its chronological.

This is of course more useless theorizing. But I'm guessing each school does prioritize candidates in the invite process - not necessarily "strongest first" but maybe "we want to fill this industry bucket first" or "here is the perfect mix of x and y" or "here is what we want for middle market PE in round x". For top schools (esp HBS and Stanford) they probably also invite the potential 'rock stars' early so they can get them in front of an interviewer sooner and see if they're for real. I do think the metrics are obviously different for each school. For example, I have a non standard background for HBS and Stanford that will most likely take someone having a personal interest for me to have a shot of getting in (I was put on FC at HBS, so this would make sense - they may think they'll like my story but want to see if they like any others better). So schools will probably take a bit longer to decide which of the 'story' candidates they want to accept, and maybe also how to fill the URM 'buckets' (obviously they will have strong URM candidates on a standalone basis but probably put a bit extra time into the more borderline candidates). Booth on the other hand invited me on day two, I think there the strong GMAT and GPA with enough extracurriculars and experience made them feel confident extending an early interview invitation (which is great because I think the curriculum is an incredible fit).

If I were to pointlessly theorize further I would expect a pretty weak but positive correlation between invite date and acceptance. Just because they invite a bunch of strong MBB consultants early doesn't mean they want them all. On the same ticket, just because they invite 20 people with interesting 'stories' late doesn't mean they are yet sold on everyone, but who knows if they plan on keeping 10% or 90% of such a pool.

Keep in mind they are trying to build a demographically attractive class, so it makes sense to put together the sub groups of people competing against each other on whatever metrics at the same time with the outliers being their own group later on (or a few outlier groups built one at a time). Then later the individual sub groups can be whittled down and filled in with deferred/wait list candidates.

Either way, we sure do spend a lot of time over analyzing it. I guess this is what happens when a bunch of smart motivated individuals have to sit and wait in a dark forum together.

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28 Oct 2014, 17:37

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I'd say that timing is even more difficult than selection. For me even HBS wasn't clear. I receieved many positive feedback on my application from experts (eg. HBSGuru) telling me I had a strong profile for the school and nevertheless did not recieve an invite. For Stanford, this is even less clear to me. I don't have a clue of the type of class they are trying to build here but apparently it differes from HBS since we have several dinged HBS candidates recieving invites. Now about the timing, I think this really pushes the analysis an extra level. There's no real need to invite the 'brightest' candaites first other than 'OK, we are damn sure we have to invite this one so why delay'. There could be other arguments such as doing it by buckets which means similar geographical / industry area which I don't think is the case. I don't think they invite international students first either since there is no need to make any travel arrangements in most cases.

Maybe is just let's get movin' send the really strong candidates something earlier and let's figure out with more time which of the rest of these we should invite (probably because we need to read every other application to make sure we are choosing the right person and not the other). In the first case, with really strong candidates they are choosing you, not really comparing you to another candidate to see which one to pick, that's why they usually don't need to read all the apps until this point. According to this theory, we should definetely see more URM towards the end of the timeline here for the reasons explained above.

In conclusion, I expect to get my invite in the 10-13 november range.

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28 Oct 2014, 17:43

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jlgdr

Tell me when I'm getting my invite so I don't have to be happy, yet secretly jealous and sad, every time I see someone else get invited to interview. :wink:

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28 Oct 2014, 17:51

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jlgdr

I've always wondered if their "method" is as scientific as we think it is.. Maybe they are all drunk spinning a wheel of fortune and randomly selecting candidates until they reach 415 students...