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Any R2 applicant from India received an invite yet?

I don't think anybody on gmatclub received an invite, expect for super saturday.
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Question. My application has been in review for some time (got the confirmation a week ago that it was ready for review). I'm a US applicant not in the Bay Area (Southern California instead) and I understand that the US applicant pool is the largest. With that being said, should I be worried at all that I've yet to receive any notification from them? I'm optimistic (because it's not a "NO" until they actually say "NO") but I do want to know what to anticipate.
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Question. My application has been in review for some time (got the confirmation a week ago that it was ready for review). I'm a US applicant not in the Bay Area (Southern California instead) and I understand that the US applicant pool is the largest. With that being said, should I be worried at all that I've yet to receive any notification from them? I'm optimistic (because it's not a "NO" until they actually say "NO") but I do want to know what to anticipate.

Not from the US, but my application went "under review" 5 days after the deadline and I've heard nothing.

The fact that, outside Super Saturday, not a single person has gotten an interview (Intl or US) coupled with the fact that your application went under review after the Super Saturday invites were sent out pretty much mean that you should not be worried at all.
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Question. My application has been in review for some time (got the confirmation a week ago that it was ready for review). I'm a US applicant not in the Bay Area (Southern California instead) and I understand that the US applicant pool is the largest. With that being said, should I be worried at all that I've yet to receive any notification from them? I'm optimistic (because it's not a "NO" until they actually say "NO") but I do want to know what to anticipate.

Not from the US, but my application went "under review" 5 days after the deadline and I've heard nothing.

The fact that, outside Super Saturday, not a single person has gotten an interview (Intl or US) coupled with the fact that your application went under review after the Super Saturday invites were sent out pretty much mean that you should not be worried at all.

I am wondering how the adcom "selected" candidates for super saturday...
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It'd be pretty cool to hear back from Haas....they are the last school I'm waiting on for R2.

I looked back at the applicant thread from last year....the first reported interview invite was on Jan 28 (and their deadline for R2 was Jan 8).

So it seems we are at least a week behind this time around.
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Just got my super saturday invite today. So excited!!
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Just got my super saturday invite today. So excited!!


Did you apply for the MBA or the MBA/MPH program ?
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Just got my super saturday invite today. So excited!!


Did you apply for the MBA or the MBA/MPH program ?


Just regular 2 year MBA. Submitted application on the deadline.
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I just received an invitation to interview! :-D

I live in New York and it is not an invitation to attend the Super Saturday event
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I'm sure some variation of this question has been asked, but how many people actually attend Super Saturday? I read a blog from 2009 that said there were about 100 applicants which seems really small.
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I just got my super saturday invite today. I submitted just before the deadline and am from Alaska. If anybody else is heading to the Super Saturday that weekend and wants to meet up, just let me know. I'll be out there the entire weekend.
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I just received an invitation to interview! :-D

I live in New York and it is not an invitation to attend the Super Saturday event

Congrats! When did you submit your app?
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I just received an invitation to interview! :-D

I live in New York and it is not an invitation to attend the Super Saturday event

Congrats! When did you submit your app?

Thanks! I submitted January 3rd
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Has any R2 applicant from the Bay Area or California receive a regular (not super Saturday) interview invitation?
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FROM Haas Admissions Blog: Evening and Weekend MBA Startup Jolts Electric Vehicle Charging


An MBA startup launched by evening and weekend students aims to send shock waves through the energy storage and electrical vehicle charging industries. Last year it developed a product it hopes will redefine those markets, and within its first year counts Google and LinkedIn among its customers and Nissan and Siemens as strategic partners.

It all started with one self-proclaimed automotive geek. Third-year student Arcady Sosinov moved from Russia at age five, and was soon helping his dad, a Boston taxi driver, with brake repairs and oil changes. By age 11, he was replacing entire auto engines.  Later, he formed a small company to design, manufacture, and sell performance auto parts for BMWs.

Once he arrived at Berkeley-Haas, he took full advantage of the Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA Program to co-found the automotive startup of his dreams: a company called FreeWire.

FreeWire began in the spring of 2014 when Sosinov and classmate Sameer Mehdiratta and Sanat Kamal Bahl, MBA 14, all met in Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad course and realized a synergy: Sosinov had finance and automotive expertise and Mehdiratta and Kamal Bahl had engineering expertise in wireless charging. (Co-founder and classmate Luv Kothari went on to take a position with Bain & Company.) 

The result was a company that aims to transform the electric vehicle (EV) charging market.

Sosinov credits Lean LaunchPad with supplying the foundation and motivation to get FreeWire off the ground. Applying the class methodology of customer discovery and iteration, the FreeWire team conducted 140 face-to-face interviews with potential customers (including large companies that provide workplace EV charging for employees).

As a result, the team pivoted away from wireless EV charging, its original idea, to mobile, grid-smart battery-powered chargers.

“We realized there was not a market yet for wireless charging, but we also discovered a huge pain point for customers: building the costly infrastructure required with workplace EV charging stations,” Sosinov says. Another problem they uncovered was the limited use of stationary charging stations: employees would fail to move their cars during the day to share the stations with others.

FreeWire’s mobile charger, Mobi, which uses second-life EV batteries, solved the problem. “Instead of bringing the vehicles to the charging station, we bring the charger to the vehicles.”

FreeWire raised $425,000 in seed capital and secured a $500,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research, Sosinov reports, adding the company is currently making headway towards its A round goal of $6 to $9 million. While Lean LaunchPad was essential to starting the company, other Berkeley-Haas courses have proved vital along the way, Sosinov says.



 The Freewire Founding Team (l. to r.) Sanat Kamal Bahl, Sameer Mediratta, Luv Kothari, and Arcady Soinov 

In the Venture Capital and Private Equity class taught by Terry Opdendyk and Sean Foote, Sosinov learned about financing strategy, and the Entrepreneurship class taught by Kurt Beyer provided a breadth of information on how to run and grow a startup during its first few years.

“Getting those three different perspectives was instrumental,” Sosinov says. “The entrepreneurial spirit at Berkeley-Haas is also incredible, as is the network of people and the connections we’ve made.”

Up next for FreeWire is expansion into the energy storage market as a whole. The company plans to apply its technology to help commercial buildings and utility companies manage energy consumption to dramatically lower costs. It also aims to help residential power users more efficiently use their solar systems.

Sosinov’s advice for other entrepreneurs is two-fold. “I’m a big advocate of the lean startup customer discovery process,” he says.

And for Berkeley-Haas students and alumni: “Use your network. There are Berkeley grads in every dimension of business, technology, and government. Reach out to them because they are always willing to help.”



 

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Should I be worried that my application status is still just "received", not "under review"?
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Invited!

Submitted the day of R2 deadline. Recieved email invite Friday, 7:22pm EST (Florida-based applicant). White male military officer, stats to the left. Regular invite, not super saturday.

Good luck everyone! That was the last school I was waiting for...on to the interviews!
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