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TWIC, what’s the guarantee of ECs coming out in the interview process as well? Whatever behavioral questions I was asked they all had to be answered from a professional work ex only and that is what is usually recommended by current students as well. What I’m saying basically is yes Ross’ application is really light but how do you think they are assessing fit (not passion, not excitement, not knowledge and research about the program) but fit for the school when the entire interview or the behavioural questions atleast are focused almost entirely (not completely) on the professional life
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In my case I introduced elements that demonstrated fit and EC readiness. I deliberately spoke to them after regular interview questions. Then I think the resume is another place to introduce those things or hint at them. At the end of the day, no one is sure.
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TWIC, what’s the guarantee of ECs coming out in the interview process as well? Whatever behavioral questions I was asked they all had to be answered from a professional work ex only and that is what is usually recommended by current students as well. What I’m saying basically is yes Ross’ application is really light but how do you think they are assessing fit (not passion, not excitement, not knowledge and research about the program) but fit for the school when the entire interview or the behavioural questions atleast are focused almost entirely (not completely) on the professional life

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In my case I introduced elements that demonstrated fit and EC readiness. I deliberately spoke to them after regular interview questions. Then I think the resume is another place to introduce those things or hint at them. At the end of the day, no one is sure.
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TWIC, what’s the guarantee of ECs coming out in the interview process as well? Whatever behavioral questions I was asked they all had to be answered from a professional work ex only and that is what is usually recommended by current students as well. What I’m saying basically is yes Ross’ application is really light but how do you think they are assessing fit (not passion, not excitement, not knowledge and research about the program) but fit for the school when the entire interview or the behavioural questions atleast are focused almost entirely (not completely) on the professional life

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I agree that resume is another place to talk about our ECs in a bit of detail. I've pinged you on personal chat about a related aspect.
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TWIC, what’s the guarantee of ECs coming out in the interview process as well? Whatever behavioral questions I was asked they all had to be answered from a professional work ex only and that is what is usually recommended by current students as well. What I’m saying basically is yes Ross’ application is really light but how do you think they are assessing fit (not passion, not excitement, not knowledge and research about the program) but fit for the school when the entire interview or the behavioural questions atleast are focused almost entirely (not completely) on the professional life
You might be anchoring on the wrong aspect - EC's are a part of an applicant's profile that can demonstrate many aspects of personality such as being community-focused, pursuing your passions, highlighting commitment if you have longer term EC's. They add colour to a profile and show how you interact with your community outside of the workplace, i.e. outside of a more controlled, predictable environment. However, if you've managed to demonstrate that through your answers to professional questions then there is no need to worry. You might have started a work initiative, or be on committees, or help arrange social functions. All of that shows community engagement. Its just that most schools ask for ECs in the application itself, and so they get a sense of how you interact with your wider community and then infer how you would interact with the school's community outside of the classroom.

Bear in mind that this is just a hypothesis, but its telling that Michigan Ross has such a light application and is one of the few schools to not ask about ECs explicitly. So how can they assess your wider community engagement? Especially for a school driven by its 'Go Blue' culture, community engagement, fit, and personality are so important. Every person you ask about Ross will tell you that there culture permeates many aspects of the experience.

To answer your question directly though, there isn't a guarantee of ECs being explicitly asked but I've seen that questions vary a lot between different interviewers. In my Ross interview, after walking the interviewer through my resume, he and I spent 5 minutes chatting about my interest in sports because I mentioned that its something I'm quite passionate about. And there is also some responsibility on the interviewee to manage the information they present to the interviewer as well. For example, in my Haas interview I was asked "is there anything else you would like me to tell the adcom about you" and I mentioned specifically how I would contribute to the Haas community given my previous community engagement experiences.
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TWIC, what’s the guarantee of ECs coming out in the interview process as well? Whatever behavioral questions I was asked they all had to be answered from a professional work ex only and that is what is usually recommended by current students as well. What I’m saying basically is yes Ross’ application is really light but how do you think they are assessing fit (not passion, not excitement, not knowledge and research about the program) but fit for the school when the entire interview or the behavioural questions atleast are focused almost entirely (not completely) on the professional life
You might be anchoring on the wrong aspect - EC's are a part of an applicant's profile that can demonstrate many aspects of personality such as being community-focused, pursuing your passions, highlighting commitment if you have longer term EC's. They add colour to a profile and show how you interact with your community outside of the workplace, i.e. outside of a more controlled, predictable environment. However, if you've managed to demonstrate that through your answers to professional questions then there is no need to worry. You might have started a work initiative, or be on committees, or help arrange social functions. All of that shows community engagement. Its just that most schools ask for ECs in the application itself, and so they get a sense of how you interact with your wider community and then infer how you would interact with the school's community outside of the classroom.

Bear in mind that this is just a hypothesis, but its telling that Michigan Ross has such a light application and is one of the few schools to not ask about ECs explicitly. So how can they assess your wider community engagement? Especially for a school driven by its 'Go Blue' culture, community engagement, fit, and personality are so important. Every person you ask about Ross will tell you that there culture permeates many aspects of the experience.

To answer your question directly though, there isn't a guarantee of ECs being explicitly asked but I've seen that questions vary a lot between different interviewers. In my Ross interview, after walking the interviewer through my resume, he and I spent 5 minutes chatting about my interest in sports because I mentioned that its something I'm quite passionate about. And there is also some responsibility on the interviewee to manage the information they present to the interviewer as well. For example, in my Haas interview I was asked "is there anything else you would like me to tell the adcom about you" and I mentioned specifically how I would contribute to the Haas community given my previous community engagement experiences.

That's a good way to put it and I agree with your points here. I did talk about my community initiatives, certain clubs that I had founded during my post graduation and couple of more pointers during Tell me about yourself and also during Why Ross. So I guess, I might be adequately covered on that front. Me and my interviewer connected on currency collection for a couple of minutes. But yes, after the interview, I still felt that the questions were as such that I couldn't talk about either some other critical work projects which I had in pipeline after the best ones or more ECs and all. That being said, I agree that Ross is a very culture fit sort of school and I hope they assess that by not just our answers to the behavioural questions, but perhaps also from the passion for the school, the kind of research done and what we said during Why MBA Why Ross etc.
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TWIC, what’s the guarantee of ECs coming out in the interview process as well? Whatever behavioral questions I was asked they all had to be answered from a professional work ex only and that is what is usually recommended by current students as well. What I’m saying basically is yes Ross’ application is really light but how do you think they are assessing fit (not passion, not excitement, not knowledge and research about the program) but fit for the school when the entire interview or the behavioural questions atleast are focused almost entirely (not completely) on the professional life
You might be anchoring on the wrong aspect - EC's are a part of an applicant's profile that can demonstrate many aspects of personality such as being community-focused, pursuing your passions, highlighting commitment if you have longer term EC's. They add colour to a profile and show how you interact with your community outside of the workplace, i.e. outside of a more controlled, predictable environment. However, if you've managed to demonstrate that through your answers to professional questions then there is no need to worry. You might have started a work initiative, or be on committees, or help arrange social functions. All of that shows community engagement. Its just that most schools ask for ECs in the application itself, and so they get a sense of how you interact with your wider community and then infer how you would interact with the school's community outside of the classroom.

Bear in mind that this is just a hypothesis, but its telling that Michigan Ross has such a light application and is one of the few schools to not ask about ECs explicitly. So how can they assess your wider community engagement? Especially for a school driven by its 'Go Blue' culture, community engagement, fit, and personality are so important. Every person you ask about Ross will tell you that there culture permeates many aspects of the experience.

To answer your question directly though, there isn't a guarantee of ECs being explicitly asked but I've seen that questions vary a lot between different interviewers. In my Ross interview, after walking the interviewer through my resume, he and I spent 5 minutes chatting about my interest in sports because I mentioned that its something I'm quite passionate about. And there is also some responsibility on the interviewee to manage the information they present to the interviewer as well. For example, in my Haas interview I was asked "is there anything else you would like me to tell the adcom about you" and I mentioned specifically how I would contribute to the Haas community given my previous community engagement experiences.

I've just sent you a message on personal chat :)
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Do we need to send official score reports to Ross at the time of application?
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Do we need to send official score reports to Ross at the time of application?
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It is too quiet in here.

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the quiet before the storm..
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Aptly put. 10 days to go. They will likely phone US students on the 6th, internationals on the 7th and portal update for all on the 8th.

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Given the timings, I wasnt able to attend the classes. Does this really matter when it comes to the decision ?
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So it’s been 4 mock classes so far and the max attendance has been 105. So either people are taking their chances by not attending such events or the max no of invites I guess would be roughly around the 150 or maybe 200 provided the class size of 2023 was 398.. so I’m guessing they are taking in 100 students per round … maybe more in round 1 (if anyone knows about such trend that is )
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if you have expressed your interactions with the community in the application and attended few networking events...not attending these events dont make you a bad candidate
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Given the timings, I wasnt able to attend the classes. Does this really matter when it comes to the decision ?
What mock class?

I was never invited to any mock classes
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if you have expressed your interactions with the community in the application and attended few networking events...not attending these events dont make you a bad candidate
Agreed. I think at this stage, it's very unlikely that you'd be denied purely because you didn't attend a mock class.

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oh actually I signed up for two mock classes, that was too long ago, I don’t even remember if I showed up
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Yup there were 5 classes in total plus some other events
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