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![Calling all Duke Fuqua MBA Applicants: 2022 Intake [Class of 2024]](/forum/styles/gmatclub_light/imageset/icon_post_target_unread.svg "Calling all Duke Fuqua MBA Applicants: 2022 Intake [Class of 2024]"){kind=icon}
18 Feb 2022, 12:30
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And there you have it-- always ask the school directly-- as they will have the best answers on questions like this!
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Schools: Darden '24 (WL) Ross '24 (A$) Fuqua '24 (A$$$) Booth '24 (WL) Wharton '24 (A$$$$) Harvard '24 (D) Stanford '24 (D) Haas '24 (A) Sloan '24 (A$)
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18 Feb 2022, 12:52
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shaunak075
I'm going to be brutally honest and sorry if this sounds harsh.
They want you to apply, not because you are good, but because you will add to the denominator of their final acceptance rate. Every school has every incentive to increase their applicant pool even when some applicants have little to no chance, because it increases selectivity, which is a factor in the rankings.
Fuqua knows this well, they hand out app fee waivers for attendants to pretty much every admissions event. I could have applied 5 times over in R1 with change.
Another thing is R3 itself. It is really only used by adcoms to 'round out' the class. Maybe they need more diversity in a specific area, maybe they need better representation from a certain industry, maybe they get a stellar candidate who was just late in applying. But if you are a standard applicant, the odds are very much against you. If you are an ORM, the odds are pretty much zero unless you've achieved something truly groundbreaking amongst the thousands of other impressive candidates from your demographic pool such that the adcom overlook your demographics completely and focus only on that achievement.
Additionally, most Indian applicants I heard were let in during EA for Fuqua with many getting rejected across R1 and R2 thus far. So this takes away from your already wafer thin chances. You also probably won't receive any scholarship money in R3 being an ORM.
And to rebut pretty much every one of their email responses:
- every applicant from every country is eligible to apply in R3, that's a non-issue. You'll most likely be adding to the acceptance rate denominator though.
- it is possible to complete the visa sure, but there is a lot to get done in the space of a few months, don't take their 'guidance' as a suggestion of real support, you've still got to do the leg work.
- of course they don't have 'quotas' but that only means the standard for acceptance gets tougher and tougher with every admit from a demographic pool. No adcom says "we require 10 Indians, how many do we have now?" but they rather say "we have 10 Indian male engineers, unless we get an Indian male engineer who has achieved something super unique and groundbreaking, we should prioritize other demographic pools"
Take the advice from this thread. Save your money, use this time to show your interest in Fuqua and apply in EA next year. Will a year really make a big difference when the upside is a gateway is so high?
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18 Feb 2022, 16:59
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This is clearly stated on their website:
“ Visa processing can take several months to complete, so we recommend that you apply before Round 3 to ensure that you are able to join the program if admitted.”
