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this wait is pretty brutal, how is everyone doing
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this wait is pretty brutal, how is everyone doing
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I'm trying to keep my impatience in check. I ended up applying to 3 schools in R1 that are on the later side of issuing invitations (Sloan, Stanford, Haas), so the wait is brutal all around! I'm keeping busy with R2 apps now, which helps a little bit. And at least it's nice to know not to expect anything from Sloan until December.
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MIT's not bad, because they consistently told everyone you wouldn't hear anything until December. If the pattern of the last few years holds, there will be a ding day sometime in mid December. It's kind of nice to just kick up your feet and wait, actually.
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Friends,
From reading several of the admissions blogs and posts, I have identified specific words from ad-comm about seven of the nine criteria.
ACADEMIC
GMAT
GPA
Work Success
LEADERSHIP
Creativity
Relationship Building
Goal Setting
Influencing
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Hope this helps those trying to formulate their exact focus areas.
Cheers!

Taken from Rod Garcia's Interviews in past as archived on Accepted.com
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That’s right. We score the applications. We don’t have a global rating. Instead, we score every attribute. There are about nine that we look at, ranging from GMAT score to GPA to work success to all the other attributes, like leadership attributes. Essentially there are two major groups of attributes – demonstrated success (GMAT, GPA, work success) and then the leadership attributes. We add up the sum of the two scores, and based on those two scores I will decide the 18 percent who will be invited for an interview.

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It’s actually quite easy. We don’t spend a lot of time debating because we can refer to something specific in the application. Either it’s there or it’s not there. We don’t say, “I like this person because this person is outgoing.” We don’t do it that way. We say we like this person because this person has a high competency in creativity, or relationship building, or goal setting, or influencing. (Those are all among the leadership attributes we consider.)
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+1, thanks for breaking it down for everyone shr30.
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mc that is true, im just excited to transition into a totally different life, getting out of the army and starting an MBA program will be lots of hard work but very rewarding, i know they have been very open about the wait; i just like to know and im anxious

mit is my first choice (probably like lots of people on here)
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mc that is true, im just excited to transition into a totally different life, getting out of the army and starting an MBA program will be lots of hard work but very rewarding, i know they have been very open about the wait; i just like to know and im anxious

mit is my first choice (probably like lots of people on here)
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You would choose MIT over HBS and Wharton (I am guessing you applied there as well from your profile)?
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The big if would be getting in but assuming I get in based on my background (unique Army operational unit), I would chose MIT based on

1) Class size is much smaller 350-400 versus 900-950
2) Freedom to explore several career paths versus coming in with a concrete idea
3) Humility of the students - while students I met (about 20 or so over 3 days) are a small sample, all of them were very smart, motivated, fun, helpful, and just good people; when i visited wharton everyone felt the need to qualify themselves based on their backgrounds or accomplishments

i know bankers/consultants do alot but i had to deal with life and death decisions, the consequences of my f*** ups were people died so i wasn't impressed with people who were very impressed with themselves; while i respect what they did and their talents i prefer the mit atmosphere and community

to me, when people are talented and just good people it comes through, they do not make a concerted effort to show it, they are simply themselves, they challenge themselves, they achieve alot, they help their team thats the type of place i want to be

4)atmosphere of entreprenuership and innovation
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this wait is pretty brutal, how is everyone doing

I'm trying to keep my impatience in check. I ended up applying to 3 schools in R1 that are on the later side of issuing invitations (Sloan, Stanford, Haas), so the wait is brutal all around! I'm keeping busy with R2 apps now, which helps a little bit. And at least it's nice to know not to expect anything from Sloan until December.
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Same here, it is nice to keep busy with R2 apps and know that until December, any emails from "MIT Admissions" are likely another invitation to chat or visit the campus. I do wish I had applied to MIT after applying to other schools, since each application will likely be better than the ones before, but I hope I gave myself at least a good shot at getting an interview. We'll see in the coming months! :)
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Hi guys.. a bit late for the roll call..
But count me in .. Submitted in R1

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Just got promoted in office :lol:

Was wondering , whether I should send a mail to Ad-com informing them about my promotion.
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MIT's not bad, because they consistently told everyone you wouldn't hear anything until December. If the pattern of the last few years holds, there will be a ding day sometime in mid December. It's kind of nice to just kick up your feet and wait, actually.
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Hi,

I have applied in R-1.

Any idea on the interview requests/dings release for international applicants....

-Manish
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Just got promoted in office :lol:

Was wondering , whether I should send a mail to Ad-com informing them about my promotion.
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Congrats! Maybe you can call the admissions office first to confirm what they want you to do, in case they have a policy on that sort of thing. Good luck!
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Long time lurker... add me to R1 roll call

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Have already been dinged by HBS, so I'm not so optimistic for MIT...
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Roll call page updated. 83 R1 applicants.
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Long time lurker... add me to R1 roll call

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Have already been dinged by HBS, so I'm not so optimistic for MIT...
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Have faith, you never know! Except for the lucky few, admissions to top programs are so hard to predict. Each program has its own approach in evaluating applicants, so a rejection at one school, particularly HBS (which almost 90% of applicants get rejected from), might not predict too much about your chances at MIT. All we can do is submit the best application we can with the experiences and scores we have, and hope that the admissions committee sees our potential. In any case, we aren't going to hear anything from MIT until December at the earliest, so we all have hope in the meantime.
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Hi Everyone,

I'm in for Round 2. Still plenty of time to write the essays but I wanted to join the thread for updates.

I'm applying to Sloan mainly because they have such a great focus on developing economies. It seems to me that the school is internationally-focused, especially towards emeriging markets. Could someone comment on how the internationalism of Sloan compares to other US schools? These days everyone is excited about emerging economies and I want to be part of that big change. Also, I wonder if the big consulting companies hire specifically for emerging markets expertise, and if any of them have departments that are dedicated to these (haven't worked in consulting, yet).

Personally, though I grew up in Canada, I've lived in Eastern Europe and Asia and hope this background will enhance my application. Anyone else looking to engage one way or another with developing markets?
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Forgive the gushing, but all of you sound like you'd make really great, interesting classmates!
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Edited. Please refrain from posting comments that may be misinterpreted by other members.
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@Candypants: have you received an interview invite?
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@Candypants: have you received an interview invite?
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I think it's too early for any invites to go out. I'm not sure what candypant's comment is referring to, but I don't think it has anything to do with interview invites.
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