Venting Thread

So I'm done with being a basketcase. If it's meant to happen, it'll happen. If it's not, I still have some great schools to think about and apply to. And heck, if I don't get in anywhere, there's always next year. I do have a good job, good friends, and a family that's healthy. And plus, it's that school's loss, not mine! (although school X, let me tell you a couple of things....)

I felt kinda guilty for venting too...and I do love the ideas of Darden, Kellogg, Chicago, Yale....

Basically been splitting my time between the gym and the bar…

There are worse things than this process but it’s still unnerving. It would be a lot better if they just released decisions on one date. I’d take one day of heavy stress over 20-40 days of guesswork. Even if they said something like interviews will be released Tue and Thu.

Could be worse but def could be better....

Alright, so don’t beat up on me too much if you don’t like this, I’m certainly no creative writer or philosopher. Having said that (<- Curb Your Enthusiasm reference), in an attempt to kill time I propose this…

Waiting to get into business school is a lot like skydiving. With skydiving the most exciting part isn’t after your parachute works and your feet touch the ground, it’s the moment right before you jump and the outcome is still unknown. Though remote, the possibility your parachute won’t work exists, and therefore that moment has an intensity that is unique. There exist a thrill in not knowing the outcome and the idea of the possibilities. We may still get into the school of our dreams or we may get rejected across the board. We are free to imagine any outcome we choose.

Still it is a moment that is difficult to appreciate until we get the outcome we desire, yet cannot be fully appreciated once we do. Also, like that moment right before you throw yourself out of a perfectly good aircraft, its best that it’s brief. You don’t want to think about it too much (which is probably where most of us are at/approaching)! I guess what I’m saying is while we all want to know the outcome NOW, today at least anything is still possible.

Good luck and Godspeed to all.

Last year, we decided to write a song about it…to deal with disappointments

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LOL

+1...lol


Another rant: I hate talking about the b-school process to friends because then I hear about other people who are applying from my UG to the same schools - especially stressful when you both occupy the same age/sex/race....

Hehe 2012dreams, I understand. It's like that for companies too - when a boatload of people from the same firm are applying, you all look at each other as if to say "are you my competition?". Although, being from Australia definitely has its advantages - there isn't too many of us applying!

One good way to avoid thinking about R1 decisions is to procrastinate on R2 essays and realize that the deadlines are starting to come up!

That none of the "top 15" schools court you...they don't have to show interest. I just got a frickin cool ass grab bag/box of freebies from Wisconsin's dept of Brand Management - them, Kelley, Darden, Notre Dame, and Emory have all been very proactive at stalking me...too bad I'm just another blip on the radar to Kellogg, Wharton, and Harvard

that's cool.. i dont think ive gotten any freebies from anywhere. just a lot of spam email, and occasionally a few pamphlets from the schools. mostly just email though
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Ohhhhhhh !!!!!

The rumored box of freebies from Wisconsin that Jerz told me last year!!! Damn, should have requested information packet from Wisconsin this year.....

Ooh, I got 2 of these free boxes from WI, I have two really sweet stuffed target dogs.
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LOL, I wonder how effective these gifts have been? They should've been accompanied by fee waivers as well if they really wanted people to bite

Just wanted to add my weekly post. This wait is annoying! I'm procrastinating by planning my marathon training timetable for the next 3 months.

ps. Dear Chicago & New York, I'm looking at you.

the worst thing is that there's no one D-day and different schools reply at different times, dragging out the misery. so whilst I will get an admit/deny from one school next week, I have another interview the week after and the torment begins again! in the meantime I could get an interview decision from my other applications this week. or next week. or never...

here's the humane way to do it. read the applications, post interview decisions online, collate interview feedback and make decisons, post decisions online at the same time. AND do all this at the same time as other schools are doing it!

I just came home to a swag package from Wisconsin as well =) I'll make good use of the free food and the household items. Now I know where the Wisconsin MBA's tuition goes to. The shipping charge alone was ~$10. I wish more schools would court me with free stuff. Too bad I'm already spoken for.

i totally agree

one of the good aspects of schools that ONLY give decision on d-day at a specific time

at least you wont need to check your email like couple hundred times per day

I think it does a decent job at raising awareness of UWI's MBA program. And if you consider that most if not all of the swag they're sending is donated by companies so their cost is limited to shipping, they'd only need to get one student out of every 8000 boxes they send to break even. So while I can't imagine that people who are accepted to top tier programs would turn down the offer and attend UWI because of some schwag ("Awesome, I got into Kellogg! But UWI sent me a coffee mug so I'll go there"), it probably does have a positive ROI for them.

+1 kudos.