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Relax everyone. I am a re-applicant from a couple years back. I didn't get my invite that time until mid-Feb and when I interviewed on-campus, the place was packed. It seems like most schools (based on the interviews I've had already and other people's feedback) expect you to interview within 2 weeks of notification, so the focus for Wharton's adcom is likely on the harder to reach students (ie international). There's still over 4 weeks for this to play out, so try to hit the gym a little more often to relieve the stress - trust me, I'm doing the same thing...

Just curious,..did you not get any acceptances a couple of years back? Or were you dead set on attending Wharton?


I didn't get any acceptances (H/S/W) and Wharton was my only interview. My application was rushed, I had limited experience, recently left my job, and I was trying to switch industries. In hindsight, I think that Wharton made the right decision, because I would not have been a good classroom contributor nor would I have truly taken advantage of the wonderful resources that an MBA education offers, which is why I've taken several years to focus on being better in my industry before reapplying. I positioned myself to have a better run this time (and so far I have), but it was not easy. Also, if things don't go as you wanted, that's ok. Try to be brutally honest with what you need to improve and focus on that. Things will work themselves out. Hope that helps.
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Relax everyone. I am a re-applicant from a couple years back. I didn't get my invite that time until mid-Feb and when I interviewed on-campus, the place was packed. It seems like most schools (based on the interviews I've had already and other people's feedback) expect you to interview within 2 weeks of notification, so the focus for Wharton's adcom is likely on the harder to reach students (ie international). There's still over 4 weeks for this to play out, so try to hit the gym a little more often to relieve the stress - trust me, I'm doing the same thing...

I am also a reapplicant and when I first applied, Fall 2009, I got my invitation in the very last minute.
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Relax everyone. I am a re-applicant from a couple years back. I didn't get my invite that time until mid-Feb and when I interviewed on-campus, the place was packed. It seems like most schools (based on the interviews I've had already and other people's feedback) expect you to interview within 2 weeks of notification, so the focus for Wharton's adcom is likely on the harder to reach students (ie international). There's still over 4 weeks for this to play out, so try to hit the gym a little more often to relieve the stress - trust me, I'm doing the same thing...

I think this makes a lot of sense, especially if they look for you to interview within two weeks (some schools like Booth have much wider windows, which is nice). While I may or may not get an interview, the fact that no US 2 Year MBA program only applicants have received invites on either GC of BTG lets me know that none have been issued. Yes both message boards are limited sample size, but they also represent some very strong candidates as a whole. Even if invites have gone out, we still have 26 days left in the process. I am MUCH more concerned about not receiving an invite at HBS. At Wharton, while I'd like to know, it's a bit of a blessing that I don't have to schedule a Wharton interview between my other invites already booked in the middle of February.
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@consulting2finance:

Agreed. Wharton and Stanford are going to be random, they're going to come whenever they come, and there are no real clumps. Missing HBS on Tuesday was a much bigger blow because that's how you pretty much know your candidacy is over - it's gone from judging application quality down to blind luck and donors over there.
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But we still expect invites today right? And there seems to be agreement that releases are once a week, Thursday? We just don't know when the bulk of invites will go out.
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But we still expect invites today right? And there seems to be agreement that releases are once a week, Thursday? We just don't know when the bulk of invites will go out.

I hope so!
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Yeah this is so weird. They give out a small handful of invites on a single day last week, but nada this week? Hopefully they will all come out around 5pm EST, like they did in the previous "wave".

CORRECTION: invitations last week came around 3:30-4pm. So it looks like that's passed already.
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Yeah this is so weird. They give out a small handful of invites on a single day last week, but nada this week? Hopefully they will all come out around 5pm EST, like they did in the previous "wave".

CORRECTION: invitations last week came around 3:30-4pm. So it looks like that's passed already.

But those were internationals..somebody said domestics usually get it around 5pm. This is like torture.
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Yeah this is so weird. They give out a small handful of invites on a single day last week, but nada this week? Hopefully they will all come out around 5pm EST, like they did in the previous "wave".

CORRECTION: invitations last week came around 3:30-4pm. So it looks like that's passed already.

But those were internationals..somebody said domestics usually get it around 5pm. This is like torture.

This is nothing like torture. I know it's difficult to wait but would you rather get a rejection right now? Wait, we will get through.
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no fretting yet, iirc last weeks wave didnt hit until around 4:40ish EST
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Yeah this is so weird. They give out a small handful of invites on a single day last week, but nada this week? Hopefully they will all come out around 5pm EST, like they did in the previous "wave".

CORRECTION: invitations last week came around 3:30-4pm. So it looks like that's passed already.

But those were internationals..somebody said domestics usually get it around 5pm. This is like torture.

This is nothing like torture. I know it's difficult to wait but would you rather get a rejection right now? Wait, we will get through.

Figure of speech buddy. Of course I don't literally think its like torture.
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But those were internationals..somebody said domestics usually get it around 5pm. This is like torture.[/quote]

This is nothing like torture. I know it's difficult to wait but would you rather get a rejection right now? Wait, we will get through.[/quote]

Figure of speech buddy. Of course I don't literally think its like torture.[/quote]

Obviously, no hard feelings. We are still in the same boat.
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just got an interview invite. for those keeping track, i'm based in london
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just got an interview invite. for those keeping track, i'm based in london
no love for me yet... I guess I should wait another week
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Did you have the disappearing status thing?
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Congrats Bigfog! Good luck with the next phase. Do you mind sharing your stats with us.
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Did you have the disappearing status thing?

I think thats an urban myth.

Congrats bigfog!
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