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I applied to Harvard, Yale and Rutgers. I would have applied to Princetons MF, but I got my undergraduate from there in Quantum Physics minor in Applied Maths, so I clearly wanted some prestige in my life(only interned at KKR and got a full time offer from BlackStone(to be partner) so I clearly need some prestige I never had it in my life ).
No call back from any of above three.
Wow, you suck. Must be one of these occupy wall street retards saying that people should pay your tuition for you.
How dare you put Harvard and Rutgers in the same sentence. Harvard will never be rutgers no matter how hard they try, rutgers way too prestigious. I hear Zeus founded it
I've got two apps in for R1 so far and one more to go. I'm bored waiting to hear something back.
for where ray i think u said this other topic lol
Working on it now...they're all going in R2
Interviewed for CBS, R1'd Chicago, R1ing MIT, november rounding tuck..
I'm going R2 at HBS, Kellogg, MIT and maybe Stanford.
R1 at CBS, HBS and Wharton. Admitted to CBS, and depending on how things shake out, I may do R2 Chicago.
R1 Chicago, Northwestern, Texas. It would be nice to not have to do R2...
speedmerchant ed at columbia u mean>?
yessir
Anyone hear anything back yet?
Radio silence for both HBS and Wharton. First day of responses for HBS was yesterday, and Wharton started today. I guess no news is still good news (or at least not bad news)... Anybody else hear anything?
Edit: by "responses" I mean interview invitations
Put in Round 2 apps at Fuqua, Darden, Goizueta, McCombs--McCombs being my top choice. 760 GMAT score, strong GPA, good experience but only two years of it.
Many people are predicting a precipitous drop in applications due to 1. People wanting to keep their jobs 2. The anti-business national sentiment, and 3. The fact that many would-be applicants have been un or under-employed and therefore aren't applying. I personally estimate a 10-25% drop this year, and I'm hoping that helps my chances.
Fingers crossed--won't hear back for a couple more months. Good luck to all!
^^Based on stats of the schools you applied for, you should have a great chance of getting into all of them. good luck!
I also wouldn't be surprised if overall applications are down. The economy has been poor for three years now. If you assume that most applicants have 3-4 years of experience at the time they submit the application, we're reaching the point where the typical applicant graduated into a poor economic environment. My guess is that starting this year and particularly the next few years that follow, the pool of applicants with great work experience will be significantly diminished.
I agree with what comp said -- the people who had the experience but lost jobs went hard in the past few years and now the scraps are floating around :p 760 GMAT and only applying there? Planning to stay in the south?
My other post says it all:
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/my-real-response-to-the-mba-essay
Also, there's been a flight of many corporate headquarters to low-cost, low-tax southern states, and it shows in the schools' recruitment statistics, especially if you don't want to be within a thousand miles of the finance industry.
I can't remember if I mentioned this before, but that's what seems to be the expectation this year -- that applications will drop. It's part of the economic cycle. At the beginning of the downturn, applications tend to spike out of panic (everyone is spooked, and looking for some way "out" just in case their careers fall off the cliff) - this happened in 2002 (right after the 2001 dot-come crash) and in 2009 (right after the 2008 credit crisis). And once we're knee deep in a downturn (like now, and like 2004), applications tend to drop as more people are either underemployed or holding onto their jobs (and feeling that it's not worth risking a good job to go). In fact, this year with many of my clients -- they tend to be in a pretty good spot in their careers - most of them feel pretty lucky to have a job they reasonably like and don't need to go to b-school, but are applying simply as an option.
I don't expect a real upswing for another year at least, maybe more.
SHOULDA APPLIED TO HBS
SIGH
R2 doesn't close til Jan...
short, apply to round 2 bro. Craft a helluva a story and you'll have a shot!
Hey Short did you hear anything about interviews at Booth yet?
nope pretty much keeping track of gmatclub for all my bschool stuff
I applied to HBS, Stanford, and Booth R1. Have an interview from HBS but haven't heard back from the other two - has anyone heard from either of those yet?
buyoutbelle are you who i think you are :P
lalalalalalaa
Difficult to say, as I don't know who you think I am - PM me.
Also, for those applying to Booth, interview invites have started going out.
Got the Booth interview invite
Sonofabitch! Nothing yet but I submitted couple hours before and think they're doing FIFO. You get it this morning?
Yeah. I submitted early early hours of deadline day
I guess around half have gone out :x hoping for more loving lol
Took GMAT today. Applying to Booth, Kellogg, Wharton, Fuqua and possibly Sloan in R2.
Got an interview at Texas
congrats. short, any word from booth?
Anybody here visit Darden or Fuqua?
Regards
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