Dear Chicago,
Thank you! For inviting me to interview. To give me that glimmer of hope again that I could be a suitor worthy of a seat in your class.
With loads of love,
the Paw
Monday, November 12, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Dear Chicago,
Show me some love. You left me in the lurch for 3 months after waitlisting me last year. After the long and agonizing wait, you ditched me. To win your affections, I changed my life and my career. I joined professional organizations, got a new job, got a promotion. I got my application reviewed by 5 students and 2 alums and worked late into the nights for 6 months to get everything done perfectly. I visited you twice to get to know you better. And now, with just four days left for interview invitations to end, you have not yet reciprocated my love. So please do.
Waiting anxiously for an interview invit.
The paw.
Show me some love. You left me in the lurch for 3 months after waitlisting me last year. After the long and agonizing wait, you ditched me. To win your affections, I changed my life and my career. I joined professional organizations, got a new job, got a promotion. I got my application reviewed by 5 students and 2 alums and worked late into the nights for 6 months to get everything done perfectly. I visited you twice to get to know you better. And now, with just four days left for interview invitations to end, you have not yet reciprocated my love. So please do.
Waiting anxiously for an interview invit.
The paw.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Wharton Wants to TALK!!!!
Yippeeee......Just got my R1 invitation to interview from Wharton admissions office...god...please god...let me make it this time!!!!!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
With no R1 interview invite in sight, I think I need to sit down and take stock of what I need to do next. I have two choices. Sit here and wait for an interview invitation or start cranking out a few more essays. I like the later option. I am thinking of applying to Columbia, Stern, Haas and maybe London. Also, kellogg weekend is a definite on the list for R2 even if I make it somewhere on R1 - because my new job might just take the tab for a weekend MBA in chicago. I loved Stern but do not know if they will let me just submit a photo-copy of my transcript. There is no way I am going to be able to submit an official one.
As for Chi and W, I think they just did not like that I said I want to specialize in turnaround management. I mean whenever I posted questions regarding these fields on their forums I never got a response or got it very late - usually something that said something about picking up general mgmt skills being helpful in turnaround mgmt etc. But I really liked their courses and think their programs would help me achieve my goals. It would be sad if they think otherwise! Or maybe I should just have stuck to the same-old-run-off-the-mill generalist strategy consulting stuff :(. Nevertheless, I think I need to get back to the drawing board and start working on my R2 schools! Phew!
As for Chi and W, I think they just did not like that I said I want to specialize in turnaround management. I mean whenever I posted questions regarding these fields on their forums I never got a response or got it very late - usually something that said something about picking up general mgmt skills being helpful in turnaround mgmt etc. But I really liked their courses and think their programs would help me achieve my goals. It would be sad if they think otherwise! Or maybe I should just have stuck to the same-old-run-off-the-mill generalist strategy consulting stuff :(. Nevertheless, I think I need to get back to the drawing board and start working on my R2 schools! Phew!
Monday, November 5, 2007
An open letter to ad-com members.
Dear ad-com members,
One of the greatest things that makes this world go round (other than inter-planetary forces) is hope. So it is with B school applicants. We are a unique breed who, come admission season, forget our differences and are united by just 2 things - B- school admission craze and hope. Post submission, we get divided further into 2 groups - the haves and the have-nots. The haves are the ones who have an interview admit and therefore are busy preparing while the have-nots are still sitting here, like me, twiddling their thumbs wondering if the ad-com have actually read their essays and tossed it into a trash can (not a favourable case) or whether their application has not yet been read (please god! let this be the case). It is on behalf of have-nots like these that I write this letter.
Within a week or two of submission, the have-nots usually need to have the F5 key on their keyboards replaced. They are usually seen biting their nails while reading student forums like those of Wharton and Chicago. They are not very different from relatives who wait outside the ICU when a loved one is undergoing a major surgery. It is just the anxiety and tension that keeps them from focusing on what they should rather be doing - moving on and maybe working on their next round applications.
The solution, dear ad-com members, lies with you. Why do you not just write a short mail to that unfortunate guy whose application you just tossed into the trash-can - telling him that he has been denied? Is this a logistics issue? Do you have to wait till the last day to send out declines? Or is it so that on the last day you count the number of interview invits, figure that you have sent a few too less and reach out to your trash can to retrieve a few randomly and call them for interview? If this be the case, then I guess the have-nots are doomed to suffer in the manner they have been traditionally subjected to. If not, I would request you to maybe take a few mins and hit the send button on those whom you have already decided are not good enough for your school.
On behalf of other have-nots,
The paw.
One of the greatest things that makes this world go round (other than inter-planetary forces) is hope. So it is with B school applicants. We are a unique breed who, come admission season, forget our differences and are united by just 2 things - B- school admission craze and hope. Post submission, we get divided further into 2 groups - the haves and the have-nots. The haves are the ones who have an interview admit and therefore are busy preparing while the have-nots are still sitting here, like me, twiddling their thumbs wondering if the ad-com have actually read their essays and tossed it into a trash can (not a favourable case) or whether their application has not yet been read (please god! let this be the case). It is on behalf of have-nots like these that I write this letter.
Within a week or two of submission, the have-nots usually need to have the F5 key on their keyboards replaced. They are usually seen biting their nails while reading student forums like those of Wharton and Chicago. They are not very different from relatives who wait outside the ICU when a loved one is undergoing a major surgery. It is just the anxiety and tension that keeps them from focusing on what they should rather be doing - moving on and maybe working on their next round applications.
The solution, dear ad-com members, lies with you. Why do you not just write a short mail to that unfortunate guy whose application you just tossed into the trash-can - telling him that he has been denied? Is this a logistics issue? Do you have to wait till the last day to send out declines? Or is it so that on the last day you count the number of interview invits, figure that you have sent a few too less and reach out to your trash can to retrieve a few randomly and call them for interview? If this be the case, then I guess the have-nots are doomed to suffer in the manner they have been traditionally subjected to. If not, I would request you to maybe take a few mins and hit the send button on those whom you have already decided are not good enough for your school.
On behalf of other have-nots,
The paw.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Duke and Darden submitted.
I submitted my Duke and Darden apps last week. With this I believe I end my R1 app season. I might submit Stern and Columbia but have not yet started on them. With the GSB two days into sending interview invits and Wharton over a week into the process - I am losing faith. Especially because last year, I got my Chi invit the first hour of the first day they started sending invits. For some reason, I believe my apps would have been read in the same order - that is one of the first few - by both W and Chi. And now since no invits, must have been tossed into the D-bin. However, for some strange reason, this is not bothering me anymore. Because I know I gave them my best shot. I could not have done better than this. So I am satisfied. Further, I am pre-occupied with too many other things. A new job. A new city. Hopefully a new car. YIPPEEE!
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