Harvard Business School: No News Is Good News?

I’ve just submitted my last and final app for Round 1: MIT Sloan. After weeks of an on again, off again relationship with this particular app, I was pleased to see how it came together in the end. Ultimately, it became one of my favorite apps to complete. Now let’s just hope that the Sloan adcom is just as pleased.

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Despite a bit of anorexia on the app itself, I really got the sense that Sloan is one of those schools who really wants to get to know you. If I were to get a ding from a school like that, I’d be much more willing to simply walk away, satisfied that I had given my all than in a case where I didn’t feel I got to express myself and that the adcom may have missed or not been exposed to something.

No News from HBS; Wharton and Booth Tee Up

So the big news yesterday surrounded HBS’ mass emailing of what many speculate to be the greater chunk of its interview invites. I didn’t get one, but congratulate all who did.  There’s another (supposedly smaller) group who will get theirs on next Wednesday the 24th, the day after Wharton begins sending theirs out and about a week before Chicago Booth sends all of theirs in one big blast. I’ve also heard that the Stanford GSB has begun its season-long trickle of invites. as well. It will be nearly Thanksgiving before I know anything about Sloan.

You know, I honestly cannot tell you which has been the worst part of this process for me thus far: studying for the GMAT or waiting to hear whether you were deemed worthy of an interview. And I imagine that waiting for final decisions will be even worse.

Needless to say, I may be a little uneasy over the next few weeks, so bear with me people. While I won’t be “losing it” over bad news from any one school, I’m just hoping that I am happy with the overall results in the end. So let us all pray for mutual success–and sanity.

MBAOver30 offers the perspective of a 30-something, California-based entrepreneur who is applying to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, Dartmouth, Yale, and Berkeley.. He hopes to gain acceptance to the Class of 2015 and blogs at MBAOver30.

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