I'm still on my high from my Cornell acceptance (Johnson School - they're rebranding so I need to start calling it that) and now I have to go through Friday (today) knowing that Yale's decisions are coming out. From what someone told me calls were being made yesterday, but I think the bulk of them are going to be made today. Then at 5pm or so they'll probably send out the emails saying "Hey your account is updated!" and that will be for the rejections.
I have a pretty busy day at work tomorrow so I'll be preoccupied. Plus I'm not as anxious now for obvious reasons! :-) I am eerily calm right now...although I guess not so eery. I'm looking forward to logging into my Cornell account and seeing the official information. Then I'm going to register for the Admitted students weekend, which is called Destination Johnson. I'm so happy to just be able to say that last sentence! AAAAHHHHH Still trying to get over the shock!
What have I been doing since then? Well I've spent countless hours on the website looking for information about my potential business school that I haven't come across before lol. It's a tough feat but I've found out some interesting things!!
I had a coworker come up to me today and ask "Oh so.. have you heard anything yet?" I'm like "YEAH I GOT INTO CORNELL!" She's like "OMG... CONGRATULATIONS..." and gave me a hug... She knows the feeling because she graduated from McCombs so we were exchanging acceptance stories. Another good thing about being accepted is that I no longer have to say "Well it depends on if I get into Business School." I can now unpause my life and begin replenishing my savings! Definitely going to need that since it was depleted last year. Like DEPLETED!
So just a quick update on other schools I'm waiting for:
Yale - like I said I'll find out today
NYU - still have not received an interview invite. I know they interview all applicants so keep hope alive!
Haas - I haven't gotten an interview... or even an account login. Dunno what that's about. Granted I didn't get an account login for Cornell either and look what happened. I'm not sure if Haas has a mandatory 2nd interview for Consortium applicants or what. I'm going to sit tight! Haven't been rejected so that's a plus.
Michigan - never received an interview invite and they also interview all applicants. I could still be waitlisted.
Tuck - A little birdie told me that we should hear by next friday! But I haven't heard that confirmed anywhere so I'm going to say that we'll hear the 3rd week of March.
I think for Consortium applicants a lot of decisions are being released Friday (today). GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! Can't wait to hear the good news! For those of you who haven't applied through the Consortium I believe the reason a lot of schools are releasing their decisions tomorrow is because on Tuesday they will all decide fellowships. If you don't know what the Consortium is... read this post about the Consortium.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
No Michigan Interview Thus Far :-(
Let's take this hour by hour:
Friday between 9-6 - the real first wave of Michigan Ross R2 interview invites went out. Initially I wasn't aware that the invites were going out on Friday, so I was just going about my day like a normal person. Then my friend sent me a copy of Jonathan Fuller's tweet saying that interview invites would be going out Friday and Monday. So naturally my heart jumped into my throat and I thought... "ok keep hope alive and your fingers crossed... maybe you'll get one today." Must have refreshed me email 25 times at first and then calmed down. Then my friend sent me a message saying "I GOT AN INVITE" so of course my heart sank yet again and then the doubt started setting in. I tried to keep hope alive throughout the day but then my friend told me that Ross interviews everyone that gets accepted even if the person applied through the Consortium. So what I think that means is that if I don't get an interview invite on Monday, then I know my fate when it comes to Michigan.
Friday between 6-8:30pm - I had drinks with my tutor and a bunch of his other ex and current students on the upper east side. This was a fun time and I met some very interesting folks who were in the same boat as me. Some had applied already and were just waiting for decisions to come out, while others had not. It was interesting to see the light in people's eyes as they were about to embark on the process. Boy I remember those days. Now I'm just Bitter Bethanny and am over the whole thing lol.
It was interesting to see the types of applicants that there were. Two of the folks I met were surprised when they received their interview invites on Friday. One got an invite from HBS the other got one from Tuck. It's not like they were surprised that they were invited to interview but they were not watching their emails like hawks and just happened to check their email and see an invite. I wish I could be that nonchalant about the whole thing myself! But nooooo I have to be a Crazy Cathy and obsess over everything. ::shaking my head::
Then I was talking to a guy who got the HBS invite and he was telling me about his "low" gmat score and I'm like... Dude I bet you I have a lower one than you do. He insisted that he had a lower one.. so I said ok let's make a bet! Whoever has the highest has the buy the other one a drink. In my head I was thinking "there's no way he has a lower one than me and got an interview at HBS." So we asked our tutor who had the lowest one and low and behold mine was lower. So at the very least I got a free drink out of my GMAT score!
Friday between 8:45 - 10pm - I went across the street to meet my friend who was at Turtle Bay celebrating her Ross interview invite while I sulked over not getting one lol. It served a dual purpose. We danced a bit... drank some beers.. she knocked mine out of my hand... and I gave her the side eyes... but it was all good.
Friday between 10:45 - 3am - I was down on the East Village at some bar that I don't remember the name of. I was hanging out with some of my best friends and also my friend who I met at the HBS LGBT open house last April. He hasn't been having as much this season with NYU or Tuck. Now he's just waiting on HBS and Yale. I wanted to hang out with him cuz A.) he's hilarious and B.) we need to drink because this process leads one to drink heavily in either celebration or frustration. Then he and I went to a diner by his house and I had french onion soup!
- Let me vent here for a quick second. So one time I was at another diner and was drunk and ordered French onion soup to then have them put CROUTONS in it! Croutons? Who wants croutons in their French Onion soup? I want soggy bread.... I was so upset... So cut to Saturday night when I asked for French Onion soup.. then remembered my dilemma the last time so I asked "wait.. does it have croutons or bread?" he said "croutons... do you want bread?" I said "i definitely want bread"... In My Opinion bread should be the default choice. In any event.. I got it with bread and it was phenomenal. -
Saturday - I got home around 4pm and then just lounged around in my bed and worked on some projects for Beat The GMAT.
Sunday - Worked on BTG projects and am about to start getting ready to go to the City to watch the SuperBowl.
But congrats to all those who got interviews and acceptances this past Friday. I'm hoping to be in your position very shortly! ::Fingers Crossed::
Friday between 9-6 - the real first wave of Michigan Ross R2 interview invites went out. Initially I wasn't aware that the invites were going out on Friday, so I was just going about my day like a normal person. Then my friend sent me a copy of Jonathan Fuller's tweet saying that interview invites would be going out Friday and Monday. So naturally my heart jumped into my throat and I thought... "ok keep hope alive and your fingers crossed... maybe you'll get one today." Must have refreshed me email 25 times at first and then calmed down. Then my friend sent me a message saying "I GOT AN INVITE" so of course my heart sank yet again and then the doubt started setting in. I tried to keep hope alive throughout the day but then my friend told me that Ross interviews everyone that gets accepted even if the person applied through the Consortium. So what I think that means is that if I don't get an interview invite on Monday, then I know my fate when it comes to Michigan.
Friday between 6-8:30pm - I had drinks with my tutor and a bunch of his other ex and current students on the upper east side. This was a fun time and I met some very interesting folks who were in the same boat as me. Some had applied already and were just waiting for decisions to come out, while others had not. It was interesting to see the light in people's eyes as they were about to embark on the process. Boy I remember those days. Now I'm just Bitter Bethanny and am over the whole thing lol.
It was interesting to see the types of applicants that there were. Two of the folks I met were surprised when they received their interview invites on Friday. One got an invite from HBS the other got one from Tuck. It's not like they were surprised that they were invited to interview but they were not watching their emails like hawks and just happened to check their email and see an invite. I wish I could be that nonchalant about the whole thing myself! But nooooo I have to be a Crazy Cathy and obsess over everything. ::shaking my head::
Then I was talking to a guy who got the HBS invite and he was telling me about his "low" gmat score and I'm like... Dude I bet you I have a lower one than you do. He insisted that he had a lower one.. so I said ok let's make a bet! Whoever has the highest has the buy the other one a drink. In my head I was thinking "there's no way he has a lower one than me and got an interview at HBS." So we asked our tutor who had the lowest one and low and behold mine was lower. So at the very least I got a free drink out of my GMAT score!
Friday between 8:45 - 10pm - I went across the street to meet my friend who was at Turtle Bay celebrating her Ross interview invite while I sulked over not getting one lol. It served a dual purpose. We danced a bit... drank some beers.. she knocked mine out of my hand... and I gave her the side eyes... but it was all good.
Friday between 10:45 - 3am - I was down on the East Village at some bar that I don't remember the name of. I was hanging out with some of my best friends and also my friend who I met at the HBS LGBT open house last April. He hasn't been having as much this season with NYU or Tuck. Now he's just waiting on HBS and Yale. I wanted to hang out with him cuz A.) he's hilarious and B.) we need to drink because this process leads one to drink heavily in either celebration or frustration. Then he and I went to a diner by his house and I had french onion soup!
- Let me vent here for a quick second. So one time I was at another diner and was drunk and ordered French onion soup to then have them put CROUTONS in it! Croutons? Who wants croutons in their French Onion soup? I want soggy bread.... I was so upset... So cut to Saturday night when I asked for French Onion soup.. then remembered my dilemma the last time so I asked "wait.. does it have croutons or bread?" he said "croutons... do you want bread?" I said "i definitely want bread"... In My Opinion bread should be the default choice. In any event.. I got it with bread and it was phenomenal. -
Saturday - I got home around 4pm and then just lounged around in my bed and worked on some projects for Beat The GMAT.
Sunday - Worked on BTG projects and am about to start getting ready to go to the City to watch the SuperBowl.
But congrats to all those who got interviews and acceptances this past Friday. I'm hoping to be in your position very shortly! ::Fingers Crossed::
Monday, January 31, 2011
It's Official - Decisions Next Month!
"La Di Da Di Be Da" - Saying it like Karen Walker from Will and Grace as she saunters around Grace's office out of boredom.
That's all I can think of right now. If you've come to read my blog today thinking that I would have had some big epiphany, sorry to disappoint you. I have no idea what to write about tonight. I will just babble about random stuff though.
1. I'm not sure how long this feeling of potentially being rejected from everywhere lasts, but yes I still feel that it's a possibility. Thank you to those of you who emailed me informing me that you too feel the same way. That uncertainty is cruel and unusual granted it's very usual since it occurs every year. I'm not sure if it will ever go away until March when I begin to find out from schools. I'm trying to just get my mind off of it but it's difficult actually I'm going to say it's impossible. It's partly my own fault though. I've built up such a network of folks who are pre-mbas, current mba's, and alum that those are the people I talk to every day more so than my "normal" friends. That definitely makes it tough since 2/3 groups of people I talk to are in or have been in the very position I hope to be in come August.
2. So this week is a big week for A LOT of prospective Tuckies. I am not in this batch of folks, but I do know someone who is. On Friday the 4th the decisions will be released for November R1 for Tuck. I'm going to be nervous because I want my friend's friend to get in soooo bad. After this round there probably won't be THAT many spots left. Not from what people have told me which is the reason why I was urged to apply earlier than I did for Tuck. But ::shrugs:: I submitted my best application so I'm happy about that.
I don't think I applied to any other school that has an Early Decision/Action round, so this should be the only one that gets released this week. I believe Haas, Cornell, Yale, Ross, and NYU all just have R1, R2, and R3 meaning those decisions will be released in March. Although, I do believe that I received something from Yale that said that we should hear by February 25th - or maybe it was the 24th. I'm not sure... It's too far away for me to think about it. Either way I don't know if it matters because I haven't been invited to interview. I'm not even sure if many Consortium applicants are invited to interview. ::shrugs::
3. I was going through my Google reader just to get an update on what was going on in the MBA world and it's all GMAT stuff! ::sigh:: I remember those days. I'm beginning to get emails from folks who are applying this fall to matriculate in 2012. It's a tad bit surreal and while I'm writing my email responses I say to myself "What gives you the credibility to respond to this person?" Then I think back to what I've been through. While I may not have the highest stats...I think I know how to work the system. If I get into a b-school then I'll really let out all of my secrets. That will give me the confidence to say "Yes, Richard you know exactly what you're talking about." But I don't think I've ever told anyone that they need to listen to what I say or do and replicate it.
If I get into business school it will be the happiest day of my life. If not...then I'll just start making plans on how to bolster my candidacy for the next go around. All that stuff I wrote about in my essays about Why MBA won't be null and void simply because I may not be accepted. No...it all still hold true because the topics that I wrote about were, in themselves, true. So yeah... if I don't get in.. I re-apply. No big deal!
I just hate this part of the process. It's like my life is at a standstill. I just want to know what's going on with school so that I can continue on with my life but right now I feel like time is just standing still. I often day dream by thinking about how life would be at any one of the 6 schools I've applied too. I think about walking to class.... talking to classmates and professors.... happy hours..... studying for finals....being so busy during the first semester that I don't even time breathe. I want to be there, somewhere, so bad and there's nothing I can do about it now. Lol How did I ever get through this process for college? Was it this nerve-wracking? Probably not... although my top 2 schools were Dartmouth and Stanford. Maybe one day I'll tell you why I don't think I got into either of those schools. It's HILARIOUS!
1. I'm not sure how long this feeling of potentially being rejected from everywhere lasts, but yes I still feel that it's a possibility. Thank you to those of you who emailed me informing me that you too feel the same way. That uncertainty is cruel and unusual granted it's very usual since it occurs every year. I'm not sure if it will ever go away until March when I begin to find out from schools. I'm trying to just get my mind off of it but it's difficult actually I'm going to say it's impossible. It's partly my own fault though. I've built up such a network of folks who are pre-mbas, current mba's, and alum that those are the people I talk to every day more so than my "normal" friends. That definitely makes it tough since 2/3 groups of people I talk to are in or have been in the very position I hope to be in come August.
2. So this week is a big week for A LOT of prospective Tuckies. I am not in this batch of folks, but I do know someone who is. On Friday the 4th the decisions will be released for November R1 for Tuck. I'm going to be nervous because I want my friend's friend to get in soooo bad. After this round there probably won't be THAT many spots left. Not from what people have told me which is the reason why I was urged to apply earlier than I did for Tuck. But ::shrugs:: I submitted my best application so I'm happy about that.
I don't think I applied to any other school that has an Early Decision/Action round, so this should be the only one that gets released this week. I believe Haas, Cornell, Yale, Ross, and NYU all just have R1, R2, and R3 meaning those decisions will be released in March. Although, I do believe that I received something from Yale that said that we should hear by February 25th - or maybe it was the 24th. I'm not sure... It's too far away for me to think about it. Either way I don't know if it matters because I haven't been invited to interview. I'm not even sure if many Consortium applicants are invited to interview. ::shrugs::
3. I was going through my Google reader just to get an update on what was going on in the MBA world and it's all GMAT stuff! ::sigh:: I remember those days. I'm beginning to get emails from folks who are applying this fall to matriculate in 2012. It's a tad bit surreal and while I'm writing my email responses I say to myself "What gives you the credibility to respond to this person?" Then I think back to what I've been through. While I may not have the highest stats...I think I know how to work the system. If I get into a b-school then I'll really let out all of my secrets. That will give me the confidence to say "Yes, Richard you know exactly what you're talking about." But I don't think I've ever told anyone that they need to listen to what I say or do and replicate it.
If I get into business school it will be the happiest day of my life. If not...then I'll just start making plans on how to bolster my candidacy for the next go around. All that stuff I wrote about in my essays about Why MBA won't be null and void simply because I may not be accepted. No...it all still hold true because the topics that I wrote about were, in themselves, true. So yeah... if I don't get in.. I re-apply. No big deal!
I just hate this part of the process. It's like my life is at a standstill. I just want to know what's going on with school so that I can continue on with my life but right now I feel like time is just standing still. I often day dream by thinking about how life would be at any one of the 6 schools I've applied too. I think about walking to class.... talking to classmates and professors.... happy hours..... studying for finals....being so busy during the first semester that I don't even time breathe. I want to be there, somewhere, so bad and there's nothing I can do about it now. Lol How did I ever get through this process for college? Was it this nerve-wracking? Probably not... although my top 2 schools were Dartmouth and Stanford. Maybe one day I'll tell you why I don't think I got into either of those schools. It's HILARIOUS!
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