Kellogg PhD in finance interview

yls2006

just want to let everybody know that Kellogg sent out interview invitations (PhD in finance) this afternoon. good luck!

financePHD

by email? can anybody share the info if you got the interview invitation? Thanks

yls2006

by email.
here is the main body of it:

(greetings)
I am writing in regards to your PhD application for the Finance Department at
Kellogg School of Management.  Professor Arvind Krishnamurthy, PhD coordinator,
would like to schedule a time to have a 30 minute phone conversation in order to
discuss your application and answer any questions you have regarding the
program.  He would like to do this next week, and is available  as follows:
(long list of time slots of next week)

jiaowenjun

did not get one. sigh, no news is bad news by now.

can lz kindly share some of your background?

financePHD

thanks a lot! very useful information

kobehenry

so you will be interviewed by one professor only? or there would be several other profs?

yls2006

re #6: sorry i don't know whether or not there will be more than one professor in the interview. all the info was in that email posted up there. but i will post about that upcoming interview once it's over.

re #4: my background is not stellar at all. no paper, some research experience as an RA in a master's program in a US school that doesn't even have a doctoral program in economics, which means it's not a research university although it's got some reputation in the quality of the students, mainly undergrads. and i m not interested in the research i did. (i was assigned to that professor rather than chose that field. ) i do have some working experience, back in China and now in the US, both finance related - previously in a financial institution; now in the asset management field. my professors in the US school wrote me recommendation letters, three of them. i took GMAT last Nov, after spending about 5 hours reviewing it - not that i was lazy but there was a good reason for this - and scored 740. not a high score for a chinese student who aimed at top programs.
i've been feeling rather pessimistic about the prospect of my application. even though there presented this interview, i still feel that it's out of my reach to get in, considering all those qualified applicants like you guys here. HOWEVER, i will stretch as much as i could to see how far i could reach.
share one saying with everyone: MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES.
不信上帝的，就是：谋事在人，成事在天。

kobehenry

great! Best of luck

yazi123

Thanks for sharing your background.

jiaowenjun

thanks for the background.

good luck with your interview