Chicago Booth 2011 Taking Questions

yifeifan

Hello！I want to ask about the early career enrollment. Have you ever heard of anyone who had no post-college working experience got admission from Booth? If so, what are their backgrounds?

My uncle, a business school professor in the States, told me many top business schools have no minimum working experience requirment currently. For example, Chicago, UCLA, Umich, and the silver scholars program of Yale SOM.
Here is what I found on the school's website:

Applicants in Final Year of College
    

If you are in your final year of college and thinking about whether
or not to apply to Chicago Booth, we look for students with the
following qualities:

    

• Quality work experience (such as professional internships and an entrepreneurial spirit)
• Competitive GPA (3.3 or higher on 4.0 scale)
• Competitive GMAT score 
• Student leadership role(s) during college
• Intellectual curiosity
• Two recommendations, including one from an internship supervisor and one from a professor (three letters are preferred)
• Demonstrates the ability to question the status quo, engage in the process of learning, and thrive on an academic challenge
• Personal maturity
• Ability to talk about why you want to get an MBA now

Booth2011

We do have classmates admitted without any working experience. I know a guy graduating from U.Chicago (Econ major) this year. You can search the posts in this spring. I remember a college girl from Beijing got interviewed. 

yifeifan

Thanks! what do you feel about those classmates who have no working experience? I'm kinda curious...

cannedpineapple

Booth2011> Was wondering if you had any insight into my question on the first page on enrollment in your year?

yifeifan> I graduated from UChicago (Econ Major) in 2008 and went to Wharton immediately. It's been a great experience, feel free to ask me if you have any questions about it.

cannedpineapple

Just got this in my UChicago alumni magazine:

http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1735&msource=MAG2009

"The University of Chicago’s global engagement and scholarship will take
an important stride forward in fall 2010 when it opens a new center in
China, President Robert J. Zimmer said this week."

Booth2011

Jason,

I don't have official figure to release on your question before. But during a speech, Dean Snyder did mention that we admitted 593 students this year. Class 2010 should be around 550 ppl. So the % increase is expected to be higher than 7%. 

Regarding the Beijing center: Yes, it is in the site selection process. And it shows the commitment of U.of Chicago, as well as Chicago Booth, to China.

cannedpineapple

Booth2011> 593 enrolled or 593 admitted? I assume you mean enrolled.. that's awesome!

I'm really excited about the Beijing center! I was actually in the first batch of UChicago students who went to Beijing for the Civilisation studies programme in 2006. I'm amazed it has grown into something this big now!

fitswarce

I heard some rumors concerned that the Booth school and the MBA program actually do not have such a close relationship. Sometimes, we can even use "tention" to interpret their links now. I don;t know whether it is true or not.

wordance

Does anyone have an idea about how many percent of interviewees get offers?

thanks

chicago328

以下是引用Booth2011在2009/10/16 12:34:00的发言：
To JLivermore, for application system related questions, please try to figure out online or contact IT support. Please understand that we don't have access now.
        

To chicago328, we don't know much about part-time program application. Since we are year 1 here with majority of Chinese living in Hyde Park, we have very little crossover with part-time students. Sorry about that.

Thanks for your reply. Dont worry. I will ask my question when I atten the infor session