Oct 22, Wharton interview invitation就要发了

cannedpineapple

weeksuper> It is no different regardless of whether you are from China, Philadelphia, or anywhere else. Most people don't understand that applicants are not seen in a 'pool' against other applicants with similar backgrounds. Everyone is compared against one another.

shuxuehai> I think that the adcom member was just speaking in general terms. Even if she had meant 'out of 10, we interview 3.8 and admit 1.6', she'd still say what she did to give you a rough idea of what the process is like. Remember, there are people at that event who know nothing about Wharton, so she can speak more generally. One question though- did she show total admitted, or total enrolled?

weeksuper

以下是引用jelt2359在2009/10/22 0:11:00的发言：
weeksuper> It is no different regardless of whether you are from China, Philadelphia, or anywhere else. Most people don't understand that applicants are not seen in a 'pool' against other applicants with similar backgrounds. Everyone is compared against one another.

Thank you Jason. I'm well aware of this fact. I'm just wondering why people who have got interview invitations are so quite here...

Although Nov 12 is still a long way to go, I become a little bit anxious now

cannedpineapple

weeksuper> I think you misread my original post. I said that most people don't get interview invites until the last week (Nov 12 week). So it is most likely the case that almost nobody has gotten the invite yet and so hasn't posted.

weeksuper

以下是引用jelt2359在2009/10/22 0:21:00的发言：
weeksuper> I think you misread my original post. I said that most people don't get interview invites until the last week (Nov 12 week). So it is most likely the case that almost nobody has gotten the invite yet and so hasn't posted.

haha, now i get your point. thanks for sharing this information.

shuxuehai

以下是引用jelt2359在2009/10/22 0:11:00的发言：
weeksuper> It is no different regardless of whether you are from China, Philadelphia, or anywhere else. Most people don't understand that applicants are not seen in a 'pool' against other applicants with similar backgrounds. Everyone is compared against one another.

shuxuehai> I think that the adcom member was just speaking in general terms. Even if she had meant 'out of 10, we interview 3.8 and admit 1.6', she'd still say what she did to give you a rough idea of what the process is like. Remember, there are people at that event who know nothing about Wharton, so she can speak more generally. One question though- did she show total admitted, or total enrolled?

The information was held on Sep 30th... difficile to remember. SorrY.

satancn

以下是引用jelt2359在2009/10/22 0:21:00的发言：
weeksuper> I think you misread my original post. I said that most people don't get interview invites until the last week (Nov 12 week). So it is most likely the case that almost nobody has gotten the invite yet and so hasn't posted.

it seems Wharton has a much different invitation policy from HBS or Yale...

cannedpineapple

Invitation "policy" is not the same as invitation "process" or "schedule". The policy is, 'we interview 30-40%, and admit 10-15% overall'. Other schools might interview less and admit more interviewed applicants; or interview more and admit less applicants.

The schedule or process (which is what I was referring to) is however a different thing altogether. At Wharton, an application goes through multiple reads, and multiple people give their input on whether a candidate gets interviewed. Just because of this reason (that it must be read multiple times by different parties), it takes longer than a process where a single adcom member reads it, and can he/herself decide whether to interview the applicant.

So why do we do it this way? At Wharton, the first read is typically done by a student, and the second by an adcom member. We like students to give input on every aspect of the school (curriculum, clubs, everything)- and this includes admissions. That should give you an indication of how strong this culture of "student co-production" is.

weeksuper

some people have already got the invites..

http://gmatclub.com/forum/calling-all-wharton-fall-2010-candidates-78775-220.html