反正还有一个星期，闲着问个问题

knightwhite

I heard from a Wharton alum that he once wrote some very negative comments on one applicant and the applicant turned out to receive the offer still.

cannedpineapple

Shuxuehai> If we ding everyone who has a bad interview, then that would be going against the whole spirit of asking you to write about a failure in the first place: that we are not perfect, we all have good days and bad days, we all make mistakes, and that's all right.

Daniel> I just wanted to do an MBA. I didn't think about where I was or wasn't going to get into. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do. In fact, I was going to apply to Tsinghua and CEIBS too at that time. Sometimes I also wonder if my comments would be seen differently if I had gone there instead, and started answering questions as a Tsinghua or CEIBS student instead of as a Wharton student. Maybe, or maybe not. Who knows? In fact, it is perhaps EVEN MORE possible that others wouldn't have viewed my comments differently, and the only one who would view my comments differently is MYSELF. Again, who knows, eh?

Anyway, when I visited CEIBS, the admissions officer told me, "we have students from Morgan Stanley and UBS and other top multinational companies here... You're too young. I suggest you work two to three years at a top multinational company, and then come back and apply."

So yeah, "优秀" is relative- I was dinged by CEIBS before I even submitted my application (and I admit, I was pissed that they did it, and so blatantly too). But later I realised that they valued work experience in brand name companies, and I didn't have that. Nothing wrong with that, really.

So I certainly had cause to be worried. But my philosophy is, why worry about things you can't control?

Jason

KennethGao

和楼主一样的担心，面了yale，chicago和duke，还没有一个offer呢

topmba2009

Shuxuehai> If we ding everyone who has a bad interview, then that would be going against the whole spirit of asking you to write about a failure in the first place: that we are not perfect, we all have good days and bad days, we all make mistakes, and that's all right.

Daniel> I just wanted to do an MBA. I didn't think about where I was or wasn't going to get into. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do. In fact, I was going to apply to Tsinghua and CEIBS too at that time. Sometimes I also wonder if my comments would be seen differently if I had gone there instead, and started answering questions as a Tsinghua or CEIBS student instead of as a Wharton student. Maybe, or maybe not. Who knows? In fact, it is perhaps EVEN MORE possible that others wouldn't have viewed my comments differently, and the only one who would view my comments differently is MYSELF. Again, who knows, eh?

Anyway, when I visited CEIBS, the admissions officer told me, "we have students from Morgan Stanley and UBS and other top multinational companies here... You're too young. I suggest you work two to three years at a top multinational company, and then come back and apply."

So yeah, "优秀" is relative- I was dinged by CEIBS before I even submitted my application (and I admit, I was pissed that they did it, and so blatantly too). But later I realised that they valued work experience in brand name companies, and I didn't have that. Nothing wrong with that, really.

So I certainly had cause to be worried. But my philosophy is, why worry about things you can't control?

Jason

-- by 会员 jelt2359 (2009/12/12 1:38:45)

It was really CEIBS' loss, big time!