RupStar Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Hi guys its been a while since i have been here but just wanted to drop a line informing you guys that i just got into the Full Time program at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Thanks to everyone for their help while i prepared for my GMAT and the advice on the applications provided here was very benificial. Feel free to contact me if i could be of assistance to anyone. R A bit of info: Age 23 BS in Economics 2 years work experience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamGmat Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Congratulations. GSB is a very elite coll. What's your GPA and GMAT and How did you compensate for the low work ex ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RupStar Posted March 30, 2006 Author Share Posted March 30, 2006 Sorry to respond late but here is my info Age:23 GMAT: 720 awa 6.0 GPA 3.7 BS Economics (Mindor: Statistics , Concentration: Finance) well my situation is that the amount of "time based" WE is low- 2 yrs, but i have been involved in a couple of non profits and did some consultancy work pro bono on the side with a NGO, for immigrants. i think more than nethign they r looking for a cohesive sales pitch, they wanna see your ability having been proven and they wanna see if you can market your story well thats about all i can think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Congrats!! GSB chicago is a very elite school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erapitt Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Congratulations, RupStar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrencl Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Congtats RupStar ! Did you apply to Kellogg also? I am going to apply this summer to Kellogg and Univ of Chicago My stats are GMAT 670 88 percentile (47q 82 percentile 34v 72 percentile) 3.05 overall GPA (3.17 uppper division) Mechanical Engineering UCLA 4.5 years experience at Accenture What do you think my chances are for Univ of Chicago and Kellogg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay711 Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Congratulations! You did very well on your GMAT. I wish I could get the same score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hochfelder Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 My stats are GMAT 670 88 percentile (47q 82 percentile 34v 72 percentile) Isn't the overall percentile the average of the quant and verbal ones [(82 + 72)/2=77]? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay711 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Isn't the overall percentile the average of the quant and verbal ones [(82 + 72)/2=77]? No. Total score has it own percentile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrencl Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 each percentile you see is individually based. 47 on Quant is 82% better than most people, 34 on Verbal is 72% better than most people, and an overall GMAT score of 670 is 88% better than most people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brzezinski Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 Chicago is not one of the toughest schools to get into. At least according to PR: http://www.princetonreview.com/mba/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?TopicID=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semolina Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Does anyone know where you can find the percentage number of admitted applicants for Chicago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsp Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Strange you can't find it anywhere, all schools publish that info pretty much everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrencl Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 http://www.chicagogsb.edu/fulltime/admissions/fastfacts.aspx#classprofile Class Profile The statistics for students who are entering the Full-Time MBA program in September 2005: Total Enrolled: 550 Male: 71% Female: 29% Minority Students of U.S. Origin: 25% U.S. Citizens: 60% U.S. Permanent Residents: 7% International Students: 33% Average Full-time Work Experience: 5 years Average Age: 28 Countries Represented: 42 Average GMAT: 701 (80% of the class scored between 640-760) Average Undergraduate GPA: 3.5/4.0 (80% of the class has an undergraduate GPA between 3.0 - 3.9) Undergraduate Major:Liberal Arts and all others: 38% Finance/Business Administration: 22% Economics: 21% Engineering: 19% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoxoxo Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 No where you can actually find selectivity stats for Chicago, law; the OP is right! n/a people applied to the full-time MBA program in 2005. The school accepted n/a% (selectivity) of those applicants, and n/a% of admitted applicants (yield) enrolled in the program. Selectivity/Yield - Historical Chart 2005 n/a - n/a 2004 n/a - n/a 2003 n/a - n/a 2002 15% - 67% 2001 28% - 60% Selectivity n/a of applicants had applied in prior years, and of those reapplicants n/a were accepted. The B-school placed n/a applicant(s) on its wait list. n/a wait-listed applicants were admitted to the semester for which they applied. http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/full_time_profiles/chicago.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvin Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Sorry to respond late but here is my info Age:23 GMAT: 720 awa 6.0 GPA 3.7 BS Economics (Mindor: Statistics , Concentration: Finance) well my situation is that the amount of "time based" WE is low- 2 yrs, but i have been involved in a couple of non profits and did some consultancy work pro bono on the side with a NGO, for immigrants. i think more than nethign they r looking for a cohesive sales pitch, they wanna see your ability having been proven and they wanna see if you can market your story well thats about all i can think of. You have a great GPA and GMAT score, I am not surprised you were admitted by Chicago; you can get into every B-school in the country, in fact! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJung Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 congrats man. gluck on your path! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulls-eye Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Congrats on getting admitted to one of the best B-schools.....I am also applying to this school this year and would appreciate if you can take some time to review my essays.....Do let me know .... Thanks in advance for your help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMATbong Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I would say its between 30-40% since the last publish data is around 30%+ and acceptance rate is going up. If I have to guess, its 35% give or take. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrencl Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 wow GMATbong that is very high. where are u getting these numbers? it might explain why Univ of Chicago doesn't publish them anymore.... 2001 was 28% but 2002 was only 15% as shown from the link I provided above from businessweek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMATbong Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 The number I posted is based on observation rather than real data. First, look at the actual fluctuation of acceptance rate for different schools from 2001 to 2005. Using Businessweek and USNews data set. Then look at the statistical data from admissions411 to get a general sense of the acceptance rate of all top bschool and compare it to the actual data. You then draw your own conclusion from there. http://www.admissions411.com/ All top schools' sample size are large enough to warrant this extrapolation and seems to approach the actual selectivity number of HSW, Col, K, MIT of last year published dataset. And no, I am not planning to do a regression to test this out. My conclusion is that Chi is between 30-40% but you can draw your own conclusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
III Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Harvard, Stanford, MIT Sloan, Kellogg and Wharton stand out consistently amongst their peers. Two other notable programs are Chicago and Columbia. The reason that the latter are generally considered just below the other 5 is because they carry somewhat less prestige. Columbia used to have a 46% acceptance rate 10 years ago, far higher than any other top school. Meanwhile, Chicago consistently has a much higher acceptance rate than any other top school (above 25-30%) and through much of the last 10 years maintained a 50% yield -- in other words, nearly half of the people offered admission to Chicago choose not to attend. This may have also to do with the fact that Chicago's campus is at the largely black populated South Side of the city which has a high crime rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagulian Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 n/a people applied to the full-time MBA program in 2005. The school accepted n/a% (selectivity) of those applicants, and n/a% of admitted applicants (yield) enrolled in the program. Selectivity/Yield - Historical Chart 2005 n/a - n/a 2004 n/a - n/a 2003 n/a - n/a 2002 15% - 67% 2001 28% - 60% Selectivity n/a of applicants had applied in prior years, and of those reapplicants n/a were accepted. The B-school placed n/a applicant(s) on its wait list. n/a wait-listed applicants were admitted to the semester for which they applied. You've got to love Chicago's "stats" for the part-time program as well ;) GMAT Scores - Historical Chart 20052004200320022001Averagen/an/an/an/an/aMediann/an/an/an/an/aRange (middle 80%)n/an/an/an/an/a TOEFL Scores TOEFL scores are required for applicants whose native language is not English. Average TOEFL score *n/aMinimum TOEFL score required *n/a* Paper-based equivalent Work Experience (months) Average62Mediann/aRange (middle 80%)n/a-n/aNew entrants with one year or less work experiencen/a Student Age (years) Average29Mediann/aRange (middle 80%)n/a-n/a Salary Average base salary of entering studentsn/aMedian base salary of entering studentsn/aRange (middle 80%)n/a-n/a Entering students employed in the following function areas: Consultingn/aFinance/Accountingn/aGeneral Managementn/aHuman resourcesn/aMarketing/Salesn/aManagement Information Systemsn/aOperations/Logisticsn/aOthern/a Entering students employed in the following industries: Governmentn/aManufacturingn/aNon-Profitn/aServicesn/aOthern/a TOP CORPORATE CUSTOMERS Organizations that send the most participants to the part-time MBA program: OrganizationNo.1. Motorolan/a2. JPMorganChasen/a3. Abbott Laboratoriesn/a Selectivity/Yield - Historical Chart 20052004200320022001Selectivityn/an/an/an/an/aYieldn/an/an/an/an/a COSTS: Estimated TOTAL (not annual) cost of part-time MBA program (U.S. dollars) Program Cost - Historical Chart 20052004200320022001Resident$77,800n/an/an/a$61,000Nonresident$77,800n/an/an/a$61,000 http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/part_time_profiles/chicago.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reggi Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Chicago also values diversity. In fact, Chicago's is the most flexible program of its kind in that it attracts students who work in a wide range of non-business, non-profit and military professions. These non-traditional applicants have studied medicine, law, liberal arts, engineering and other fields outside the business world. At Chicago they do not have any minimum work experience requirements, and encourage candidates to apply when the latter have determined the time is right. Successful early career applicants usually demonstrate a high potential for leadership, academic preparedness, community involvement, self-awareness and are able to explain why now is the right time to do an MBA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upinarms Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 This may have also to do with the fact that Chicago's campus is at the largely black populated South Side of the city which has a high crime rate. Indeed, applicants often voice their concerns about the safety at and around the campus in Hyde Park. It is usually women and international applicants that voice the most concerns. But the dangerous environment is a misconception. Chicago is a metropolitan area and, as with all cities, one should exercise good judgement in safety. Hyde Park is the 6th safest district in Chicago and there are 26 districts. This is just not a campus where there is any kind of warfare or anything like that going on. When students get there they realize that. Chicago is a down home atmosphere that has a family orientation. Within the university, many of the faculty members live in Hyde Park. They are readily walking around with their loved ones, they host parties. Many students come with spouses and in some cases with children. Some people also argue that due to Chicago's geographic location, UC is at a disadvantage when it comes to Wall Street recruitment. Columbia, for example is right there in New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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