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Institution Name: University of Maryland, College Park Concentration (e.g. Strategy, OT, OB): OBHR Date of Notification: 2/5/2013 Type of Notification (e.g. email/phone/snail mail): email Notification (e.g. Interview / Waitlisted / Accepted): Accepted Posted on GradCafe? Yes Comments: Still waiting for UT-Austin, but tipping towards accepting Maryland... Any suggestions welcome.

There is also a Wharton acceptance posted... Wonder if the person is here on urch!

Samil, I think this is a dilemma we all have. I hope we get to see more responses. My take is as follows. I'd rather go to a school which has multiple faculty with research interests matching ours. I've observed that collaboration outside their schools is not impossible, it in fact seems quite probable subject to you being proactive about it. So, even though 'B' in your example may have those 2 dream profs, they must be easy to work with, they must remain until you complete your program there, they must be available (not occupied with other students), etc. So you'd rather look at 'A' where at least there is a higher no. of faculty. So even if 1 or 2 of them are busy, you could always work with one of the remaining 3. And you could always use their networks to get in touch with bigger stars in the field, and get your A pubs. I would go with 'A'.

Thank you very much Indus. This is very helpful. :)

I am planning to apply for a PhD in Management with a specialization in Org. Behavior / M&O. (2013 fall) My interest areas are team conflict & inter-cultural topics. My profile is as follows: Nativity: Indian Education: B.E (NUS, Singapore), MSc (NUS, Singapore) both in Electrical Engineering with CAP of 3.9 / 5.0; MBA (Indian School of Business - AACSB acredited) with GPA of 3.3 / 4.0 Research Experience & Publications: Currently working as a research associate - last 4 months: 3 conference publications (2 local and 1 international), 1 book chapter (Sage) published, 1 working paper Professional Experience: 4 years in Manufacturing, a few months in consulting and 2 years in Fin services (in Singapore, Austria & India respectively) GMAT: 760, 99th percentile TOEFL: yet to take I will be applying for Kellogg & Harvard, because they are my dream schools. 3 questions for the remaining schools I wish to apply to: 1. Top schools: I was wondering about my chances in schools such as Michigan (Ross), UC Berkeley, UT Austin, NYU Stern, INSEAD, Maryland & London How does one view my chances at these schools? 2. I was thinking about an ideal mix of schools (2 dream, 6 top and 2 avge (Olin/Marshall)) - Any views on which ratio would work better? 2:6:2 or 2:5:3 or even 2:4:4? 3. The main aspect I am apprehensive about is my GPA. Should I be? Thank you in advance for your opinions. :)