UNC telephonic interview

"Hello... This is Julie Wiley, Assistant Director of Admissions from UNC KFBS calling... "

This was the biggest line in terms of numbers of words the Adcom spoke... :) For the next half an hour, it was Right all the way!!

The interview started casually with questions on my under graduation... the place, how far it was from my native place... I think I was a bit lost here and later I was able to drag myself on track.....

The next question was about my work profile and how have I been handling people with more experience than me...

Then, she wanted me to talk about my long term and short term goals.... I had to do well hear...

Why KFBS? followed... Again an elaborate explanation delivered...

Next was: what do you do when you dont play the guitar?

And finally... questions (if any): I shot 3 questions which were very satisfactorily answered..

Thanks to the blogging community, the BW and PG forums, present students and alumns I was able to do a healthy research on the program and quality of life at Chapel Hill... I was complemented for that...

So... thats it for now... Will keep you all updated with more.... Chow...

Edit: My hearty congratulations to all folks who are getting their R1 acceptances! Chill out guys n gals... And keep some space for me, I will join soon... :)

Notre Dame Decision

Not a great start by any means.... :(

After a waitlist from ISB, University of Notre Dame has also waitlisted my application. Not too sure of whats happening.... I thought (and so did my reviewers) that I did a good job on my essays.. Its time to scratch the basics now:

• Decent GMAT score (this bagged an application fee waiver for me from ND)
• Significant achievements at work
• Great extra curriculars
• Decent comm. service

The negative points could have been:

• Just two years of work ex and that too in IT...
• No intl work ex...
• 75 percentile in Verbal GMAT

As far as the recommendations go, I am pretty sure of them being well above average...

So... all in all... The waitlist decision seems to be based on more subjective terms.. There are some possibilities:

1. I might have committed a serious blunder in my essays or could have mentioned two contradictory characteristics
2. Probably, I was not able to highlight my plus points through my essays
3. I might have missed to convince them of the fact why Notre Dame...

There could be many other reasons, but at present my mind is blank... I expected an admit alongwith some schol from ND.... :(

Just pondering if it would be advisable to apply to lower ranked unis...
My mind says 'NO' -- my heart says 'I DONT KNOW'...