Wharton Interview Roll Out
Hi Sandy! Wharton just said that they’re starting releasing interview invites on Oct. 18, and will keep inviting until interview cutoff date on Nov. 15. Do you have similar analysis on Wharton’s approach as you did for HBS? How important are the interviews there?
The Wharton interview invite roll out is VERY DIF from HBS: 1. it is officially limited to window of 10/18—-11/15, while HBS in theory goes from sorta Oct 20th–Forever [some people have gotten interivews YEARS after apps were in, even after they were dinged
] but mostly HBS goes from 10/20—to sorta Nov 30th for 95 percent of people (e.g. everyone). 2. HBS dribbles out the invites in sorta bell curve, over a longer period (see post above) ; at Wharton, which is committed to ending the invite process on 11/15, A DAMN LOT OF INVITES GET SENT IN LAST WEEK OR SO, AND DUNNO, SOMEONE TELL ME (who knows), ABOUT 5-10 PERCENT ARE SENT ON LAST DAY. Soooooooooooo, if you have not gotten an HBS invite by Nov 30th, things are actually WAY more grim than if you have not gotten Wharton invite by Nov. 10th–at that point there could be 20 percent invites left at W, but only >5percent at HBS. 3. HBS invites fewer kids to interview, usually ~1800 over course of year, for ~1000 accepts, while Wharton interviews ~3000 kids to send out ~1150 accepts. Soooooooo, Wharton invite means “less” but it is still a requirement of getting in. And many kids called to W. interview are DEAD MEAT–they are not getting in no matter how great interivew is, at HBS, great int. usually means accept {see massive posts on this topic by searching DEAD MEAT] 4. HBS interviewers have entire folder, and sometimes ask follow up on essays, W. interviewer just has basics like resume, not whole folder: W int.usually focuses on Why MBA, Why Wharton, blah blah HBS often goes more far afield.
