Once more dear friends, onto the Waitlist: some tuff love
I’m on the R1 Waitlist at Kellogg. My profile:
M/27/740/3.42 from top 10 public/5 yrs WE at Fortune 50 company
I passed Level 1 of the CFA last spring, held leadership positions in college and I just earned a leadership post at a non-profit, but got dinged w/o interview at H/S/W/MIT, and Booth. My dad got his EMBA from Kellogg and my fiancee’s in N’western’s grad school of Ed. I let Kellogg know about my new leadership post, but what else can I do to earn a spot in next year’s class? Since I got dinged everywhere else, I’ve got everything riding on Kellogg. Any advice on what else to do and how to communicate it? Any take on my chances? Thanks,
same advice i’ve already given 3,456 times on this thread. Have President Obama call and reco you, and if you dont know him go down the list of the most famous and influential people in the world til you find someone you do know–in most cases, that requires passing over millions of names, but you get the idea. if anyone you know, knows adcom, or has any relationship w. school, etc. have them lobby for you, including current students. beyond that, you need to keep up some diplomatic and measured back + forth w. them, to keep signalling interest, etc. and try to see if by delicate shaking of the trunk you can get something to fall out of the tree, like a meeting, etc. which could be kicked up by campus visit, etc. etc. NO RULES and EVERYONE ON THEIR OWN–that is what makes it exciting.
But dont let that throw you: biggest mistake of WL kids is doing too little. You need to be far-reaching and innovative and often ceaseless in thinking about this. I’ve seen longshot stuff pay off, including cold calls to SUPER bigshots w. whom caller shared nominal affiliation like same frat, town, org, religion etc. etc.
