CMU R2 out...no luck yet for me

Round 2 results of Tepper were announced around 2:00pm this afternoon.
I was refreshing the page all morning, waiting to see if by twist of luck, I get the flash e-mail that say's "you are in".

No such luck. There were some admits reported in BW forums and gmatclub.
Tough to extrapolate the profile they are looking for purely based on the "numbers" I saw. Neverthless, I saw one Indian/F/750GMAT, one Indian 740/M/30/Engineer, one South Asian 700 GMAT in the admits list. At the same time, there was also a 740/M/Engineer who was WLed.

So, I am back focussing on the task at hand - retaking the GMAT on April 2nd. Hopefully I get a better score this time around and get off the CMU WL. Who knows ?

One thing that I noticed is that CMU tends to WL a lot of people, rather than just DING them. I believe that someone with a WL should have reasonable hope to get admitted. Going by CMU's 2007 stats - 2 out of 220 got off the WL, I think that is hardly a possibility. They might as well Ding a lot folks rather than put them in the misery of being in a WL situation for 5-6 months.

Waitlisted in CMU Tepper

Got the dreaded WL from CMU Tepper. This really was a big shock for me.

I thought I got everything right here : Decent GMAT, visited campus before the R1 deadline, had a good interview and used the visit and my research to show clearly in the essays how I fit with the program.

Essays were good although they were not as "refined" as I would have liked.

I guess this is purely due to the extremely competitive Indian+IT+Male pool that I am part of where (I guess)scores have to be in the 750+ range.

From what I learnt talking to someone who got admitted, if you are a woman or in a profession outside the typical IT pool, the GMAT requirements are lowered....just someone's opinion...donno for sure.

Sent my reply right away asking them to keep me in the WL. Lets see what happens.

Congrats to other admits. I haven't heard of any dinges so far. If any, don't worry ...its not the end of the world.

Closing in on D-Day

Only a couple of days before I hear news from Tepper. It is difficult to describe how I feel right now. I have been thinking of everything I did in the Tepper application to think of what I could have done differently. Came to the conclusion that I did the best I could and rest depends on the application pool and other factors beyond my control. As has been said numerous times in numerous situations,"We'll just have to wait and see !".

Good luck to all who are in the same boat.

1 week for Tepper

Based on my tragedy with ISB, I am getting worried over what I can expect next :-(

Tepper result is due next Friday.

I would gladly accept "good luck" from passing netizens who stumbled into my blog accidentally. I think I need all the luck in the world at this point :-)

BTW Here's wishing other folks who are also in similar "tension" state. (I think Wharton is sending out admits next Thursday..so good luck to folks who applied there.)

Info on CMU Tepper

Consolidating information I gathered on CMU - Tepper in this post :

My CMU Interview experience :
http://sivaofperinkolam.blogspot.com/2007/10/cmu-and-isb-interviews-done.html

General info, Admissions Chats (2005 to 2007)
http://sivaofperinkolam.blogspot.com/2007/10/cmu-tepper-info.html

Other CMU Tepper interview experiences :
http://www.accepted.com/mba/interviews/Search_Results.asp?SourcePage=search.asp&School=40&AreaOfStudy=-1&LastXDays=9999&Gender=0&Age=-1&Score=122&Submit=Submit&bhcp=1

Application Tips from CMU Admissions team :
http://www.tepper.cmu.edu/mba/admissions/applying-to-tepper/tepper-application-tips/index.aspx

Salary Stuff ($$$) :
http://www.tepper.cmu.edu/mba/your-career/statistics/index.aspx