Calling all Yale SOM MBA Applicants: 2024 Intake Class of 2026 : Yale - Page 7

Taranta wrote:how long it is for each question?

Each response should be a minute each

soanpeak wrote:Just completed my video essays. Good luck to those who haven’t done it yet. 1. Why do you want to pursue your MBA now? 2. Tell us about a time when you worked on a project that had vague instructions and what did you do? 3. New Haven has several drama theaters, art museums etc, what is significant to you among art, theater and music and why?

I also got a very interesting Q3 about New Haven architecture.

Was everyone’s 3rd question very random (i.e. about Art, Architecture etc?)

Yes, my 3rd question was about yale’s tradition

I just received an invitation for an interview. I wasn't expecting it to happen so soon, I finished my application on Sunday lol I'm truly nervous rn

larissacolaresm wrote:I just received an invitation for an interview. I wasn’t expecting it to happen so soon, I finished my application on Sunday lol I’m truly nervous rn

Same!

larissacolaresm wrote:I just received an invitation for an interview. I wasn't expecting it to happen so soon, I finished my application on Sunday lol I'm truly nervous rn

That's amazing. Congrats! Mind sharing stats?

ALEX4157 wrote:That’s amazing. Congrats! Mind sharing stats?

My gmat score is 750 (Q49 V44), my GPA is 8.4/10 (Brazilian college, I think top 10%, engineering)

larisc1995 wrote:My gmat score is 750 (Q49 V44), my GPA is 8.4/10 (Brazilian college, I think top 10%, engineering)

Congrats, that’s fantastic news!! Could you let us know when you finished the entire process (including the Video questions and Behavioural Assessment)?

Hi everyone, I got an interview invite as well, and requested an online/virtual interview. It says in the email to schedule it through the status page but I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the status page they linked in the email. Can anyone please suggest how to access it?

I just got an interview invitation.

My video questions were:
1. What has motivated you to pursue an MBA at this time?
2. Describe a time where you had too many things to do. Describe how you handled it.
3. Yale has two great art galleries. What piece of art, e.g., visual, musical, or performance, is most significant to you? Why?

LOKESH12345LOKESH wrote:Congrats, that’s fantastic news!! Could you let us know when you finished the entire process (including the Video questions and Behavioural Assessment)?

I finished it on Sunday (video questions). All the other stuff I submitted Sept 11

Any silver scholars applicant here? Have you guys gotten interview invites? Also, would love to connect and appreciate if you could share stats.

My profile - Silver Scholar Applicant
GRE 335 (168Q 167V) 4.5 Essay

3.66/4 - Accounting & Finance from Lahore, Pakistan

Experience: entrepreneurship + non-profit

Has anyone else received an interview invite yet since yesterday..

Hey guys, the new Yale SOM class profile of 2025 was released earlier today!
https://som.yale.edu/programs/mba/admis ... ss-profile

Some of the notable changes that I noticed:

• Yale SOM’s acceptance rate grew to 33% for the Class of '25 from 30% last cycle. Part of the reason for the jump in acceptance rate was enrolling fewer students, 339 to last year’s 347, Yale’s smallest MBA class in years; but a bigger part was admitting 119 more applicants, a 13.3% increase from 894 to 1013 — the most admits at Yale SOM since the Covid intake of 2020. Yale’s yield — the number of admits who actually enroll — declined by about 6 percentage points, to 33% from 39%.
  
  
• Yale’s class average GMAT score of 723 is unchanged from last year but down a few points from the school record of 726 set two years ago. Yale’s median GMAT, however, dropped to 720 this year from 725 in 2022 and 730 in 2021.
  
  
• The average age of the class moved up to 28 from 27, and the average years of work experience grew to 5.1 from 4.7.

Thanks for sharing! I have heard that Yale over-recruiter students this past season and have emailed people offering them a deferral. There was the text of the email floating around somewhere. I guess that's clear why. I think they did not expect as many people to accept the offers and over-subscribed. Oops.
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bb wrote:Thanks for sharing! I have heard that Yale over-recruiter students this past season and have emailed people offering them a deferral. There was the text of the email floating around somewhere. I guess that's clear why. I think they did not expect as many people to accept the offers and over-subscribed. Oops.

I think that was the trend of some of the top B-schools post-COVID to, as we call it in the hotel industry, overbook. I wonder whether those who got a deferral offer "got upgraded to a suite" treatment, but I doubt it.

By the way, I've also included a table compiling the statistics of Yale SOM class '21 to '25 for easier comparison for anyone interested.
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yale-som ... 54724.html