Wharton招办副主任谈申请与录取

本帖最后由 stream 于 2010-6-3 11:06 编辑

问：未来几年沃顿商学院最令人兴奋的发展或变化是什么？

答：As we recently announced, the Wharton School and the Law School at the University of Pennsylvania are launching an accelerated three-year program leading to both the JD and MBA degrees. We’re really excited about this new opportunity to add to our joint and dual degree programs.

Students in the new program will spend the first year in Law School and the following summer in four Law and Wharton courses designed specifically for the three-year JD/MBA. The second and third years will include a combination of Law and Wharton courses, including capstone courses in the third year and work experience in law, business, finance, or the public sector in the summer between the second and third years.

Applicants must be admitted by both schools in order to enroll in the three-year program. Students in the joint program will be required to meet the Law School’s mandate to perform 70 hours of supervised legal work in a pro-bono setting in order to graduate.

问：跟大家介绍一下录取流程吧，即从一个申请人点击“submit”到最终决定出来这段时间之内，每一份申请到底得到多少人阅读？都是哪些人在阅读？每一份的阅读花费多长时间？最终结果是不是需要集体讨论？

答：Once an application is processed by members of our operations team, it is assigned to one of the student readers who are members of the admissions team. This first read is then shared with members of the admissions committee who re-read the file and make further recommendations on extending an invitation to interview.

If the invitation is offered, the application waits for another read once the interview report is recieved. The interviews are blind, so the interviewer will not have had access to the application beforehand. All of these applications with interview reports are then discussed in a series of committee sessions, and the final decisions are sent out 10 weeks after the deadline date.

问：你和你的团队是如何评审申请人的essay的呢？你在阅读essay的时候在寻找什么？申请人应尽量避免哪些常见的错误？什么是申请人在写essay的时候需要时刻铭记在心的？

答：We are hoping students will be true to themselves when they write about the things that matter to them. They should keep in mind that we really do read the WHOLE application from start to finish. The essays do tell us so much about the applicant, both in terms of the content they choose and how they are able to express themselves.

There are not really common mistakes beyond assuming that the reader WANTS or NEEDS to read something specific; these become the applications where the applicant does not allow his or true voice to come out and leaves us wishing we knew more.

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