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December 1, 2021 11:24am ET

Rejected at Columbia

Round: Early Decision

Received via portal December 1, 2021

GPA: 3.5

GMAT: 770

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career Name: Finance

Application Location: London

Note:

Submitted 10/06, interview invite 11/16, interview feedback 11/25, decision 12/01.

Not sure what I missed in my application, but definitely feels like there was something glaring. Application timeline was also a bit of an outlier, so feels like something was up. If anybody has any insight I'd appreciate it.

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hzhet Likes Earned: 16 Same here. Also based in England (London for work). Finance as well. Submitted on 10/6, interview invite 11/17, interview and feedback both on 11/25, rejected today. As you said, the timing is odd - you were clearly at the back of their queue. I am a reapplicant. Last year, I got dinged without an interview. My interview went well. My interviewer is an European and quite down to earth. My experience: CBS is conservative and extremely employability obsessed. If you do not fall into the right category - in the right industry and the right job, having a job lined up post MBA, went to a top university for undergraduate, it will be wasting time and money. Anyway, best of luck with your other applications! For me, two down and three wait. (2)

hopeful_mba_guy1234 Likes Earned: 3 Fair enough. Real bummer but it is what it is. Best of luck with everything. (1)

anon71458 Likes Earned: 10 Yield protection, my friend. You'll have better luck with a school that isn't so paranoid with gaming the system with yield % (2)

anon23100 Likes Earned: 21 Is yield % relevant here given that it's ED? (0)

anon71458 Likes Earned: 10 Yes it's relevant. Columbia adcoms get paid less than peer programs and their bonus depends on what yield % metrics they hit (0)

angiey Likes Earned: 5 Same here, rejected after interview. My interviewer was late for 30 mins and the interview lasted only 30 min cuz the interviewer has another work call.... also took him 2 weeks to submit the feedback, so I wasn't sure if this is why because the alum just seems to be too busy to be an interviewer..... anyone knows what the % of admission after interview? (1)

angiey Likes Earned: 5 can someone please explain what is yield protection (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1580 Yield protection = not admitting someone you think won’t be attending anyway.

There is always speculation that some programs do this.

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hopeful_mba_guy1234 Likes Earned: 3 Yeah, maybe it was yield protection, but not convinced. Applied ED, was pretty clear with them that it was the only active process I was in, etc. I had thought the interview had gone well, but maybe something there torpedoed my chances, but it's also possible there is a red flag I had not considered in my app (although I have no leads on what that could be). (2)

anon23100 Likes Earned: 21 I'd imagine that yield % is close to 100% for an Early Decision round, unless there is a higher rate of folks reneging on the ED contract than I'm aware of. (1)

anon71458 Likes Earned: 10 Anon23100 you are mistaken 😁 (0)

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