Progress and Service

I accepted an offer to study at Fuqua's PhD program in Accounting.

I am officially done with the admissions process, so I don't mind sharing some of my stats. My GMAT was 740, with both sections' percentiles above 92nd. My undergraduate GPA was 4.0/4.0 from a top 10 public university. I have teaching experience but no research experience, and while I will never know exactly what my professors wrote in their letters, they must've been good enough. (I always chuckle when people say that their LORs are strong. How do you know for sure unless you read them? ) I was admitted to NYU and Duke (will attend); waitlisted at Chicago, Washington (Seattle), and Emory; and rejected by HBS and WUSTL. In hindsight, applying to a lot of schools was definitely the right thing to do, but had I discovered this wealth of information from the AAA, I would've decided against applying to those programs that seem to prefer candidates with relevant work experience in public accounting, which I don't have. Other than that, I can hardly say that I have any regrets--to say I was 'thrilled' when NYU and Duke called me last month is an understatement by several orders of magnitude.

I plan on making a decision in a short while. I'd be happy to post my profile then.

I posted the Chicago Booth PhD Accounting waitlist result for on the survey section. Someone asked about my stats. I don't feel comfortable disclosing those just yet, but as for the other questions, unfortunately, the e-mail I received did not specify that information. Does anyone have any historical information on the likelihood of successfully getting in from the waitlist at Booth for Accounting or other business areas?