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From my experience pubs are not a necessity but they are a huge help. They show to the adcoms that you're serious about research and have experience doing academic work. I don't imagine there being many first authors among applicants.

How were you notified?

Has anyone accepted an offer yet? If so, where are you going?

I saw that Minnesota's HR program rejected people yesterday. I know it's not OB but there may be overlap for some people.

I was a little skeptical of the WashU post too given how early in the season it was posted. I haven't seen any other information from their program though. I also haven't heard anything from Cornell. Who got accepted at Penn State? Do you know if they've extended all their offers?

I got an interview at UNC. Totally unexpected.

It depends on what you want to study in management. Some research will require a heavier background in math (e.g., finance), while others will be more psychology or sociology (e.g., OB). I'm not sure where entrepreneurship or international business fall, but a lot of schools generally lump those with OB departments so I assume they're more social science. If you're more interested in the social science part of business I would recommend stats classes over math. Math classes will give you a better foundation for stats but could be overkill for the level of stats you'll need to be successful. With what you shared you should be fine getting into a decent program. I would recommend not emphasizing your desire to teach too much in your applications. The goal of most PhD programs is to develop researchers. There are a few programs out there that have classes on teaching (U Washington comes to mind) but they are rare.

I'm officially rejected from Michigan, not a big surprise. Narrowing down my list.

It looks like most of the UNC emails came on Thursday or Friday early morning. Hopefully that means we find out tomorrow.

Nope. Everything has gone really quiet. I wonder if that means programs have made their invitations.

Anybody hear from Minnesota or WashU?

Looks like a tough day for Northwestern applicants. It also looks like more programs are making decisions which is good.

Congrats! I got the same email. Good to know where I stand but now I have to wait another week…

Once signed in a box appeared about half way down the right side of the page that said "Who's Viewed Your Profile? 6 Your profile has been viewed by 6 people in the past 30 days." I followed the link and could see who's viewed my profile. I couldn't see the exact person from each school but I was given a list of about 10 people that could have accessed my profile. The odd one was Florida. I didn't apply to their program but someone from the department viewed my profile. It's not an exact science but it's something else to check.

Same here. I think once UNC sends notifications, for better or for worse, I'll be able to relax a bit. It's just good to know one way or another. I also discovered that you can see who accesses your Linkedin profile, so I can see when different schools look at my account.