Waiting for interview makes me nervous!

Like many other applicants who have submitted application for round one, I am checking my email more than once every hour if I can. Wharton's student 2 student admission blog has a lot of people similar with me, so anxious about invitation of interview. We cannot help to stop check email. Gosh, when can this be over?

I have submitted application for Columbia Early Decision and under review since October 19th. I know it will take at least two weeks to hear something back. But yesterday, when I saw many people in Business week Forum and mentioned that they are already admitted since they submitted earlier than me, I just feel so jealous. But I intended to submit late, because I also apply some other schools like MIT, Wharton and Kellogg, If I hear from Columbia too early, I have to pay $5000 in two weeks to secure the seats. It is not a lot of money, but it is a lot of to me. So I intended to submit two days before the deadline. I wish I can earn sometime if Wharton or MIT are interested in me. Anyway, have to be patient. I keep praying God that I can see an "invitation" in my email box next time I click the refresh button. Am I crazy? Yes, I am.

This morning, the lady from Mckinsey called me back and scheduled an interview near her home on 11/22 morning. I previously thought male interviewer might be better for me, but it turns out I have two female interviewer already by now and it is not too bad at all. She sounds a laid back down to earth people. I should just be myself and talk slow and make myself clear. She asked for the detail version of resume, which I prefer, because so she can know me better before ask me more specific questions. I want to give her a good impression on what I have achieved so far. Anyway, I am busy on the way now. But still cannot wait to see invitation from Columbia and Wharton.

I didn't think I am not that good to apply Wharton and Columbia. Since Wharton is just 20 minutes from home, and Columbia is only one and half hour away, they are kind of convenient for me. My husband kept encouraging me that I know you will get admission from one of them. He kept saying the same thing, which made me start to have some confident myself. But now I didn't hear anything back, kind of disappointed. Maybe need wait for more time??

Although Tepper is not good as Columbia and Wharton, I think it is still good for me since its job placement is very good in wall street. I might want to work in Wall street to earn some money to pay back all the debt I have now. I am burdened with all the debt. Is everyone else same?

Anyway, I got a busy work to do during the weekend. But i need prepare my interview. I kept myself busy like an ant on a hot pot. My boss never leave me relaxed. I will drive to Pistburgh for 5 hours on Sunday and back on Monday night, and he wants me to work on tonight and Saturday. I have to, but it is good, so I can save one day vacation for future use. Hi, never get rest though. My friend from Charity emailed me that a lot of stress is not good for my age. I do not want so much stress, but it is out of my control. I just have too many responsibility, my work, my charity organization, my family, my in-laws living with me and also a two years old little boy, as well as two house and 6 tenants. Sometimes, I just want to forget everything about all of these and diving in the ocean or swimming pool, sitting under sunshine of beach. I wish I can get over soon this application processes.

I know I am nervous, so I am writing here to release myself a little.

I am back to MBA track

After my first poster, I didn't even can find it back. Then I have been busy with all the preparation for MBA entering in 2007. Starting from GMAT preparation, essay drafting, filling application form, get recommendation letters and submit the application, it has been almost half an year already. Time is so fast. Now I am back. I want to record my MBA preparation Journey. I have visited many others and found a lot of useful information. I figure that I should write mine too. It might be benefit to someone else who start to think about MBA. I also wish I can remeber this experience.

People said applying MBA is time cosuming. It is 100% true. I started early so I decided to catch all the round one from each school I want to apply. Initially, I only apppy Harvard, Columbia, Wharton and MIT. But then I suddenly lost confidence. Since I have told my boss I will leave anyway, I have to get in to some school that is not too bad. So two weeks ago after submitting these key top schools, I decided to apply 5 more schools. It is much easier to just copy and paste to prepare the new schools. The difficult part to prepare essay stories was past. So I just submit the other 3 already this week: Carnege Mellon Tepper School, Yale and Kellog Northwestern University. The whole process is just like the other full time job. Since everyone knows my determination for MBA, I didn't get too much work to do during the day. I spent at least half of a day to prepare and research for my MBA. Since July, it has been more than 3 months full time job. Each day, I spent at least 4 to 5 hours to edit my essay. It was a nightmare. I read my first version of essay at least 50 times. Is it bored. The friend I asked to edit for me also complained about my bad grammer and read the same story again and again. What can I say? This is what supposed to be with my Chinese background, bad writing skills. But I did write every thing myself.

I start to fill my schedule with school visiting and interviews. I feel so busy. This weekend, I will drive to Tepper at Pisburgg for interviewing on Monday. 5 hours one way drive, not too bad at all. Then next weekend, I need drive to Boston to visit MIT and Harvard, althought the chance I can get in is very small. But I always think if I decide to do it, I need put 100% into it, so that later, I won't feel regreted. Luckly, my boss understood all these processing since his sons and daughters all graduated from Harvard, MIT and princeton. He definately has a high brand education family and himself graduated from MIT back to 70s. He doubted my ability and asked me to apply some local school like Drexel and Villinova. I won't go any school ranking lower than 20, that is my determination. I spent so much time and energy on this and even put my family into this, I cannot quit at all. I need more blessing on this since I have almost done my part. I keep praying for the admission or an interview from Wharton.

Waiting period is nervous too. I kept check my email box every other hour. I checked Wharton S2S student admission blog, many of them are crazy too and cannot wait for a interview. I wish I can get one at least passing the half of ratio.

I have to prepare for interview for Tepper this weekend. Never ending!