I’ve heard from current students that some people hear back from Wharton early. Do you know anything about this i.e. how early, typically which students?
there have been times in recent years where W has sent out acceptances, by email (and maybe phone) like 24 hours before the announced deadlines. If some doobie has some spare time,please dig out like Wharton Round2 thread fr. any of prior two years, and I believe you will see peeps posting like, JUST GOT IN, etc., like day b4 official date. Sorry to post this, b.c. it is just going to cause a lot of worry. Someone might post this Q. to FanaticalFan or some Wharton official and see what ‘official’ policy is this year.
I’ve always given HBS its props for NOT RELEASING any accept messgages except how they state they will, via emails sent on Deadline Day, and I have tweaked Bolton at Stanford for his pointless, egotistical and anxiety-making habit of calling everyone starting 24 hours earlier. so you sorta wait around all day waiting for phone to ring, just so Bolton can play Santa Claus and get to talk to 200 shrieking accepts like those magazine lottery winners, while the whole world worries. Does not seem very Stanford to me, quite frankly. Sure, you could make some bogus case about the personal touch etc, but read next para about HBS practice, which is personal and not anxiety making.
HBS sometimes calls accepts AFTER the fact, like in next coupla days, just to say congrats and any questins (caller is often the adcom who interviewed you), but that is WAY diff., and Her Majesty does do a Bolton in a handful of cases where kids are accepted off grid, e.g. WL kids who get called for interview, in like Jan, and get accepted two weeks later on some random day in Feb., or some round 1 kid who gets interview notice on Dec 10th and interview is at HBS on Dec 18th and then gets call fr. the Palace like on Jan 8th w.the good news–it happens, like twice a year, often the result of string pulling of some kind by the candidate
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