SMU Cox MBA 2012 Applicants

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Hello, Welcome to all fresh MBA applicants to the Cox school of Business at Southern Methodist University. I am Gaurav Mehta, a second year MBA student at Cox. Please use this forum to talk about the admission process as you go through. I am …

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Hello,

Welcome to all fresh MBA applicants to the Cox school of Business at Southern Methodist University. I am Gaurav Mehta, a second year MBA student at Cox. Please use this forum to talk about the admission process as you go through. I am here to help you out in case you have a query. I will rope in a few first year MBA students at COX to handle your queries.



Enjoy the application process..


P.S. The views and suggestions given to you are endorsed only by the owner and are in no way affiliated to Cox or for that matter SMU.

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Hi,
I have got an admit by mail. It says there's a 66k scholarship included...
As per the website, the fees (tuition+books+acco.) for each year comes to around 62k. So will it cost 120k for the total program. Can you please tell me the actual total cost for the program? I want to know how much I would have to shell out from my pocket.... Thanks! Also tell me your mail/phone so that we can chat... Thanks again!

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This is the e-mail I got... So i'm still waiting for the official admit letter hard copy...

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nsvikin Says
This is the e-mail I got... So i'm still waiting for the official admit letter hard copy...

@nsvikin,

Congratulations!
Whats your profile?
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Thanks!
My Profile:

GMAT: 700
TOEFL: 117
Workex: 3.5 years @ ORACLE
Extras: Decent
Acads: Good X - 87.2, XII - 98.4, B.E (BITS,Pilani) - 7.42/10

Any other people applied/admitted?

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Hi,
I have got an admit by mail. It says there's a 66k scholarship included...
As per the website, the fees (tuition+books+acco.) for each year comes to around 62k. So will it cost 120k for the total program. Can you please tell me the actual total cost for the program? I want to know how much I would have to shell out from my pocket.... Thanks! Also tell me your mail/phone so that we can chat... Thanks again!

Congrats on the admit.. While calculating costs, I would suggest to first look at the (Tuition Costs - Scholarship) and then add living expenses. The living expenses and books costs suggested by the website is the ceiling price. Most of us, don't really spend that much. I've sent you my email. You can talk to me there regarding the other costs.

Thanks
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Thanks!
My Profile:

GMAT: 700
TOEFL: 117
Workex: 3.5 years @ ORACLE
Extras: Decent
Acads: Good X - 87.2, XII - 98.4, B.E (BITS,Pilani) - 7.42/10

Any other people applied/admitted?


Hi nsvikin, I also applied in round-1. Plz tell me when you have completed your interview and when you have got your reasult??
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Got thru!
Total 66k $$ over two yrs 😃

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Got thru!
Total 66k $$ over two yrs :)



I am in too
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Hi Gaurav,

Would applying to SMU for the March deadline as an Indian applicant have a detrimental impact on getting an admit, scholarship or Visa?

My prof:
GMAT 740
WE-3.5 as a telecom engineer
EC-Average
Acads-Average

Regards.

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I have applied in R2. My profile:

GMAT- 740
Avg acads
Work ex- 1yr agribusiness + 3yr IT
Good EC.

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Hi Gaurav,

Would applying to SMU for the March deadline as an Indian applicant have a detrimental impact on getting an admit, scholarship or Visa?

My prof:
GMAT 740
WE-3.5 as a telecom engineer
EC-Average
Acads-Average

Regards.

You have a good GMAT and decent amount of experience so if you work hard at the application and interview, it shouldnt be too hard to get in..
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mehta.gaurav Says
You have a good GMAT and decent amount of experience so if you work hard at the application and interview, it shouldnt be too hard to get in..

How many people typically get scholarship? This post alone has two guys who got 66K $ !! :O

Is $66K scholarship a trivial amount (No offense to the ones who got it .. awesome work guys ! :))
I was going through the website as well and the tuition is roughly 43K (86 total) so the scholarship looks is more than 75% of the tuition which is a good sum. Does anyone get full scholarship?

@mehta.gaurav, do you have these statistics with you? Can you please enlighten me? Also, did you manage a scholarship and how many people (international) do you know who got scholarships and roughly how much was it?
Also, what other opportunities, apart from this particular admission scholarship, do students have of reducing the financial load?

Thanks a lot in advance!
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How many people typically get scholarship? This post alone has two guys who got 66K $ !! :O

Is $66K scholarship a trivial amount (No offense to the ones who got it .. awesome work guys ! :))
I was going through the website as well and the tuition is roughly 43K (86 total) so the scholarship looks is more than 75% of the tuition which is a good sum. Does anyone get full scholarship?

@mehta.gaurav, do you have these statistics with you? Can you please enlighten me? Also, did you manage a scholarship and how many people (international) do you know who got scholarships and roughly how much was it?
Also, what other opportunities, apart from this particular admission scholarship, do students have of reducing the financial load?

Thanks a lot in advance!

A lot of scholarships are given to indian students. In our batch almost everyone (11/14) is on scholarship and the scholarship is in the same range as of yours.

A couple of people also get full scholarship and its called a Dean's Scholar but it is pretty hard to get.

Other than the scholarship, you can work on the campus but considering that the MBA is pretty hectic, people avoid doing it (some do work however).
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A lot of scholarships are given to indian students. In our batch almost everyone (11/14) is on scholarship and the scholarship is in the same range as of yours.

A couple of people also get full scholarship and its called a Dean's Scholar but it is pretty hard to get.

Other than the scholarship, you can work on the campus but considering that the MBA is pretty hectic, people avoid doing it (some do work however).


Alright. Thanks! I read about the Dean's Scholarship on the SMU website. That is something we can work towards once we arrive on campus, right? Not from here, right?
So the MBA is pretty hectic? Thats a little alarming
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signing out soon

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prakash419 Says
Hi , please do not write loose comments. If you do not have any idea about how admissions/scholarship process works , first get the idea then comment. Do you think 2 guys , who posted here, got 75% waiver means veryone gets it and its trivial? First, 710 is a good score and calls for schoaship given evrything else is OK. second, there are hundreds many who were rejected or did not get scholarship , they did not post here , bu that does not mean that only 2 guys applied and both got 75% waiver and SMU is waiting with a bucket full of dollars waiting fo every looser to apply and take home some scholarship. I have a 750+ score and got into a top 20 program but was rejected in a top 50 program where so many ppl with 680 got full waiver. First get some knowledg then comment. Gaurav ,my suggestion/request is plz do not encourgae these kind of loose comments. ppl should do their homework first and then if they have some really insightful question then they should ask.


Dude... why are you getting so worked up? I know how the process works and I know that there are lot of rejections. I think my question is incomplete. What I mean to ask was, of the people who get selected, how many get scholarship. Is this tight now?

But I must say, I take offense at your


if they have some really insightful question then they should ask


Why so? You say your GMAT score is 750+ (cant you just say 760/770/780/790/800?) and that you got into a top 20 school (why the secrecy with the name??)... Now who's posting loose comments??

Please don't take unnecessary potshots at people.
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dude... Why are you getting so worked up? I know how the process works and i know that there are lot of rejections. I think my question is incomplete. What i mean to ask was, of the people who get selected, how many get scholarship. Is this tight now?

But i must say, i take offense at your



why so? You say your gmat score is 750+ (cant you just say 760/770/780/790/800?) and that you got into a top 20 school (why the secrecy with the name??)... Now who's posting loose comments??

Please don't take unnecessary potshots at people.


grow up!!!
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Hi...
got an interview invite...
Any other R2 applicant invited for interview???
Need some help with prep questions...

@Gaurav:
Sent a PM to u..
Please go through and apply....