Ross is my top choice school owing to my inclinations to consulting and entrepreneurship. Ross has a strong consulting program and its highly reputed for entrepreneurship and research institutes. As per my understanding, wrt to the cultures, I believe Duke and Ross have similar cultures. Duke being more student driven and friendlier culture than Ross. All said, I would choose Ross over Duke if I get admitted.
Ross would release its waitlist decisions by May-15th (Yeah thats really really late). I need to send in the Duke acceptance and initial deposit by Apr-15th. As I am an international student, I also have to worry about the long drawn visa process, relocation and stuff. My prospective Duke classmates have already started finalizing accomodation and roommates. I should get started on my loan process for Duke by May. I am seriously considering mailing Ross Adcom about my Duke admit and requesting them to release my decisions early. Although, I know this would not be practically possible and I also wonder if it stupid and unwise to do so. But this is my best bet else I have to forget about Ross whatever be the case..
Also folks who have experience with waitlists, please share your experiences and suggestions on what to do and not to do to convert a waitlist..
Aside from all this, I received an interview invite from Cornell today much much after the R3 decisions have been announced :D. Cornell hadnt completed reviewing a part of the applications by the decision date. So most of them got their decisions on the R3 decision date while the unfortunate ones are as good as R4 applicants. Crazy stuff. Their mail also seems to suggest that they provide only on-campus interviews..
