The Wharton Admissions Committee, the wild bunch skilled in torturing your application, is ready and waiting for the golden army of application forms that includes yours. (I wonder if the school that asks about applicants' sense of humour itself has one).
Over the weekend I've been working on filling in some of the online application forms. I started with Wharton. I did not progress much further, with a few sections of Wharton still to do. Although I expected complexities and perplexities, I could not have imagined what form they would materialise in.
- As I was filling in the employment history section of the application form, the session timed out! When I logged in, the details were wiped clean. It was frustrating and demotivating. I almost cried, 'I no longer want to apply to Wharton'. I've learnt one thing at least: click 'save' often!
- Your employment history is asked for, as well as your CV. This makes me wonder whether the same information should be covered in both, or whether each should be tailored. If so, in what way?
- Has no one else started filling these in yet? There were a few minor bugs in the website. When I put non numerical characters in the 'size of organisation' field, it said that I had put them in the salary fields. Not a major thing, but I can see it confusing people.
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