MBA Women in Investing Conference Frequently Asked Questions
Applications are live at the start of August. The application is typically open for about 6 weeks. The application is open for about a month. If you are interested, please email cornell_mba_win@cornell.edu to be added to the email list to be notified when the application is live.
For the MBA Women in Investing Conference, we ask that teams are comprised of 3-4 first-year full-time MBA students from the same university.
We prefer that you apply as pitch teams. We will let you know who is on your team in the acceptance email. We can help pair you up with others from your university who have applied to form a pitch team with you but are interested in pitching. In certain instances, however, if you cannot find others, we may have a group of students interested in pitching and we may pair them together to form a team.
We ask that all applicants commit to attending the entirety of the event and designate 1-2 students as backup in case of unforeseen circumstances. We understand that circumstances may arise, but it is important to note that we have turned away other teams that could have taken advantage of this opportunity. If something comes up after your team has been accepted and a team member can no longer attend a portion of the vent, please let us know as soon as possible if your entire team has decided to withdraw so we may turn to our waitlist.
We will send out emails on application statuses starting at the end of October. If you have any questions about your application status, please email us.
- Confirm or decline your offer by filling out the form link included in the email. Please think carefully before committing as our planning and costs hinge on every student commitment.
- Review and sign the waiver(s) and email them to our email address.
- Review all pages on the MBA Women in Investing (WIN) Conference website.
Yes, however, please note that we organize and cover the lodging for non-local pitch team members only.
Yes, non-pitching attendees of the conference are encouraged to attend all portions of the event. For the Friday morning pitches, we have seating for observers.
Please tell the event organizers as soon as possible.
We will assign a stock basket on Tuesday, November 12 at 9 AM EST.
Your pitch must be original work by all team members and not reworked from others’ pitches in the past.
You must use our presentation template.
All presentations are due the Tuesday before the conference. Please submit your presentations to the Box folder indicated. However, if you have technical issues, please submit via email by the deadline.
You may make changes to your presentations after the deadline. However, please note that the submitted presentations will be sent to judges in advance of the event. So, it is in your interest to submit a pitch that is as close to final as possible. If you would like your slides updated, you must bring a copy on a USB drive.
There will be a reception and dinner on Thursday and breakfast and lunch on Friday.
For lodging, Cornell provides non-local pitch teams with shared rooms at the conference hotel. We send rooming assignments a few weeks ahead of the conference. Unfortunately, we do not hold a room block for non-pitch team attendees.
All conference attendees are responsible for their own travel. We encourage reaching out to your student services team at your university to see if they have funding available to support your travel.
The top team from each room will receive printed certificates of award at the event.
We discourage switching out team members unless absolutely necessary. Switching team members results in the correct team members’ resumes not being included in the resume book sent to sponsors. That said, if this is unavoidable, please email us as soon as possible to request a team member switch.
In your acceptance email, a deadline for sending updated resumes will be given. If you do not submit an updated resume, the resume provided to us in your application will be included in the resume book. After that deadline passes, we cannot guarantee that your updated resumes will be included in the book for event sponsors.
We provide sponsors with resume books approximately 10 days in advance. They will reach out to students directly for interviews. If you do not hear from a sponsor about an interview on Thursday morning, the first portion of the event you will attend is the speed networking session at 2 pm.
On Thursday and Friday, the dress code is business professional.
No, the event adjourns following the Friday lunch panel session.