Wow, including airport and travel time and stuff, you're cutting it close. You're gonna take at least an hour from the time you land to the time. You're really too close for comfort for me at least.

I would say 1.5 hours is too close.
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I make the commute from Westwood to LAX area in the morning at 7 AM (much earlier). LAX is notorious for late luggage (especially if you make connections). LA rush-hour lasts until about 10-1030. I think you should get there in an hour.
I'd make it a point to get the admissions phone number in case you are getting late.

DEFINATELY take a cab. The super shuttles are an adventure not worth having if you are short on time.

Thanks olive, didn't realize that merit fellowships worked this way at UCLA. +1

I wonder if UCLA has seen a drop in R2 applications...it seems other schools have. If so does this mean that us waitlisters will get off? And if we get off...I wonder if we would get a fellowship.

Off of waitlist, and getting offered a fellowship seem unlikely. Although UCLA was a top choice going into the process, I've been contemplating withdrawing from waitlist as it seems unlikely I'll go unless I get offered some money. I suppose no harm in waiting though.

I had my interview on-campus today. In the letter it said 10:00-10:30 with a 2nd year student. Despite the impressive traffic I get to the parking structure at 9:15. It is $3 per hour so I pay for 2 hrs thinking it's more than enough. I get to admissions at 9:45 and got asked politely to have a seat and offered water. Apparently they interview 2 applicants a block as there is another person waiting for her interview at 10:00 as well. Her interviewer 2nd year student comes and gets her at 9:55. I wait until 10:20 and still nothing. I am starting to get worried about my car since if I get towed I'm all screwed as I had another appointment in LA that day. Then one of the admissions directors comes, introduces herself and nicely asks me to step into her office for my interview. I inquire about the 2nd year student and apparently they didn't show up. It's totally fine with me, I'm just worried about my car. So, I explained the sitch and asked if she wanted me to go pay for more time and then come back....but that would take 10 min. She said we'll be done before 11 so I'll be fine. Despite the somewhat chaotic sitch until now, we had a pretty good chat (I at least enjoyed it) and were done at 10:55 so I got to my car on time and made it to my other appointment in that area at 11:30. The interview was pretty standard, similar to what others have written. The one thing that bothered me a little was that she didn't make any effort to sell me UCLA. There was not much talking from her outside of asking me questions and answering a couple of mine about the cirriculum at the end. I find this strange since even Stanford interviewers (which is by far the most selective school in the world) make a significant effort to sell you on to the school.
Overall, I'm happy with how it went. For me, this was a better interview than the one I had with UCSD last week. Of course, the interviewer may be of a completely opposite opinion. When I asked at the end when would I expect to hear from them she said "by March 27th you will know"....Well, duhh, that's the absolute notification deadline for R2 but what about that "rolling admission" policy? Or, does that mean a ding already?
Oh yeah, at around 10:20 when she came to get me, the interviewees scheduled for 10:30 had already arrived.....Seems this school has a very very healthy pipeline and maybe that explains their somewhat, um let's politely say, busy attitude.
Beautiful beautiful campus....but it's surrounded by the most congested area (traffic-wise) in the world.
Let's see what happens. With the millions waitlisted from R1, R2 will probably give Stanford a run for its money.
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Even though I'm not attending UCLA - I feel like I have to do a mini-shout out for the school.

The current students who've contacted me have been absolutely great. Really insightful and energetic about the campus experience, recruiting presence, and advice about my career goals in relation to specific types of industry presence on campus. The group of admits are really active in getting together, and the admit weekend sounds like a lot of fun. I know people like to bash the admissions office, etc. but I've had a great experience overall with this school and am sad they didn't give me any scholarship money! Since Booth did give me a nice merit scholarship I swayed to Booth instead.


Good luck to those applying in R2!!!

*a little* worried now. OY VEY!
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UCLA adcom is probably just discussing how super awesome we both are....im sure the invites will come soon
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In the meantime, what are the R1 waitlisted ppl doing??? Mailing the adcom every week or so?? Just dropping by every hour or so?? WHAT???

P.S: A WL myself, I've just sat on my a$$ till now ; not done anything. Yes I know that's bad......... Inviting suggestions on how often to contact the adcom.........
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Hey dg, I've done two things: 1) sent an e-mail about a current exciting project at work that I didn't cover in my apps and also gently prodding for info about my chances (I got no response or even acknowledgement), 2) had a current UCLA EMBA friend try and put in a good word for me. Past that, I don't really want to push it, as anything more might cross the boundary of appropriate behavior.