UCLA (Anderson) is the highest ranked school in the second largest metropolitan economic area of the United States. It is located in the western portion of Los Angeles, just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean.

In terms of placement at major firms it is generally the second strongest school on the West Coast after Stanford. However, in some years the school has exhibited rather weak employment statistics relative to other Elite schools. Nonetheless, this has not always been the case. For instance, c. 1988 UCLA had the highest employment rate at graduation of all of the the elites. UCLA also had the highest employment rate at graduation (i.e. percent of class with offers) for the elites c. 1992.

Strengths of UCLA Anderson include Marketing, Finance, and e-ship.

FT 2005 ranks UCLA #26 worldwide - just above Rochester and Emory and just below Oxford and Cornell.

EIU 2004 places UCLA #18 worldwide- just above Berkeley and just below Cornell.

UCLA's best showing on BW was #9, its worst showing has been #16. In the nine rankings to date, UCLA has outranked UCB eight times. UCLA has also outranked Yale in all five of the most recent rankings.

Placement Stats

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x905.xml

Exec Bios

CEOs: Amerisourcebergin, Northrop Grumman (Phd EE), Waste Management (Law)

http://www.amerisourcebergen.com/invest ... o&ID=64937

Round Application deadline: (a) GMAT/TOEFL taken by: On-campus interview completed by: (b) Alumni interview Decision mailed by (c):
1 11/03/2005 11/30/2005 12/22/2005 by invitation only 01/26/2006
2 01/06/2006 12/31/2005 02/06/2006 by invitation only 03/24/2006
3 02/21/2006 03/31/2006 03/06/2006 by invitation only 05/19/2006
4 04/28/2006 04/30/2006 03/06/2006 by invitation only 06/23/2006

1. Please provide us with a summary of your personal and family background. Include information about your parents and siblings, where you grew up, and perhaps a highlight or special memory of your youth. (Limit to 2 pages.)

2. Discuss a situation, preferably work related, where you have taken a significant leadership role. How does this event demonstrate your managerial potential? (Limit to 1 page.)

3. Discuss your career goals. Why are you seeking an MBA degree at this particular point in your career? Specifically, why are you applying to UCLA Anderson? (Limit to 2 pages.)

4. (Optional) Is there any other information that you believe would be helpful to the Admissions Committee in considering your application? If you feel the application already represents you well, do not feel obligated to answer this essay question.

Please note
UCLA takes highest GMAT between two attempts, if more then two attempts taken they take average

These are questions about paperwork.
Send them to the Department of Admissions at UCLA and do what they say and don't trust anyone else
It is a job of the Department of Admissions to provide you with answers to paperwork questions.

Recruiting Guide

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/documents/ ... _guide.pdf

If you take it 2x, they look at both scores but consider the higher of the 2. If you take it more than 2x, they "look at all the scores", whatever that means.

The new link is here:
Parker Career Management Center
employment report 2009

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/ ... Report.pdf