Yup are you! I will apply next week. I hope to be the first! Hehe.

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You probably will be the first...or second. I will apply regular. But, I do wonder how much higher the acceptance rate is for early applicants.
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Congrats on getting your app in so early! My original plan had be submitting by the end of next week (before my wedding), but it looks like it won't be ready by then. Guess I'll have to wait until after the honeymoon!
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Apps and a wedding/honeymoon? You have a very busy summer! Congratulations and good luck.
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Congrats. Don't do the application during the honeymoon! But you could probably talk about the honeymoon in your application! Still any time in August is super early!

I'm reapplicant. No update yet Anyone got interview already?

Nothing yet. I assume they are focusing on J-Term right now! Also, I bet you this is when the admissions team are 1) on the road 2) taking vacation. I don't expect to hear anything until mid August!

Congrats on finishing so early!

What do you all think?

Yes, this can be true. Also one week is too soon to expect any updates. I believe they will reply with a ding or invitation to interview in about 4 weeks after you submit the application.

[quote="edukredensir"]Yes, this can be true. Also one week is too soon to expect any updates. I believe they will reply with a ding or invitation to interview in about 4 weeks after you submit the application.[/quote

I agree - wait about 4 weeks and you should have an answer! Are you all doing ED?

thanks all. yes i'm doing ED (otherwise doesn't make sense to apply this early). My wildest dream is to get AD directly without interview, since I already had interview last year (and did pretty well in my opinion)

I think that sounds more of a real possibility than a wild dream! I went to an information session last month and the admissions team said that they love reapplicants - especially if they apply VERY early because it shows so much more dedication. That alone can push you towards an acceptance, despite any mistakes / drawbacks from your application.

I hope you did a lot since last year! Crossing fingers for both of us.

guys, .... am reapplicant and wondering if applying CBS ED by late Aug is too late or not... (not means fine..or still early?)

hoped to have my application ready by july but..aaarg i was so busy and could not even write a single alphabet on my essay...(i have my essay right next to me with purely white and clean blanks...)

mid-late aug too late? (esp. for reapp like me?)

I don't think that is late at all. I believe you are still in the "early to mid" crowd. I heard that generally they get most ED late August to the deadline.

Hi everyone,

Been reading these last few posts and seems like you guys are applying extremely early, especially re-applicants. Is this something you learned from applying your first time? I was planning on submitting my application 1 or 2 weeks prior to the deadline for ED. Any advice?

Thanks

I think the best advice you'll hear is to submit when "you are ready." I don't think the difference between submitting now to the ED deadline will matter enough for you to submit a sub-par application versus waiting until you absolutely are confident that you've put your best foot forward.

The only reason I would be concerned about submitting that late is that for me, I prefer to know whether or not I was going to CBS earlier so that I can know whether or not to submit to the rest of my R1 schools or just sit back and relax. The hope is that if I get a CBS decision early enough I won't have to submit 4 other applications for my R1 schools. I think it'll be close for me (some of the schools' deadlines are early this year!).

I'm still writing the other essays in preparation for submitting, however I'll hold off before actually submitting them and paying the ~$250 per application.

It's up to you and your overall application strategy. If you're plan is similar to mine, then I'd suggest to get going, but if not, I wouldn't worry about it.
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All I gonna say below are from my own guess/research and not official:

It is really all about your background, or more importantly, the pool that represent your background. School usually has a good idea about the average background of each pool and only gives AD to a fix amount of people from each pool. That's why you always see a balanced background students for any given year.

Then it comes to three questions:

1. are you in any overly crowd pool? (indian/chinese engineer, american ibanker)
2. are you strong/unique/distinguishable compared to your pool?
3. does your pool have a high "forgiveness"?

I believe most people understand the first two and how it affect your application. The third one only applies to a smaller amount of applicants so I will explain here.

Assuming you are from over represented minority (think asian) with over represented experience (think big 4 audit), you can easily check how many student CBS admit every year from similar background. If that number is fairly large, say 30, you are in a high forgiveness pool, which means you may not get huge disadvantage by applying late. Why? think about when CBS adcom read your application, there are already 20 offers out to applicants with same pool, they may still offer you AD since 21 is not much different than 20 and they still have enough space for candidates later with stronger background.

But the number is low, let's say 5, then you may have big trouble by applying late. Because there maybe 3 or 4 AD extended to earlier applicants and your background may not be much stronger. Adcom may decide to withhold the AD for future candidate.

Therefore, if you are from over crowd pool, not much stronger than typical M7 candidates and your pool has a low forgiveness, apply as early as possible (of course your application must be ready). I don't think it worth delaying weeks just to improve some words/sentences to make essay looks better. However, due to the fact more than half applicants apply in the last few days (don't remember where I get this, maybe wrong), apply early Sep is probably not too difference than apply in Aug.

I think I'd have to disagree.

If anything I think if you come from an over represented pool, you need to focus on your essays even more to show how you are unique and stand out from the other "Asian American applicants coming from finance." Instead you can be the "Asian American that taught financial literacy to small businesses", which would resonate more with an admissions officer who goes through dozens of applications a day.

I don't think a few weeks will matter in the application process. ED is still ED whether it is in August or late September. Now if it were a difference between ED and R2 (although CBS doesn't have rounds), I think that would be different. Either way, from everything I've heard from adcoms, the best method is to submit when you are confident that everything is complete. Rushing it and submitting a sub-par essay will hurt you more than waiting 2-3 weeks especially if the essay is the only thing that can differentiate you from a competitive pool.

This is just my opinion. It's ultimately up to you to decide what's better and whether or not you think it's worth the sacrifice (also good skill building for making business decisions )
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This may be a little late for you "ED-ers", but for the regular decision people Clear Admit has a free, 50 page guide for CBS. It might be worth a look/download. The offer ends tomorrow morning.
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2014/07/free ... -24-hours/
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My 2cents

1) Create the best application you can.
2) Earlier is Better. If your application is 95% there, and the next 5% will take you another month to edit...then maybe you should send it earlier.

I know it isn't the best help but -- hopefully you can gauge how happy you are with your application and whether you are putting your best foot forward. Good luck, I hope all of us get in. I haven't heard of much movement or many people applying yet, so I think it is still early in the process!