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There’s usually about ~630 students in August entry. I highly doubt there are only 50 spots for round 2 available.

could the slack also include jan 2025 entry?

Unlikely, Jan 2025 intake application doesn’t start accepting people until Summer (or if they do, it’s minority of the class). Also MBAxMS has a separate Slack as well so mostly likely just purely J-term

Maybe R1 wasn’t oversubscribed and there weren’t removals from the Slack group? Anyway, if today is the day, I’m expecting an update at 10:26 ET

The numer of 582 seems logical with the acceptance letters of R1... take into consideration that 40% of students more or less reject the offer after they got it

10:26 was my R1 waitlist timing. But also noticed that the waitlist letter finally has the week (August 14, 2024) for when waitlist candidates will last hear back. It was only an empty parentheses as of yesterday. Thinking this might finally end soon

Do we know how many people received an interview in R2?

I have no sure facts at all. but my idea is about 80% the number of people from R1... (I think this just because the number of people that posted to be invited to interview in CBS in LiveWire was this much smaller)