haha, mba2010, you're right, but I've been keeping a "door" open for Kellogg to woo me if they accept me

Otherwise I would have matriculated at Haas already.
river, I know, I'm just conveying exactly what the adcom told me at the San Diego infosession I went to. I'm not trying to suggest anything other than that. She may be exaggerating, but she literally told me to apply R1 because "we only get 400+ application R1 and can read leisurely, while we get 4000 in R2 and barely have time to read"
Don't shoot the messenger