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I am in for R1...hoping for better luck this time having been WL and stayed on till June 20!

You make an extremely strong point here. I absolutely agree with you that an applicant is WAY more than his or her stats. And you're right, I don't know what order the applications will be read in--the answer to which could completely throw my earlier theory out the window. (And I should probably take your advice to 'Relax, Relate, RELEASE!!' ) However, I do know that despite every applicant being unique and having a completely different story, a lot (although not all) of applicants are still going to get lumped into a broad group of peers who share a similar professional background. These schools have quotas to fill! For instance, if the school has 500 spots to fill, and the most qualified, unique, outstanding 500 applicants all come from a management consulting background, they'll feel obligated to reject a lot of those candidates, possibly for less accomplished ones, in order to achieve diversity within the class. They certainly don't want a class filled entirely with ex-management consultants, even if each of those consultants are extremely unique and different from each other on a more personal level. And furthermore, I believe that this desire to create a diverse class extends to applicants' ethnicity, gender, and post-grad goals among other things. I think this is what really makes the top MBA programs so unique. It allows them to place students in incredibly diverse atmospheres where a student with an engineering background might be assigned to work on a case with a team consisting of a marine, a pro-athlete, an investment banker, and an entrepreneur. How cool is that! So that said, I still think you are at an advantage if you're application is reviewed earlier rather than later for a couple reasons: 1) If you have a common pre-MBA professional background, you're background has a better chance to not be overrepresented yet, and 2) I think that adcoms are in a happier, and possibly more generous, mood at the beginning of the application cycle, before their mind has gone numb from reading hundreds, if not thousands, of essays!

I didn't copy all of the earlier posts because it was long, but re: submitting earlier before the deadline - regardless of when you submit, applications are reviewed in a random order, and aren't touched until after you complete your interview and the interviewer submits their feedback. After all that and the first reader finishes their review, it then goes to a second reader who also does a full review. Then it gets mixed with all the other files that have gone through 2 reviews and goes to the director of admissions to be read a 3rd time, and its only at this point that a final admit/deny/waitlist decision is made. Oh, and the first review is done by a student member of the adcom, all of whom will be at internships, KWEST and pre-term until mid-September? So bottom line: submit when you are ready. Submitting earlier or later in the round (as long as its before the deadline) has absolutely no impact on your chances of admission.