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I wish prospective students a celebratory new year and all the best for all your Round-2 applications. Based on my chats with a few prospectives and seeing their essays, I thought I'd share key points you could keep in mind as you write your applications, especially for international candidates. I've seen that candidates often under-sell their experiences. Be mindful of the fact that many of you have great experiences (which have motivated you to apply to B-school), ensure your essays show that. keep in mind "Show, not tell" - i.e. don't use words like very, extremely, brilliantly, innovative, awesome, outstanding, etc. to describe your work, but rather elaborate using phrases which'll make it clear the experiences were awesome. Also, be more specific in why Anderson, why MBA, why a role, why you wanna do an activity or take a course. every activity/course at Anderson should have a past connection and a future purpose. For my school to have best students in the future batches, it is important for prospectives to descrie their experiences well! All the best!

Hi guys, I finished the application 30 min ago but just saw my submitted time on status report is 1/6 ( in my time zone it's 1/6 already), although it's still 1/5 In LA but not on my record, anyone know is it alright? Sent from my iPhone using GMAT Club Forum mobile app

Check back in the forum from R1, but I think this came up. The application system is based on east coast time. But as long as you submitted your app by the west coast deadline, you are fine.

Submitted my application in Round 2 Researching or Writing Essays Location: India GMAT: 710, Q49, V39 GPA: 3.5 WE: 39 months Industry: Consulting

Has anyone who applied in Round 2 heard back from Anderson? I am assuming that all our components (GMAT, TOEFL official report, transcripts and letters of recommendation) should be in place to get an interview call. Right?

Not yet...I'm thinking interview invites by the end of next week.

There is a webinar scheduled for the 12th, i.e tomorrow. We may receive an update on the interview invites.

I received my R1 invite 11 days after applying. It was one of the early ones. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Does anyone know if your application status changes as it goes through review? Right now mine just says Submitted but from Berkeley it says "Received." I'm curious as to whether this will update to "Under Review," "Denied," etc as the process goes on?