Calling all UCLA Anderson Applicants (2017 Intake) Class of 2019!!

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Hey everyone! I'm Ryan, the threadmaster for this thread, and an incoming first year to Anderson, Class of 2018! I'll be happy to answer any questions you have about the application process as well as my experience going through my first quarter. I'm writing a blog as well about my app experience and hope it can help anyone who's looking to apply to b-school this year:
an engineer’s (multi)year-long journey from GMAT to admission

Feel free to shoot any questions in this thread, and I hope you all can work together to support each other through this year's app cycle - it was indispensable for me last year! Good luck!

Hi Ryan

I'm looking to apply in Round 1. I've a couple of questions-

1) What are the jobs prospects for Indian students? I've heard that many companies straight forward say no to international clients cos of visa problems. Is it true?
2) I'm basically a career changer and hoping to enter the tech industry, hopefully as a product manager post MBA. So do the big Tech companies recruit at UCLA? I've checked the stats and they seem to show Haas as well as Anderson have a big Tech recruitment but still wanna be sure.
3) Do UCLA have a strong operations management curriculum?
4) Any info you can give me on the professors and clubs for Operations and Tech industry
5) Is the AMR program kind of an internship or does it place in parallel with the semester?
6) Lastly, can you connect me with some Indian alumni or maybe a 1st or 2nd year Indian student?

I know these are a lot of questions but i'm only applying to Haas, Anderson and Mccombs.

Thank You

Ashutosh

applying in R1

Hey when is the application cycle for the intake of 2017 opening. If it has, can anyone pease let me know if they are changing the questions or not.

They will start accepting on August 1st. So far the questions as listed on the Anderson site have not changed from last year's, but I haven't seen anything to confirm that they won't change yet.

Hey Ryan, are there any specific tips that you used when you applied to Anderson?

Hi everyone!

Does anybody know whether the essay questions for 2017 entry are out? I noticed that the application is not live yet.

Thank you,
Dhruv

UCLA has a un-paralleled proximity to hollywood? Do big production houses recruit from UCLA? What kind of candidate do they look for?

You can check the 2016 Parker report by UCLA here
https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/ ... 9%2016.pdf

Hope this helps.

Last year the official application didn't open until August 1st, so I expect the same this year.

Is there any data related to acceptance rate by admission round ( R1 / R2..) available ?

They don't break this out. The general consensus has always been R1 and R2 are roughly equivalent; even if it's skewing towards R1 in the recent times, overall you want to submit when you have the strongest application - that will be a far larger boost than timing R1 or R2.

Here you go!! https://twitter.com/uclaMBA/status/760007491090612224

Ashutosh, For (Q6) I am Ryan's classmate here. Anderson '18 from India.

Hey Guys!

Throwing my hat into the ring in R1. Best of luck to everyone!