Calling all UCLA Anderson Fall 2010 applicants!

Hey I'm applying early in R2. When I decided to re-take GMAT, I knew I couldn't make R1. I believe the admissions process is rolling, so I can still get an interview early in the R2 process. I'm throwing up a prayer with UCLA.

I have no idea if they received my score, but I'm assuming they did. It was one of the 5 schools I listed when you take the test.

Is the system slow as molasses for anyone else right now?

SO there ARE other people applying.

Should be slow on the deadline day...what can you expect with thousands logging on at once.

Good luck!

UCLA wasn't part of the 5 schools i picked when I took the GMAT's but I sent it separately earlier this month. I got confirmation via email from pearson, so I assumed it went through on UCLA's side. No reason to think otherwise, right?

I'll make a couple random observations here:

1) An earlier post referred to there being no place to submit GMAT scores in the online application. Maybe i'm not understanding you, but I certainly had a place to submit mine (raw scores, %s, AWA, etc.).

2) My understanding - and I certainly could be wrong here - was that you don't need to send in an official GMAT score report right off the bat. Self reporting is fine for now. If you're admitted to the school, then and only then are you required to have an official score sent over.

3) Upon submitting my application, I received an email telling me my application status would be available on Nov 4th - any ideas what this means?

I believe it means that they'll tell you what they have and don't have in your application.

I wanted to check whether they have my official Pearson VUE results. Wasn't referring to the self-submitted score - the online application won't even let you submit unless you've filled that part out.

Since their admissions staff didn't understand me (or are just unable to check right now), I'll just wait until after I submit my full app. Your application status is indeed a completeness check they perform in cases where application items are missing. When I applied the first time, I think they couldn't read my electronic transcript so I had to resubmit. Though, the app's transcript submission page had some nonsensical directions.

I created a video for Essay #4. It's in .avi format which is acceptable. I'm concerned that they may not have the proper codecs installed to view the video. I sent my vid to a couple friends and they said they couldn't see it (only audio), but after I gave them a link to install the right codec, they could view the video.

I sent an email to the admissions department and they literally copied and pasted the instructions from their website in their reply back, so that was no help whatsoever.

With R1 apps submitted, any thoughts on when we might start to see interview invites sent out? Looks like last year - based on some google searches - interview invites went out the following week. But its not clear what percentage of invites went out that fast.

Is it me, or does it seem as if Applications are down this year. As an applicant last year (not to anderson) i felt that the volume and chatter about MBA apps were a lot more pronounced than last year.

The following week? That fast?

Who knows. I was just talking to a current student and she said that with the most recent orientation night they had, they had one of the largest turnouts ever (over 500 people showed up).

Yeah - i'm getting this from last years thread. From the chatter on that thread, it sounded like a lot of people got invites about 2 weeks after the last date of submission. There were a handful even earlier than that (and obviously others that took a bit longer).

Anyone get an interview invite yet? I'm patiently waiting.

All quiet here.

Any news from the R1 applicants about interviews, etc., ?

I haven't heard anything yet. I'm assuming invites will trick in during the 2nd or 3rd week of November.