Calling All UCLA Anderson Fall 2011 Applicants! https://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Sections/CNBC_TV/CNBC_US/Shows/_Documentaries_Specials/MBA_Challenge/_Images/UCLA.jpg Detailed Program Information: GMAT Club's UCLA Anderson School Guide 2011 MBA / FEMBA Deadlines https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x21329.xml https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x19600.xml MBA Round 1 Application Deadline: October 20, 2010 Decisions Released: January 12, 2011 MBA Round 2 Application Deadline: Jaunary 5, 2011 Decisions Released: March 30, 2011 MBA Round 3 Application Deadline: April 12, 2011 Decisions Released: June 1, 2011 FEMBA Round 1 Application Deadline: November 3, 2010 Decisions Released: February 2, 2011 FEMBA Round 2 Application Deadline: February 9, 2011 Decisions Released: May 4, 2011 FEMBA Round 3 Application Deadline: April 27, 2011 Decisions Released: June 22, 2011 2011 MBA / FEMBA Essay Questions MBA Required Essays: Essay 1: What event or life experience has had the greatest influence in shaping your character and why? (750 words) Essay 2: Describe your short-term and long-term career goals. What is your motivation for pursuing an MBA now and how will UCLA Anderson help you to achieve your goals? (750 words) MBA Optional Essays: Essay 3: You may respond to the following question via written essay, audio or video clip: What is something people will find surprising about you? Essay 4: Are there any extenuating circumstances in your profile about which the Admissions Committee should be aware? (250 words) MBA Reapplicant Essay: Please describe your career progress since you last applied and ways in which you have enhanced your candidacy. Include updates on short-term and long-term career goals, as well as your continued interest in UCLA Anderson. (750 words) FEMBA Required Essays: Essay 1: How have people, events, and / or situations in your life influenced who you are today? (Maximum 1 page, double-spaced, 12 point font) Essay 2: Why a UCLA Anderson MBA? Why FEMBA? Why are these the right three years in your career to earn your MBA? (Maximum 1 page, double-spaced, 12 point font) Essay 3: Discuss your plans to have your UCLA MBA facilitate you being either a career enhancer, shifter or explorer* If your interests are entrepreneurial, are you already an entrepreneur, or do you plan to be an entrepreneur and if so when and how? (Maximum 1 page, double-spaced, 12 point font) Enhancer = I plan to continue in the same field/function and see FEMBA as necessary to advance and stay competitive. Shifter = I want to change either industries or job functions and want FEMBA to help me facilitate this shift. Explorer = I want to make some kind of career shift and want to identify this goal as I move through FEMBA. FEMBA Optional Essays: Essay 4: Are there any additional circumstances in your profile about which the Admissions Committee should be aware? (Maximum 1 page, double-spaced, 12 point font) If any of these scenarios apply to you, please address specifically: If commuting by plane, please detail your commute plans. If you are not currently employed full time, please explain your employment situation right now and your career search plan to be employed by the beginning of the program. If you are currently enrolled in another MBA program, please clarify your status in that program (standing, % complete, etc.), and explain your reason for wanting to begin UCLA Anderson. If you were on academic probation or had failing grades, please address. If you have a criminal history, please address. MBA ROLL CALL (165 applicants) MBA Round 1 (49 applicants) Interview Invites: 29 Matriculating: 0 Admitted: 21 (With $$): 8 Withdrawn (Stage of Withdrawal): 3 Waitlisted: 12 Dinged: 5 Don't Know: 8 emont (Admit With $$) MetabolismMaster (Admit with $$) SuitUp (Admitted) abhishekkhurana (With $$) abcaimei aelsc appx becky2010 earlycareerMBA (With $$) enjulia (With $$) financegirl Foss7198 kk2030 liveordie mspricklepants Phillies (With $$) sangjo TDA visor WithHopesToWin woomba arunext automatic03 brothersharp diego77 djingroove ingoditrust jbark55 mhla82 MovieMarketer nonawiz RexRyan BeautifulMind2011 garuda inclinedplatform MBAIsrael RogerDodger ankitraheja Emarc182 mbahopeful2011 nrmehta2 prabhdeep8421 analyst218 bruinboi caitlin deepdale1234 ineedtoknow Matador1985 rahulsar winbie MBA Round 2 (115 applicants) Interview Invites: 48 Matriculating: 3 Admitted: 33(with $$): 4 Withdrawn (Stage of Withdrawal): 8 Waitlisted: 7 Dinged: 9 Don't Know: 43 Andoverjon (Interview) cidneymba2011 (Interview) kelea (Admitted) VLM (Admitted) inspiredbychaos (Admitted) socalmba (Admitted) tortoiserun (Admitted) EBSIFounder (Admitted) dc3828102 (with $$) mankini bayareaCFA abraisnic (with $$) abhishekit adb2012 Alexon50 artabhi CA55 CatCatCat cfowler1983 (with $$) ethanaa folex98 i22 jj22l klee13 lagirlstanfordapp madness85 manvsmba marketingchick mbaapk mm0815 ndexter oski24 pbj2010 plohani rck2013 reckorman sangjahn shr30 thelamb0508 thewaves21 uclahopeful2013 briger kissnahug njmbaapplicant smidgett16 soulflower vivekrb alpeshvc bakfed bp9908 Caroty Days81 ekalil lili1986 kidchaos NewSc2 pjman anitac96 arjunmehra ggopan HaasNumberOne MBAdiator mbahopeful2012 MiddleEasternMBA2011 Panpan reimon sachintendua shruga smeena Stele stigisimo thangnguyen abhishekg82 acmilan21 almostfamous AmandeepsINGH anandbha azhangie badsyntax ballubalraj Beta chilidog doclkk ergotropic forsports getmba2013 gogetter08 haas2011 hughlv iAqua4 Indya jchen01 JhnRls jinagee jmtomaz kevintay ktown24 Makingbones MissChicago mks1984 moiuday mrwuzzman nomadconsultant nyxjf pbear rafi rosenbergmaj silverdana socalscool Sridhar123 SuberKarma TheBruinTutor time4mba timetoshine0915 Yeltsina FEMBA ROLL CALL (19 applicants) FEMBA Round 1 (9 applicants) Interview Invites: 0 Matriculating: 0 Admitted: 8 Waitlisted: 0 Dinged: 0 Don't Know: 1 Brentwood dpoy jamster21 sidz306 srivinodh thatsku thisguy310 upInTheAir xcobrax FEMBA Round 2 (10 applicants) Interview Invites: 1 Matriculating: 0 Admitted: 6 Waitlisted: 0 Dinged: 0 Don't Know: 5 bpenn thejz LaChloe topotherobot adpal mstan firang Adelphotes gcliv jvaidya LAMBA tryinghard 2010 Applicants Thread: calling-all-ucla-anderson-fall-2010-applicants-84107.html 2009 Applicants Thread: calling-ucla-fall-2009-applicants-64827.html

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Phew, 1 hr prior to deadline in with an optional essay video!

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I'm in for R2!!! Yeah!

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Submitted for R2 last night... i took a shot at the optional essay though. Fingers crossed!

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Guys, I am planning to apply to FEMBA and its word restriction is different from full time. It is maximum one page, double spaced and font 12. I am just making sure that I understand correctly. It means I can use any font style and the line spacing between 2 lines is 2. So I guess I will get about 300 words per essay.

Any thoughts?

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That sounds right. Looking at one of my essays with one-inch margins and Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, it's about 320 words a page. It'll be less than that if you use 12-point Arial.

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That sounds right. Looking at one of my essays with one-inch margins and Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, it's about 320 words a page. It'll be less than that if you use 12-point Arial.

Damm, thats too less. Did you get into Haas and UCLA. How are you planning meet the statistics requirement of Haas?

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That sounds right. Looking at one of my essays with one-inch margins and Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, it's about 320 words a page. It'll be less than that if you use 12-point Arial.

Damm, thats too less. Did you get into Haas and UCLA. How are you planning meet the statistics requirement of Haas?

I just applied to UCLA this week, and I'm still waiting on Haas. I'm applying for full-time though - just procrastinating on the Kellogg essays I still have to write by checking in here and counting how many words fit on a page when double spaced

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how long do we think it will take till we hear about interviews?

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All the best man.

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how long do we think it will take till we hear about interviews?

I'm guessing probably before January 26th, the date that the Hobsons system said to check back for a status update. I think interviews will probably go out on a rolling basis starting right now.

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Please add me to round 2 as well...just snuck under the gun...

I'm new to this forum but have recently read really some awesome advice from a gentleman named Alex Chu. If you see this post Alex thanks for your many insights!

I just finished my applications and am wondering about my the strength of my profile. I graduated with a 3.095 in English from UCLA in 2004, and have created a supplemental transcript from UCLA Extension with two accounting courses and an economics course in which I registered a 4.0 last year. I worked throughout school by running a nightclub on Sunset Blvd, and used this as an excuse in my optional essays for the less-than-stellar undergrad GPA.

I took no quant courses in college because I passed the AP Calc test in high school and I was more interested in chasing girls than doing more math. That said, my GMAT score is 750 with 49 Quant (86%) and 45 Verbal (98%) and 6.0 AWA. I helped to start a test prep company five years ago, bringing a region from $0-460K singlehandedly in my first year. I left this company in January 2009, even though I was offered a Director's position and a 6 figure total comp package. I took a risk and tried to create an engaging LSAT curriculum with my experience in for-profit education, but have failed to get it off the ground due to a variety of mishaps stemming from biting off way more than I could chew. I'm currently employed as a Strategic Consultant with my old company as a client, and am known as their best SAT and ACT tutor.

I feel good about my essays, and my letters of rec were written by a former client of mine who was a principal at one of the largest and poorest public high schools in California, the second is the Founder of my company, and the third is coming from a great friend and brilliant tutor himself (as my peer) who is now getting his Ph.d in English. Kinda unusual story I know, but I'm kind of an unusual dude. I like to take risks ad think big, and don't really care about making money right now. For what it's worth I'm the dictionary definition of a 28 year old white dude, but I didn't grow up with a silver spoon.

I applied to (in order of importance to me):

Stanford, Harvard, UCLA, Berkeley, and USC. All for round 2. What do ya think my chances are?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Best of luck to all of my fellow applicants out there!

...And go bruins!

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That's a pretty interesting background and set of experiences--I'm sure you were able to write some compelling essays based on starting your own business and doing several other unusual things. High quant score and taking supplemental quant classes without having any kind of math background should get their attention too.

Aside from USC, I've applied to all the schools on your list, and based on what I know about their profiles you sound competitive. The only question I'd have is how you answered the "why MBA, why now" essays--you didn't mention career goals, so were you able to make a convincing case as to why they should admit you?

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Thank you for your thoughts!

Yes, my essays were about social enterprise, and my desire to work for a company like the Gates Foundation or NewSchools Venture Fund, basically with the goal of transforming the public education system by running it as a business, rather than a stale bureaucracy. It's tough to self-evalute, but I think my essays are pretty solid (I hope!), given that I've been teaching kids how to write for the last 5 years.

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@TheBruinTutor: Best of luck with your app! A very unique background indeed.

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10 Jan 2011, 02:33

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I'm in for R2

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So silent today..

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has anyone in R1 heard anything back yet..........

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@TheBruinTutor: Best of luck with your app! A very unique background indeed.

Thanks! Hoping the adcom thinks so too. Gonna be hard to benchmark me against my peer group, but with my crappy GPA, that may be a plus.

Best Wishes...

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I have not heard anything on Rd 1 yet. Calm before the storm on 12th, I guess. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed with no nails left to chew on!! Good luck to all of us.