Thanx ergotropic.
I wish you the best of luck!!!

I interviewed with a 2nd year student on-campus for R2, but if you look at some of the R1 posters, they interviewed with an admissions staff member and/or a 2nd year student.

Any internationals (esp Indians) who got an invite for R2?

Just logged in this morning to see that my status had changed to "Your application is complete for committee review and will have a decision released by the publish date for your round." I have no idea when the change happened - It could have been this morning or earlier in the week...I'm still gonna hold out hope to get the interview invite on Monday. Quick question...did anyone get a status change email before they got the interview invite email, or are people just checking their application status frequently?

Thanks

There is no status change e-mail. People just check the page for about 1024 times a day, nothing special (myself included).

Good luck on your change. Hope it changes your off-line status, not just the on-line one

My status changed Friday morning and I received the interview invite later on Saturday. Looking forward to it

Seems many received interview invites on Friday/Saturday. Congratulations to all those who did. My status is still the same, "Your application is complete for committee review.". Hope this does not mean a ding!

I'm also eagerly awaiting. I've been checking my status 3x a day.

Hey my status changed from "Your application is complete for committee review." to "Your application is complete for committee review and will have a decision released by the publish date for your round." before getting the interview invite. Don't lose hope yet! No one knows what process they have in place for sending out the interview invites. I have a friend who works for a B school admissions and she mentioned how they send invites by region ( and I think UCLA probably does this as well). I had applied few days before the deadline and I had kinda given up my hope when people who submitted an hour before the deadline started getting interview invites. Now hoping my interview goes well...

Aside from the 44%/29% split reflected for Interview Invites/Admitted last year, does anyone else have any substantive data on trends for this year? It seems to me that a pretty good volume of interview invites have gone out. The GC data shows >50% have been invited and >%30 have been accepted in round one. This tells me that either a bunch of slots were filled in R1 (which is bad for R2'ers) or application volume has gone down.

I rarely speculate and agree that "what happens happens," but I am bored .

I'm probably stating the obvious.

It's rather difficult to compare the two pools(the pool of the universe that includes all applicants from last year and the pool of GC members). Initial difficulty stems from the fact that, although last year's application numbers should approximate current year's application numbers, it would still be somewhat naive to assume the parallel between the current year's universe numbers and the last year's universe numbers.

Additionally, even assuming that the current year approximates last year quite well, the applicant pool from GC will likely differ from the pool of the universe.
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Haha.

While reading this I had this picture in my mind:

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I definitely understand your point and I agree. And yes, you did state the obvious!

Had my interview today:
- On-campus interview
- Met with a 2nd year student
- It was a very relaxed environment, and all the standard questions were asked:
- Why Anderson, Why MBA...they did not ask why now, but that's because I answered it via another question
- One specific questions came (since my focus will be entrepreneurial) was how much thought have I given my idea, but more conversational than anything.
- I had a few minutes left to ask a few questions, and got out of there pretty much on time.

The best advice I can give is this: it's more important why you say what you do than what you say. In other words, be passionate and have conviction. I interview a lot in my current job, and I'll honestly go more off of the "feeling" I get with people than what their resume says. We hire (or accept) those who are like us.

Best of luck all

invite me UCLA!!!!

Got an invite at about 8:00PM today. Since my status had changed on Friday morning I gave up hope this morning. The only available slot for on campus interview was on 3/2. I have requested an off campus interview.
Does anyone know, until what date can we schedule the interview. I have a very busy next 2 weeks at work (involving travel).

For the distinguished ladies and gentlemen who got in round 1, any helpful advice for the interview?


cheers,

Abhi

Phew - just got the invite this evening at 08:09pm EST - was worried it was just another drop in the bucket of dings.... $250 now finally means at-least an interview

Got status changed on Friday but no invitation on Monday. I guess it means a ding to me now! So sad.

same here

My status is still the same. "Your application is complete for committee review". Anyone else with no status update yet?

No change here either.