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theBestFella
Joined: 16 Dec 2015
Last visit: 17 Jun 2023
Posts: 22
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Concentration: Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Schools: Haas EWMBA'19 (WA) Anderson FEMBA '19 (A)
GMAT 1: 720 Q51 V38
04 Jan 2016, 12:31
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I received few messages over the holidays about my experience of interview on Super Saturday so I decided to share here for the benefits of others who are applying or looking to apply for future rounds.
Personally I wouldn't call it an interview, I felt it's more like a optional opportunity for a current student (interviewer) who hasn't read your application nor essays to know more about you in the 30ish-minutes chat, he or she can then recommend you in ways they see fit.
I arrived about 30 minutes before the scheduled time. On the check-in list there were about 15-20 people interviewed in the same time slots, few were fly-in. All of us were waiting in the hallway of the library, I guess we were all quite nervous because there weren't too much conversation going on. When the time came we were led to library for a brief 10 minutes introduction about the interview. Then they started to call us by name, I was among the first few got called that my interviewer and I just decided to sit outside the library and started to chat.
I didn't get many (if any) hard questions during my interview. Make sure you know how to answer basic questions such as walk through resume, future goals, prior job transition (how and why?), background, why UCLA and any numbers you put in the resume. Oh and one question I didn't except was how I prepared GMAT.
After the interview, my interviewer took me to the hall downstairs for an informal coffee chat with program director and some current students for networking opportunity.
Overall it was a pretty positive experience. Don't over stress yourself preparing the questions, if you did the research ahead of time while writing essays you should have known the program very well. Just know your resume, go out there and be yourself.
07 Jan 2016, 13:17
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Hey champs!
Is anybody coming down to LA for the open house this Saturday, the 9th? I will be around UCLA from tonight till Sunday morning, the 10th. Let me know if anybody of you is going to be there.
Kay
Is anybody coming down to LA for the open house this Saturday, the 9th? I will be around UCLA from tonight till Sunday morning, the 10th. Let me know if anybody of you is going to be there.
Kay
12 Jan 2016, 00:01
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| FROM UCLA FEMBA Admission Director: 2016-The Best Year Ever. (Why the heck not?) |
[It’s Monday night, January 11, 2016. Alabama won the National Championship about an hour ago. I wouldn’t know, because I fell asleep next to my three-year old. But I’ve woken up and I’m posting this blog, with some of my thoughts and plans to make 2016 the “Best Year Ever.” I wrote these thoughts last Friday morning. This post will be a test, to see who’s up late studying on Monday night, and needs a break.]  Greetings from Il Tram, Anderson’s coffee shop. It’s the first Friday morning of the new year, and I’m on my laptop, writing my first blog of the year 2016. Hope your holidays were restorative. My wife and I traveled 15 days, from Rhode Island to New Jersey to one country (Texas, my original home), with our two boys, aged 8 and 3. Returning to work Monday was bewildering. Where’s my parking pass? What’s my password? What’s my name? Forgetting the basics is the sign of a vacation well-lived. Sunday, January 3, we flew home to LAX on Southwest. Watching the arriving bags, every other young person I saw was wearing a UCLA sweatshirt: The Bruin tribe was coming back together. So. Still have your New Year’s resolutions? It’s only been 8 [now 11] days, so I hope they’re still real for you. If you’re having trouble, here’s something else to try: naming your year and sharing your goals (with the assumption that your goals came true). I myself don’t have much success with New Year’s Resolutions. But one thing I do that works for me is to NAME my year, like 2016 The Force Awakens Actually I’m choosing something less poetic, but equally solid 2016 The Best Year Ever What’s the point of naming the year? It’s like naming a chapter. Chapters have a beginning, a middle and an end. Chapters have characters, and characters have adventures, and adventures have danger and heroism and outcomes, good and bad. Mostly, chapters are worth reading. A book without chapters, one long list of words with no breaks, well that’s not a book I want to read. But a book with chapters, a story, that has power. I need to bracket life to keep my power going. And that’s why I like to create a theme for each year. So. 2016 The Best Year Ever. After naming the year, let’s do a Stephen Covey exercise and begin with the end in mind. Let’s assume that the chapter of life called “2016,” replete with dangers and heroism and outcomes, has happy endings. Let’s go forward to December 31st and write some summary headlines to this “Best Year Ever” from within FEMBA admissions and my accountability. Macro-Headline #1: The FEMBA Class of 2019 stands on the shoulders of giants Story: In the face of market contractions for all part-time MBA programs in SoCal, UCLA Anderson continued to attract and matriculate a growing student body. Building on the record-smashing class of 2018, the new entering class is even stronger with improved metrics for women, diversity, academic background, advanced degrees and geographic diversity. The FEMBA program has surpassed the UCLA Law School and is now the largest graduate student body of over 120 graduate programs at UCLA. Macro-Headline #2: UCLA Anderson hosts the 23rd Part-Time MBA Deans’ Conference Story: You know MBA rankings? Those pesky creatures that we love and hate—that we hate to love, and love to hate? Well, 50% of the US News & World Report ranking for part-time MBA programs is based on peer-assessment: Deans voting on programs. UCLA Anderson won the bid to host the 2016 Conference in October at the brand new Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center in the heart of the UCLA campus. Under the leadership of Deans Margaret Shih, Gonzalo Freixes and yours truly, in partnership with Dean Judy Olian and with the contributions of peer-school and industry leaders, and with a special sparkle brought by our FEMBAassadors, UCLA Anderson delivered a professional, high-quality, content-rich conference addressing the current state of part-time MBA curricula across the world and looking out into the 10-20 year future of professional MBA education. The conference left a “10-year-plus good impression” on the attending thought-leaders of part-time MBA education. They got to see UCLA, Anderson, FEMBA, GAP, Flex, FEMBAssadors, Global Immersions, the new Accelerator, and more, and they liked what they saw. Macro-Headline #3 FEMBApalooza 5 shatters all precedents: catalyzes whole new levels of community What’s more to say? FEMBApalooza continued to evolve into a community-building, culture-enhancing moment in the annual FEMBA calendar, connecting new and current and alumni FEMBAs with family and friends and faculty. Micro-Headline #1 All admissions team members experience robust professional growth and development Micro-Headline #2 FEMBAassadors continue to evolve as the secret weapon in FEMBA’s recruiting excellence Micro-Headline #3 Dylan writes a white-paper, or possibly a book, about the positive growth and development of FEMBA over the last decade Athletes visualize making the pass, or completing the shot. I’m visualizing 2016 as a year that surpasses my small dreams and accomplishes much bigger goals. How I have access to bigger results is in sharing these goals with you: Building a great Class of 2019; Hosting the Part-Time MBA Conference in October; Delivering the best FEMBApalooza ever. By sharing our goals, we find new synergies, we create new connections, we have better results and more fun too. I invite you to take some time and write some of your goals for 2016. Give your 2016 a name. Or steal mine, “2016, the Best Year Ever” and then share your goals and your name with your friends and colleagues. In my experience, this practice of naming the year and sharing my goals with powerful people, it has a lot more staying power than any New Year’s Resolution that I might make on my own. A New Year’s Resolution made on my own is only as strong as my will-power, just one chocolate-covered donut from disaster. But, a Year with a Name, and goals that are public, in community, that has a much higher degree chance of success. Give it a try. Why the heck not? See you on campus. —Dylan, signing off from Culver City on a Monday evening  
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