Anderson FEMBA 2012 - Calling All Applicants

I believe the middle 80% range is 640-740

Submitted! Good luck everyone!

Anyone who has already interviewed on Super Saturday - it would be nice to know your experience. Anything to be aware of ? Any unusual questions?

Thanks.

I did a Super Saturday interview for round 2, and I thought it was pretty typical/standard, without any real out-of-the-ordinary questions. My questions were along the line of tell me about your background, work history, why are you pursuing an MBA now, why UCLA, etc. One point to keep in mind is that the interviewer has not seen your application, so feel free to talk about topics you address in your essays - you may think it's redundant, but they haven't heard it yet.

HTH, and good luck to all the round 3 applicants!

Thank you. Yeah my interview is on Saturday.
One more question - any idea when they announce the outcome - whether selected, wait-listed or denied?

I was doing some research on this, it seems they start releasing decisions around 2 weeks before the published date.

I think this depends on the volume of applications they receive. Definitely for R2 we were notified about 2 1/2 weeks before the posted deadline, but the only caveat I would point out is that (according to mba consultants I've spoken to) part-time programs tend to receive the bulk of their applications in R3 (vs. full-time programs which receive the bulk in R2). So even though R1 and R2 FEMBA were notified early, don't be surprised if you have to wait until the posted deadline, as they'll for sure be reviewing more apps this time than in previous rounds.

It's gonna be a loooong ride

Haha yes, but enjoy it! I thought the waiting after I submitted was painfully slow. After getting admitted, though, I feel like I can't slow this thing down, and we're still 4 1/2 months before the first class!!! The next 3 years are going to be crazy, so I'm just doing my best to soak up free time and 8 hrs of sleep a day while I still can.

Good point, but for now I will be hanging out in this thread:

stress-management-during-applications-what-do-you-do-123655.html

Guys, I apologize if this has been asked before. How accurate are the admission stats on businessweek page for UCLA FEMBA?

If you see the GMAT distribution for applicant and admitted pool:

GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)
10th Percentile 540
25th Percentile 610
50th Percentile (median) 660
Average GMAT Score 643
75th Percentile 700
90th Percentile 720


GMAT score distribution (incoming class)
10th Percentile 640
75th Percentile 710
25th Percentile 660
50th Percentile (median) 690
90th Percentile 730
Average GMAT Score 689

You'll see that if you have a score close to 690/700, only 25% applicants have scores greater then you, but over half of the admitted class have scores greater then you. BW says there were 640 applicants for FEMBA and 288 got in.

Using that figure, it'll mean that 160 applicants have scores greater then equal to 690/700, and so close to 144 of them were admitted.

Is this right?

I don't know how big their sample is for this data, but wow the 50th percentile for applicants and the 10th percentile for incoming class are only 20 points apart

It's actually 120 points apart. Maybe you thought you saw 640 instead of 540 for 10th percentile incoming.

Looks to me the analysis is done on the entire data and not on a sample.

US News and BW state 640 as the 10th percentile for incoming...

im comparing the median for the applicant pool and the 10th percentile of the incoming class

Yup...your right...that's indeed only 20 points apart.

Hi everyone,
I'm desperately putting together my essays (R4 applicant) and for whatever reason feel that they are not up to the mark.
Have any of the admitted/dinged folks go through any admissions consultants to refine you app/essays/resume? I'm not sure if it was an appropriate question tho'.

I feel pretty scared and don't want to miss out on conveying my point across through my essays.
Any help appreciated!

Thanks
jty