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sir, i m serving as president of a social welfare organisation which our seniors at college started.. so i think that can serve as advantage. its a registered org.so is it goin to help me ? how long does it take to prepare the appplication?

Your extracurriculars will definitely help you; however, the meat of the application is still going to be in your scores and essays. Consider your extracurriculars as icings on the cake. Without the cake, the icing isn't going to make much difference.

Time to prep application varies from person to person. A lot of it has to do with digging up old stuff that you may or may not have, and translate that onto your application. Once you have this part down, the following applications will become easier (but just as tedious). And of course, the part that will take the longest of your time will be essay crafting. This depends on how well you write and how satistfy you are with your essays. It may take you just 2 or 3 drafts to finish an essay, whereas someone else needs 8 or 9 drafts before he/she is satisfied. Usually, the span of time is roughly a month or two for each school (a lot of it is really downtime since it's probably hard for anyone to go back to the same essay day after day and make much changes to it...most have to wait a week before heading back to the same essay to get a fresh sense of what he/she wrote a week ago).