How has this years application cycle compared to expectations? Was it really much more competitive than prior years? Do we have any data yet on how much more competitive?

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To be honest, I think R1 is more competitive than R2. Based on gmat club, the percentage of people invited to interview is higher in R2. I personally haven’t had a rejection yet for R2, got 5 interviews out of 6 schools. Only waiting on Sloan.

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Same went 5/6 for interviews, only ding was Wharton.

Wharton admissions sent out an email saying that they received more applications for R1 than ever before.

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Only actual data I’ve seen and it’s still kinda vague. But yeah, looks like things were more competitive R1

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I saw some internal BCG NAMR data that showed we had 10-15% less interview rate this year

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Was the lower rate isolated to specific schools on that list, or across the board?

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Anecdotally, it's was tougher in this year's round 1 than year's past.

Round 2 seems to be slightly better than round 1.

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By the way, I'm speaking in terms of year over year ...Sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

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