My Round 1 Application Schools list

 

With almost every schools application going online for round 1, every prospective candidate is rushing to prepare a competitive application. I'm also planning to apply to most of my shortlisted schools in round 1. Applying into earlier round will not give one edge over an equally eligible candidate, who is applying in round 2; however, there are few advantages of applying earlier. One benefit of applying in round 1 is that in case if your application gets dinged you have time to recover and can apply into other less competitive schools . The other benefit of applying in round 1 is that if you get accepted into your dream school, you can plan many things such as visa, any travel plan, organized monetary fund, etc.

I too have shortlisted list of my B-schools and now working towards making a competitive application, but first I need to be organized for my journey so that I don't blemish my application in any sense. Here is the list of my B-schools in which I'm applying in round 1.

1. The Fuqua School of Business - Early Action Round
2. Yale SOM
3. Columbia Business School
4. Tuck School of Business
5. Darden School of Business
6. UCLA Anderson School of Management

To few of you my 6th choice might seems bit edgy because it is the only B-school in my list on west coast. Reason to choose UCLA is that it has great program for M&E and being the situated in the capital of Entertainment Business, it  has edge over other similar programs.

I'll be tracking my progress of each application and will be updating my research on regular basis, so if you would like to know anything particular of my research do let me know.