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Hello All, I will be applying for programs starting Fall 2006. Perusing thru the BW list, I was trying to find the answers to the following questions. Would greatly appreciate if anyone having info would enlighten this confused soul! 1) What exactly does Rolling admissions mean? Does it mean applications are reviewed as they are received (ie. first come first served) and there are no deadline dates (excepting a final deadline)? Do university's list out what their method is? Any gotchas... 2) Most university's seem to have 1st, 2nd, 3rd round deadlines. Does that mean that they are not based on a Rolling Admissions process? If they are not on a rolling admissions basis, how may (for example) a school choose which apps to process first from the set that were received before a particular deadline? 3) Which of the following top 20 BW schools are "Rolling" Kellogg Chicago Wharton Stanford Harvard Michigan Cornell Columbia MIT Dartmouth Duke Virginia NYU UCLA UCBerkeley Carnegie-Mellon UNC-Chapel Hill Any comments or feedback would be great. Thanks everyone for your time. Regards, Kanna

This is my first post although I have been an ardent follower of the forum. This is a great site and owe a good part of my score to it. Thank you everyone :) Just finished the test: 710(q49, v 38). What a rush! I never scored above 700 even on a single practice score. So all of you there, floating in the 600s , don't be disheartened. Just live in the present and do what you do best. Results will follow :) CAT Practice Scores in order(time to actual GMAT shown in parenth): ------------------------------------------------------------------- Princeton_1 - 690 (8 weeks) Kaplan_1 - 550 (7 weeks) Kaplan_2 - 560(6 weeks) Kaplan_3 - 580(5 weeks) Powerprep_1 - 640 (4 weeks) - before doing the OG Kaplan_4 - 590(3 weeks) Arco_1 - 680(2.5 weeks) Arco_2 - 680(2.0 weeks) Arco_3 - 670(1.5 weeks) - half of [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] completed Powerprep_2 - 670 (1.5 weeks) Kaplan_5 - 620(1 week) Princeton_2 - 670(4 days) Princeton_3 - 650(2 days) Preparation: ------------ 3 months while working full time. Weekdays - atleast 2 hours everyday. Weekend - total of 12-14 hours. The single biggest thing that I felt worked for me is "doing my thing" and that was simply focus on one question at a time and solve it. Forget about scores and percentiles etc... Just focus on the question and get it right. As you can see, I never scored above 700 on a practice test, but manged it on the actual one - so dont even bother about practice test scores - they should rather aid you in identifying and correcting your weaknesses. Meanwhile never, never ever forget or loose practice in your strengths. Rely on your strenghts toward the end, be it quant or verbal. On test day it is your strengths that will bail you out. About couple of months ago, I read a post that said "OG is the bible". For some reason, I just followed it and trust me there is no better bible than the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip]. I did each and every question within the last 20 days or so. Every day I made a sample test (35 questions or so on each section) and solved them. The actual questions on the test will be very similar to the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip], hence if you know the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip], you will do well. Forget the past, forget the future, live in the present - you will see the score what you want my friend :) Thanks, Kanna