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I started looking into what schools to apply, how to apply sometime early Dec 2008. I ended up missing all R2 deadlines, and am yet to make even a single app for R3. Somehow pulling all the stuff together, such as, deciding on schools, recs, essays, etc is taking too long for me. Plus no school visits or emailing adcoms for me. I think if i may be able to make my first mba app sometime next week for R3.
Am I the only one who found it so hard/slow to do all things related to putting an app together? Just curious to hear from you, does everybody take so long?