no interview?? and get accepted? wow....you are something!! LZ, which deadline did you apply to? 1/15? I haven't heard anything from them ever since ..... Did you apply from the US or China?
I am in China and applied on the R2 for 2 years program. I am nothing but a lucky dog. In fact, I joined their IBEAR sharing session after the submission and had some talk with IBEAR program admission official. It was a pleasant talk... I think they might regard it as an unofficial interview and gave me the chance.
but as far as I know the 2-year program and IBEAR program are conducted by different adcoms and there are no businesses interacting between them...and normally you can't apply these two programs at the same time. therefore if you left a positive impression on the IBEAR part, the 2-year program adcom wouldn't know anything about it....my 2 cents