Class sizes increasing

I'm in favor of increased class sizes. The bigger the class, the easier it is to get in right?!

Chicago is apparently not increasing their class size.

https://www.hbs.edu/mba/profiles/classprofile.html

HBS 2011 class profile. 942 1st-year students (increase of 42 from previous year). Admit rate remains steady at 12%.

Thank God...

while i would love the trivial increase in my prospects of getting in, it doesn't outweigh the reason that drove me to apply to b-school in the first place: a better job/more job opportunities. so if bigger classes are going to adversely affect recruiting, especially if this economy doesn't get it together, i'm voting 'thumbsdown' to it

Holy gods. nearly 1000 people in a class. That sounds like hell.

For someone like me who has not yet been accepted to a b-school, I like that schools are increasing class sizes for now. With the large influx of applicants, if class sizes were not increased, then acceptance rates would drop.

Didn't it sound to you like hell with 900 people in a class? 40 people = no real difference.

For what it's worth, if people are still concerned with verifying the sources of these rumors that some schools are increasing their class sizes, I can say that the dean of admissions of one highly ranked program in the midwest made it a point to tell me that another top east coast program where he/she used to be the dean of admissions was going to add another section this year. I was actually very taken aback by this, and in my eyes the comment actually did more damage to my view of that admissions officer's current program than my view of their old program that was apparently adding a section.

In NCAA sports recruiting, there is an unwritten rule that no coach should ever engage in "negative" recruiting. That is, get recruits to join your program by selling your program, not by trashing another program that you know they are considering. I was very shocked to see the face of a program (to prospective students) engage in negative recruiting by trashing his/her former employer, especially when the students from that program were making an effort to not speak poorly of other programs, but my point is that the heads of admissions from top programs are pointing out that other top programs are adding whole sections this year, so I believe these claims shold be taken seriously.

Well, true, 900 people still sounds a pretty hellish number of people - it is strange how much being in a class where the number of people was lower made so much importance to me. I think it might have subliminally influenced the schools I liked & disliked. I really enjoyed knowing near most the people in the corridor, and with 1800 people I would never be able to do that.

I would disagree that 40 people isn't a difference, as that isn't enough for a new run of classes. That is class size inflation.